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Tuna from a Farm? A Q&A with Richard Ellis

As a tuna conservation commission gathers this week to decide the fate of the yellowfin tuna, we check in with the author of Tuna: A Love Story about the future of the million-dollar fish: the bluefin tuna...

The Bluefin Tuna in Peril

The only way to save the bluefin tuna, one of the most marvelous and endangered fish in the ocean, may be to domesticate the species

Five Ways to Print Your Own 3-D Objects [Slide Show]

3-D printing has been out of reach for most of us. Now thanks to do-it-yourself types all that has started to change

How to Solve the Rubik's Cube

Puzzles: Simple Groups at Play

Colleges Battle It Out in Mars Rover Competition [Slide Show]

Annual contest held by Mars Society highlights robotic innovation and makes for some snazzy-looking rovers

How it Works: Multi-touch Surfaces Explained

Improving Health by Targeting Gut Bacteria: A Q&A with Jeremy Nicholson

The body and its intestinal flora produce all sorts of chemicals that hold clues about a person's health. Jeremy Nicholson is deciphering the signals, which could lead to new kinds of medicines...

I See Doomed People

The director of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan, talks about his scientific and environmental inspirations

Video: Clip from The Happening

Satellite's-Eye View of an Africa Despoiled [Slide Show]

Satellite images from the last 35 years reveal sweeping environmental changes throughout Africa

Threatened Wildlife in the Here and Now [Slide Show]

More pictures from a traveling photo exhibit of creatures on the brink

Musicophobia: When Your Favorite Song Gives You Seizures

The story of a Queens, N.Y., woman reveals a rare kind of epilepsy

Bird Nerds: Using the Web to Net Our Feathered Friends

How Web-based bird-watchers are helping scientists study global warming