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Genes at the Crossroads

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Genetics, Genes, Biological Sciences, Science, Medicine, Human Genome, Genetic Sequencing, Living News

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

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Global Heating: Why We Must Shift to Carbon-Free Fuel (Part I)

Peter Hoffmann | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Biofuels, Carbon Emissions, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Hydrogen, Science, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

We must stop putting carbon into the air in the first place -- not take it out afterwards -- and we must start moving towards a carbon-free chemical fuel -- hydrogen -- now to begin veering away from catastrophe.

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The Washington Post Pimps an Ad

Gerald Bracey | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Science, Internnational Comparisons, Education, Tests, Technology, Presidential Campaign, Rand, Home News

The Washington Post pimping for an ad. Can you believe it? The pimpiness appeared Sunday, July 13. Who put them up to that? The ad in question is ...

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Effects Of Global Warming. Antarctic Ice Shelf 'Hanging By Thread': European Scientists

Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Science, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

PARIS (AFP) - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global ...

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The Mind and the Obama Magic

George Lakoff | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Science, Barack Obama Moves Center, Barack Obama, Politics News

Barack Obama should not be moving toward right-wing views on issues -- even with nuanced escape clauses. My reasons for thinking this have to do with the cognitive and brain sciences.

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The Third Screen: Jonah Lehrer on the Future of Media

Vickie Karp | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Neuroscience, Television, Brain, Lehrer, Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Science, Entertainment News

Why do people talk to their television sets? Have television and real life become hopelessly intertwined? I spoke with Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist, about these and other questions.

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Beyond Science Fiction

Buck Goldstein | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Dr. Joe DeSimone has just won a big invention award for nano-particles that are 100x smaller than a red blood cell and as smart as a microprocessor.

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Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

Janet Ritz | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

A new study warns that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, and this summer may see the first ice-free North Pole for the first time in recorded history.

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Unintelligent Design

Gary Marcus | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Evolution Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Back Pain, Biology, Bobby Jindal, Science, Memory, Evolution, Theory of Evolution, Creationism, Politics News

Lost amid all the recent discussions of intelligent design is one simple basic fact: the human species isn't intelligently designed.

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Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Mars Spacecraft, Phoenix Lander, Jews, Judaism, Space, Science, Mars, Phoenix Lander Mars, Living News

If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?

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California's Misguided War on Self-Knowledge

Adam Hanft | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Pharmacogenomics, Dna Testing, Dna, Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Regulators, Science, Human Genome, Tracing Your Genome, Living News

California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.

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National HIV Testing Day: An Epidemic in Our Nation's Capital

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Hiv Infection, US Hiv Rates, Hiv Msm, Hiv, Science, Aids Epidemic in Africa, Health Care, Hiv Washington Dc, Politics News

Our country is succumbing to "AIDS fatigue" as infection rates have stayed high. But complacency does not save lives; more commitment, funding and science-based policies will.

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Olympics Get Greener: Sailing Venue Plagued By Algae

Bloomberg | Wing-Gar Cheng | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Olympic Sailing Venue, Beijing Olympics, Olympic Sailing, Science, Algae, Olympics, Home News

Beijing Olympics organizers grappling to cut pollution in time for the Summer Games face a new threat: a plague of algae at the sailing venue in Qingd...

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Gorillas: 20, Humans: $25,000

Josh Ruxin | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Microfinance, Ecotourism, Africa, Science, Gorillas, Business News

The gorilla population in 1978 had dwindled to 262. Today's population is up over 400. That's an extraordinary accomplishment for a slow-reproducing large mammal. How did this happen?

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New Discovery: More of the Worlds!

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Star, Astronomers, Astronomy, Outer Space Pictures, Pluto, Science, Earth, Cosmos, Planet, Celestial, Life on Other Planets, Galaxy, Universe, Living News

Last week, astronomers uncovered new planets in the celestial lounge: we'll wonder how quickly they'll take our jobs, then we'll build a border fence around the planet. That's just the kind of worldly neighbors we are.

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Water-Powered Cars: Possible or Impossible?

Michael Graham Richard | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Cars, Green Technology, Water, Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Cars, Science, Technology, Green News

Oil prices are high, and everybody's looking for a quick fix. People in the media know about this, so they are scrambling to find "energy" stories, and as always, many unscientific ones make it through.

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Exposed Ice Crumbs Found By Mars Lander, NASA Believes

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Nasa, Science, Mars, Mars Lander, Ice on Mars, Mars Mission, Mars Exposed Ice Crumbs, Home News

LOS ANGELES — Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arcti...

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Water-Fueled Car Too Good To Be True?

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Science, Cars, Japan, Technology, GenePax Water Car, Transportation, Green News

Water-Powered Cars Like clockwork, every time oil prices shoot up journalists scramble for stories about energy, and a few water-powered cars and ...

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NASA's New Spacesuit Design For Missions To The Moon

Huffington Post | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: New Space Suit, New Space Suit Design, Nasa, Spacesuit, Space, Science, New Spacesuit Design, Nasa New Spacesuit, Home News

NASA is redesigning the spacesuit for the first time since the late 1970s. The new design will replace the older, bulkier suit with a sleeker version...

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Scientists Clone Cancer-Sniffing Dog: Pets Are Next

Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Cloned Pets, South Korea, Science, Biotech, Medicine, Cloning, Cloned Dogs, Pets, Research, South Korean Cloned Dog, Cancer Sniffing Dog, Home News

In South Korea, scientists have been cloning animals with desirable traits and genetic alterations. Last year, researchers cloned cats that glow under...

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The Repubs' War on One Particular Scientist

Michelle Pilecki | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Muslim, Bush Administration, Bechtel, Science, Nuclear Physics, Aclu, Republicans, Scientists, Politics News

So you'd think the US would want to hold onto good nuclear physicists, right? Especially American citizens who have been active in the community as well as excellent scientists?

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Can We Power the Whole World with Solar Power?

Michael Graham Richard | Posted 05.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Renewable Energy, Energy, Science, Alternative Energy, Solar Power, Green News

There's a good chance that you've heard somewhere that "there's more than enough energy coming from the sun to power all of humanity". Today, what I'd...

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What's with the Weather? The La Niña-Tornado Connection

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living

Read More: The Environmentalist, Climate Change, Environment, Storms, Science, Living, Weather, Tornadoes, Global Warming, Breaking Living News, La NiñA, Living News

Why has 2008 has seen a record outbreak of tornadoes in the United States from California to the Midwest, from the South through the central plains, to the Appalachian states?

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Spacecraft Lands Successfully On Mars, Sends Back First Images Of Polar Regions

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 05.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Mars, Science, Nasa, Mars Spacecraft, Spaceship, Mars Landing, Home News

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for ...

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Dr. Kauffman's Clever Conjecture

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Science, Stuart Kauffman, Living, Reductionism, Meaning of Life, Meaning, Life, Living News

"All you can do is do your best/ You can never know the outcome," says my friend the theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman. I've taken his powerful ...

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