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To keep you up to date with what’s happening in global health, I will now be posting biweekly round ups of the most significant and interesting news, views and events. As we’re focused on the more creative ways of story telling here at Creatology, I will include a selection of

By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine After generating considerable attention with a preview on Capitol Hill last spring, an independent team of scientists has formally released their analysis of the land surface temperature record.

When Richard Garriott blasted into orbit three years ago , following in the footsteps of his astronaut father, he didn't go empty-handed. He brought with him 20 paintings and photographs to put on temporary display within the cramped confines of the International Space Station (ISS).

As a professor at M.I.T., Ely Sachs was a strong supporter of alternative energy research. How strong?

Beverly Martinez was sitting at her desk in the office of a California scrap metal recycling plant when she felt the blast rattle her window. One of her co-workers, Leonardo Morales Zavala, rushed through her door, struggling to breathe.

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - A team from Japan won a world solar car race through Australia's outback on Thursday, after battling more than 3,000 km (1,800 miles) of remote highways, dodging kangaroos and other wildlife and avoiding a bushfire. Race officials said the team from Tokai University, near Tokyo, finished the race from the northern city of Darwin to the southern city of Adelaide at about noon on Thursday. [More]

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Humans have mostly abandoned the grooming strategies of our chimp cousins. So there's a good chance your scalp and the back of your head go largely unexamined. But this inattention can leave skin cancers undetected

If the question posed in the title of the post seems to you to have an obvious answer, sit tight while I offer a situation in which it might be less obvious. We recently discussed philosopher Karl Popper’s efforts to find the line of demarcation between science and pseudo-science .

Texting, e-mailing, IMing, DMing. These methods are great ways to keep in touch--but they also carry the risk of miscommunication

“How do you know the moon is not made of green cheese?” Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 17th. [More]

Never happen. But maybe they should be

NEW YORK -- What would the world look like with 7 billion human beings in the mix, vying for resources? Pretty much what it looks like now. That's because the planet is about to pass the 7 billion mark any day now.

In October 2009, Stanford University geneticist Anne Brunet was sitting in her office when a graduate student came to her with a slightly heretical question.