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Coimbatore round up

Castings seized by BIS officialsA team of officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Coimbatore, recently seized 20 tonnes of grey iron castings worth ₹25 lakhs from...

Climate Change, Once a Big Issue, Fades From Canada’s Election

The melting Arctic icecap. Record-smashing wildfires across several provinces. A country that, on average, is warming at twice the rate of the rest...

What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger

Do we really have free will when it comes to eating? It’s a vexing question that is at the heart of why so...

Interior Department to Fast-Track Oil, Gas and Mining Projects

The Interior Department said late Wednesday that it would fast-track approvals for projects involving coal, gas, oil and minerals on public lands, arguing...

Video: How Fertilizer Poisoned So Much Farmland

For years, a factory offered farmers its sewage as free fertilizer, and the surrounding land — some of which is still used to...

Forest Service Layoffs and Frozen Funds Increase the Risk From Wildfires

Despite being in office for less than a month, the Trump administration has already made the United States more exposed to catastrophic wildfires...

As Trump Slashes Federal Jobs, Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’ Braces for Impact

Over galaxy-themed beers at InnerSpace Brewing in Huntsville, Ala., Stewart Money has heard it all recently from government engineers and contractors winding down...

But how much does breed shape a dog’s health and behavior?

In some cases, these health problems arose as byproducts of inbreeding. Because breeds are genetically closed populations, a disease-causing mutation that just happens...

Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds

In early February, Vishvaa Rajakumar, a 20-year-old Indian college student, recently won the Memory League World Championship, an online competition pitting people against...

Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54

Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — transformed the understanding...

Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

With TV cameras pointed at her, Felisa Wolfe-Simon began speaking at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2010.“I’ve discovered — I’ve...

Texas County Declares an Emergency Over Toxic Fertilizer

A Texas county is taking steps to declare a state of emergency and seek federal assistance over farmland contaminated with harmful “forever chemicals,”...

NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion

Federal research funding to tackle areas like cancer, diabetes and heart disease is lagging by about $1 billion behind the levels of recent...

Trump’s Funding Freeze Raises a New Question: Is the Government’s Word Good?

As the Trump administration continues to withhold billions of dollars for climate and clean energy spending — despite two federal judges ordering the...

Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time

Hummingbirds are tiny and delicate, but don’t be fooled: They are among the most aggressive birds in the avian kingdom. Their territorial fury...

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