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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was inaugurated in 2008. The

Reclaiming Syria's Seeds From An Icy Arctic Vault

8:22pm September 28, 2015

by Dan Charles

On a remote Arctic island, there's an underground vault filled with seeds. Now, for the first time, scientists are about to retrieve some of those seeds to replace a collection trapped in Syria.

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A worker pours a bucket of pesticide into a machine to be sprayed on almond trees at Del Bosque Farms Inc. in Firebaugh, Calif., on April 6, 2015. California and Washington already have adopted, through state regulation, many of the rules that the EPA now

EPA Announces New Rules To Protect Farmworkers From Pesticides

6:09pm September 28, 2015

by Dan Charles

The federal government is requiring farmers to keep more records on exactly when and where they used specific pesticides. And no children under the age of 18 will be allowed to handle the chemicals.

Why Are Women Less Likely To Become Entrepreneurs Than Men?

4:54pm September 28, 2015

by Shankar Vedantam

Analysis finds women are less likely to be arrogant about mistakes and more likely to be humble about their achievements. Men are more likely to disregard market signals that their ideas are flawed.

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The Cost Of Interruptions: They Waste More Time Than You Think

4:53pm September 28, 2015

by Shankar Vedantam

Interruptions are annoying. Studies indicate that getting interrupted is also costly — it can take a long time to settle back into tasks after a distraction. New research explores a cure.

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For patients who fell into Oncotype DX's low-risk category, 99 percent didn't develop metastatic breast cancer five years after surgery, even if they didn't have chemotherapy.

Breast Cancer Gene Test Helps Predict Who Can Skip Chemo

4:35pm September 28, 2015

by Michaeleen Doucleff

A large study confirms that a test doctors have been using for a decade works well for low-risk patients. More work is needed to draw conclusions about chemotherapy for women with riskier tumors.

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Super Blood Moon Eclipse Wows Viewers: Here's Proof

12:19pm September 28, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Did you see it? If not, don't worry: This much-anticipated event — in which a supermoon went into a full lunar eclipse — was well-documented.

ShellNo flotilla participants float near the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig during demonstrations in May against the presence of the first of two Royal Dutch Shell oil rigs in the Port of Seattle.

Shell Oil Abandons Controversial Drilling Off Alaska's Shore

12:09pm September 28, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Shell announced the move late Sunday, describing what the company called "a clearly disappointing exploration outcome" in the Chukchi Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean.

Practicing resuscitation techniques on a mannequin is just the start of trauma training at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Workers there also learn to take a moment together after every patient's death to silently reflect.

Trauma Workers Find Solace In A Pause That Honors Life After A Death

5:35pm September 27, 2015

by Kara Lofton

Sometimes, no matter how hard an emergency team works to save a life, the patient dies. A nurse finds that pausing after the frenzy to honor the loss helps him and others cope — and avoid burnout.

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Fall Brings No Relief To The West As Wildfires Worsen

12:56pm September 27, 2015

by Kirk Siegler

Even as fall has arrived, the number of homes and businesses destroyed by wildfires keeps going up in the drought-stricken West.

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What To Call The Supermoon And When To See It

12:29pm September 27, 2015

Sunday night's sky will reveal a blood moon — a total supermoon lunar eclipse, the fourth in a series. Michelle Nichols of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago explains what makes this eclipse special.

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