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Giraffes under Threat: Populations Down 40 Percent in Just 15 Years
One of the world’s most iconic and beloved animals is quickly disappearing. Fifteen years ago about 140,000 giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) roamed the plains and forests of Africa. - Environmental Health News Energy & Sustainability
Statins May Protect People from Air Pollution
Statins, prescribed to lower cholesterol and reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes, seem to diminish inflammation that occurs after people breathe airborne particles - Talking back Mind & Brain
A Mouse Experiment Suggests How We Might One Day Sleep Off Toxic Memories
One area of brain science that has drawn intense interest in recent years is the study of what psychologists call reconsolidation—a ponderous technical term that, once translated, means giving yourself a second chance. - MIND Guest Blog Mind & Brain
Concussion Culture: How to Protect Young Athletes
In May of 2012, former NFL linebacker Junior Seau took his own life by shooting himself in the chest. Seau was dealing with depression, mood swings and insomnia. - News More Science
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Mystery of Scotch Whisky Rings Solved [Slide Show]
How a photographer’s curiosity led to new scientific insight into the fluid dynamics of binary liquids - Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 6 Energy & Sustainability
NASA Takes on the Clouds
The organization joins scientists in figuring out the role clouds play in climate change - Video More Science
Does Turkey Really Make You Sleepy? - Instant Egghead
The drowsiness we experience after a hearty Thanksgiving meal is usually blamed on the amino acid tryptophan, which turkey supposedly has an extra helping of. Or does it? Scientific American editor Ferris Jabr investigates. - Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 6 More Science
Readers Respond to "ClimeApocalypse"
Letters to the editor from the August 2014 issue of Scientific American - Climatewire Energy & Sustainability
Fast-Warming Arctic Proves Deadly to Animals and People
Extreme weather in places like Svalbard show how Arctic communities will be threatened - Chemical & Engineering News More Science
Self-Assembling Nanococcoons Mimic Natural Viruses
Researchers have designed peptides, short chains of amino acids, that spontaneously package DNA into tiny capsules that could offer a new route for drug delivery or gene transport - Chemical & Engineering News Health
Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Drug Now Exceeds $2.5B
A benchmark report estimates that the cost of bringing a drug to market has more than doubled in the past 10 years - Reuters Energy & Sustainability
Death Toll in Southern Morocco Floods Rises to 32
Floods triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 32 people, swept away buildings, vehicles and roads and forced the evacuation of more than 200 people in southern Morocco, authorities said on Monday. - Reuters Health
Pay per Puff? E-Cigarette Boom Sparks Race for New Patents
By Martinne Geller and Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Electronic cigarette makers are racing to design and buy variations of a technology that has lit a billion-dollar boom, created a new vocabulary, and prompted a backlash from health officials worried about the impact of the new smokeless devices. - Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 6 Evolution
The Spiders That Would Be Ants
Some arachnids go to extraordinary lengths to mimic the appearance and behavior of ants - Observations More Science
New GOP Leaders Embrace Science but Don’t Hug Trees
Congress can be...chaotic. Last Thursday night, President Obama unveiled plans for immigration reform, and literally challenged Congress to stop him. - Observations Evolution
The Fossil That Revolutionized the Search for Human Origins: a Q&A with Lucy Discoverer Donald Johanson
Forty years ago today, a young American paleoanthropologist named Donald Johanson made the discovery of a lifetime in the arid badlands of Ethiopia's remote Afar region: a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of a small-brained creature that walked upright like we do. - 60-Second Earth Energy & Sustainability
Sun's Magnetic Field Boosts Earth Lightning
When the Sun's magnetic field is pointed away from Earth, lightning strikes in the U.K. go up 50 percent. Christopher Intagliata reports - Nature Health
Deceptive Practices in Drugs Research Could Become Harder
The proposed crack-down would close loopholes that allow researchers to hide negative findings and harmful side effects - Scientific American Mind Volume 25, Issue 6 Mind & Brain
How the Color Red Influences Our Behavior
The facts and fictions of crimson perception - Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 6 More Science
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