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In a much-anticipated speech Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke about the "nontraditional" measures he's had to use to boost the economy. The Fed can't use the traditional tool — lowering interest rates — because rates are already so low. At a meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Bernanke also warned about the dangers of the stagnant labor market.

Farmers are uploading videos to YouTube that offer an intimate perspective of the unfolding drought. Some say rising food prices are already hurting local businesses in their communities.

The actor's speech to an imaginary President Obama at the Republican National Convention was to many a strange moment. But it has company.

Forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs writes what she knows: bones and crime. Reichs discusses her new novel Bones are Forever," and her work for the TV series "Bones" both of which star her fictional alter-ego, the scientist crime-solver Temperance Brennan.

How a cucumber creates its curling tendril has stumped scientists for centuries, including Charles Darwin and Asa Gray. With the help of time-lapse photography and prosthetic tendril fabricated in the lab, physicist Sharon Gerbode, biologist Joshua Puzey and colleagues figured out why tendrils twist, according to a new study in Science.

Reporting in Science, researchers write of sequencing the genome of a young Denisovan girl--an archaic human distantly related to Neanderthals and modern humans. Geneticist David Reich discusses the tale the genome tells about the Denisovan people and their interactions with modern humans.

The equine community here pledged to donate some of their hay to help each other keep their horses fed during droughts and other downturns.

With the remnants of Isaac dissipating, economists are saying the storm's national economic impact will be relatively muted and short-lived. After the Labor Day weekend, gasoline prices are expected to begin easing down from their storm-related run-up.

That's when Democratic vice-presidential nominee Burton K. Wheeler debated an invisible President Coolidge in front of a packed hall.

The jazz singer plays songs from her new album, Another Country, which explores Latin music.