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Artist's impression of Jupiter's Great Red Spot heating the upper atmosphere.

NASA Spacecraft Gets Up Close With Jupiter's Great Red Spot

10:33am July 10, 2017

by Joe Palca

NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over the Great Red Spot, a swirling storm on Jupiter, on Monday. Scientists are hoping to gain a better understanding of the storm and why it persists.

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Lara Hogan developed preeclampsia when she was pregnant with her son Zion in 2016. Both are fine now, but she's taking extra precautions to stay healthy.

Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Are More Likely To Develop Heart Disease

9:41am July 10, 2017

by Anna Gorman

Women who develop diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy, or whose babies are born prematurely, often are unaware of their own increased risk of heart disease later. So are their doctors.

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Dads Respond Differently To Daughters Than To Sons, Study Finds

7:18am July 10, 2017

by Patti Neighmond

Researchers from Emory University, using functional MRIs to measure fathers' brains, found that they had different biological reactions to their daughters' faces than to their sons'.

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Pain Before Pleasure Makes The Pleasure Even Better, Study Finds

7:18am July 10, 2017

by Shankar Vedantam

A study from the University of Kentucky shows that doing something virtuous can make indulging later even more pleasurable.

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Aerial view of the Heart Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef

While Corals Die Along The Great Barrier Reef, Humans Struggle To Adjust

10:51pm July 09, 2017

by Rob Schmitz

It's the world's biggest coral reef system, home to some 400 types of coral. In the past 18 months, rising ocean temperatures helped cause the single greatest loss of coral ever recorded there.

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"In college, I would tell my friends that I wanted to pursue a Ph.D., and they would chuckle and ridicule the idea," says Eqbal Dauqan, who is an assistant professor at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia at age 36. Born and raised in Yemen, Dauqan credits

She May Be The Most Unstoppable Scientist In The World

5:32pm July 09, 2017

by Michaeleen Doucleff

First she was shot at on the way to work. Then her house was destroyed by a bomb. That didn't deter this female scientist.

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Young Black Girls Face 'Adultification'

8:14am July 09, 2017

A new study shows that black girls are viewed as less innocent and in need of less protection than white girls. A Martinez speaks to two authors of the study: Rebecca Epstein and Dr. Jamilia Blake.

The Call-In: Physician-Assisted Dying

8:14am July 09, 2017

It's been a year since California passed its right-to-die law. JoNel Aleccia of Kaiser Health News discusses the change and Lisa Crawford talks about her family's experience.

Despite President Trump's decision to withdraw from an international climate accord, other leaders affirmed their commitment to the plan at the G20 Summit. Trump is seen here with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday.

'G19' Nations Affirm Climate Plan, Acknowledging U.S. Withdrawal

2:34pm July 08, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Noting President Trump's stance, a declaration states, "The leaders of the other G20 members state that the Paris Agreement is irreversible."

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Biologists Divided Over How To Save Endangered Pangolin

8:05am July 08, 2017

by Katie Blackley

The pangolin is a small armadillo-like creature. It's in great demand for its meat and scales, and it's in danger of extinction. Biologists can't agree on whether zoos should play a role in saving it.