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Over 23,000 brain scientists gathered in San Diego for a conference last week

Over 23,000 neuroscientists gathered in San Diego last week to hear the latest discoveries on how the brain works.

November 22, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Antonio Rapuano got an infusion of a monoclonal antibody to treat his COVID in Albano, Italy in 2021. Such infusions have been effective treatments for COVID during the pandemic, but doctors are now finding that most monoclonal antibodies no longer work against new variants of SARS-CoV-2.

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  • Health

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants

The treatments were highly popular earlier in the pandemic. One by one, they got knocked out by more convenient, less expensive treatment options, and new COVID variants.

November 21, 2022
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By:
  • Pien Huang

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  • Health

A cell biologist shares the wonder of researching life's most fundamental form

Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how cellular science could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, HIV, Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell anemia. His new book is The Song of the Cell.

November 21, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
This screengrab from NASA TV shows NASA's Orion capsule, left, nearing the moon, right, on Monday. At center is Earth.

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  • Space

NASA's Orion capsule buzzes the moon in a last step before humans revisit lunar orbit

The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

November 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Bonny Omara (left) works with Edgar Mujuni at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology on the satellite that will be used to observe land conditions in Uganda.

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  • Space

The first satellites launched by Uganda and Zimbabwe aim to improve life on the ground

The nanosatellites will observe the health of the land to help people make the best use of their countries' natural resources. A growing number of African countries are venturing into space.

November 20, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
Computer monitors show financial data. More data being created and stored necessitates the use of new unit measurements.

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  • Science

The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up

The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.

November 19, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Ahn
This illustration shows the James Webb Space Telescope as it might appear as it orbits the sun, about a million miles away from Earth.

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  • Science

NASA once again declines to rename the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA says an extensive review of historical records found no evidence that Webb ever led or supported purges of government employees who were gay. But some astronomers think that's a pretty low bar.

November 18, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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  • Science

What your age really says about your chance of success at work

We often equate youth with success at work. Physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási put this belief to the test, and found that with persistence, we can be successful at any age.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Gutierrez,
  • Manoush Zomorodi,
  • and 2 more
The small red dot highlighted inside the white box on this James Webb Space Telescope image is an early galaxy, seen as it looked just 350 million years after the Big Bang.

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  • Science

James Webb telescope spots galaxies near the dawn of time, thrilling scientists

Galaxies that existed soon after the Big Bang turn out to be surprisingly bright, a discovery that's both thrilled and puzzled scientists who study how the universe evolved over time.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Chicken made from animal cells is made into a dish at Upside Foods.

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  • Health

FDA gives safety nod to 'no kill' meat, bringing it closer to sale in the U.S.

The FDA has taken a first step towards green-lighting cultivated meat. The agency gave a safety nod to Upside Foods, which provided documentation to show their meat grown from animal cells is safe.

November 17, 2022
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  • Allison Aubrey
The black flying fox is one of the bats in Australia that carries the Hendra virus — which sometimes spills over to horses, and humans, with devastating impact. Scientists are trying to figure out what triggers spillovers — and how to stop them.

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  • Global Health

An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us

New research points to a surprising way to stop spillovers of Hendra virus, which is harbored by bats. It's not often that it jumps to horses, then humans, but when it does, the result are brutal.

November 17, 2022
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  • Ari Daniel
If you dance more when the bass hits, it could be because of your vestibular system.

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  • Music

What makes us dance? It really is all about that bass

A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that people danced 12% more when very low frequency bass was played.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Mia Venkat and
  • Christopher Intagliata
NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program.

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  • Space

After a night of uncertainty, NASA's Artemis moon rocket takes to the skies

NASA's Artemis moon rocket has finally launched after months of setbacks, from fuel leaks to hurricanes. If successful, the mission signals a big step toward returning humans to the moon.

November 16, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The Artemis 1 moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft are sitting poised on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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  • Space

Watch Live: NASA's Artemis moon rocket counts down to launch

The space agency has been trying for months to send its giant moon rocket on its first test flight. The goal is to send a crew capsule, with no astronauts on board, around the moon and back.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
U.S. map shows most states score poorly on a grading system for pre-term births.

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  • Health

A nonprofit says preterm births are up in the U.S. — and it's not a partisan issue

March of Dimes' annual report on infant and maternal health drops the U.S. from a C- to a D+, citing a 15-year high in the preterm birth rate. But it also offers some encouraging signs and solutions.

November 15, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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