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By Jon Cartwright of Nature magazine This week, computer chip manufacturer Intel announced that it is preparing to enter a new dimension in transistors--literally. [More]

Yet another scientific body has jumped in to the so-called Climategate fray to dispute that the leaked documents offer any reason to doubt that human activity is warming the planet. [More]

NEW YORK CITY--The Big Apple may not be as gritty today as it was even a decade ago, but it--and several other large urban areas worldwide--could benefit from a deeper examination of how it can better meet the needs of its nearly 8.4 million inhabitants .

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A silent jetpack would be like swimming in air, but it is likely beyond the physics of thrust In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people

The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson. Bloomsbury Press, 2011 [More]

Name: Arun Majumdar Title: Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy [More]

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The people of the world get 75 percent of their sustenance--either directly, or indirectly as meat--from four crops: maize (corn), wheat, rice and soybeans. The world's rising population--now predicted by the United Nations to reach 10.1 billion by century's end --has been fed thanks to rising yields of all four of these crops during the past century.

The people we associate with can have a powerful effect on our behavior --for better or for worse. This holds true for human health and body mass, too. The heavier our close friends and family, the heavier we are likely to be

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a series of high-profile natural gas drilling spills, the Energy Department named a panel to recommend ways to improve the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that has expanded the country's potential to extract the fuel.

* Rainiest April on record hits coffee trees * Damage to roads will complicate exports [More]

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On top of the usual "spills in aisle five," grocery stores have another mess they're hoping to clean up: greenhouse gas leaks. U.S. EPA announced yesterday that its partnership to cut greenhouse gas emissions from grocery stores has reached 50 states.

* Workers check radiation, connect pipes to ventilators * Teams hope to achieve "cold shutdown" of reactor [More]