huffingtonpost.com 13 hours ago
A prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church is drawing a link between the Oklahoma tornado's devastation and a local team's support for openly gay NBA star Jason Collins.
huffingtonpost.com 14 hours ago
A CBS news segment provided a rare moment of good news stemming from Monday's devastating tornado when a storm victim found her dog during an on-air interview...
bbc.co.uk 3 hours ago
A "stocktake" of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years - and one in 10 could end up disappearing.
independent.co.uk 11 hours ago
The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first...
huffingtonpost.com 6 hours ago
The two elementary schools leveled by the deadly tornado that swept through the Oklahoma City area Monday lacked designated safe rooms designed to protect children and teachers, despite state warnings...
huffingtonpost.com 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON - Oklahoma Sen...
bbc.co.uk 3 hours ago
Fifty five beaches in England meet tough new EU standards on water quality to achieve Blue Flag awards.
treehugger.com 6 hours ago
In a bold move to protect the well-being of dolphins, India has moved to ban dolphin shows -- a push that helps elevate their status from creatures of mere curiosity to one that borders more closely...
huffingtonpost.com 21 May
WASHINGTON -- As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes...
blogs.psychcentral.com 2 hours ago
Depression is one of those health conditions that usurps every part of a suffering individual’s life...
blogs.scientificamerican.com 5 hours ago
Several days ago I finished reading Charles C. Mann’s article in The Atlantic titled “What If We Never Run Out Of Oil?”, a long-form discussion of ...
scientificamerican.com 18 hours ago
In April 15, 2013 Dove launched a 3-minute video entitled “Dove Real Beauty Sketches.” The video achieved instant popularity and has been watched millions of times -- a successful viral campaign...
scientificamerican.com 2 hours ago
Decisions can be hard. We may be haunted by the path not taken. [More]
science.nbcnews.com 14 hours ago
By Larry O'HanlonDiscovery News Humans today eat gorillas and chimpanzees, so why would our prehistoric ancestors flinch at sitting down to a nicely roasted Neanderthal? That's the shocking new...
huffingtonpost.com 9 hours ago
Recent extreme weather events seem to reach into unlikely corners of the U.S., but the massive tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., on Monday tore right through the edge of a region so often battered...
news.yahoo.com 15 hours ago
Three planets are coming together in the evening sky at the moment, putting on a celestial show that won't be seen again for more than a decade.
news.nationalgeographic.com 20 May
Scientists say they've learned why penguin wings, now used for swimming, no longer get the birds off the ground.
sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago
In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture...
scienceblogs.com 20 May
This is a brief chronology of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific, environmental and technical decision-making...
treehugger.com 9 hours ago
Mining gold's a dirty business. To extract gold from raw ore, a lot of cyanide is required, and wherever a lot of cyanide is found, there are also big environmental risks.
sciencedaily.com 3 hours ago
A new model of the brain's thought processes explains the apparently chaotic activity patterns of individual neurons...
sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago
Researchers have developed and tested a solar-powered nano filter that is able to remove harmful carcinogens and antibiotics from water sources -- lakes and rivers -- at a significantly higher rate...
sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago
Translocation – or moving animals to safer places – is a vital tool for saving species from extinction...
latimes.com 1 hour ago
The city of Moore, Okla., was struck by a devastating tornado Monday because all the familiar ingredients were in place to spawn such a massive storm.
sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago
Trends in Helicobacter pylori and smoking explain a significant proportion of the decline of intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma incidence in US men between 1978 and 2008, and are...
huffingtonpost.com 8 hours ago
While emergency services on the ground work to help survivors in the aftermath of the devastating 2-mile-wide tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon, NASA has released images of a...
huffingtonpost.com 13 hours ago
After the tornado hit Moore, Okla., on Monday, and severely damaged two elementary schools, fearful parents scrambled to search for their children...
guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago
Threats to wildlife must be treated as battle, Prince of Wales tells conservationists at St James's Palace conference
sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago
Do ethicists engage in better moral behavior than other professors? The answer is no. Nor are they more likely than nonethicists to act according to values they espouse.
blogs.scientificamerican.com 19 May
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. ...
cbsnews.com 9 hours ago
National Weather Service upgrades Okla tornado to its top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5, with winds estimated between 200-210 mph
psychcentral.com 5 hours ago
This article from YourTango was written by Julie Orlov. Words are powerful. They can cut you, heal you, inspire you, and stop you from certain actions...
news.yahoo.com 8 hours ago
NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars.
sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago
The results of a new study provide direct computational evidence that nucleation of ice in small droplets is strongly size-dependent, an important conclusion in understanding water’s behavior at the...
foxnews.com 12 hours ago
Microsoft revealed the Xbox One, its next-generation entertainment console, during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
