Australian leader holds firm on climate change
World leaders must deal with the threat of global climate change despite the spreading "cancer" of the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday.
Obama names 4 top members of science team
President-elect Barack Obama's selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration. 
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Prehistoric nuclear family is unearthed
The remains in a central Germany grave may be the earliest evidence of people living together as a family.
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Researchers say the amphibian, found in the polluted canals of Mexico's Lake Xochimilco, could disappear in five years.
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Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to science posts
President-elect Barack Obama today named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.
Scientists see political attacks as badge of pride
The past few years have seen politicians attack science, including climate science, the big bang, stem cells, and research on sexuality, drug use, and HIV/AIDS. A study in PLoS Medicine examines the effect of these attacks on researchers.Read More...
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Australian PM rejects nuclear power...
AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday that the country did not need to adopt nuclear energy to address climate change.
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LiveScience.com - The way people recognize faces might say a lot about what culture they come from, scientists now reveal.
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Assessing Bush Science Advisor’s defense of science funding
As the Bush administration winds down, John Marburger, the Presidential Science Advisor, has penned an editorial arguing that science did quite well over the past eight years. Why do scientists view things otherwise?Read More...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari urged President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to start his term by giving "high priority" to the Mideast conflict, calling it the...
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Discovery Channel says Bear Grylls, rugged adventurer and star of its popular "Man vs. Wild" series, has been injured during an expedition in Antarctica.
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Many of the issues that astronauts would face on the moon or Mars are being studied in Antarctica — including how to manage diet, medical care, psychological problems and sex.