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Pioneering advances in protein design and study tools wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
This year's prize has gone to three researchers who pioneered how to design and analyze proteins, one of the building blocks of life. Though this year, none of the science Nobels has gone to a woman.
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Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names
On Thursday, a major birding society will discuss how how to go about changing potentially offensive bird names. There's resistance to the original plan to rename all birds named after people.
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Feathers have been ruffled over bird name changes
To remove potentially offensive names, a birding society said it would rename birds originally named after people. Since many birders resisted the change, it will be a topic at their annual meeting.
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Why the most climate-resistant glaciers are hiding in plain sight
In the American West, white glaciers and snow fields are outnumbered by long-overlooked “rock glaciers.” The rock covering these vast hunks of ice makes them far less affected by warming temperatures.
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NASA probe is about to launch to an icy moon that could have life
A long-awaited mission to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, is on track to launch in just a few weeks. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 17, 2024.)
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A NASA probe is about to launch to an icy moon that could have life
A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether Jupiter's moon Europa could sustain life.
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With no crew aboard, spacecraft Starliner lands without a hitch
The spacecraft landed in New Mexico early Saturday morning leaving two astronauts behind on the International Space Station. The crew members will return to earth in February aboard a SpaceX craft.
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Boeing's Starliner is being prepared to leave the International Space Station
The beleaguered Starliner spacecraft will head home on Friday, but its astronauts won't.
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When birds build nests, they're also building a culture
Nest-building isn’t just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.
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NASA will bring stranded astronauts back on SpaceX — not Boeing's Starliner
NASA had been weighing whether it would be safe enough to return two astronauts to Earth on Boeing's Starliner.
