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Science

A hunk of space junk crashed through a Florida man's roof. Who should pay to fix it?

A hunk of space junk crashed through a Florida man's roof. Who should pay to fix it?

"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.
by Bill Chappell

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Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found.
by The Associated Press

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Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks

Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks

In a parking lot and on San Francisco Bay, NPR witnesses two different tests for solar geoengineering to tackle climate change. With much science unsettled, experts say regulations aren't keeping up.
by Julia Simon

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Coral reefs can't keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution

Coral reefs can't keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution

Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures — but only to a point.
by Lauren Sommer and Ryan Kellman

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Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day

Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day

Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered wildly unethical today in an effort to shore up the war effort.
by Terry Gross

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Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called ‘God particle,’ has died

Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called ‘God particle,’ has died

Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.
by The Associated Press

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