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The Science Behind Baking Your Perfect Pie (Happy Pi Day)

12:03pm March 14, 2016

by Maanvi Singh

Great pumpkin pie is elusive. You could end up with a soggy crust or a grainy filling. Reporter Maanvi Singh embarked on a months-long quest to crack the code for the ideal pie.

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Medical Cocaine Addiction Treatment Being Developed by Winston-Salem Entrepreneur

11:34am March 11, 2016

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Envir

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Why A Group's Power Dynamics Interferes With Collaboration

5:59am March 11, 2016

by Shankar Vedantam

Research finds that when you put powerful people together in a group, individuals tend to vie for the same level of authority and deference they receive outside the group.

A picture taken on Nov. 3 shows plastic waste collected in the sea by fishermen at a plastic processing plant in Chiva, near Valencia. Ecoalf, a Spanish Madrid-based firm founded in 2010, has already launched "a new generation" of clothes and accessories

A Plastic-Eating Bacterium Might Help Deal With Waste One Day

7:46pm March 10, 2016

by Angus Chen

Scientists found a new species of bacteria in the debris around a Japanese recycling plant. With the help of two plastic-digesting enzymes, it can eat plastic and use it as a main food source.

Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her late daughter, Brittany Maynard, while speaking to the media in September after the passage of California's

California To Permit Medically Assisted Suicide As Of June 9

7:30pm March 10, 2016

by Lisa Aliferis

Terminally ill Californians will legally be able to get medicine from doctors to end their own lives. The end of the state's special legislative session Thursday made it official.

A team of Cleveland Clinic transplant surgeons and gynecological surgeons perform the nation's first uterus transplant during a nine-hour surgery in Cleveland last month.

1st U.S. Uterus Transplant Fails Amid 'Sudden Complication'

6:22pm March 10, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The 26-year-old patient is recovering, and the Cleveland Clinic says it will continue its clinical study that is meant to involve 10 women with uterine factor infertility.

Hospitals Adapt ERs To Meet Patient Demand For Routine Care

5:38pm March 10, 2016

by Abe Aboraya

Many Floridians and other Americans turn to the ER for problems that aren't emergencies, a poll suggests, even though the experience can be unpleasant. Some ERs are striving to change their image.

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A medical researcher prepares tests for various diseases including Zika.

How Best To Test For Zika Virus?

5:38pm March 10, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Getting an accurate diagnosis is a big hurdle in the current outbreak of Zika virus. There are three kinds of tests for Zika, and each has problems. Scientists are working hard to improve diagnosis.

A Tokyo Electric Power Co. staffer measures the radiation level as others work on the construction of an ice wall at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on July 9, 2014.

Water, Soil And Radiation: Why Fukushima Will Take Decades To Clean Up

5:18pm March 10, 2016

by Geoff Brumfiel

Five years after meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, progress has been made, but there's still plenty to do.

A still from the Mutual Rescue film about Eric and Peety.

He Rescued A Dog. Then The Dog Rescued Him

5:13pm March 10, 2016

by Nancy Shute

Eric O'Grey was 51, obese and suffering from diabetes and high cholesterol when he took home an overweight shelter dog. Now the duo are headlining a campaign on how pets improve humans' lives.