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Polar bears may get more attention – and later this week a
court-ordered decision by the US government will almost certainly see
them listed as a threatened species – but new research suggests the narwhal, the mysterious whale with a long spiral...
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If there’s one thing that movies tell us about life, it’s that our existence is a Hobbesian gamble: Nasty, brutish, and short. In any given U.S. film, death can come at any time, typically in violent fashion. But the fear and anticipation...
The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.
In November, 2004, when he was nineteen years old, a marine I’ll call Travis Boyd found himself about to rush the roof of the tallest building in the northern end of Falluja in the midst of a firefight. Boyd, whose first assignment in Iraq was to the...
Despite being banned by the government of Burma (also Myanmar), Google has said that it will donate up to $1 million USD to assist victims of Cyclone Nargis.
The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear.
A cease-fire deal to end seven weeks of fighting in Sadr City could provide the clearest test yet of just how much sway the anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has over armed militants operating inside his sprawling bastion of support in...
Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic “nanomachines” that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in...
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is facing enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP’s platform on abortion.
Regulators in the US are being urged to investigate any potential online advertising and search partnership between Google and Yahoo.
The call by a coalition of 16 American civil rights and rural advocacy bodies comes despite the fact no firm deal has...
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