Scientists have discovered that plants activate and deactivate certain genes according to temperature variation aiding them in climate adaptation.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education writes that studying the humanities in graduate school is a recipe for hardship and poverty.
Year-end bonuses will soon be paid out to Wall Street executives which threatens to ignite a new round of public fury.
While the Togo PM calls on the national soccer team to return home following the killing of three players the team wants to stay and compete in their honor.
Xinhua reports that Chinese exports rose nearly twenty percent in December making it the world’s largest exporter.
Normally, I like words a lot more than I like numbers. For example, let’s talk about my quantitative score on the GRE. Actually, let’s not, and just say we did. […]
As I wrote yesterday, with the unemployment rate at 10% and the economy still hemorrhaging jobs, the Democrats are in trouble. Now more than ever they need to field their […]
Barack Obama created a worldwide sensation last year when he ran for the presidency of the United States. His victory was celebrated worldwide, from Hong Kong to New Delhi to […]
Michael Jackson’s former doctor is accused of negligence in the pop star’s death and will be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Sir Richard Branson and his company have been allowed to buy a small bank and may make a bid to buy Northern Rock.
Officials are going out on a limb to propose innovative solutions to airport security problems such as reading passengers’ minds.
The Togo national soccer team considers whether to withdraw from the Africa Cup tournament after its bus was ambushed by militants.
The network and its executives are in disarray after the questionable line of decisions that took Jay Leno to prime time.
Hopes of an early economic recovery on Main Street were dashed after 85,000 jobs were reportedly lost during December.
The Nigerian accused of hiding explosives in his underwear with the intent to blow up an airplane in mid-flight on Christmas Day has pleaded not guilty.
A complete set of 30,000-year-old teeth found in Portugal will answer important evolutionary questions about early modern humans.
Techies are heralding 3D television as the development that could save the industry from stagnation.
Female Facebook users are posting the color of their bras in order to raise breast cancer awareness.
Unemployment is a peculiar feature of the division of labor. In a society where people are able to completely provide for themselves by hunting or growing their own food, barring […]
It was Andy Warhol who said “sex is the biggest nothing of all time,” and whether his coy abstinence is worth comparing to the young novelists analyzed in Katie Roiphe’s […]
Quick Quiz: Who is the only artist to be named “man of the century”? Picasso? Did Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica preach love and peace to define the twentieth century? I […]
The attempted destruction of North West Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit by suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah has belatedly shone a spotlight on Yemen, the country where the terrorist allegedly […]
How are large groups of animals capable of astonishingly coordinated behavior? Do human crowds behave according to similar logic? This week Princeton evolutionary biologist Iain Couzin, a specialist in self-organized pattern […]
It’s been a year since I last redesigned my personal blog. This time around, I’ve been thinking of making more substantial changes — possibly even getting a new blog host. […]
Supporters of the Iranian Government have used the grave of Neda Soltan, the young woman killed during protests in June who became a symbol of opposition, as target practise.
Yemen insisted yesterday that it could handle its own security challenges without direct intervention from foreign powers “pointedly warning” the US to keep its troops out.
New research has found that there is an increased presence and severity of coronary artery plaques in men infected with HIV.
Two defense contractors have been charged with shooting and killing two Afghan citizens in Kabul and wounding a third, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Officials are warning that the World Cup in South Africa could be a public health disaster with half the nation’s prostitutes carrying HIV and half a million football fans expected in the region.
More than 200 former child soldiers have been sent home from Nepal after being disqualified for being recruited after the ceasefire code of conduct was signed in May 2006.