This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Shakespeare once said: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And that is true today as it was 400 years ago. What's different now, though, is th

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The Macondo well operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico has now been capped with a star adornment that commemorates the 11 people killed when the rig operating on the water surface above the site exploded on April 20. Clean-up efforts continue, though,

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MANILA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Due to the influence of tropical storm Wukong (local name Quinta), 5,748 passengers were stranded at a dozen of ports in central Philippines by 7 a.m. Wednesday, the Philippine Coast Guard said. Most of the passengers were

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US blizzards, Asia's typhoons, other extreme weather all linked to Pacific Ocean anomaly Steve Baragona | Washington, DC 10 February 2010 Experts say the oceanic disturbance known as El Ni?o is to blame for severe weather in Washington, D.C. and arou

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