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Homes shaped like a cocoon, a mound and a Y now stand in a park adjacent to the National Mall, looking for a ray of sunshine. Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the loan to solar-module manufacturer Solyndra , the latest " solar decathlon " competition begins today, September 23, in Washington, D.C.--leading to a cohort of 20 innovative solar homes standing in West Potomac Park. [More]

The past 24 hours have suddenly been awash in neutrinos, in addition to the 65 billion passing through every square centimeter of your skin every second from the Sun’s core. [More]

The matter of mastering a building's energy use, getting maximum performance out of each calorie and electron, is to many people a black art.

Out in space, NASA's Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. Its job is to see if those stars dim ever so slightly--because of the presence of an orbiting planet. Kepler has already found more than 20 distant worlds that way

By Amy Maxmen of Nature magazine Ecologists have spent decades trapping and tagging species in the name of understanding biodiversity, but a far easier way may lie just beneath their feet. [More]

Nobel Laureate Eddie Fischer was born in Shanghai in 1920. Since then, China has emerged as an economic superpower

* Japan's disaster sparked nuclear rethink worldwide * France also remains staunchly pro-nuclear in Europe By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power complex should not be allowed to call into question of the wisdom of atomic energy, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Friday. "After the tsunami wave hit the Fukushima power plant, some governments decided not to build new nuclear power plants and some even to abandon nuclear energy as such," Klaus said in a speech to the U.N.

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By Reese Ewing REDENCAO, Brazil (Reuters) - Cassio Carvalho do Val is about to invest nearly $2 million to add 10,000 cattle to his ranch on the edge of the Amazon. [More]

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It often takes military intervention to halt genocide. But health data also might help--by providing markers that show a population’s risk of being genocide victims. Researchers at North Carolina State University examined skeletal remains of 142 males from the Srebenica massacre in 1995.

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body--and about the many factors that bring it on. In a partnership with theVisualMD , here is a look at the fascinating details behind this common condition [More]

There are few sure investments in this chaotic economic climate, but on a national level, education has proven to pay off big down the road. [More]

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Global girths are on the rise--with some 1.5 billion adults now overweight and more than one in 10 adults obese worldwide .