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Electrical Field May Speed Wound Healing By Encouraging Cell Regeneration

12:22pm December 30, 2019

by Joe Palca

A scientist in Wisconsin has invented a bandage that uses an electrical field to speed up the time needed for a wound to heal. It could one day lead to treatments for baldness and obesity.

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NC State Grad Sets Record For Longest Space Flight By A Woman

10:48am December 30, 2019

by Neal Charnoff

A graduate of North Carolina State University has set a record for the longest single space flight by a woman.

An image of Ow Luen from his file, originally held at the USCIS, now available at the National Archives.

Tracing Your Family's Roots May Soon Get A Lot More Expensive

12:51pm December 29, 2019

by David Greene

Access to some genealogical records kept by the U.S. government may get a lot more expensive, especially for those seeking family records for immigrants from the late 1800s to mid-1900s.

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Encore: How Kids React To Beards And How It Changes With Age

5:48pm December 27, 2019

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

A new study shows that young children have a negative reaction to beards, but that changes as they get older.

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Children play around trees downed by Cyclone Idai at the Guara Guara resettlement site in Mozambique, where thousands of people are still living more than nine months after the storm.

Mozambique Is Racing To Adapt To Climate Change. The Weather Is Winning

5:48pm December 27, 2019

by Rebecca Hersher

Two major cyclones and a prolonged drought in 2019 are a reminder that Mozambique's residents are on the front lines of climate change. And they do not have all the resources they need.

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Why An Agile Anchovy Isn't Able To Escape A Ponderous Whale

4:28pm December 27, 2019

by Joe Palca

Scientists used field recordings from humpback whales and laboratory experiments with anchovies to determine how the ponderous whale manages to catch the agile anchovy. The answer is timing.

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Jane Fonda, Sheryl Crow Headline "Empower Party" In Atlanta For Youth

Jane Fonda On Climate Change And Civil Disobedience (Rebroadcast)

3:03pm December 26, 2019

The Hollywood icon trades the red carpet for the Capitol steps.

The moon moves in front of the sun in a rare "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse, as seen in the sky over Singapore on Thursday.

'Ring Of Fire' Eclipse Sweeps Across Skies In Middle East And Southeast Asia

12:27pm December 26, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Instead of the sun's full disk of fire, or a crescent of light, viewers in areas of complete annularity saw a fiery halo around the moon.

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The Year In Science News

5:01am December 26, 2019

by Joe Palca

We look at three noteworthy stories from the year in science news: acceptance of climate change, medical therapies to come from a new gene editing tool, and the first image of a black hole.

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The Rich History Of Aluminum

5:42pm December 25, 2019

by Scott Neuman

Aluminum is the most abundant metal on Earth and used in everything from cars and airplanes to the foil used to wrap Thanksgiving leftovers. But there was a time when it was more valuable than gold.

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