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Google/Dish collaboration promises customized program schedules, targeted ads, and Google-powered TV show searching No longer simply content to rule the world of computers, the Google juggernaut has teamed up with Dish Network to bring its targeted ads an

Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things--at least from the standpoint of the brain. In the first imaging stud

Researchers say an afternoon nap prepares the brain to learnMAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun. And the business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning t

Hold onto your remote control: 3-D television is on the way . By the end of the year, most of the major TV manufacturers, including LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, will be selling displays capable of showing 3-D movies and other programming.

Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour by Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton. University of California Press, 2010 [More]

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out.

Next time you find yourself in a bad mood, don’t try to put on a happy face--instead tackle a project that has been stymieing you. [More]

Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident and scientist Jeremy Jacquot are traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among other research projects.

If you fall into the niche category of eco-conscious boating enthusiast with a desire to circumnavigate the globe on a 100-feet-long catamaran, your long wait is finally over. PlanetSolar - the dream of skipper Roaphael Domjan since 2004 and under constru

Dams of ice that usually plug straits leading out of the Arctic Ocean are failing to form, letting sea ice escape to the Atlantic and Pacific

This year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science looked at, among other things, fire, siestas, alien life and nuclear forensicsCALIFORNIA, though regarded by some as one of the more civilised parts of the world, is prey to

Figure skating is one of the most popular sports in the winter Olympics. In this exclusive Scientific American video, contributing editor Christie Nicholson takes you inside the sport, to explore the physics behind a figure skater’s spectacular moves.

Recent reports on the health benefits of fish oil sound almost too good to be true. The omega-3 fatty acids that it contains have been shown to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes and slow the formation of plaques in the arteries, and they may al

MARCH 1960 MODERN AGRICULTURE -- “The 20th-century Israelites came to a land of encroaching sand dunes along a once-verdant coast, of malarial swamps and naked limestone hills from which an estimated three feet of topsoil have been scoured, sorted a

California-based Amyris has used breakthroughs in synthetic biology to reinvent biofuels. To turn its technology into an industrial process, it has headed to the land of sugar: Brazil.

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