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Image from Atelier Wall Street Journal : Science Is Stepping Up the Pace of Innovation Big advances in astronomy and genetics. Eve...

Rules For Robot-War -- Irfan Husain, DAWN DOES the deployment of a computer virus by one state against another constitute an act of war? In ...

Tojo, Indonesia: A villager walks through a burnt forest after a slash and burn practice to open the land for agriculture. Photograph: Yusu...

Earth's atmosphere lights up at infrared wavelengths during the solar storms of March 8-10, 2012. A ScienceCast video explains the phys...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Makes The Case For Doubling The NASA Budget -- The Next Big Future The 2008 bank bailout of $750 billion was greater tha...

The argument over whether the universe has a creator, and who that might be, is among the oldest in human history. Photo: WALES NEWS SERVIC...

Was he born for the job? (Image: David Brown/Polaris/Eyevine) From New Scientist: IMAGINE this. You and your colleagues are gathered round a...

From Salon: It's fun to trash the search-monster's Buzz, but there's a method to its social networking smart-phone madness. Is t...

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Photograph: Getty Images From The Globe And Mail: As the...

From The New York Times: AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’...

Information is stored in many forms, but will it be readable in the future? (Image:WesternWolf/Flickr/Getty) From The New Scientist: "I...

From Live Science: The use of weapons may date back well before the rise of humanity, given evidence that even our closest living relatives,...

From The Wall Street Journal: Good news for the Earth, bad news for the IPCC. It's been a good week for the future of Life as We Know It...

Google has threatened to quit China over censorship and cyberattacks. Photo AFP From Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal: What does Google k...

From Discovery News: Less is more; let the music show you how. We've witnessed the progression: albums to compact discs to digital files...

Many believe super-intelligent machines are inevitable, but will we treat them as mere property? REUTERS From The Globe And Mail: Many belie...

From The Wall Street Journal: Climate Change Is Nature's Way. Climate change activists are right. We are in for walloping shifts in the ...

Most countries do not permit commercial surrogacy, say experts (Source: iStockphoto) From ABC News (Australia): In a world where rich countr...

From The Houston Chronicle: What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleo...

From New Statesman: We have, it seems, led the planet into the age of ecocide. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable environmental catast...