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So you want to create your own Rubik’s Cube
In 1974 Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik wanted to create a teaching aid that would demonstrate spatial relations for his students. Using paperclips and rubber bands, he assembled blocks...
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Great white shark population on the rise after years of decline
A great white shark is shown in Mexico in 2006. Two studies on sharks released this month reveal the populations of great whites in the Atlantic and Pacific are on the rise. Credit: Terry Goss via...
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Construction starts on ‘extremely large’ telescope
An explosion was executed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile on Thursday in the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the world’s largest telescope. Credit: ESO A massive...
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How to 3-D print a dinosaur
Vince Rossi is holding the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex in the palm of his hand. Well, not a skull exactly. More specifically, it’s a miniature 3-D printed replica of a skull. It is smaller than the...
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Late in Life Pregnancy Could Predict Longevity
A woman’s ability to become pregnant late in life may indicate potential for increased longevity. Photo by Flickr user J.K. Califf A new study released Wednesday indicates a possible correlation...
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Aquanaut Fabien Cousteau’s 31-day mission underwater
The Aquarius Lab in Florida. Credit: Brian Lam We’ve done several Google+ Hangouts at the NewsHour, but until now, none were filmed underwater. On Saturday, we dialed up Fabien Cousteau, whose Mission...
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Watch ideas light up a fish’s brain
Scientists at the NIH are mapping the activity of thousands of individual neurons inside the brain of a zebrafish as the animal hunts for food. In a small, windowless room that houses two powerful...
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What would you ask the head of the EPA?
EPA administrator Gina McCarthy speaks with reporters at a breakfast in Washington in June. Photo by Getty ImagesOn Thursday, I spoke with Gina McCarthy, the head of the Environmental Protection...
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Hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma linked to fracking
Pumpjacks extract oil from the Inglewood Oil field, near where two test wells using Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, revealed no threat to groundwater, air quality or added risk of induced seismic...
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Take a tour of one of the world’s only underwater labs with Fabien Cousteau
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJOHN LARSON: Now, a visit to one of the world’s only underwater labs, where six scientists recently spent a month off Key Largo in Florida studying the effects of...
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Virus kills 100,000 pigs and piglets each week, drives up pork prices
Since May of 2013, 100,000 piglets and young hogs have died each week at the hands of the lethal disease, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv. Credit: Keith Weller via Wikimedia Commons. Since May...
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Indonesia reaches highest deforestation rate in the world
Rainforest clearing for slash and burn agriculture in central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The country has the highest deforestation rate in the world, according to a study published in “Nature Climate Change”...
View ArticleNeuroscientists protest Human Brain Project
More than 100 leading neuroscientists protested the $1.6 billion Human Brain Project in an open letter Monday. The project, the scientists argued, will waste money and harm the field of neuroscience....
View ArticleScientific journal Nature retracts controversial stem cell papers
Last week, the scientific journal Nature retracted two papers which claimed that skin cells could be turned into stem cells. PBS NewsHour interviewed lead author Dr. Charles Vacanti of Brigham and...
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Student science journalists tackle concussions, climate change and teaching...
PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs looked for science in their communities. From climate change and unreported concussions to physics magic shows and cafeteria nutrition science, these are their...
View ArticleWalk this way: Scientists recreate 410 million-year-old spider crawl
Fossil records have allowed scientists to unlock a 410 million-year-old secret: the way an ancient arachnid crawled around. Using fossils from London’s Natural History Museum that contain a cross...
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Russian physicist brothers plan to resurrect Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower
Tesla broadcast tower. Courtesy of Wikipedia Nikola Tesla was born in the middle of a lightning storm 158 years ago today. The 20th century visionary competed with Thomas Edison and had a long list of...
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How math is growing more strawberries in Southern California
Using numerical models, mathematicians can help farmers grow strawberries for less water in the parched Parajo Valley. Photo by Flickr user Sharon Mollerus Farming takes more than sunshine, water and...
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HIV rebound in young child is ‘another step’ in long process of AIDS research
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: There’s been a big disappointment in the hope to find a cure for AIDS. It involves a young child who was thought to have been cured of HIV as a baby....
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Scans of preserved mammoth babies thaw details into ancient animals’ development
CT images showing the head and shoulders of Lyuba (top) and Khroma (bottom). The labels indicate inhaled sediment in the baby mammoths’ airways. Image credit: University of Michigan Museum of...
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