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Americans afflicted with 'phantom noise' seek relief from ringing in their ears
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now: the burden of living with a never-ending noise, a condition tone as tinnitus, also pronounced tinnitus, and what science is trying to do to make it...
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How does Twitter's potential for profit measure up to its high stock price?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Twitter's little blue bird soared on its first day of flight into the public markets, but there are questions about what underlies that high stock value....
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As estimates of meteor strikes rise, how can Earth avoid destruction?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It's not just in sci-fi movies. Asteroids really are moving closer to Earth more frequently and chunks of them are hitting too. The one that caught...
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Revealed: the vainest skyscrapers in the world
With the recent competition between New York and Chicago over which city has the tallest skyscraper in the U.S. (winner: New York), we were reminded that many of the world's loftiest towers benefit...
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The heights of vanity? The New York-Chicago skyscraper duel
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In tonight’s “Connection,” – sizing up which city has the tallest building in America. That title now officially belongs to New York’s One World Trade...
View ArticleGovernment security breach by Anonymous - scope unknown
Joseph Menn of Reuters reports on the story he helped break about how activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies...
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WATCH LIVE: MAVEN's mission to Mars
An artist's concept of MAVEN satellite, pictured, shows Mars in the background. NASA plans to launch the satellite into Mars' orbit on Monday. NewsHour will live stream the launch. Image by...
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Promiscuous mouse moms have sexy sons
Male mouse pheromones released in urine attract female mice and increase the male's chance of mating and producing offspring. In that way, mouse pheromones act much like a peacock's tail to attract...
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Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set their sights on space travel, moon mining
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: For decades, when Americans have talked about exploring space, the government agency NASA has been front and center in every conversation. NASA, in fact,...
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Lighting up elementary school science with 'lab before the blab'
Elementary school science students in Leigh Ann Anderson's classes skip the textbooks and get straight to the experiments. Four fourth graders huddle over short magnetic wires attached to the top and...
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Astronaut Hadfield shares 'unbeatable point of inspiration' he found in space
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Talk to people who work in the space business, and you will often hear worry that the public is losing interest in the space program. But, earlier this...
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'Doctor Who' celebrates 50 years of adventures through time and space
Popular sci-fi series "Doctor Who" celebrates 50 years on Saturday. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images The adventure started on November 23, 1963. Viewers stepped inside a police box that was "bigger on...
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Will Comet ISON survive a Thanksgiving roasting?
Comet ISON photographed via a telescope on November 8, 2013. Photo by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona While Americans cook their Thanksgiving turkeys on Thursday, a tiny comet...
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Worldreader aims to eradicate global illiteracy by giving children e-readers
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In recent years, tablets and e-readers have topped many holiday shopping lists. Jeffrey Brown looks at one program aimed at using that technology to...
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Cassini spacecraft's cosmic photos bring the world 'along for the ride'
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: We look now at some out-of-this-world images. For 10 years, the Cassini spacecraft has captured arresting snapshots from Saturn, and this month took a...
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Oldest known human DNA reveals we're 'complete mongrels'
Artist's drawing of what the ancient humans found at Sima de los Huesos may have looked like. Courtesy: Javier Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films By tracing ancient human DNA, scientists are learning that...
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Tech giants call for tighter limits on government surveillance
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The giants of the tech industry made a highly public appeal today to rein in government surveillance. It came in the form of an open letter to President...
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