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An Oklahoma County judge has ruled in favor of Chesapeake Energy Corp. in a books & demand case filed by a shareholders' group.

Reaction from residents of Queens helped shape new plans for the development of a video-lottery gaming and entertainment project at Aqueduct Racetrack.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- Conservation groups are asking a federal judge in Missoula to block fall wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana....

Guardian Angels for Soldiers' Pet, a nonprofit organization made up of all volunteers, locates foster homes for the pets of servicemembers who are deployed, training or experiencing an emergency or fi...

[NEWS] Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms — living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago – likely fed by osmosis. The researchers studied two groups of modular Ediacara organisms, the fern-shaped rangeomorphs and the air mattress-shaped erniettomorphs. These macroscopic organisms, typically several inches in size, absorbed nutrients through their outer membrane, much like modern microscopic bacteria, according to the cover story of the Aug. 25, 2009 …

Photo © Georgette Douwma / Getty Images. Whale sharks, the largest fish in the sea, all belong to one big school. Instead of breaking down into lots of little groups scattered throughout their range, whale sharks all intermix in a single breeding population. This is pretty impressive, considering the range of whale sharks stretches in a broad band around the planet's belly, through tropical and warm temperate seas between 30°N and 35°S. The 'global' nature of the whale shark population was discovered by a team of scientists led by Jennifer Schmidt of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Schmidt's team surveyed sharks in three different oceans--the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean. They took tissue samples from the sharks and then used those samples to perform a suite of genetic tests. The tests revealed that there was little variation among sharks from the three oceans. Sharks from the Indian Ocean were genetically very similar to those of the e

The Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, announced earlier this week that eight of its member airlines have signed an agreement with Rentech, Inc. and Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG) to purchase up to 1.5 million gallons per year of renewable synthetic diesel fuel (RenDiesel) for use in ground service equipment at Los Angeles International Airport, beginning in late 2012, when Rentech's plant to produce the fuel is scheduled to go into service.

Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. is pleased to announce results for the second quarter of 2009 for the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) by the firm's Cleantech Group. The CEPGI reached a record quarterly high and Honda again claimed the Clean Energy Patent Crown.

On September 31, executive order 13446 expires, and with it, so does the charter of the President?s Council on Bioethics. But in June, the Obama administration disbanded the council ahead of schedule because, as The New York Times reported, it ?was designed by the Bush administration to be ?a philosophically leaning advisory group? that favored discussion over developing a shared consensus.?

Locked away in a Parisian vault, an old cylinder of metal establishes exactly what a kilogram weighs. Unfortunately, the mass of that cylinder appears to be changing. Now, a group of physicists wants to clear up the problem by redefining the kilogram, with the help of a very sensitive scale.