Senior diplomats charged with condensing an unwieldy draft for a global climate rescue pact, due to be inked in December, handed in their much-anticipated homework on Friday.
Environment
Jul 24, 2015
0
31
The world's largest e-sports organization said Friday it will crack down on the use of drugs intended to give players an edge in video game tournaments.
Software
Jul 24, 2015
0
29
Even as TV watchers increasingly go online, AT&T has become the country's biggest traditional TV provider with its $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV.
Business
Jul 24, 2015
0
28
Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA's New Horizons mission, which reveal distant Pluto to be an icy world of wonders.
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2015
16
2235
The odds of being attacked and castrated by a variety of parasitic flatworms increases for marine horn snails the farther they are found from the tropics. A Smithsonian-led research team discovered this exception to an otherwise ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2015
0
363
If you've lived between the year 1560 and the present day, more power to you. Literally.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 24, 2015
67
882
A bomb-proof lining developed by an international team of scientists, including academics from the University of Sheffield, has successfully contained blasts in a series of controlled explosions in the luggage hold of a Boeing ...
Engineering
Jul 24, 2015
8
1263
A new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Mammalogy by the Oxford University Press adds important insights to the debate over how long killer whales in human care live. The study found no difference in life expectancy ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2015
1
16
Scientists at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) have revealed an important molecular mechanism in plants that has significant similarities to certain signaling mechanisms in humans, which are closely linked to early embryonic ...
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2015
0
33
A bacterial signal that when recognized by rice plants enables the plants to resist a devastating blight disease has been identified by a multi-national team of researchers led by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy ...
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2015
1
51
