lnell - 27.03.09 07:49
Fallout from Alaska's Mount Redoubt [Slide Show]


The volcano, which began erupting on Sunday, cast a blanket of ash and summoned up floods of mud

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lnell - 18.03.09 11:53
Some evolutionary psychologists have made widely popularized claims about how the human mind evolved, but other scholars argue that the grand claims lack solid evidence

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lnell - 05.02.09 11:18
It is widely recognized that a 40-year-old woman has an increased risk of bearing a child with Down syndrome. What is not known is that a 40-year-old man has the same risk of fathering a child with schizophrenia—and even higher odds of his offspring having autism. The risk of bipolar disorder appears to rise as well.

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lnell - 29.01.09 08:56
The most contaminated wildlife on Earth—killer whales in the Pacific Northwest—are picking up nearly all their chemicals from Chinook salmon in polluted ocean waters off the West Coast, according to a new scientific study.


The whales, which feed in coastal waters from British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands to the San Francisco area,...

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lnell - 21.01.09 13:17
NASA could be one of the nation's most potent weapons in battling climate change. The space agency has conducted decades of research into weather, life-support systems and the atmospheres of other planets providing it with unique skills to address this problem.

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lnell - 18.01.09 23:18
Editor's Note: We are posting this story from our April 2003 issue because of news that the gray wolf is being removed from the U.S. Endangered Species list.


Only six domestic animal species have ever earned their way off the U.S. Endangered Species List. The gray wolf is closing in on becoming the seventh.

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lnell - 18.01.09 23:16
Bees display a remarkable range of talents—abilities that in a mammal such as a dog we would associate with consciousness


We take the magical gift of consciousness for granted. From the time I awaken until I fall into a deep, dreamless sleep, I am flooded with conscious sensations.

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lnell - 10.01.09 13:44
Climate models predict that the hottest seasons on record will become the norm by the end of the century--an outcome that bodes ill for feeding the world

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lnell - 08.01.09 11:03
Because Studies Show Homosexual Males Navigate Like Women


I always seem to be the guy that people ask for directions. That is to say, me, the spatially challenged, head-to-the-ground expatriate living in Belfast. Usually, I try to wing it so that I don’t come across as completely stupid.

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lnell - 19.12.08 19:20
Peter Ubel is professor of medicine and psychology at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine. He’s the author of the forthcoming book, Free Market Madness (Harvard Business, 2008), which investigates the irrational tics that lead people to overbid on eBay, eat too much ice cream...

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