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| News Two of four Ebola treatments prove highly effective in a clinical trial Aug 12 2019 6:01 PM An Ebola field trial in Congo is shifting its focus toward treatments that preliminary data suggest can help prevent death from the disease. READ MORE  |
| News in Brief Even without concussions, just one football season may damage players' brains Aug 12 2019 10:28 AM A group of college football players underwent brain scans after a season of play. The results suggest the sport could impact neural signaling. READ MORE |
| Soapbox Plants don't have feelings and aren't conscious, a biologist argues Aug 12 2019 6:00 AM The rise of the field of "plant neurobiology" has this scientist and his colleagues pushing back. READ MORE |
| Rethink A proposed space telescope would use Earth's atmosphere as a lens Aug 09 2019 11:55 AM One astronomer has a bold solution to the high cost of building big telescopes. READ MORE |
| News Are researchers asking the right questions to prevent mass shootings? Aug 09 2019 8:00 AM Understanding how to thwart these violent events may be more effective than analyzing perpetrators' backgrounds. READ MORE |
| News Exploding stars scattered traces of iron over Antarctic snow Aug 09 2019 6:00 AM Researchers melted half a ton of snow to find just 10 atoms of a radioactive variety of iron. READ MORE |
| News How these tiny insect larvae leap without legs Aug 08 2019 6:20 PM High-speed filming reveals how a blob of an insect can leap more efficiently than it crawls. READ MORE |
| News The worst wildfires can send smoke high enough to affect the ozone layer Aug 08 2019 2:00 PM The first direct observations of wildfire smoke in the stratosphere confirm what could happen in a "nuclear winter," a study finds. READ MORE |
| 50 Years Ago 50 years ago, Fermilab turned to bubbles Aug 08 2019 8:00 AM The National Accelerator Laboratory, now called Fermilab, used to have a bubble chamber to study particles. Today, most bubble chambers have gone flat. READ MORE |
| News in Brief One in 4 people live in places at high risk of running out of water Aug 08 2019 6:00 AM An update to the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas reveals that 17 countries withdraw more than 80 percent of water available yearly. READ MORE |
