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Key concepts Solar system [More]

Pluto, please step aside.

By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Why are we so complicated? You might imagine that we've evolved that way because it conveys adaptive benefits.

Snakes aren’t just lizards without any legs . But a curious group of long, legless lizards look suspiciously like snakes themselves

Eighty percent of cushions used in car seats, portable cribs and other baby furnishings contain chemical flame retardants that can accumulate in babies’ bodies, according to a new study to be published Wednesday. More than one-third of the tested products contained the same

By now, we are all familiar with the many reasons we need to lessen our dependency on oil and of the importance in looking for alternative and renewable energery sources. If you need any more convincing, however, maybe you'll go along with an idea printed in the October 11, 1862 Scientific American.

I witnessed a breakup yesterday in the middle of MIT’s vast Infinite Corridor--a hallway known for its heavy traffic and long stretch of straightness. Finals are upon the undergraduates, so perhaps tensions were a bit high for the young, failing couple

By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China's landmark Three Gorges Dam project provides benefits to the Chinese people, but has created a myriad of urgent problems from the relocation of more than a million residents to risks of geological disasters, the Chinese government said on Thursday. [More]

* PM Kan says Japan needs fundamental rethink * Kan stops short of declaring a clean break from nuclear [More]

Key concepts Water [More]

Snakes are misunderstood. They’re not slimy.

Alright, let’s see how well you do on this quick test. Can you guess which sample came from the North Pacific Garbage Patch and which came from the South Pacific Ocean?

Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab and editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the cover piece in the May on radical energy solutions. [More]

Red colobus monkeys in Uganda's Kibale National Park are being hunted to extinction--by chimpanzees. According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology , this is the first documented case of a nonhuman primate significantly overhunting another primate species