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Oceans turn up the AC on global warming

Oceans turn up the AC on global warming

Science |  The world’s oceans acted like giant air conditioners during the last decade, according to a new study. By absorbing heat from the air, the oceans played a…

Heather has two mommies
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Heather has two mommies

Science |  A proposed fertility technique would create children with genes from three parents

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

Politicians: Evolving or mutating?

Politics |  Monday’s New York Times praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his “evolution from a proponent of gun rights to the shepherd of legislation that would…

Abu Qatada

Midday Roundup: Britain protects terrorist from jail time in Jordan

Newsworthy |  Respecting terrorists’ rights. Lawyers for the British government lost their bid to have a radical Muslim cleric deported to Jordan, where he faces…

FLOAT ON: A Palestinian woman swimming in the Dead Sea.

Raising the Dead Sea

Science |  Will an ambitious water project revive a sinking salty sea?

Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.

Midday Roundup: A pope enamored with humility

Newsworthy |  A humble man. Coverage of Pope Francis’ first day in office continues to flood the internet and the airwaves. The word used most often to describe the new…

Ill treatment
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Ill treatment

Science |  For troubled children, some hospitals offer to suppress gender

Unlikely additives
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Unlikely additives

Science |  Nanoscale ingredients have made their way into foods, though the health effects are poorly understood

An artist’s rendering of a

Today’s Times propaganda

Science |  The center of the front page of today’s New York Times proclaims, “Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast.” Accompanying a cute illustration (shown…

A view of the bottom of Lake Whillans

Life under ice

Science |  Scientists drilling 2,600 feet through the Antarctic continent's ice cap say they've found, for the first time, creatures living beneath. If confirmed, the…

DUTCH TREAT: Smokestacks in the Netherlands
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Dispensing with protocol

Science |  The UN’s global warming treaty hasn’t reduced much carbon in 16 years

Mass mortality
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Mass mortality

Science |  The link between weight and health appears more complex than we thought

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