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Huntsville Launches 5,000 Rockets To Commemorate Apollo 11 Anniversary

5:26pm July 17, 2019

by Brett Tannehill

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch by inviting everyone to launch their own rocket. They're trying to beat the world record.

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Telescope In Chile's Mountains Looks For Signals To Explain How The Universe Began

5:19pm July 17, 2019

by Joe Palca

There's a telescope high up in the mountains of Chile that's looking for signals from the earliest moments of the universe. Finding these signals would be key to explaining how the universe began.

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Top EPA Scientific Integrity Official Not Allowed To Testify At House Hearing

4:32pm July 17, 2019

by Rebecca Hersher

The top scientific integrity official from the Environmental Protection Agency was barred from attending a Congressional hearing on scientific integrity on Wednesday.

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The World Health Organization says more than 1,650 people have died from the current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak In Congo An International Health Emergency

4:31pm July 17, 2019

The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,650 people, according to the World Health Organization. About 12 new cases are reported daily.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, shown here on Capitol Hill in April, announced last month that most staff from two USDA research agencies were being relocated to the Kansas City region.

Scientists Desert USDA As Agency Relocates To Kansas City Area

11:49am July 17, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The mandatory move imposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on most of the workers at two vital research agencies has been criticized as a "blatant attack on science."

The crew of Apollo 11 is picked up after its splashdown.

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Seeing Apollo Through The Eyes Of Astronauts

8:00am July 17, 2019

by Ryan Kellman

Five former NASA astronauts who flew on space missions reflect on some of the awe-inspiring photos from Apollo 11, the first lunar landing flight.

Diver swimming over Elkhorn Coral in the Florida Keys. Elevated nutrients as well as elevated temperatures are causing a massive loss of this iconic branching species in Florida.

Florida's Corals Are Dying Off, But It's Not All Due To Climate Change, Study Says

9:52pm July 16, 2019

by Pien Huang

A new study from the Florida Keys shows that a lot of the stress on corals comes from local sources, providing hope that community action can help save them.

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Container ships and other maritime vessels currently run on pollutant-intensive heavy fuel oil. The world's largest container-shipping company, Maersk, has promised to make its operations zero carbon by 2050. Doing so will require using new fuels such as

The Dawn Of Low-Carbon Shipping

9:52pm July 16, 2019

by Rebecca Hersher

The shipping industry is starting to move away from pollutant-intensive heavy fuel oil. Scientists and private companies are betting on a clean replacement technology: hydrogen fuel cells.

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Our latest Future You episode demonstrates a brain-machine interface that reads your intentions so you can control digital â and physical â tech. The ambitious goal is to fundamentally change the way we operate our electronics: no longer with to

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VIDEO: Move Objects With Your Mind? We're Getting There, With The Help Of An Armband

3:18pm July 16, 2019

by Elise Hu

You know "the Force" that binds all things — the one that can let your mind move objects? The latest Future You video demos an armband that allows users to control objects with thoughts.

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Native Hawaiians have objected to construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope for years. On Monday, about 300 protesters arrived to block workers from accessing the site on a mountain believed to be sacred land.

Hawaii Protesters Block Access Road To Stop Construction Of Massive Telescope

6:27pm July 15, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Native Hawaiians chained themselves to a grate in a road to stop work on the controversial Mauna Kea project on what they say is sacred land. Development is scheduled to begin this week.