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Hungry Judges Dispense Rough Justice

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Wolves lose, tigers gain, penguins in peril and other updates from the brink

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Sometimes there are so many stories about endangered species that not all of them can be covered in depth by this blog.

Peruvian Gold Comes with Mercury Health Risks

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PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru -- On a busy, dusty street beside a huge open-air market, signs reading “oro” mark shops that trade in gold.

Huge natural stone arch discovered in Afghanistan

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Japan fails to stop radioactive discharge into ocean

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By Yoko Kubota and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant [More]

How Doth Your Native Flora Grow?

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Spring is in the air. And so is pollen. Local plants put forth an abundance of the stuff in a bid to ensure their continued existence, even in the hardest concrete jungles.

Yawns Are Contagious When You’re With Friends

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[ Yawn sound. ] Oh sorry. Well, now that I’ve yawned, you might be yawning too.

FACTBOX-Japan’s disaster in figures

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April 9 (Reuters) - The following lists the impact of theearthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan on March 11 and [More]

Japan to pump radioactive water into sea until Sunday

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* Beijing to closely monitor Japan's nuclear actions * China bans imports of farm products from 12 areas [More]

Prize in the sky: The Templeton Foundation rewards "spiritual progress," but what the heck is that?

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Is there such a thing as a spiritual fact? Finding? Discovery?

Are you smarter than a middle schooler? New site tracks science misconceptions

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Pop quiz: True or false? [More]

Rock stars from coastal California’s past

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California is home to many natural wonders due to its varied climate and topography which includes both forest and costal lands. For the July 6, 1901 issue of Scientific American , author, big-game fisher, and former curator at the American Museum of Natural History Charles F. Holder wrote a piece on some of the interesting and beautiful results of erosion on California’s Southern coast

Lose Focus, Lose Happiness

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Daydreaming may boost creativity, but a new study from psychologists at Harvard University suggests that letting your mind wander may also lead to unhappiness. [More]

Readers Respond to "A Geometric Theory of Everything" and Other Articles

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Disagreeing On Everything As theoretical physicists, we deplore the publication of A. Garrett Lisi and James Owen Weatherall’s “ A Geometric Theory of Everything ,” as well as of Zeeya Merali’s “Rummaging for a Final Theory” [News Scan] in the September issue, which was PR-level praise of Lisi’s research that presented him as struggling against an entrenched establishment. [More]