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How to Build a Cooler City
CHICAGO | On a sweltering day in July 1995, Luxora Coleman returned to her Chicago home to find her husband, Oliver, unmoving on his living room couch. With a weak heart and only a ceiling fan to...
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U.S. and French Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Quantum Optics
Pictures of Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the U.S. are projected on a screen as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 9,...
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SciDay: Climate Report So Bad That Future is 'Hard to Describe'
A major new report by the World Bank predicts devastating malnutrition from depleted crop yields and rising seawater causing damaging floods with the poorest nations at the most risk if temperatures...
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Protecting New York From Future Superstorms as Sea Levels Rise
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: Now that New York and New Jersey have been hit by two destructive storms in less than two years, there's new urgency to questions about steps to better...
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Engineers Consider Barriers to Protect New York From Another Sandy
Possible sites for storm surge barriers to protect New York City. The four concepts were presented at an American Society of Civil Engineers conference in 2009. Updated Nov. 21, 3:10 P.M. Superstorm...
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Astronomers Spot Super-Jupiter; Cataloguing Bellybutton Ecosystems
Artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech. Update: 1:30 p.m. ET | Science watchers are buzzing that NASA's Curiosity rover has found something on...
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Climate Summit Begins in Doha; Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Cuts to Science
The opening ceremony of the United Nations climate conference in Doha was held on Monday, launching the talks. Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images. World leaders, climate scientists and activists...
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Einstein's Brain, Storms on Saturn and Bigfoot DNA
A picture and model of Albert Einstein's brain was on display during a preview of a March 2012 exhibition in London called "Brains: mind of matter." Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images. Five years...
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Harsh Weather, Knee Injuries Didn't Stop Filmmaker from Chasing Glaciers
Watch Video After five years spent documenting the behavior of glaciers, photographer James Balog has concluded that the term "glacial pace" is an oxymoron. Once, his teammates saw a chunk of ice...
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Lunch in the Lab: Mars Rover Tells Fans to 'Chill'; Ice on Mercury
A type of nudibranch, or sea slug, called a Spanish Shawl, or *Flabellina iodinea.Photo by Kent Treptow.* Welcome to Lunch in the Lab, a virtual platter of science news, delivered fresh by the...
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Grand Canyon May Be 60 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMARGARET WARNER: Finally tonight: Just how old is the Grand Canyon? The conventional wisdom holds that this natural wonder of the world was shaped by the Colorado River...
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Tiny Flying 'Bengal Tigers' invade Brooklyn
Common green darner dragonfly. Photo By Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images. Once a week, I arrive home to find the New Yorker magazine on the floor, partly shredded by my dog, who devotes...
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Swarming Lights and Tadpole Trains Bring Public Transit to Life
This week, a co-worker introduced me to a series of time-lapse animations that visualize a 24-hour stretch of public transit in various cities. Here's New York, which resembles a frenzied swarm of LED...
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The Internet Takeover That Never Was
Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications gathered for an opening press conference Dec. 3, 2012. Photo by the International Telecommunications Union. This week and...
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Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Problem
Scientists call ocean acidification "the other carbon problem." When the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it raises the pH of the water making it acidic. That shift makes sea animals'...
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Coral Reefs and Shellfish Battle Acidifying Oceans
Slip beneath the water's surface and you'll find a world teeming with life. Schools of yellowtail fish dart through colorful coral reefs. Spiny lobsters emerge from the crevices of ocean rocks...
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Farewell, Little Space Spider
Nefertiti, the red-backed jumping spider hunting for flies inside her space flight habitat on board the International Space Station. Photo by NASA. Nefertiti, the courageous space spider who soared...
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Playing with Owl Puke, and Other Science Inspired Holiday Gifts
Owls, like this one seen at an animal pet fair in Stuttgart, Germany, swallow their prey whole and then regurgitate what they can't digest. Photo by Marijan Murat/AFP/Getty Images. File this one under...
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How to Protect Against the Dangers of Mobile Apps That Gather Kids' Data
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight: new worries over the mobile apps kids are using, and what the apps disclose about their users. It seems like everyone has them, the...
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Asteroid the Size of Central Park Flies By
This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. There's been buzz in the news this...
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