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The retreat of the ice covering "Snowball Earth" 700 million years ago might have been the key to the Cambrian explosion that seeded our planet with diverse forms of life. But the trigger may not have been the changes to the climate, but rather the release of phosphorus into the ocean. During this time period, called the Cryogenian or Snowball Earth stage, the entire planet was covered in snow and ice, and the oceans may even have been frozen. Many researchers believe that the ice receded twice

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No, this ostrich is not decked out early for Halloween. The bird's glowing get-up is part of an experiment that settled just why these elongated creatures can run so much faster and farther than us: They have twice as much bounce in their step. Jonas Rubenson and colleagues adorned the tame ostriches with the reflectors at points that would show how their joints moved as they sprinted down a test track. The team watched the birds run and then sampled human volunteers the same way. Rubenson's st

Where once there was a star 20 times the size of our sun, now there is a record breaker. Astronomers report this week in Nature that when the huge star went supernova, it collapsed into a neutron star that is heaviest they've ever seen, with twice the mass of our sun compacted into a tiny space. Aside from taking its place in the record books, this massive monster could reveal what truly goes on deep in the heart of a deceased star. The neutron star is part of a binary star system called J1614-

Print section Issue:  Angry America Fly Title:  Schumpeter Location:  Main image:  20101030_wbd000.jpg “REVOLUTIONS” can take place in surprising places. The past decade has seen nothing less than a revolution in the command centres of capitalism... Читать дальше...

The first flight in a United Nations emergency airlift carrying urgently-needed shelter for victims of Benin’s flood disaster arrived today in the southern city of Cotonou.

The current security and political calm bodes well for this weekend’s long-awaited presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, underlining the need for the polls to take place as scheduled.

Football superstar Didier Drogba today kicked off a United Nations-sponsored campaign to highlight the capacity of democratic and transparent elections to lift people in some of the world’s poorest countries out of poverty through accountable and transparent governance.

It's understatement to say that Nikola Tesla was one of America's greatest inveltors.  The man had a gift for creativity, physical intuition, and inventiveness  that was truly otherworldly. Among other things, Tesla is responsible for the AC power we currently enjoy; his contemporary Thomas Edison was a stauch proponent of DC. In the early 1930's, Tesla claimed that he had invented a death ray that would benefit the military in battle---one capable of destroying up to 10,000 enemy aircraft at d

You know the "out of Africa" story: how our ancestors left the savannas where humanity grew up and trekked outward to other continents. Today in Nature, however, a new study of 40 million-year-old fossils argues that an "into Africa" story predates the other narrative: that the animals that would eventually evolve into apes like us and monkeys came from Asia into Africa. These fossil teeth  found in Libya belong to early anthropoids, according to the scientists. The team found several different

Winston Churchill is rightly remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour – but what if he also led the country through her most shameful hour? What if, in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a raw white supremacism and a concentration camp network of his own? This question burns through Richard Toye's new history, Churchill's Empire, and is even seeping into the Oval Office.

Fashion designer Derek Lam is launching a capsule collection to be sold exclusively on eBay, the giant online auction and shopping website serving 93 million users. Upon the collection's initial unveiling during New York Fashion Week in February 2011, web users will be able to vote for their favorite looks to determine what goes into production.

From Carl Zimmer: Deep in your brain there are probably several thousand neurons that will respond only to the sight of Lady Gaga. Several thousand others probably only crackle to the sight of Justin Bieber. It might be nice to reassign those neurons to loftier thoughts. For now, though, neurology can’t help you. What neurology can do for you (if you’re up for a little invasive brain surgery) is let you use those Gaga and Bieber neurons to control a computer. A team of researchers has built on