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Science

From stinky cheese to cat pee, author takes a 'Nose Dive' into the science of smell

From stinky cheese to cat pee, author takes a 'Nose Dive' into the science of smell

Harold McGee talks about how our sense of smell affects taste, why things smell the way they do and the ways different chemicals combine to create surprising (and sometimes distasteful) odors.
by Terry Gross

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Water on the moon: NASA confirms water molecules on our neighbor's sunny surface

Water on the moon: NASA confirms water molecules on our neighbor's sunny surface

The breakthrough suggests that water, vital to life on Earth, could be distributed across more parts of the lunar surface than the ice that has previously been found in cold and dark places.
by Bill Chappell

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A NASA spacecraft successfully touched down on a rocky asteroid

A NASA spacecraft successfully touched down on a rocky asteroid

A NASA spacecraft successfully touched down on the skyscraper-sized asteroid 200 million miles away, in order to collect a small amount of rock and dust that can then be returned to Earth. The rocks and dust could help us understand potentially dangerous space rocks and the history of the solar system.
by Nell Greenfieldboyce

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Foiled again: 'Murder hornet' eludes Washington state scientists

Foiled again: 'Murder hornet' eludes Washington state scientists

An Asian giant hornet fell off researchers' radar during their latest attempt to find its nest. The team is racing to exterminate the invasive species before it devastates U.S. bee populations.
by Danny Hensel and Emma Bowman

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