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Reuters
Energy & Sustainability
U.S. to Seek 30% Carbon Dioxide Emissions Cut
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Plugged In
Energy & Sustainability
New Greenhouse Gas Rule Will Benefit Both Climate and Health
Tomorrow, President Obama is expected to announce a major step in U.S. carbon regulation. Using executive authority, the President will issue a new rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants in the United States. -
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Health
Shattering Kidney Stones: An Improved Method of Eliminating the Agonizing Pellets
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60-Second Earth
Energy & Sustainability
Better Car Labeling Could Pump Up Fuel Efficiency
When gas mileage cost was explicitly revealed on new car window stickers, potential consumers were more likely to choose the most efficient vehicle. David Biello reports.
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Health
Dispute over Stem Cells: A Timeline
For more than 40 years government officials have grappled with how to regulate and fund the controversial research
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Space
Book Review: Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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Symbiartic
Health
Making the Ugly World of Medical Illustration Online Pretty Again
Shortly after my Symbiartic co-blogger Kalliopi has run a workshop about social media for nature & science artists at the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators annual conference in July, I will be speaking about social media for medical illustrators and communicators at the Association of Medical Illustrators annual conference at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, [...] -
Octopus Chronicles
Evolution
Stunning Video Explains How Octopuses Out-Change Chameleons
Chameleons are often considered the quintessential color-changers. But the octopus outdoes them—using an entirely different mechanism to alter its appearance. -
Dog Spies
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Don't Let These Dog Projects Pass You By
Over the last few years, there has been a surge in public-participation science projects, and I don’t mean watching dog videos on YouTube. -
Symbiartic
Evolution
Dinosaurs in Broad Daylight: The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi
Back in 2012 I described paleoartist Julius Csotonyi as a Paleoart Rockstar. The title certainly fits: few illustrators today can make a living image-making full-time, especially in the sciences. -
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The Science and Art of Electricity, 1914 [Slide Show]
Illuminating insights into electricity from a century ago from the Archive of Scientific American -
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Technology
A Phone That Lies for You
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Observations
Energy & Sustainability
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Hurricane Season: How Do Storms Form? [video]
The Atlantic Hurricane season officially begins Sunday, June 1, and runs through November 30. Last week various agencies released their predictions for how many hurricanes might develop and how many might be big ones. -
Climate Central
Energy & Sustainability
Bigger Storm Waves of Climate Change Bust Up and Melt Sea Ice
Bigger ocean waves might be more common nowadays as climate change alters wind patterns -
Cocktail Party Physics
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Physics Week in Review: May 31, 2014
First, a few housekeeping announcements: Those in New York City today can see me at the World Science Festival’s Science and Story Cafe at 1:30 PM, where I’ll be hanging out with neuroscientists David Eagleman and Dean Buonomano. -
Reuters
Energy & Sustainability
U.S. to Miss Deadline for Removing Nuclear Waste from Los Alamos
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Dog Spies
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Maybe Dogs Don't Want to be Walked by a Drone
I like playing the game, "What's going to make people mad?" Dogs wearing pantyhose = mass hysteria! A dog being walked by a drone = not cool... -
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Health
Genetic Heroes May Be Key to Treating Debilitating Diseases
The Resilience Project seeks to find people who are unaffected by genetic mutations that would normally cause severe and fatal disorders -
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Energy & Sustainability
How to (Try to) Make It Rain
Five ways humans attempt, mostly in vain, to control the weather -
Nature
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9 Exceptional Scientists Receive the 2014 Kavli Prizes
Cosmic inflation, nano-optics, memory and cognition are among the topics to earn recognition
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