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The year is 1974, and Harry Caul is monitoring a couple walking through a crowded Union Square in San Francisco. He uses shotgun microphones to secretly record their conversation, but at a critical point, a nearby percussion band drowns out the conversation

You are at a party, and Alex is telling a boring story.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin did something no human had done before. On board the Vostok 1 spacecraft, Gagarin became the first person in space after rocketing into the sky from a launch site in Kazakhstan for a nearly two-hour flight

April 12 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippledFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Tuesday that they [More]

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japan raised the severity of itsnuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to a level [More]

Landfills produce methane--which can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven’t known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in landfills is typically at a pH that’s considered too acidic to host methanogens, methane-producing microbes

Award-winning science journalist Maryn McKenna participated in a live online chat about antibiotic resistance with Scientific American 's Facebook page fans on April 11. Fingers flew fast as dozens of participants peppered McKenna with comments and questions about her story, " The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance ," in our April issue, and related topics. [More]

Sometimes there are so many stories about endangered species that not all of them can be covered in depth by this blog.

By Nadia Drake of Nature magazine Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants make the dangerous crossing from Mexico to Arizona in the United States through the Sonoran Desert. [More]

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The article " Food Fight " in the April issue details Roger Beachy's involvement in the birth of genetic engineering of food crops, how he went on to become an avid defender of the new technology and how these beliefs will shape his tenure at the agriculture department's newly formed National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Here he answers four more questions for readers about his own background and agriculture in the developing world. How did your Amish background shape your interest in agriculture

By Yoko Kubota and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant [More]

Spring is in the air. And so is pollen. Local plants put forth an abundance of the stuff in a bid to ensure their continued existence, even in the hardest concrete jungles.

[ Yawn sound. ] Oh sorry. Well, now that I’ve yawned, you might be yawning too.

April 9 (Reuters) - The following lists the impact of theearthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan on March 11 and [More]