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No shortage of articles have been published about the deep distrust exhibited by most 2012 Republican presidential candidates toward specific scientific findings--notably evolution and climate change--as well as in some cases toward science itself. [More]

* New station crew will not fly until problem found, fixed * Former commander says it is time to bring in the Chinese [More]

Thar’s gold in them thar hills--and we may have meteorites to thank. Because it appears that a rain of meteors nearly 4 billion years ago peppered the Earth’s exterior with precious metals

A three-year, government-funded effort to track the movement of greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere has yielded surprising results that could help improve the accuracy of climate models. Researchers used a specially equipped plane for a series of pole-to-pole flights to measure the concentrations of greenhouse gases and black carbon particles at different altitudes, different locations and different times of the year

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine The non-profit programme MyMicrobes , launched today, is inviting people to have their gut bacteria sequenced for about €1,500 (2,100). [More]

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While much of the rest of the world undergoes an incredible surge in urbanization, certain cities in the U.S. [More]

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Noise pollution in the oceans has risen dramatically because of an increase in commercial shipping, oil and gas prospecting, and other activities.

A decade ago I was wrestling a paragraph in my home office when my wife called out from another room, alarm in her voice. [More]

A 580-million-year-old fossil is casting doubt on the established tree of animal life.

NASA's dwindling astronaut corps will not be enough to meet the demands of future space station missions if staffing levels continue as the space agency expects, according to a new report. With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet this year, the American astronaut corps has steadily been decreasing in size as U.S. spaceflyers retired or quit their posts.

On March 11, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sendai in Japan, knocking out power at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's environmental body on Wednesday extended a public comment period on proposed rules for natural gas drilling in the state, frustrating companies eager to exploit its rich natural gas deposits. [More]