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This illustration shows how the gas giant planet WASP-39 b might look as it orbits its host star.

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The James Webb telescope shows how starlight transforms a distant, Jupiter-like planet

11:27am November 22, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Scientists studying a gas giant planet have found that it's partly cloudy and that its atmosphere gets altered by starlight from its host star.

The Song of the Cell, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A cell biologist shares the wonder of researching life's most fundamental form

3:58pm November 21, 2022

by Terry Gross

Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how cellular science could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, HIV, Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell anemia. His new book is The Song of the Cell.

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This screengrab from NASA TV shows NASA's Orion capsule, left, nearing the moon, right, on Monday. At center is Earth.

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NASA's Orion capsule buzzes the moon in a last step before humans revisit lunar orbit

11:04am November 21, 2022

by The Associated Press

The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

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Over 23,000 brain scientists gathered in San Diego for a conference last week

8:10am November 20, 2022

by Jon Hamilton

Over 23,000 neuroscientists gathered in San Diego last week to hear the latest discoveries on how the brain works.

Bonny Omara (left) works with Edgar Mujuni at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology on the satellite that will be used to observe land conditions in Uganda.

The first satellites launched by Uganda and Zimbabwe aim to improve life on the ground

7:00am November 20, 2022

by Max Barnhart

The nanosatellites will observe the health of the land to help people make the best use of their countries' natural resources. A growing number of African countries are venturing into space.

Antonio Rapuano got an infusion of a monoclonal antibody to treat his COVID in Albano, Italy in 2021. Such infusions have been effective treatments for COVID during the pandemic, but doctors are now finding that most monoclonal antibodies no longer work against new variants of SARS-CoV-2.

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants

6:00am November 20, 2022

by Pien Huang

The treatments were highly popular earlier in the pandemic. One by one, they got knocked out by more convenient, less expensive treatment options, and new COVID variants.

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Meet the host of NASA's first Spanish-language podcast

5:01pm November 19, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Noelia González, the host of Universo Curioso de la NASA.

Computer monitors show financial data. More data being created and stored necessitates the use of new unit measurements.

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The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up

3:02pm November 19, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.

This illustration shows the James Webb Space Telescope as it might appear as it orbits the sun, about a million miles away from Earth.

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NASA once again declines to rename the James Webb Space Telescope

3:48pm November 18, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NASA says an extensive review of historical records found no evidence that Webb ever led or supported purges of government employees who were gay. But some astronomers think that's a pretty low bar.

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What your age really says about your chance of success at work

9:06am November 18, 2022

We often equate youth with success at work. Physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási put this belief to the test, and found that with persistence, we can be successful at any age.

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