Science and Technology
Finding mastodons in ski country
Snowmass Village, Colorado, is home to one of the most significant archeological finds of ice age fossils in North America.
Teaching assistants outsourced to Asia
Colleges are outsourcing the grading of papers to India, and students may not know that they're writing for "virtual TAs."...
Frankenfish (genetically modified salmon) comes alive!
A genetically modified Atlantic salmon may soon be available in supermarkets. The company behind it insists it's more environmentally sustainable. ...
CSI Iraq: Biometric crime fighting or hit list?
The United States has collected a massive amount of biometric data on Iraqis during the Iraq war. Some say that data is dangerous....
Garage inventors
In garages, basements and even a Quonset hut, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. ...
Why evolution isn’t always good for us
How supernormal stimuli combined with human instincts developed over hundreds of years results in overindulgence and addictions....
This is your brain on Google
Research shows doing online searches can actually increase the level of activity in your brain....
NASA and commercial space travel
President Obama's proposed budget for NASA puts the US space agency on a new, commercial trajectory....
Uncertain future for US space program
As President Obama grapples with a deficit and an economy struggling to recover, NASA may not be a priority in his budget....
Working on the future
Exploring some of the changes to the human landscape in the next decade, and what some experts are planning to do about them....- Electric cars could produce efficiencies for national electric grid
- Recent solar panel adopter sees success in eliminating electric bill
- Donald Trump loses land battle to Scottish wind farm
- In wake of Fukushima, Japan struggling with renewable energy versus nuclear
- Collaboration could be the answer in U.S. energy debate
- Sri Lankan scientists create renewable batteries powered by plantain trees
- French sour on nuclear power
- Proposed budget cuts domestic funding for fusion research, may delay 'energy of the future'
- Report: U.S. energy imports down, exports up; energy independence in sight?
- Obama travels to Cushing, Okla., to announce his support for part of Keystone XL pipeline
- Peru's president orders environmental clean-up in Amazon oil region
- Right whale born in cold North Atlantic waters beats odds, survives winter
- Sushi chef tries to get people to open up to more sustainable ingredients
- As climate changes, one species faces extinction by becoming exclusively female
- Federal report shows EPA regulations produce more economic benefits than costs
- Activists see progress in convincing groups to divest from fossil fuels
- Farmers in Pennsylvania taking proceeds from fracking and investing in solar
- Landslides more prevalent in Pacific Northwest as climate change indicates rain increase
- Australia trying to educate citizens on crocodile safety -- to save the crocodiles
- EPA raises concerns about State Department's Keystone environmental statement
- New York design company turning to mushrooms to grow natural packaging to replace styrofoam
- Researcher pioneers low-cost means of storing energy
- New Digital Public Library of America seeks to increase accessibility to treasured works
- London's water service looking to turn sewer's 'fatbergs' into power
- Austin prepares to welcome second installation of Google's Fiber project
- French carmaker brings air-powered hybrid car to market
- Wearable gadgets track athletes' performance to improve workouts
- Lie-detection kiosk detects dishonesty with high degree of accuracy
- Bioengineers create life-like human ear with 3-D printer
- U.S. computer security firm unveils report linking cyber hacking group to China's military
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