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By Brian Switek of Nature magazine About 13,800 years ago, a mastodon in North America met a somewhat ironic end. [More]

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.

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine The claim that neutrinos can travel faster than light has been given a knock by an independent experiment. On 17 October, the Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) collaboration submitted a paper to the preprint server arXiv.org, in which it offered a rebuttal of claims to have clocked subatomic particles called neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light. [More]

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Since the space age began, the orbital realm has become increasingly littered with the detritus of skyward human striving--spent rocket boosters, dead satellites, stray pieces of hardware. Debris is piling up with such speed that it has become a threat to the kind of spacefaring endeavors that spawned it in the first place. A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

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]

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The challenges of human migration due to climate change have been underestimated as millions of people will either move into or be trapped in areas of risk by 2060, rather than migrating away, a British government report showed on Thursday. [More]

* Partners in Health to start vaccinating in January * Move follows months of debate over vaccine option [More]

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 .

“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.

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Galileo, the largest program ever launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) will enter its latest phase with the launch of two navigation satellites on 20 October. [More]

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's wind power generating capacity, already the world's largest, could reach 1,000 gigawatts by 2050, a study prepared by a think tank of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) showed on Wednesday. China had more than 41 GW of wind power capacity at the end of 2010