Critics of the Bush administration's policies on wildlife protection say the endangered species list is itself endangered.

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Jul 06, 2007 3.5 / 5 (8) 0

An unusually high number of skinny gray whales are being seen from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest, it was reported Friday.

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Jul 06, 2007 4.4 / 5 (9) 0

Hotter temperatures may have spawned an invasion of black widow spiders this summer on Romania's sea shore.

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Jul 06, 2007 4.1 / 5 (8) 0

Italian scientists said they have discovered how to achieve an "atomic laser" envisioned by Albert Einstein in 1925.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 06, 2007 4.1 / 5 (37) 0

Applause exploded in Vienna's Karntnertortheater on May 7, 1824, following the premiere performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Yet the master composer himself, by then almost completely deaf, didn't know his work was ...

Other Sciences - Other

Jul 06, 2007 4.2 / 5 (16) 0

There’s another kink in the mystery of high-temperature (Tc) superconductors – literally. Using photoemission studies at the NSLS, a group of researchers has revealed a new anomaly, or “kink,” in the ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 06, 2007 4.8 / 5 (203) 0

Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have figured out a way to detect single biological molecules with a microscopic optical device. The method has already proven effective for detecting the signaling ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 06, 2007 4.7 / 5 (38) 0

A Columbia University research team aims to create soft tissue from patients' own bone marrow to perform facial or breast reconstruction.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jul 06, 2007 4.6 / 5 (9) 0

Meditation produces changes in brain waves associated with being increasingly alert, say an Australian researcher.

Medicine & Health - Other

Jul 06, 2007 4.8 / 5 (10) 0

One of the world’s strangest creatures has found its long-lost kin. Oxford University scientists have discovered that an extremely rare gutless worm is related to sea anemones and jellyfish, rather than ...

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Jul 06, 2007 4.7 / 5 (26) 0

In one of the first potential applications of synthetic biology, an emerging field that aims to design and build useful biomolecular systems, researchers from MIT and Boston University are engineering viruses ...

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Jul 06, 2007 4.5 / 5 (11) 0

Many of the best-loved science fiction movies show intelligent robotic servants working alongside their masters. Fiction is rapidly becoming fact as European engineers develop increasingly sophisticated machines ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 06, 2007 4.1 / 5 (13) 0

Although a number of studies have suggested that regular exercise reduces inflammation – a condition that is predictive of cardiovascular and other diseases, such as diabetes – it is still not clear whether there is a ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jul 06, 2007 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

A recent study in Journal of Neuroimaging suggests that cognitively normal adults exhibiting atrophy of their temporal lobe or damage to blood vessels in the brain are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Older ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Jul 06, 2007 2.8 / 5 (4) 0

The search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as "weird" life -- that is, life with an alternative biochemistry to that of life on Earth -- ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 06, 2007 4.5 / 5 (42) 0