As science shows our planet could warm by as much as seven degrees, researchers predict what problems that could cause. Discovery News reports on current warming targets.
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As the number of allergy sufferers soar, potential cures are getting more radical. Alternative theories abound on why developed countries have such high rates of allergic reactions.
Even though Silvio Berlusconi’s political reign may be drawing to a close, thanks in part to recent accusations of colluding with Russia, his media legacy will live on.
Islamic suicide bombers are motivated by a lack of sex, says evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa. The scientist has put forth some controversial views on popular topics.
The mobile device has become such a ubiquitous technology that it is redefining the way we engage with people, information, and companies. It is changing society’s social fabric.
This huge uproar might make you think that QE2 represents some radical shift in the Fed’s mission. It doesn’t, says The New Yorker in defending the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy.
Although we might look foolish flailing around the living room, Kinect has managed to excite our flesh, and that means our emotions aren’t far behind, says Jonah Lehrer.
Why is the U.S. such an outliers when it comes to criminal sentencing? Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens writes for The New York Review of Books.
WikiLeaks plans to release an American bank’s damning internal documents early next year, the website’s leader Julian Assange has told Forbes Magazine.
Given the Internet’s decentralized structure, it is virtually impossible to shut down this outlaw conduit and its public releases of secret government and corporate information.
The continent would be ruled by ten neat little empires.
The stories intertwine on the point of personality: is Mark Zuckerberg a genius? Is Julian Assange? At what point does (at least in Aaron Sorkin’s vision of the Facebook founder, […]
He’s known as the “Berlin patient,” and he seems to be the first man to beat HIV.
The first effective anti-retroviral treatment for HIV, Azidothymidine (AZT), was approved for treatment in 1987. But HIV is highly prone to mutations and thus likely to develop drug resistance. It […]
The disease seems to develop as beta amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tau tangles gather inside the brain to clog synapses and nerve cells—but what is its root cause?
On the issue of climate change, among the most important, yet frequently overlooked segments of the public are farmers living in the agricultural Midwest and across major agricultural districts of […]
Desperate times call for desperate measures. But what happens when desperate times strike cultural institutions such as museums? The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (aka, Cimam) […]
Quick note as I almost forgot to post last week’s Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism Program’s Weekly Volcanic Activity Report. Busy week all around for volcanoes – we’ve seen activity at Bromo, […]
Democracy is a great concept, but its micro-implementations in matters as petty and mundane as agreeing with coworkers on what music to stream at the office can be a messy […]
The waiting rooms of Cornell Weil, Columbia University and New York University fertility clinics have up to forty women waiting to see specialists on any given day. Many of these […]
“A lot of people get upset at young people,” says Walter Mosley, “They say, ‘Young people aren’t living up to their potential. Young people are interested in things which are […]
Lots of news here on the last Monday of November! Indonesia: Bromo in the Tengger Caldera continues to look like its ramping to a new eruptive cycle. There have been […]
2010 has been the most exciting year for HIV/AIDS research since the discovery of the antiretroviral “cocktail” 15 years ago.
“Diplomats are honest men, sent to lie by their Governments”, or so runs the old adage. Ironically, Britain’s former Ambassador to the United Nations, Sir John Sawers, is a good man […]
What made the decision in Bush v. Gore so startling was that it was the work of Justices who were considered, to greater or lesser extents, judicial conservatives.
Can an iTunes-style makeover bring the short story to new audiences? Ian Burrell of The Independent meets the authors and innovators who are selling small tales.
As evidenced by the Copenhagen Conference, global action is not going to stop climate change. The world needs to look harder at how to live with it, says The Economist.
The biggest problem that the Church faces in backing off its condemnation of contraception is a potential loss of religious authority, which is no small matter in a hierarchical church.
Evidence shows that the mobile phone is becoming indispensable to us: more people are paying for apps, and they’re more willing to trade privacy for benefits.
Being sociable has its advantages—across more than 500 mammal species, animals that lived in social groups had bigger brains than those that lived by themselves.