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Harnessing Supercomputers to Predict Tornadoes
A tornado can rip apart a home or destroy a whole town in just seconds. But when it comes to predicting these vicious storms, current radar technology is limited. At the University of Oklahoma,...
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What a Cake Pan, Hairspray Taught Us About Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
What can fossilized raindrop impressions preserved in 2.7-billion-year-old volcanic ash tell us about the ancient Earth's atmospheric pressure? Can they help resolve one of the great astrophysical...
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The Dos and Don'ts of Earthquake-Resistant Construction
Here are some tips on building a home that could withstand an earthquake. Here are some tips on building a home that could withstand an earthquake.
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Colo. Nonprofit Helps Quake Victims Rebuild With Better Techniques
Buildings vulnerable to collapse are everywhere. A skyscraper built on a parking garage in San Francisco could have too much open space with too few structural walls. Sand mixed into concrete for a...
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Seeing Beyond the Visual Cortex
Blindsight is a condition that results from damage to the primary visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for vision. Even though the injury causes vision loss, other parts of the brain...
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An Interactive History of the Texas Drought
Click on the map above for an interactive version.Recently, PBS NewsHour reported from Texas in collaboration with the public media project StateImpact Texas to look at how dry conditions have caused...
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Slime Molds, Revealed
The slime mold takes on hundreds of shapes, sizes, and colors. Some varieties are the size of dinner plates, while others are only visible through a microscope. The slime mold takes on hundreds of...
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Solar Suitcase: Saving Lives with Solar Power
Dr. Laura Stachel and her husband founded We Care Solar to help bring light to the estimated 300,000 hospitals and clinics in the developing world that don't have reliable sources of electricity. Our...
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Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem
In a study released last week, Selim Akl, a computer scientist at Queens University, demonstrated that slime mold is fantastically efficient at finding the quickest route to food. When he placed...
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Electric Knifefish Charged with Sixth Sense
Electric eels generate enough voltage to stun their prey, but they're not the only electric creature in the water. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University believe that the so-called weakly electric...
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Feeling the Heat: March Shattered Temperature Records Across U.S.
*A day-by-day animation of the daily temperature records tied or broken in March 2012. Over 15,000 records were broken. *This March was the warmest ever in the continental United States, measuring on...
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Citizen Scientists Track Rain Drop by Drop
Jim Ridgely checks his rain gauge outside his house in Frederick, Md. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson.Inside Jim Ridgely's living room in Frederick, Md., the fire station scanner chatters nonstop and the AM...
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Six Feet Under Can Be Green for Eternity
EmbedVideo(3133, 482, 304);In 1998, Dr. Billy Campbell, a family practitioner in Westminster, South Carolina, opened a land preserve founded on a unique model: enlisting death in the fight for...
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Risky Business in the Pacific Northwest
EmbedVideo(3149, 482, 304);On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, Tom Bearden reports on efforts to better understand a phenomenon called liquefaction. When a powerful earthquake shakes a region, sandy soils can...
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Listen to the AudioThough the impact of Wednesday's 5.9-magnitude earthquake off Oregon's coast was minimal, a lesser-known risk of temblors -- a phenomenon called liquefaction where sandy soil turns...
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DeterLab's Cyber 'Racetrack' Battles Computer Hackers
UCLA computer science graduate student Erik Kline really enjoys his studies. That's partly because he has access to a massive computer test bed -- sort of a mini-Internet where he and other...
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How to Remove Yourself From Google Street View
Anytime a story about Google's omniscient car cameras comes up, there is an inevitable gasp in the newsroom about the information that is available to anyone, anywhere thanks to images nabbed when the...
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Preventing a 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor'
Listen to the AudioGovernment-funded DETERlab was built to bring established scientific principles to the field of cybersecurity in hopes of preventing successful cyber attacks on targets such as power...
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Space Shuttle Discovery's Final Flight
Discovery circles above Washington, D.C., before landing at Dulles International Airport. Photo by Getty Images.In Washington D.C., people pressed their faces against windows, squinted from rooftops...
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Miles O'Brien Reflects on Discovery's Last Flight, Space Shuttle Shortcomings
EmbedVideo(3184, 482, 304);Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride Tuesday morning from Florida's Kennedy Space Center to Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where it will live...
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