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Teens Sue Federal Government for Failing to Protect Children from Global Warming (Video)

Put this fire out!​Typically, you expect an environmental activist to be dressed in all organic clothing, maybe even birkenstocks. Whatever it is they are wearing, you at least imagine that they are them to be adults, as in over the age of 18. But apparently, the concern over global warming stretc ... More >>

We Are Stardust

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Facial Profiling

Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

Gear Up for Earth Day with Talk on Global Warming Cuisine

Gibbs Smith Publishers​As a drug rug-clad, headband-sporting Johnny Mathis might warble, it's beginning to look a lot like Earth Day. Revving up to Thursday, related food-themed happenings abound. Tomorrow, chef Laura Stec and atmospheric scientist Eugene Cordero, Ph.D. will appear at the Ma ... More >>

Dead Sea

An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

The Art of the Crease

​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

Straight Talk About Brain Slices

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Eating Unnaturally, Naturally

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Local Educators Cook Up Experiments on 'Iron Science Teacher'

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Stem-cell stalemate: The push for cures may produce only disappointment - or worse

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Hope for Humanity

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Synthetic Biology Debate

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Last Night: Barn Owl at the Hemlock

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Polar Express

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Sebastopol Mastodon for Sale on eBay

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MRSA-Killing Fogger Invented by Brits: Bloody Good Job

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There Already Is Blood

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We "Really" Love Them

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Ding-Dong! Who Is It? EARTHQUAKE! ... Could Alarm's Ring Reveal Quakes?

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Art Rolls By

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The Mother Lode

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Governor Newsom?

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

The Chronicles of Ridicule

Only the San Francisco Chronicle makes so many mistakes that it is forced to waste paper partaking in meta-meta-journalism

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Student of Concern

Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

Best Place to Buy 45s and 78s

Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

Entertain Your Brain

The new docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a real mind-bender

Beaming in on The Cure

A new type of radiation therapy, developed by a Bay Area company, shows astonishing promise in fighting cancer

Pedal Power

VeloSwap rides into town

Figures and Phantoms

An atheist Brit and a Hindu Indian pursue their mathematical passion with moving innocence

The Spectre Inspectors

When it's a question of spectral orbs -- or ectoplasm, or cold spots, or plain old ordinary ghosts -- who are you going to call? Why, Bay Area Paranormal Investigations, of course.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Copenhagen delivers a good lecture, but its key character never quite ignites

Letters to the Editor

God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Deranged in the Mesozoic

Disney's Computer-Animated Feature Dinosaur

Sidebar: Looking at Foresight

Disney's Computer-Animated Feature Dinosaur

How Dimensions Work

Disney's Computer-Animated Feature Dinosaur

It's a Conspiracy, I Tell You

And Stanford's Dr. Peter Sturrock wants something done about it

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And Stanford's Dr. Peter Sturrock wants something done about it

36,000 Feet Under the Sea

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

Building a Better Bomb

While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal

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While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal