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In the series “Visions,” science fiction about the very latest research will be paired with analysis looking into the facts behind the fiction.

You could think of it as the real dancing with the stars. Two white dwarf stars have been found twirling around each other to make a complete orbit in less than every 13 minutes.

This past weekend, I sat down at my computer hell-bent on writing this post. [More]

Imagine a dark haired little girl of not quite four years old, playing outside in a cotton dress in the warm dusk of July 30, 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Now that the battle against the bulge in the U.S. has reached the grade school level, plenty of efforts have begun to fight childhood obesity and its dangers

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Every day more than 1,000 infants worldwide are infected with HIV during gestation, delivery or breast-feeding, according to U.N. estimates

NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week would terminate NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ambitious instrument with a history of delays and cost overruns

By Alla Katsnelson of Nature magazine When electrical rhythms in the heart go haywire, applying a strong electric shock to the chest can set them straight. [More]

By Ewen Callaway pf Nature magazine Stored inside Craig Venter's genome are clues to the history of humankind, including global migrations and population crashes. [More]

Yikes! I have a blog again! The infamous Pepsigate happened about a year ago. [More]

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The boy was perhaps seven or eight, although he could have been older: among other things, the disease that afflicts him stunts growth.

The future of electric vehicles (EVs) in the U.S. balances tenuously these days on a chicken-and-egg quandary . Roadside stations that charge EVs in less than 30 minutes are needed to encourage drivers to buy EVs, yet there must also be enough EVs already on the road to justify the investment in a fast-charging infrastructure.

By Ron Cowen of Nature magazine The Dawn spacecraft had a difficult birth: it was threatened by cost overruns and technical concerns, cancelled, reinstated and scaled down. [More]

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