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By Melissa Gaskill of Nature magazine Heart-breaking pictures of seabirds covered in black crude oil, arresting as they are, can miss the hidden story of an oil spill's impact on wildlife. Exposure to even tiny concentrations of the chemicals present in oil can also cause harmful biological effects that usually go unnoticed, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

A few dozen nanoseconds, an imperceptibly slim interval in everyday life, can make all the difference in experimental physics. A European physics collaboration made a stunning announcement September 23, after having clocked elementary particles called neutrinos making the underground journey from a lab in Switzerland to one in Italy

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Who will be next to get to the moon? Maybe China

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The nose has long been viewed as a disorganized sensory organ, its odor receptors strewn about with very little rhyme or reason. A study in Nature Neuroscience , published online September 25, challenges that notion. It suggests that odor receptors are grouped by the pleasantness of the odors they detect

By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]

On March 13 of this year, 17 year old Yuuko Sato and 13 year old Mina Sato left the only home they'd ever known on an organic farm in Fukushima prefecture. They now live more than two hours by train to the north, in Yamagata

* Defunct satellite re-entered atmosphere early Saturday * Debris field most likely in Pacific Ocean * Satellite among largest to make uncontrolled re-entry By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 24 (Reuters) - A six-tonne NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a tonne of space debris may have landed.

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It didn’t take long for the recent Foundation Questions Institute conference on the nature of time to delve into the purpose of life.

The ongoing bedbug epidemic has been a pain--if not full-on pestilence--for those infested and for those in constant terror of becoming so. [More]