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March 1961 Food for Climate Skeptics [More]

Every villain has his Achilles' heel. And microscopic scoundrels are no exception.

By Leigh Coleman BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Marine scientists are debating whether 80-plus bottlenose dolphins found dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast since January were more likely to have perished from last year's massive oil spill or a winter cold snap. [More]

By Amy Maxmen Precious memories need not fade if a report today bears fruit. [More]

As the familiar battles over evolution education continue to play out in U.S. state legislatures and school boards, other countries are facing very different dynamics. Much of the world lives outside of any law that requires separation of church and state, making creationism trickier to disentangle from public school curricula.

After decades of development and years of clinical trials, an optical prosthesis capable of restoring at least partial vision to those suffering from retina-damaging diseases will hit the market.

A collection of delicate stone tools discovered on California's Channel Islands indicates that early humans in the Americas were hunting local waterfowl some 11,200 to 12,200 years ago. [More]

If you had $1 billion to spend on just one project, what would it be? Here's how an astrobiologist, a broadcaster, a skeptic and a Nobel laureate, amongst others, would spend the money. Filmed at the 2010 Science Foo Camp in California, this is the last of four videos in this series.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect citizens from premature death and other health problems would be gutted if Congress slashes funding as threatened by Republican lawmakers, its chief said on Wednesday

Whenever an endangered species lives in just one location, it is at increased risk of being wiped out by a single disease, fire or catastrophic weather event.

By Zach Howard HADLEY, Massachusetts (Reuters Life!) - The eastern cougar, a large and elusive tawny wild cat that once prowled over wilderness in 21 states, is now extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Wednesday. [More]

Do you dislike restaurants where noise drowns out dinner? Seems that fish don't like a din with dinner either.

If you had $1 billion to spend on just one project, what would it be? Here's how an astrobiologist, a broadcaster, a skeptic and a Nobel Laureate, amongst others, would spend the money. Filmed at the 2010 Science Foo Camp in California.

By David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) - Tackling environmental problems from carbon emissions to water pollution will be a key focus of a new five-year plan that China will launch during its annual parliament session starting on Saturday. [More]

By Cassandra Willyard Potent chemotherapy drugs such as Taxol (paclitaxel) prompt cancer cells to self-destruct -- but some tumours stubbornly survive the treatment. Two studies have now independently pinpointed a gene that lies behind at least part of this resistance