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Do dogs feel shame? You may be surprised
Scientists say dogs don’t really feel shame. The “guilty” look is really an attempt to change your response to them. Photo courtesy of Brandon Ross. You know the look — ears back, head cowered, eyes...
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Regarding Miles O’Brien’s ‘new reality’
Miles O’Brien on a Google Hangout with the crew of the International Space Station in Feb., 2013.Yesterday, we learned that Miles O’Brien, our science correspondent, suffered an injury that resulted in...
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The web turns 25
On this NeXT computer, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee devised the basic principles of the World Wide Web, while working at CERN in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The World Wide Web is growing up....
View ArticleLIVE: Climate change, explained; Miles O’Brien hosts discussion
The US National Academy of Sciences and the UK’s Royal Society have jointly released a report that uses simple language, pictures and accessible graphics to show that climate change is altering the...
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NASA and JAXA launch mission to measure global precipitation
Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA A rocket containing the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite launched from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 3:37 a.m. Japan Standard Time Friday....
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Why ranting online doesn’t help manage anger
Can the online rant help manage anger? Photo by Flickr User Stefan 1981. It’s hard to mistake the Internet rant, often characterized by its run-on sentences, inflammatory remarks, capital letters and...
View ArticleTeens take STEM reporting to the airwaves
Teenagers in Oakland, Cali. are ready to go on the air with their STEM reporting. Youth Radio, a program underwritten by the National Science Foundation, is teaching high school students how to be...
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Inside the slow and dangerous clean up of the Fukushima nuclear crisis
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSFukushima After the Meltdown A look around the ruins of Fukushima, where radiation still poses danger Six telling figures from Japan’s leaking Fukushima...
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Northern Lights make rare appearance
Northern lights activity in Scotland’s Ochil Hills near Menstrie. Photo by Flickr user Brian Smith. People across the British Isles looked up at the night skies on Thursday and saw a rare sight — the...
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Recalling the early days of the World Wide Web
The internet kill switch, a Maker project that enables users to disconnect from the World Wide Web to protect their privacy. Photo from MakezineThe World Web Wide Web in its public form celebrates its...
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Fishing for data in the radioactive waters off Fukushima
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now to the second of a three-part series on the impact of the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. RELATED LINKSNear Fukushima, a big...
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Without these ancient cells, you wouldn’t be here
An ocean-dwelling organism called Prochlorococcus plays an important role in photosynthesis. Oceanographer Penny Chisholm explains. Video by Rebecca Jacobson. Additional video courtesy Eric Grabowski,...
View ArticleThe great white shark Lydia and her historic journey across the Atlantic
Video of Lydia’s capture and release by OCEARCH A satellite-tagged great white shark named Lydia is on the verge of making history as the first of her species to be seen crossing the Atlantic. As of...
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Advanced physics lab shuns PowerPoint, embraces the white board
Inside Fermilab’s Tevatron facility in 2011. The physics lab has banned Powerpoint presentations. Photo by Flickr user Michael Kappel The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory – better known as...
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NewsHour’s Miles O’Brien on moving forward after an accident led to amputation
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Miles O’Brien has traveled the world for the NewsHour, and at times to very dangerous places, as he did for his current series of reports from the...
View ArticleUnlikely partners work to make fracking safer
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThis report was originally broadcast on Nov. 3, 2013. ANNOUNCER: Environmentalists and oil and gas companies are used to finding themselves on opposite sides of...
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An elephant never forgets (a voice)
A new study suggests that elephants can differentiate between voices. Photo by rcrhee. Elephants may be listening closer than you think. A new study released Monday from the Proceedings of the National...
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15 predictions for the future of the Internet
The Internet has radically changed everyday life in American society. It has created new ways to connect with friends and family, disrupted the way we do business and rewired just about everything in...
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Ancient tree rings suggest good weather helped Genghis Khan build his empire
New research suggests that one of the greatest conquerors in all of history, may have been given an advantage by Mother Nature. Photo by Ludovic Hirlimann/Flickr In the beginning of the 13th century,...
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Why is my baby’s poop this color?
Most colors of newborn stool are perfectly normal, doctors say. Photo by Stephanie Neal Photography. I’d like to say that our conversations in the early months of parenthood focused on how to...
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