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A recent lawsuit against Mars Inc., the company that makes Skittles, points titanium dioxide in the candy. The ingredient is one of thousands of additives allowed in foods under federal regulations.

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  • Food

A Skittles lawsuit raises questions over titanium dioxide — a legal food additive

A suit has been filed against maker of Skittles over titanium dioxide, a color additive that has been on the market for decades but which has been banned in food by European authorities.

July 22, 2022
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  • Shauneen Miranda

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  • Science

COMIC: How living on Mars time taught me to slow down

NASA engineer Nagin Cox lives on Earth but works on Mars time, where days are longer and time works differently. Her work with the rovers has entirely changed the way she thinks about time on Earth.

July 22, 2022
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By:
  • LA Johnson and
  • Anuj Shrestha
Monarch butterflies land on branches at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., in 2021.

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  • Science

Beloved monarch butterflies are now listed as endangered

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for to its "red list" of threatened species and categorized it as "endangered" — two steps from extinct.

July 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
As the first James Webb Space Telescope images appeared in New York's Times Square and everywhere else, scientists got to work diving deep into the data.

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  • Science

The new science coming from the James Webb telescope has astronomers giddy

In the week since the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were unveiled, astronomers have been poring through all the observations it's made so far--and they're happily overwhelmed.

July 21, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Four American soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher in Vaux, France, on July 22, 1918. As many as 280,000 World War I combatants were left with facial injuries.

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  • Medical Treatments

With no textbooks or antibiotics, this WWI surgeon pioneered facial reconstruction

Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story Dr. Harold Gillies, a military surgeon who spent WWI reconstructing the faces of soldiers and sailors who'd suffered horrific facial injuries.

July 20, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
David Sinopoli was arrested Sunday and charged in the 1975 killing of Lindy Sue Biechler. Police used a discarded coffee cup to compare Sinopoli's DNA with another sample collected at the crime scene decades ago.

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  • National

A discarded coffee cup may have just helped crack this decades-old murder case

David Sinopoli was charged Sunday in the 1975 killing of Lindy Sue Biechler. Investigators chased down leads for decades, but it wasn't until advanced DNA analysis was done that he became a suspect.

July 20, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis

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  • Economy

Meet the new GDP prototype that tracks inequality

A team of economists offers America a new way to look at economic growth. It's a sort of GDP prototype that tracks the well-being of different income groups.

July 19, 2022
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Firefighters put out hot spots from the Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on July 11.

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  • Climate

Decades of 'good fires' save Yosemite's iconic grove of ancient sequoia trees

Saving the centuries-old trees in Yosemite's famed Mariposa Grove took hard work from firefighters but also half a century of intentional fires.

July 19, 2022
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  • Eric Westervelt
Testing capacity for monkeypox is being rapidly expanded.

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  • National

Monkeypox keeps spreading. Here's what authorities are doing to stop it

Public health experts know what it takes to control a disease outbreak: access to testing and vaccines. But in the last two months of the monkeypox outbreak, the response has not met the need.

July 19, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro
An image of the SMACS 0723 galaxy cluster captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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  • Space

This app compares Hubble and Webb images — the differences are astronomical

Software developer John Christensen coded an app to show you just how far NASA innovation has come since Hubble.

July 18, 2022
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By:
  • Kai McNamee
Sand tiger sharks can grow to up to 10 feet in length, but juveniles average 3 to 5 feet. These sharks have a menacing appearance, but aren't known for unprovoked attacks on humans.

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  • Animals

Sharks mistaking feet for fish are likely behind Long Island attacks

A shark expert said the likely culprits behind the Long Island incidents are juvenile sand tiger sharks, which may accidentally bite humans while chasing fish.

July 17, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Some of the expanse captured by the James Webb telescope.

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  • Space

The James Webb telescope had 344 'single point failures' before launch. Then, success

Bill Ochs, the project manager for the James Webb telescope shares the trials and tribulations of the launch and what it's like having the images out in the world.

July 17, 2022
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  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • and 1 more

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  • Animals

Carin Bondar: Eggs and the genius of bird moms

Laying eggs may seem like a simple way to reproduce compared to human birth, but biologist Carin Bondar says bird moms are the micromanagers of the animal kingdom.

July 15, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Faulkner,
  • James Delahoussaye,
  • and 2 more

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  • Animals

Marlene Zuk: What humans can learn from the sex lives of insects

Insects experience the world very differently from humans--but they still have a lot to teach us. Behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk explores what insects can teach us about sex and sexuality.

July 15, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Faulkner,
  • Fiona Geiran,
  • and 2 more

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  • Science

Noah Wilson-Rich: How city habitats help honeybees to thrive

On a rooftop garden in the middle of Manhattan, honeybee colonies are flourishing. Biologist Noah-Wilson Rich explains how collecting data from honeybee hives can help ensure a healthy future for all.

July 15, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Faulkner,
  • Katie Monteleone,
  • and 2 more
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