The Daily Frame
Click to enlarge.A visitor takes a picture on an iPad of a statue of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at Graphisoft Park in Budapest, Hungary. The six-and-a-half-foot bronze statue by Erno Toth...
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Testing Hybrids and Tossing Sandals in the Fight Against 'Wheat Rust'
Example of wheat rust. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro.Scientists say they are making promising strides in their race against Ug99, a stem rust disease that, left unchecked, could wipe out 80 percent of...
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How 2011 Became a 'Mind-Boggling' Year of Extreme Weather
Listen to the AudioFrom snowstorms to floods and tornadoes, severe weather wreaked havoc across the United States this year, with 2011 marking far more extreme weather events than a typical year. Hari...
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Twin NASA Probes Circling Moon, Hoping to Answer Questions About Core
Using a precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft will map the moon's gravity field, as depicted in this artist's rendering. Image by NASA/JPL-CaltechOn New Year's Eve, the first...
View ArticleIt's Not Mind-Reading, but Scientists Exploring How Brains Perceive the World
Listen to the AudioIt's not mind-reading, but some cutting-edge scientific research could reconstruct brain activity. Jake Schoneker, a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's...
View ArticleUnder the Sea Near Antarctica, 'a Riot of Life' Discovered in Super-Heated Water
Listen to the AudioScientists discovered many new species on the floor of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica -- something they're describing as a "riot of life." Jeffrey Brown speaks with former...
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Ants, Supersized
Researchers have found they can activate the development of supersized "supersoldier" ants. The study is published in the journal Science on Thursday. Here are some photos of pheidole ants, captured by...
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Honey, I Blew Up the Ants
Workers, soldiers and supersoldiers mingle in this ant colony. Photo by alexanderwild.com.In 2006, while collecting ants on an abandoned property in central Long Island, biologist Ehab Abouheif of...
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How Has Stephen Hawking Lived to 70 with ALS?
An expert on Lou Gehrig's disease explains what we know about this debilitating condition and how Hawking has beaten the oddsPhysicist Stephen Hawking onstage at the 2010 World Science Festival...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Moves to Compensate People Sterilized Against Their Will
Listen to the AudioRoughly 7,600 people were sterilized in North Carolina against their will between 1929 and 1974. A state panel voted Tuesday to pay the victims $50,000 each. Ray Suarez discusses the...
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Shedding Light on Early Cancer Detection
Vadim Backman, a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University is working to develop cancer detection procedures that are less invasive and more accurate. When cancer starts developing, cells in...
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Galaxy Clusters, Blue Stars and Cosmic Explosions
Skywatchers gathered in Austin, Texas, this week at the 219th American Astronomical Society meeting. Here's a look at some of the most exciting interstellar space findings, and the images that...
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Giant Galaxy Cluster, Blue Stars and Cosmic Explosions
Scientists have found the biggest distant galaxy cluster ever seen, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes et al,...
View ArticleDomain Names: Debating the Effects of a Dot-Anything World
Listen to the AudioICANN, the company that assigns what are called domain names for the Web is making a big change and rolling out a program to dramatically increase the number and kind of names...
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Tracking Firefighters Through the Smoke
Locating a missing person inside a burning building filled with blinding smoke can be tricky and extremely dangerous. University of Maryland firefighters are trying something new, science...
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After Fallout of Fukushima, 'Frontline' Explores Nuclear Energy's Future
Listen to the AudioNewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien traveled to three continents to examine the safety and future of nuclear energy in the wake of last spring's Fukushima reactor disaster...
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SOPA Blackouts Reaction and Resources
Many sites, including Wikipedia, Craigslist, Google and Boing Boing, have posted messages against the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) or are completely blacked out Wednesday. Reaction came quickly,...
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Could Keystone Pipeline Plan Be Revived After Obama's Rejection?
Listen to the AudioPresident Obama denied TransCanada Corp.'s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday, a project that would have carried oil 1,700 miles from the tar sands of Canada to...
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Rediscovering Charles Darwin
Last spring, a British scientist reached into the back of a cabinet and pulled out a fossil with a signature that looked an awful lot like Charles Darwin's. Turns out it was. Here is a sample of the...
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Darwin Fossils Released From Hiding
This slide containing the cross section of a monkey-puzzle conifer tree was most likely collected from South America. Photo by British Geological Survey/Natural Environment Research Council. Update:...
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