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- 60-Second Tech Technology
Radar Makes All Houses Glass
Law enforcement agencies have handheld radar that can “see” through walls via RF signals, raising Fourth Amendment concerns. Larry Greenemeier reports.
- Reuters Health
Secret Burials Thwart Efforts to Stamp Out Ebola
Some villagers touch and wash the infectious bodies of dead victims at secret burials, making it difficult to trace those exposed to the virus - News Technology
NYC Commuter Train Crash Highlights a Need for Rethinking Rail Crossings
Safety experts say hundreds of thousands of crossings could be improved. Here’s how - Reuters Health
5 Babies at Suburban Chicago Daycare Center Have Measles
The diagnoses add to a growing outbreak of the disease across the U.S. - Guest Blog Health
Reducing Lifestyle Diseases Means Changing Our Environment
I’ve always found gyms a bit strange. Think about it: Dozens of people sweating in close proximity, running on conveyor belts going nowhere, lifting and dropping heavy objects for no reason. - News Health
Robot Scientist Discovers Potential Malaria Drug
The machine called Eve is packed with innovations for finding drugs faster - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 2 More Science
Urban Insects Clean Up Great Gobbets of Discarded Food
Unheralded arthropods help keep our streets pristine - Climate Central Energy & Sustainability
Winter Loses Its Cool in U.S.
An interactive look at the changing temperatures of winter - Climatewire Energy & Sustainability
Earth's Past Climate Reveals Future Global Warming
Emissions of carbon dioxide are changing the climate and natural factors like clouds may not help - Quanta Magazine Health
Newly Discovered Networks among Different Diseases Reveal Hidden Connections
Enormous databases of medical records have begun to reveal connections among diseases that could provide insights into the biological missteps that make us sick - Voices Evolution
Why There Is No Perfect Human In Puerto Rico or Anywhere Else
Disappointed by James Watson's decision to sell his Nobel Prize medal, Lior Pachter, a computational biologist who works on genomics at the University of California Berkeley, wrote an entry on his private blog in early December protesting the decision. - Bring Science Home More Science
Seawater Science: Model Ocean Currents in Your Kitchen
An ocean science study from Science Buddies - Reuters Health
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to Step Down
The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for almost six years has overseen public health initiatives ranging from tobacco control and food safety to personalized medicine - News Energy & Sustainability
GOP Embraced Environmental Protection Not Long Ago, Says Former EPA Chief
William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator, criticizes today’s GOP attacks on the agency as well as industry efforts to thwart scientific evaluations of toxic chemicals - Roots of Unity More Science
The Media and the Genius Myth
I’ve been thinking a lot about the genius myth, the notion that in order to be a successful in certain disciplines, you need to have a special innate talent that can’t be learned. - Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 1 More Science
Scientists Determine What Hurdles Still Hamper Women's Progress in Science
Blatant bias no longer blocks women from blossoming into scientists and engineers. Yet societal factors still nudge women away from academic science - News Health
Spreading Measles Outbreak Also Takes Heavy Economic Toll
The virus is squeezing finances in affected communities—and diverting funds and resources from other health care priorities - Reuters Technology
Death Toll from TransAsia Plane Crash Rises to 31
The death toll from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a Taipei river shortly after taking off has risen to 31, Taiwanese officials said on Thursday, and could rise further with 12 people still missing. - Reuters Health
Global Fund Needed to Fight Dangerous Superbugs
A global fund should be created to speed development of much-needed new antibiotics to counter the growing threat of drug-resistant superbugs, a British-government backed review said - Extinction Countdown Energy & Sustainability
Tiger Populations in Nepal Can't Grow without More Food and Space
Nepal has a lofty goal: The country wants to have at least 250 Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) within its borders by the year 2022. They've already made pretty amazing progress, growing the population from 121 in 2009 to 198 in 2013.
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