A nuclear waste vault in New Mexico will long outlive our society. Experts are working on elaborate ways to warn future civilizations ( Read more... )

Chinese nanny state takes root in US

China's emergence as an economic superpower has been well-documented.

Western business leaders are said to be gearing up for all the changes to come, but they are not the only ones keen to get a head start.

An increasing number of families in the United States is looking to ( Read more... )

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Most of the time, 16-year-old Zach Rubio converses in clear, unaccented American teen-speak, a form of English in which the three most common words are "like," "whatever" and "totally." But Zach is also fluent in his dad's native language, Spanish -- and that's what got him suspended from school.
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Adrianne Appel for National Geographic News, October 20, 2005

Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence that chimpanzees speak to each other about objects in their environment.Chimps at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland use a crude language of grunts to talk to each other about their food, say primate experts at the University of St. ( Read more... )