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Electronic tattoos are more than skin deep
The epidermal electronic system (EES) is like a short-lived tattoo that can conform to the skin in difficult-to-monitor areas like the throat.
August 16, 2011
Fukushima reactor radiation release calculated
Measuring radioactive sulfur in California let researchers calculate how much radiation released from Fukushima reactors. Read more.
August 15, 2011
Indiana State Fair tragedy and heeding weather warnings
Can we use the Indiana State Fair tragedy to learn from our mistakes? Read more about the incident and weather conditions here.
August 15, 2011
A drug to cure nearly any virus in MIT discovery
In tests, the new drug was effective against rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, the swine flu virus H1N1, a stomach virus, a polio virus and dengue fever.
August 15, 2011
Ben Horton: Sea level rise faster now than in 2,000 years
A team has direct physical evidence - microscopic fossils from a North Carolina salt marsh - that sea level rise is faster now than in the past 2,000 years.
August 15, 2011
2011 Gulf of Mexico dead zone smaller than scientists predicted
Tropical Storm Don might have disrupted the Gulf of Mexico dead zone in the summer of 2011, making it smaller than scientists originally predicted.
August 14, 2011
Typhoon Muifa: A photographer’s perspective
See dramatic images of Typhoon Muifa - 9th named storm of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season - as it struck Okinawa, Japan on August 5.
August 14, 2011
Fish success story in Baja, Mexico, but development looms
At an undersea park in Baja, Mexico, the fish population rebounded by 460 percent in 10 years. Developers now want to build a resort a few miles north.
August 13, 2011
Necklace Nebula in new Hubble image
The Necklace Nebula is 12 trillion miles wide, located in the constellation Sagitta.
August 12, 2011
After quiet week, tropics in Atlantic Ocean becoming active
Here in mid-August 2011, the tropics in the Atlantic Ocean are now heating up and models are showing development of numerous storms.
August 12, 2011
