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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Those are the gas giants, the four heavyweights of the solar system. But was there once a fifth
Read More »Netflix Splits DVD and Streaming Services
* DVD service renamed Qwikster, with own separate website * Qwikster website also to offer videogames [More]
Read More »Mammoth Hemoglobin Could Provide Cold Comfort
When it came to surviving freezing weather, mammoths relied on more than their woolly coats: even their blood was specially adapted to let them thrive in chilly climes.
Read More »What Questions Do You Have about Energy Efficiency?
On Tuesday, September 20, I’m set to moderate a panel on energy efficiency, specifically as it applies in New York City. [More]
Read More »Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin
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Read More »Evolution, as helping hand
Say the word “evolution” and many people hear the word “selfish”. [More]
Read More »Offshore Wind Turbines Keep Growing in Size
Whipped by winds exceeding 90 mph and battered by 15-foot waves, hundreds of wind turbines produce electricity off the coast of the North Sea and send it onshore to power homes and businesses in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark.
Read More »Michele Bachmann Wasn’t Totally Wrong about HPV Vaccines
One of my guilty pleasures in this run-up to the next U.S. [More]
Read More »What Will the Next Influenza Pandemic Look Like?
MALTA-- Contagion , a film released earlier this month, depicts a gruesome outbreak of an exotic and deadly new virus. In the real world, a not-so foreign infection is circulating among animals every day of every year
Read More »PhD Comics Hits the Big Screen
The creator of the popular online comic strip " Piled Higher and Deeper " has turned it into a feature film.
Read More »Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge Near Natural Gas Fields
On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted double-track, stepped out of her truck into the low-slung sun, took a deep breath and collapsed, unconscious. A natural gas well and a pair of fuel storage tanks sat less than a half-mile away.
Read More »Synchronized swimming: patrolling for pollution with robotic fish
In landlocked East Lansing, Michigan, you're unlikely to swim with dolphins. [More]
Read More »3-D Printing Gets Ahead: How Does a Printer Make a Fossil?
In a small basement in the Bronx, the pride of place does not go to a shelf occupied by blue models of deformed skulls. Instead, the focus of the Lehman College 3D Virtual and Solid Visualization Laboratory is a large gray printer. This is no dot-matrix monster
Read More »Autism in Another Ape
Rambunctious one-year-old Teco, a third-generation captive-born bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, has an ape’s usual fondness for games and grapes. [More]
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