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Irene M. Pepperberg writes about her three-decade-long relationship with Alex, the parrot who could identify objects by their color, size and material, and do basic addition.

This holiday season is likely to be the worst for online shopping since it started a decade or so ago.

For a decade, the National Park Service has known that the cliff above a Yosemite tourist village is susceptible to rockslides like one that crushed cabins and sent children running for their lives.

The young country music star, Taylor Swift, has quickly established herself as the most remarkable country music breakthrough artist of the decade.

(CSIRO Australia) The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.

Experts say that within a decade it should be possible to efficiently process algae for fuel, helping to ease the world's energy needs and responding to global warming.

Ofsted has reported that, while maths exam results have improved significantly over the past decade, many children are not able to apply maths in their everyday lives when they leave school.

Marrying the refrigerator door and personal technology has been a challenge for several companies much of the past decade.

But newer efforts combine more practical approaches.

The Kleberg Foundation awarded The University of Texas a gift of $822,000 to purchase three high-powered electron microscopes.

The foundation has donated more than $2.5 million to UTSA over the past decade.