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Hybrid cars have become so eco-friendly they now trump at least one form of human locomotion. [More]

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By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine A ground-based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other. [More]

If outside influences can make people act badly, can they also be used to help people do good? In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people.

Every now and then the public rises up to make an industry clean up its environmental act. As a result, car companies now offer hybrids, electrics and alternative-fuel cars

Each year, new electronics hit the market and capture consumers' attention, giving them reason to throw away the old VCR or standard television and engross themselves in state-of-the-art gadgetry. Most of the time, the old electronics end up in the garbage, despite holding plenty of reusable material. But a push for recycling them has gained ground in recent years through both new state laws and a developing "e-recycling" industry

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Editor's note: This article was printed with the title, "O Mercaptan, My Mercaptan" in the May issue. Friday, February 25, 2011: A date which will live in odiferous infamy. At least at my house

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As officials in Japan deal with the accumulation of radioactive seawater near the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of last month's earthquake and tsunami, the U.S. Department of Energy is investing in fundamental research it hopes can be used to build safer nuclear reactors and avoid reactor emergencies. [More]

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Buried under the south pole of Mars are the makings of one heck of a Halloween party. [More]

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate policymakers and scientists need to look beyond global warming emissions of carbon dioxide and take the loss of stratospheric ozone into account, researchers said on Thursday.

By Ruona Agbroko JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's cabinet placed a moratorium on Thursday on oil and gas exploration licenses in the semi-arid Karoo region, where the controversial shale extraction technique of "fracking" might be deployed. [More]

* Penalty charge for entering no-go zone * PM Kan harangued by homeless quake survivors [More]