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Why researchers are racing to test an Ebola vaccine for apes
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: When the Ebola epidemic spread through West Africa last year, the focus was on the human toll of the virus. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien looks at the...
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What NASA’s twin tests will teach us about life in space
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Teaching girls to write the rules at video game coding camp
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now: giving girls access to a more level playing field in an area formerly dominated by boys, making video games. Special correspondent Sandra Hughes has...
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How rising seas could sink the sea turtle
[Watch Video] It was a moonless Friday at the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, and a loggerhead sea turtle was giving birth. I watched as her goo-covered eggs dropped in threes, each...
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Climate change is hurting the sex lives of sea turtles
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now we turn to another angle of our continuing of climate change and its impact. Tonight, our science team looks at the toll it is taking on sea turtles and...
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What made the West explode in flames
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Crews battling wildfires in California seem to have turned the corner against two of the most difficult and destructive blazes. Progress was reported in...
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New images reveal what sunset on Pluto looks like
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat...
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Thanks to Ig Nobels, we now know how long it takes elephants to pee
Wearing a toilet seat on his head, David Hu, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology, walks away with his team’s Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for...
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Take a look inside a sea level rise time machine
There should be an embedded item here. Please visit the original post to view it. Editor’s note: This story is part of a series, The Wild Side of Sea Level Rise, which explores the basic research...
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Could a mushroom save the honeybee?
Commercial honeybees have teetered on the brink of collapse for nearly a decade. Scientists are now looking to forest mushrooms as a possible remedy. Photo by Ken Christensen/EarthFix/KCTS 9Honeybees...
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As a scientist, is the pope dodging the biggest contributor to climate change?
Monument to Nicholas Copernicus. Photo by Krzysztof Dydynski and Getty Images Once you’re a scientist, you’re always a scientist, and Pope Francis was once a scientist. In recent years, the pope’s...
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Why you won’t want to miss Sunday’s supermoon eclipse
The moon as it appears when eclipsed. Graphic courtesy of NASA’s Scientific Visualization studio On Sunday, if the skies are clear, you’ll have the chance to glimpse a rare event in the night sky: a...
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How data is helping asthmatics breathe easier
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioCHRISTOPHER BOOKER: Every night, usually somewhere between dinner time and putting her children to bed, Louisville nurse Dawn Sirek reaches for her inhaler. DAWN SIREK:...
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8 things you didn’t know about the moon
Frame from “A Trip to the Moon” (Le Voyage dans la lune), a French silent film directed by Georges Melies in 1902. Photo by Apic/Getty Images Man first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, an event...
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What you need to know about the ‘supermoon’ lunar eclipse
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Look up in the sky tonight, and you may see a rare supermoon total lunar eclipse. The sun, Earth, and a full moon will be in a straight line, making...
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Mars has flowing rivers of briny water, NASA satellite reveals
This image shows the central mountains of Hale Crater on Mars, one for four locations on the planet where scientists confirmed today the existence of flowing saltwater rivers called recurring slope...
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Skygazers moonstruck over ‘super’ rare eclipse
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Where there’s water on Earth, there’s life. Is the same true on Mars?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: big news from outer space. NASA today announced that it has found evidence of liquid water on Mars, at least during certain seasons of...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lin-Manuel Miranda win MacArthur fellowships
Lin-Manuel Miranda in New York City on Sept. 2, 2015. Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and Broadway composer-playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda...
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What ‘The Martian’ can teach us about the weather on Mars
The Martian. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox The most gripping aspect of The Martian movie isn’t the space theatrics or the star-studded cast. It’s the background. If you’ve seen the movie trailer,...
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