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(Chirping sound.) That may not sound like much – but it’s the loudest animal in the world. For its size, that is. The insect called the water boatman is two millimeters long.

To avoid planetary disaster, the global community is going to have to overhaul nearly all of its operations.

BOSTON – The world has seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to have come to stay. Rising temperatures and a stubbornly persistent, toxic bacteria strain appear to have given the disease the upper hand. Public health officials are working on vaccines, struggling to improve sanitation in impoverished nations and grasping for ways to predict the outbreaks

You knew it wasn't good for your lungs, but new tests find that pollution affects your cognitive abilities and may cause depression. It's no secret that breathing in polluted air on a regular basis can do a number on your heart and lungs

Some go to school to become journalists. Others hit the road with a notebook, camera and insatiable curiosity, while others have a shocking moment of awareness of the complexity of the human condition and want to document it.

INVERNESS, Scotland (AP) -A host of the world's leading players will flock to the Scottish Open this week to test their links game on the recently opened Castle Stuart course in preparation for the British Open.

Apple is all over the tech news right now for a dozen reasons. What are the burning questions and educated guesses at answers? Read on! Will the iPad push Apple to being the top portable computer maker?

Biofuels are taking off, but if they keep being made from corn, the world will go hungry. The oceans, full of fast-growing kelp, are the next frontier of plant-based fuel.

In my most recent post a nd others --and in chats with George Johnson and Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv --I rail against biological determinism and defend free will.

If European lawmakers have their way, by next year any American flying from Boston to Paris will have to pay for the plane's carbon emissions over Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Ocean and France.

Chongqing city, China, is about to get a giant Orwellian surveillance network of half a million cameras that will spy on (sorry, act to prevent crime in) areas like street intersections, parks and neighborhoods. Cisco is rumored to be one of the key pieces in the network supplying, basically, the networking tech itself--the grease that'll make the whole integrated shebang work

Cataracts can lead to blindness, though it's preventable if you catch them early enough. But for the world's poor--many of whom live in remote regions far from the offices of an opthalmologist--diagnosis is difficult. Which is why MIT's Media Lab has put together a small portable tool that bolts to a smartphone to do the job, possibly even better than a quick eye exam could.

To most Americans electric cars are as new a concept as the first combustion vehicles were to horse-and buggy-drivers in the early years of the 20th century. But to the organizations around the world that have been working to make modern electric cars a consumer reality, it has taken decades to get to this point. In fact, the electric car industry is old enough now that it has developed its own internal conflicts--the biggest of which centers on vehicle charging

A look at the companies that provided the finishers medals, recycling bins, timing, and heat-reflective blankets to the 14th annual Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati Finishers' Medals Each of the 30,000 runners who took part in the 14th annual Flying Pig Marathon and accompanying relay, half-marathon, 10K, and 5K races received a 3-ounce medallion featuring a grinning pig with wings. CEO Sharon Janis-Rochford co-founded Maxwell Medals & Awards of Traverse City, Michigan, in 1975

The rock celebrity launches a new retailing business, called AbbeyDawn.com. Like many celebrities hoping to break into fashion, Avril Lavigne partnered with a big national retailer when she launched her Abbey Dawn clothing line in 2008. Just two years later, though, the business-savvy pop star and Kohl's ended their relationship, and Lavigne set out to build a global apparel company