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TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi [More]
Read More »Electronic health records face human hurdles more than technological ones
PHILADELPHIA--In medicine, there's the patient and there's the chart. And the chart is paper. [More]
Read More »Manuka Honey Slips Up Some Bacteria
Honey’s been a medicine since before medicine as we know it even existed. Its use was described on Sumerian clay tablets from nearly four thousand years ago.
Read More »New exhibit reconstructs the very biggest dinosaurs–inside and out [Video]
Fitting fossils together to assemble massive dinosaur skeletons is certainly no small feat.
Read More »Scientists reconstruct giant sauropod dinosaur
A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features a 60-foot model of the dinosaur named Mamenchisaurus.
Read More »Let’s make a deal: Revisiting the Monty Hall problem
"Charles Sanders Peirce once observed that in no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory." [More]
Read More »What makes old beer taste bad? Why, it’s the trans-iso-alpha acids, of course
Beer , for the most part, is not like wine--it does not improve with age. Quite the contrary, in fact
Read More »Recession cuts U.S. and Russia 2009 greenhouse emissions
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2009, according to data submitted to the United Nations, as economic decline cut the use of fossil fuels
Read More »Industry Challenges Study that Natural Gas ‘Fracking’ Adds Excessively to Greenhouse Effect
By Richard Lovett of Nature magazine In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. [More]
Read More »Saharan dust feeds Atlantic Ocean plankton
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Read More »You (posthumously) light up my life
The Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris was one of the most well known in the city and its grounds were in high demand by those wishing to be buried in a Christian graveyard between the 12th and 18th centuries.
Read More »Mountain bongo faces extinction after more than a century of decline
The world's largest forest antelope faces almost certain extinction in the wild in as few as 14 years if current population trends continue, according to a statement by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). Just 103 critically endangered mountain bongos (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) remain in Kenya, the last country where the animals exist in the wild. They live in four scattered and isolated groups, the largest of which numbers 50 individuals.
Read More »A year on, Gulf still grapples with BP oil spill
By Anna Driver and Matthew Bigg VENICE, La./WAVELAND, Mississippi (Reuters) - When a BP oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last April, killing 11 workers, authorities first reported that no crude was leaking into the ocean. [More]
Read More »Too Contagious to Fail: Why Bankers Should Think More Like Epidemiologists
What could the study of infectious disease teach us about the 2008 financial crisis? Plenty, argue University of Oxford ecologist Robert M. [More]
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