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A festival goer gets to hold a tarantula in the education pavilion at the second annual Tarantula Festival in La Junta, Colorado.

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  • Animals

Tarantulas in Colorado are on the move, and they're looking for love

Fall is tarantula mating time in the plains of southeastern Colorado. The small city of La Junta is celebrating the spiders' season of romance with its second annual tarantula festival.

October 04, 2023
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  • Shanna Lewis
The groundbreaking research of Linsey Marr, an aerosols expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, showed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is airborne as opposed to traveling in large droplets that fall with gravity.

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  • Global Health

This MacArthur 'genius' knew the initial theory of COVID transmission was flawed

When COVID-19 first emerged, Linsey Marr suspected right away it spread through the air. Time has proved this aerosols engineer right. Now she's being honored with a MacArthur "genius grant."

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
Anthropologist Amber Wutich embeds in communities only at their invitation — a method she calls 'participant observation.' Much of her work focuses on alleviating water insecurity.

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  • Global Health

This expert on water scarcity would never call herself a 'genius.' But MacArthur would

Amber Wutich, an anthropologist and newly minted 'MacArthur genius,' says water scarcity is a human-caused problem that requires human-generated solutions.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
Moungi Bawendi of MIT, one of the 2023 winners of the chemistry Nobel Prize, embraces his step-daughter Julia Teller (left) at their home in Cambridge, Mass.

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  • Science

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three scientists for tiny, colorful quantum dots

Three scientists were honored for their work with the tiny nanoparticles that allow for very bright colors. They are used in many electronics, like LED displays.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Amina Khan and
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Kiran Joshi fills a copper vessel with water from Ashwanaula, a groundwater spring in the village of Raushil, where she lives with her family

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  • Climate

As the 'water tower of Asia' dries out, villagers learn to recharge their springs

In the Himalayan foothills, water is getting harder to come by. Villagers in one region of northern India are learning how to recharge the groundwater-fed springs they depend on.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Namrata Kolachalam
A panel of the Royal Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, announces the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.

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  • Science

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for looking at electrons in atoms

The scientists look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds, giving "humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

October 04, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly Thomas Perlmann speaks in front of a picture of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.

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  • Science

Nobel Prize goes to scientists who made mRNA COVID vaccines possible

Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Karikó and American immunologist Drew Weissman found that a chemical change to genetic code called mRNA eliminated a problematic side effect when used in vaccines.

October 02, 2023
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  • Scott Hensley and
  • Rob Stein
New research probes the relationship between certain genes and brain disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

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  • Research News

Brain cells, interrupted: How some genes may cause autism, epilepsy and schizophrenia

Researchers have identified 46 genes that can disrupt a process that is critical to early brain development. The finding could help scientists find new treatments for disorders including autism.

October 02, 2023
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  • Jon Hamilton
PEPFAR, the U.S. multibillion dollar effort to fight HIV/AIDS, funds organizations such as the Coptic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

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  • Global Health

What's behind the debate to re-authorize PEPFAR, the widely hailed anti-HIV effort?

The program launched by President George W. Bush is credited with saving 25 million lives. Some in Congress want this year's reauthorization tied to language that PEPFAR will not "promote abortion."

September 29, 2023
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  • Gabriel Spitzer
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

Why hikers on the Pacific Coast Trail are coming down with norovirus

Hikers are getting sick with norovirus in the wilderness. A CDC investigation finds that poor hygiene along the Pacific Crest Trail — and other outdoor settings — is to blame.

September 28, 2023
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  • Pien Huang
A new study in the journal <em>Nature Geoscience </em>predicts that 250 million years from now, a supercontinent formed around the equator will be too hot for mammals to survive.

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  • Research News

250 million is the new 40: Mammals may already be halfway done on Earth, study finds

The future is always hard to predict, especially millions of years from now. But researchers found that a future supercontinent centered around the tropics may be tough for mammals to survive.

September 28, 2023
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  • Becky Sullivan
People watch a supermoon rise above Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 30.

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  • Space

This week's harvest moon will be the last supermoon of the year

A supermoon occurs when the moon is closest to Earth along its elliptical orbit, which means it can appear larger and brighter to viewers. The last one of the year will be visible Thursday and Friday.

September 27, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
An International Energy Agency report says countries are setting records building solar power projects like AES' Clover Creek solar project in Mona, Utah in 2022.

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  • Climate

A new climate change report offers something unique: hope

Electric vehicles and solar power are growing quickly and offering hope the world could still meet climate change goals.

September 27, 2023
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  • Jeff Brady
GPB News NPR

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  • Science

A reproduction revolution is on the horizon: vitro gametogenesis or IVG

Scientists in Japan are at the forefront of one the most controversial areas of biomedical research: creating sperm and eggs in the laboratory from practically any cell in the body.

September 27, 2023
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By:
  • Rob Stein
People use protective glasses to watch solar eclipse in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 20, 2023.

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  • Science

An annular solar eclipse is coming to parts of the U.S. in October

Residents from Oregon to Texas may be able to glimpse the annular eclipse, when the moon is deep in its orbit and passes in front of the sun, creating a black circle on the star.

September 26, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
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