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Smart Machines Join Humans in Tracking Africa Ebola Outbreak
Web sites devour piles of disease-related information but still keep a person in the loop to help make sense of the data glut -
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Energy & Sustainability
Cities Will Solve Climate Change, Not Nations
As world leaders gathered at the U.N. to talk about global warming, mayors set about actually doing something about climate change -
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Health
New Figures Paint Even Bleaker Picture for Ebola Crisis
Can beefed up U.S. aid stem the tide of Ebola deaths in the months ahead? -
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Space
Betting Against Gravitational Waves: Q&A with Cosmologist Neil Turok
Failure to discover primordial spacetime ripples could open the way for a physicist’s alternative theory
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Quantum Entanglement Creates New State of Matter
Half a million ultracold atoms were linked together in the first-ever “macroscopic spin singlet” state
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Space
Gravitational Wave Discovery Looks Doubtful in New Analysis
The latest data from the Planck satellite suggest the highly touted finding of spacetime ripples may have been mistaken
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Space
Spacecraft Investigates What Happened to Mars’ Atmosphere
NASA’s MAVEN orbiter arrived at Mars to study how gas escapes from around the planet
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Energy & Sustainability
Science Shows Up in Force at People's Climate March
Scientists who do not typically take a policy position make an exception for climate change -
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Energy & Sustainability
World Should Prepare for 11 Billion or More People
Contrary to previous estimates, the number of people on the planet now seems unlikely to stabilize this century -
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Space
Hubble Telescope Time Preferentially Goes to Men
An internal study finds that female-led proposals to use the in-demand device are less likely to be selected -
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Health
White House Unveils Strategy to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
A new science advisory panel assessment sparks executive actions to tamp down the threat of a future without lifesaving drugs -
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Mind & Brain
“I Will Listen”: How Social Media Can Diminish the Stigma of Mental Illness
A campaign gets users of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media to act as a support group -
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Health
SARS Outbreak Isolators Helped "Ebola Air" Fly Infected Patients
The airplane transport isolators being used to fly Ebola patients for treatment have origins in the 2003 SARS epidemic -
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Motorcycling to Ebola Treatment Could Spread the Infection
Transporting patients to care facilities may be exacerbating the Ebola epidemic in west Africa -
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Space
Wanted by NASA: Space Telescope Director with Spy Credentials
The leader of the James Webb Space Telescope must have clearance that allows access to the highest level of classified information, according to a NASA want ad -
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Health
Could Using Air Fresheners During Pregnancy Boost Childhood Asthma Risk?
The first study to look at prenatal phthalate exposure and later effects on respiration suggest some worrisome results
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Technology
Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest
Hold Security’s nebulous report on the “CyberVor” online hacker gang exposed the cybersecurity world’s troubling practice of uncovering online threats and then selling proposed solutions -
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Health
New Tracking Technologies Aim to Prevent Sloppy Handling at U.S. Biolabs
The CDC is piloting cameras and tablets in high-level biosafety spaces in an effort to avoid future infectious disease botch-ups -
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Space
NASA to Send Sample-Return Mission to Earth-Bound Asteroid [Video]
A spacecraft set to launch in 2016 will head for a carbonaceous asteroid that has a high probability of colliding with Earth in the 22nd century -
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Mind & Brain
The New D.A.R.E. Program—This One Works
The “keepin’ it REAL” substance-abuse curriculum focuses on elementary and middle-school students’ decisions, not drugs
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