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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple, Inc. File photo by AFP/Getty Apple Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs will resign from the helm of the technology giant, effective immediately. Jobs, 55, has been suffering…

El Nino Found to Drive Tropical Civil Wars

Traditional passenger boats known as 'avisos' sit on the dried bed of the Negro river, 120 km from Manaus, in northern Brazil on October 22, 2010. Due to the El Nino climate phenomenon, the river was almost the lowest…

Charging Cell Phones on the Sly in Syria, the True Story

By Larisa Epatko

Earlier this month, we aired a report from our partners at GlobalPost about protesters in Syria -- the mistreatment they endured and their tactics for getting around a restrictive regime. One method of recharging cell phone batteries described by one…

Check How Intense East Coast Earthquake Was in Your Zip Code

Text updated 7:52 p.m. ET | Tuesday afternoon's earthquake was a shared experience for millions of Americans along the East Coast, but how intense was it where you live? The U.S. Geological Survey has released a summary of the…

Rare 5.8-Magnitude Earthquake Jolts East Coast, Causing Various Disruptions

The above map shows earthquake activity in the United States in the past week: These maps requires the Google Earth browser plugin. Download the plugin here. Updated at 6:32 pm ET: A 5.8-magnitude temblor shook much of…

Are Category 6 Hurricanes Coming Soon?

Looking for signs of life after hurricane Ike hits Nederland, Tex. Photo by Getty Images. Atmospheric researchers tend to agree that tropical cyclones of unusual ferocity are coming this century, but the strange fact is that there is no…

What We're Reading: Brain Walls, Critter Vision and Microfossil Wars

By Jenny Marder

NASA To Share Telescope Cost The threatened James Webb Space Telescope, which is "perilously overbudget", may get a financial lifeline from other parts of NASA's budget, Nature News reports. As of now, the telescope is funded through the…

Study: Black Researchers Receive Fewer NIH Grants

James A. Shannon Building at the National Institutes of Health. Photo by National Institutes of Health Library. A new study by the National Institutes of Health found a disturbing gap between the number of grants awarded to white scientists…

Could Bacteria Be the Energy Producer of the Future?

What if wastewater could be turned into energy? Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on scientists from Penn State University that are developing microbial fuel cells that could channel energy produced when bacteria breaks down waste into electricity.

Human Sewage Identified as Coral Killer

The bacterium Serratia marcescens infected this coral from Looe Key in the Florida Keys, revealing the dead, white limestone skeleton underneath. Photo by James W. Porter. A Florida biologist has linked a vicious coral-killing pathogen in the Caribbean and…