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Deal Will Fast-Track Hundreds of Species onto Endangered List

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By Emma Marris of Nature magazine On 12 July, the US government agency that administers the Endangered Species Act came to an agreement with a wildlife group that has sued them numerous times over the past decade. [More]

One Footprint at a Time

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Changing light bulbs won’t save the world. [More]

NestWatch

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NestWatch aims to provide a unified nest-monitoring scheme to track reproductive success for all North American breeding birds [More]

Advanced CO2 Capture Project Abandoned Due to ‘Uncertain’ U.S. Climate Policy

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Citing a weak economy and the "current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy," utility American Electric Power has decided not to proceed with plans to expand CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS) efforts at its Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia.

Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?

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Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flash cards. This shift is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it irreversible, according to a team of researchers whose study on search engines and learning appears in the July 15 issue of Science

Ketamine and Major Depressive Disorder: Is it Better with Special K?

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Most people have heard of ketamine.

Kids Say Where Tech Should Go

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What's the future of technology? Who better to ask than today's kids? [More]

100 Years Ago: Cancer’s Roots

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JULY 1961 Forecasting Revolution [More]

Climate Scientists to Use Robotic Devices to Elude Pirates

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SINGAPORE, July 14 (Reuters) - Climate scientists haveturned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy [More]

Flying Sphere Goes Where Humans Fear to Tread

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TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters Life!) - Its Japanese developerscall it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it's [More]

Visions: No Worlds Left To Conquer

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In the series “Visions,” science fiction about the very latest research will be paired with analysis looking into the facts behind the fiction.

Stars Do Dance Of Possible Death

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You could think of it as the real dancing with the stars. Two white dwarf stars have been found twirling around each other to make a complete orbit in less than every 13 minutes.

What’s in a name?

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This past weekend, I sat down at my computer hell-bent on writing this post. [More]

At the #NASAtweetup for the last shuttle launch

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Imagine a dark haired little girl of not quite four years old, playing outside in a cotton dress in the warm dusk of July 30, 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.