I tell stories on a show called Radiolab with a guy who is several decades younger than me. Jad Abumrad is brilliant at it. Nobody turns complex subjects into soundscapes ...

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AFP/Getty Images Key provisions of the Kyoto Protocol expire in December of 2012, and experts state there is no real global framework in place to replace the treaty that was ...

Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. is second only to China in emitting gases that cause global warming. Above, the smoke stacks at American Electric Power’s Mountaineer power plant in West ...

Enlarge A prep cook drops apple skins into a food scrap recycling container in San Francisco. A prep cook drops apple skins into a food scrap recycling container in San ...

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New findings in the science of charity reveals some counter-intuitive results. For instance, people will give more money to a single suffering person than to a population of suffering people, ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech The compact car-sized Mars Science Laboratory is due to land on the red planet on Aug. 6, 2012. It is equipped with a suite of instruments to study rocks ...

Allison Steinfeld What theyreally had for dinner. Can you spot the 3 turkeys? They got away. I did this last year. Here it is again, ever so slightly amended, in ...

Stephan Savoia/AP Narragansett and Standard Bronze heritage breed turkeys browse at a farm in Westport, Mass. A decade ago there were fewer than 100 Narragansett turkeys being raised on a ...