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2 Years Later, Fish Sick Near BP Oil Spill Site
When fishermen returned to the deep reefs of the Gulf of Mexico weeks after BP’s gushing oil well was...
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Melting Glaciers Liberate Ancient Microbes
Locked in frozen vaults on Antarctica and Greenland, a lost world of ancient creatures awaits another chance at life....
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EPA to Reduce Gas Drilling Pollution
The Obama administration is issuing the first-ever national standards to control air pollution from gas wells that are drilled...
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Positive Outlook May Be Good for Your Heart
Be happy – it seems to be good for your heart. Scientists have long known that Type A personalities...
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Extreme Weather Events, Acceptance of Climate Science On the Rise
A new survey finds that a majority of Americans believe that weather in the United States is getting worse,...
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Was Egg-Laying the Beginning of the End for Dinosaurs?
The fact that dinosaurs laid eggs put them at a considerable disadvantage compared to viviparous mammals. Weighing in at...
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Social Factors Tied to Longevity More Than Race, Geography
In a novel study of health disparities in the United States, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified...
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Training Computers to Recognize Emotion
The Affective Computing Research Group, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working on computers that can read...
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Asteroid Impacts Could Benefit Underground Life
An incoming asteroid may benefit microbes living deep underground, according to a recent study of an ancient impact in...
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How Well, and How Poorly, We Harvest Ocean Life
To hear some people tell it, the increasingly energetic and sophisticated fishing industry has left the world’s oceans a...