Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:04 PM EST
In the field of climate science, when someone — especially skeptics — did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul. He chaired a prominent scientific society's ethics committee. He created an award for what he considered lies about global warming.
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Thu Feb 9, 2012 5:59 PM EST
Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. And NASA's former science chief is calling it irrational.
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Thu Feb 9, 2012 1:51 AM EST
If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
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Fri Feb 3, 2012 4:39 AM EST
It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.
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Wed Feb 1, 2012 6:05 PM EST
Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.
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Wed Feb 1, 2012 3:51 PM EST
Snow has gone missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.
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Wed Feb 1, 2012 2:00 PM EST
Snow seems to be missing in action this winter for much of the United States.
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Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:30 PM EST
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There's his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. And he's warned about electromagnetic pulse attacks leaving America without electricity.
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Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:45 AM EST
Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
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Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:36 AM EST
The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:28 PM EST
If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet went down in a city, state or country for a day or a week.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:06 AM EST
They came from Mars, not in peace, but in pieces. Scientists are confirming that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last July.
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Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:08 PM EST
An international team of scientists says it's figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing so much on carbon dioxide.
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Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:38 PM EST
The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they're even finding them in the strangest of places.
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Wed Jan 4, 2012 1:49 PM EST
It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:45 AM EST
BP and the oil industry drilling in the Gulf of Mexico lacked the proper safety attitude to handle the large risks of deep-water drilling, leading to the many bad decisions behind the nation's worst offshore spill, a panel of expert engineers said Wednesday.
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Thu Dec 8, 2011 3:29 PM EST
Astronauts may have had the `right stuff' to go to the moon, but when it comes to keeping track of what they brought back, NASA seems to have misplaced some of that stuff.
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Wed Dec 7, 2011 11:01 AM EST
America smashed the record for billion-dollar weather disasters this year with a deadly dozen — and counting.
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Mon Dec 5, 2011 1:05 PM EST
A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It's a bit too big.
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Sun Dec 4, 2011 9:10 AM EST
Last year's BP oil spill probably won't push the troubled bluefin tuna population in the Gulf of Mexico over the edge as some scientists had worried, a federal analysis shows.
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Thu Dec 1, 2011 1:20 PM EST
Federal officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically in the past five years — for the worse.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:01 PM EST
Massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped below thawing permafrost will likely seep into the air over the next several decades, accelerating and amplifying global warming, scientists warn.
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Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:04 PM EST
Psychologists who have studied gratitude give the following tips for giving thanks in a way that improves your emotional well-being:
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Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:58 PM EST
Count your blessings this Thanksgiving. It's good for you.
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Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:01 PM EST
Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are building up so high, so fast, that some scientists now think the world can no longer limit global warming to the level world leaders have agreed upon as safe.
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