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Ryan Hodnett/Wikimedia CommonsGroundhog Day is a “cross-quarter day” on the celestial calendar. Cross quarter days are mid-way points between the Solstices and Equinoxes. These days are associated with many familiar holidays whose astronomical roots have largely been forgotten. -
Nick McNamara / WHRO/For nearly 60 years, this office has explored the nature of consciousness.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsPartner company hopes to have the project up and running by the 2030s.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsA panel of experts could determine if “pattern of misconduct” occurred.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsAn ongoing review of a former state crime lab analyst’s work uncovered the error.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsFormer Science Museum of Virginia scientist captures Greek family recipes in new cookbook.
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GSO Images/The Image Bank/Getty ImagesEarly in life, the protein Reelin helps assemble the brain. Later on, it appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer's and other threats to memory and thinking.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsHead of Harrison Family Translational Research Center discusses advances in treatment.
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Photo by Katherine Hafner/The island's lost two-thirds of its land mass since 1850 and climate change is making the problem worse.
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Dr. Robert Winn says improved screening methods, vaccines could help wipe out the disease.
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The pandemic has been a game changer for so many aspects of life here on Earth. We’ve seen the global crisis impact everything from economics to health care systems and beyond. Some changes made from the pandemic will have long lasting impacts on topics like schools, offices, and entertainment venues to name a few. Birth rates too were impacted by the pandemic. -
When MIT Media Lab researcher and “poet of code” Joy Buolamwini discovers most facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces or women with accuracy, she joins the fight to expose the threats to civil liberties posed by an increasingly data-driven, automated world.
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Humanity now has a few tools to helping address the novel coronavirus pandemic. Here in the United States the FDA has three vaccines now authorized for emergency use. The latest vaccine offering is made possible by the Johnson & Johnson company.
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As the world continues to combat the pandemic everyone is paying a lot of attention to symptoms like a runny nose and watery eyes. Be sure to pay attention to why you’re having those symptoms though because it could very well be because of something in the air. No, not a virus, but the annual release of springtime pollen! A
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How close are we to a real life Jurassic Park? Can scientists even clone an extinct species?
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Let’s go far far away. To the farthest observed thing in our solar system, a whopping 132 times further from the sun than you are right now.
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Did you need an alarm clock to wake up this morning? Did you struggle to wake up? Did you fall asleep while watching TV last night? Well then, let’s talk about something that might be interested in: napping!
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Greetings science fans, how’s your hair today? Everyone wants killer hair right? Well, interestingly enough today’s science story is on just that, killer hair! What animal literally has killer hair?
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For most of us the beginning of 2021 has involved a lot of headlines about the coronavirus, vaccine distribution, and some tense political news. For astronomers it’s also included tons of new information from this winter’s American Astronomical Society conference!
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Living through a pandemic and all the other compounding stresses of life has been challenging to say the least. In the past we’ve heard that old saying about stress making you go gray.
