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Thousands took to the streets to urge leaders to resolve the differences that still make a climate agreement elusive.
Nuclear Site Finds Money Can Bring Headaches
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A reactor at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., which produced materials for nuclear weapons and where stimulus money has created over 1,600 jobs.
The Savannah River Site was given $1.6 billion to clean up radioactive waste. But the pressure to spend the money has led to bitter disputes.
In Shift, U.S. Talks to Russia on Internet Security
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After years of rejecting Russia’s overtures, the United States is seeking a new approach needed to blunt an international arms race in cyberspace.
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Researchers found that the two-tone surface of the moon Iapetus is a result of dust, the moon’s rotation on its axis, and water ice’s refreezing.
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Bones Show Early Divergence of Dinosaur Lineage
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
The fossils of a theropod from 215 million years ago, unearthed in New Mexico, support the idea that the major types of dinosaurs evolved early on.
Geothermal Project in California Is Shut Down
By JAMES GLANZ
After safety concerns, the company in charge of a project to extract renewable energy from deep bedrock has informed federal officials that the project will be abandoned.
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A. Thomas McLellan, the deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has had personal experience with addiction.
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Optimism as Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunite
By JOHN MARKOFF
Researchers who in the 1960s tackled a field that is still mystifying scientists come together again.
New NASA Craft, With Infrared Power, Will Map the Unseen Sky
By DENNIS OVERBYE
NASA is scheduled on Friday to launch the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which will photograph the entire sky every six months.
Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered
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A species appears capable of using the basic structure of language, which had seemed to be a uniquely human faculty.
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Nuclear power plants may be getting much smaller in the future.
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Interactive Feature: On Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’
Evolutionary biologists and historians of science comment on Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”
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Invasive Asian carp are threatening to upend the entire ecosystem of the Great Lakes. Their route of attack: the canals we built.
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It’ll be hard to unite the world in Copenhagen when you can’t unite your own country. (Or, at least, your Senate.)
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A Wild Celebration
By OLIVIA JUDSON
It's a good time to remember not only the remarkable variety of living things, but our dependence on the ones we don't even know about.
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Underwater Data Back Up Theory of Hawaii’s Origin
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
The prevailing theory for the origin of the Hawaiian Islands had its share of naysayers over the years.
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Clues to What Birds Do on a Trans-Sahara Trip
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Using small satellite tags, scientists in Sweden have tracked 90 trans-Sahara flights, and found evidence of odd behavior.
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New Materials May Aid in Capturing Carbon
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Chemists say a new class of materials called metal-organic frameworks hold promise for carbon capture.
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How does stainless steel remove the odor of garlic or onion from your hands?
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The effects of postpartum depression in men can be every bit as disruptive as occurs with women.
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Shedding Light on a Tremor Disorder
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The mysteries of uncontrollable shaking, without an underlying cause, are being explored by doctors.
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The Claim: High Blood Pressure Will Increase People’s Risk of Losing Their Hair
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Hypertension has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and early mortality. But hair loss?
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