Looking for Life on Mars: Viking Experiment Team Member Reflects on Divisive Findings

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There's A Word For Today

English lacks some words that other languages pack with meaning. | Continue reading


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When Storms Hit Cities, Poor Areas Suffer Most

Low-income neighborhoods see more damage and have less political clout to advocate for fixes | Continue reading


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A Drug Shows an Astonishing Ability to Regenerate Damaged Hearts and Other Body Parts

A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs damaged by illness and injury | Continue reading


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Volcanic Eruptions Detected from Space  

Satellite measurements of sulfur dioxide from volcanic eruptions could help keep aircraft safe from hazardous ash  | Continue reading


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Quantum Gravity in the Lab

Physicists attempting to unify the theories of gravity and quantum mechanics have long thought practical experiments were out of reach, but new proposals offer a chance to test the quantum nature of gravity on a tabletop | Continue reading


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The Pitfalls of Data's Gender Gap

Without female data, everything from safety gear to urban design to Siri is biased toward men. The effects range from inconvenient to deadly | Continue reading


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Prehistoric Whodunit: New Technique Identifies What Killed Ancient Animals  

Characteristic etchings on ancient prey bones reveal the animal that digested them | Continue reading


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Europe Stores Electricity in Gas Pipes

Converting excess wind and solar power into hydrogen can extend renewable energy’s reach | Continue reading


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The New Science of Healthy Aging

Understanding why we age and how to prevent age-related physical and mental decline can help us to live in the moment and enjoy our health at any age. In this eBook, we explore the latest thinking in why we age, strategies to help maintain good health as well as research into the … | Continue reading


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Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains

A new theory challenges assumptions about when and how our ancestors altered their behaviors to boost brainpower | Continue reading


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The Secrets of an Aging Athlete

Bestselling author and fitness guru Brad Kearns joins Get-Fit Guy, Brock Armstrong, to explain how we can stay fit now, and well into the future | Continue reading


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The Case of a Woman Who Feels Almost No Pain Leads Scientists to a New Gene Mutation

The discovery may have implications for treating acute and chronic pain | Continue reading


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Dust from Melting Glaciers Could Create Clouds

Any shift in cloud formation over the Arctic could further influence its changing climate | Continue reading


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World's First HIV-To-HIV Kidney Transplant With Living Donor Performed Successfully

The ability to use organs from living HIV-positive individuals could increase the supply available for transplant | Continue reading


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Military Tries Out Fish as Underwater Spies

The sophisticated sensing behaviors of marine organisms could serve as a surveillance system that aids national security | Continue reading


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Bumblebee Queens Prefer Layovers to Nonstop Flights

Scientists tracked bumblebee queens with radar when they emerged from hibernation, and found the bees take only brief flights en route to a new nest. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading


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Amphibian-Killing Invasive Fungus Causes Record Wildlife Loss

The chytrid fungus has hit 500 species of amphibians, driving dozens to extinction in recent decades | Continue reading


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How Brexit Could Impact the U.K.'s Climate Goals

The withdrawal from the European Union could disrupt emissions trading to reduce greenhouse gases | Continue reading


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Repurposed Drug Could Offer Hope after Many Alzheimer's Trial Failures

A drug approved for hepatitis D triggers a cellular waste disposal system to rid mice brains of the tau protein, a major culprit in neurodegenerative disease | Continue reading


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Dogs Detect the Scent of Seizures

These very good dogs are very good at what they do—taking a whiff of a chemical that precedes an attack | Continue reading


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Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe

Stemming from the “F-theory” branch of string theory, each solution replicates key features of the standard model of particle physics | Continue reading


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Mission to Europa Gets New Instrument to Look for Signs of Habitability

Amid technical and political hurdles, a veteran planetary scientist takes charge of a key part of Europa Clipper, a spacecraft targeted at the solar system’s most intriguing moon | Continue reading


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The "Fantastic" Feeling of a Breakthrough: Q&A with Math Prize Winner Karen Uhlenbeck

The first female winner of the prestigious Abel Prize shares details of life as a mathematician | Continue reading


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GOP Counteroffer to Green New Deal Pushes Innovation

Senator Lamar Alexander’s proposal would beef up funding for energy research and carbon capture | Continue reading


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3 Myths (and 1 Truth) About Grain-Fed Beef

There’s a lot to consider when deciding what kind of meat to buy—or even whether to eat meat at all. The least we can do is start with accurate information | Continue reading


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New Strategies Take On the Worst Cancer--Glioblastoma

Among the various malignancies that can afflict the human body, few bring with them the dour prognoses of brain tumors | Continue reading


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Russia's New Nuclear Missiles Squeeze Response Time

As treaties end, Russia focuses on hypersonic weapons that could “tighten the noose” on current U.S. defenses | Continue reading


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Scenic City Sights Linked To Higher Happiness

Tracking the location and mood of 15,000 people, researchers found that scenic beauty was linked to happiness—including near urban sights like bridges and buildings. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading


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What Is It Like to Be a Baby?

Alison Gopnik investigates the infant mind | Continue reading


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Why Losing Our Newspapers Is Breaking Our Politics

Study finds newspaper closures are linked to partisanship | Continue reading


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Forestalling a Fatal Decision

Social scientists have begun to close in on new ways to stop people from taking their own lives | Continue reading


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Coastal Conservation Plan Sparks Fight Over Sand

Beach communities that rely on dredging to replenish protective dunes object to expanded federal protections | Continue reading


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Can Soil Microbes Slow Climate Change?

One scientist has tantalizing results, but others are not convinced | Continue reading


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Tech's Brain Effect: It's Complicated

We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex. | Continue reading


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Along the Mighty Mississippi, Cities Swap Sandbags for Marshes

Several towns have restored natural wetlands to absorb floodwaters | Continue reading


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The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says

Study points toward lifelong neuron formation in the human brain’s hippocampus, with implications for memory and disease | Continue reading


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How 3D-Printing Could Break into the Building Industry

Imagine a single trained operator making a bridge, home or barracks | Continue reading


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Awe: The Most Incredible Emotion and Its Spectacular Effects

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen explores the 4 grand effects of this unique emotion | Continue reading


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Daylight Brings Toxic Beetles Together For Safety

During daylight hours, hundreds of bombardier beetles of multiple species will congregate together to more effectively ward off any predators not afraid of a lone beetle's toxic spray. | Continue reading


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How Co-ops Are Bringing Solar Power to Rural America

Declining solar costs have helped spur a move away from coal | Continue reading


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“Medieval” Diseases Flare as Unsanitary Living Conditions Proliferate

Typhus and other infectious illnesses hit homeless communities | Continue reading


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Biogen Halts Studies of Closely Watched Alzheimer's Drug, a Blow to Hopes for New Treatment

Trial failure raises doubts about amyloid as a target for drug development | Continue reading


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Best-Yet Measurements Deepen Cosmological Crisis

The latest disagreement over the universe’s expansion rate suggests researchers may be on the threshold of revolutionary discoveries | Continue reading


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An Impossible Scenario: Scientists Watch as Heat Moves at the Speed of Sound

A rare phenomenon seen in just a handful of materials at forbidding temperatures has been detected within “warm” graphite—a finding that could aid future microelectronics | Continue reading


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Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method

In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief | Continue reading


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First Baby Monkey Born Using Sperm from Frozen Testicles

Researchers hope that the procedure could be used to restore fertility to human boys undergoing cancer treatment | Continue reading


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Huge Meteor Explosion a Wake-Up Call for Planetary Defense

Detonating over the Bering Sea, the blast was as powerful as a nuclear bomb | Continue reading


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