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Earth Hour is an initiative started by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund) that asks people everywhere...

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Some of these are truly puzzling, some are shrouded in conspiracy theories.

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Well, that's a bit of a stretch, but according to scientists, this giant fossil sea creature known currently just as...

About 20 years ago, on March 13, 1989, the whole province of Quebec, Canada, suffered a blackout that by now...

As you probably know (but may very well choose to ignore), ageism is going rampant throughout virtually every civilized country...

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This is what researchers believe to be the first true comeback of a gene in the human/great ape lineage; the...

The guys over at WHOI are doing more and more interesting things every day; just a few days ago I...

It seems science and creationism are just taking sides and throwing rocks at each other; recently, they've taken things to...

Despite whatever you may hear, it's obvious that we still don't have a clear understanding of the impact we're having...

Lava, the molten rock that flows from inside the Earth, can destroy everything in its path. Water, meanwhile is like...

In almost every belief there's an apocalypse, hanging above the believers' head like the sword of Damocles. But as far...

Today, on the 3rd Monday of January, ZME Science pays homage to the man that was Martin Luther King, being...

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As we learn (or at least should) at quite an early age, Galileo Galilei had quite the impact on science,...

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So the male mosquito comes, humming an Elvis song, with a rose in his mouth... maybe I'm taking this a...

Well ladies and gentlemen, you'd better fasten your seat belts, because we're in for quite a spin. The Milky Way...

Recently, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered no more, no less than 12 pulsars, and it also detected gamma ray...

The term "social engineering" is often misunderstood; what it refers to is the act of manipulating people (or masses of...

Probably 2008 will remain in history as the year of the economic crisis, or perhaps of the LHC, or perhaps...

Oh boy time sure do flies! It seems just yesterday it was January... still, it's the 2nd day of Christmas...

According to a report launched by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), more than a thousand species were discovered just in...

The latest study conducted by researchers from the Duke University Medical Center was performed on two groups of (old and...

It's obvious that one of the biggest challenges the president elect has to face is rejuvenating the infrastructure; let's talk...

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Researchers over that the Indiana University conducted a study that led to rather surprising conclusions. Despite the fact that women...

If you're thinking McLeod, you couldn't be further from the truth. What you have to do is think small; not...

Feeling the need for scientific research to back up the 'dirty old men' myth, Gothenburg University and Oxford University scientists...

No other continent in the world (that's not counting Antarctica) is studied by less ecologists than Africa; that is actually...

Two of the biggest and most impressive stars from our galaxy have been "surprised" in some really amazing poses by...

Though we have to admit there are some small steps toward an improving in general health care, we've expressed our...

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Frank Guenther of Boston University in Massachusetts and his colleagues worked with a man who was unable to move or...

Evolution isn't just for living organisms, as scientists the Carnegie Institution found. They found that more than 3000 of the...

There's a great deal of geographical variation on Earth. H

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