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Does the perfect Oreo cream-to-chocolate ratio exist? One research study says yes

8:20am March 26, 2023

by Miles Parks

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT, Crystal Owens, about her scientific study, "On Oreology, the fracture and flow of 'milk's favorite cookie®.'"

Gordon Moore, the legendary Intel Corp. co-founder who predicted the growth of the semiconductor industry, smiles during a news conference in 2001.

Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon Moore has died at 94

7:05am March 25, 2023

by The Associated Press

Moore also made his famous observation, now known as Moore's Law, three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.

You asked about bats, pets, immunity and other hot viral topics! We've got answers

7:00am March 25, 2023

In response to our series on spillover viruses, you had many questions: from the role of climate change to possible benefits. We turn the mic to you for a special edition of 'Hidden Viruses.'

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For coffee lovers there is some good and some bad news

6:17am March 24, 2023

Researchers say coffee drinkers take about 1,000 more steps a day than non-coffee drinkers, but they sleep less than people who don't partake. The study concludes coffee's health effects are complex.

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The Milky Way's Galactic Center and Jupiter (brightest spot at center top) are seen from near Reboledo, department of Florida, Uruguay, early on August 24, 2020.

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5 planets could be visible in the night sky next week

5:00am March 23, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

On Monday and Tuesday, you may be able to catch a glimpse of Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars all at once.

An artist's vision of the first interstellar object discovered in the solar system, 'Oumuamua.

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Scientists think they know why interstellar object 'Oumuamua moved so strangely

9:48pm March 22, 2023

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

A strange comet-like object discovered over five years ago was the first known visitor from another solar system. Its movement was so odd that scientists struggled to explain it, until now.

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Beethoven is considered to be one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition.

Scientists sequence Beethoven's genome for clues into his painful past

6:03pm March 22, 2023

by Ari Daniel

Scientists have sequenced the genome of Ludwig van Beethoven from two-century-old locks of hair, and found clues about the ailments that plagued him in life.

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Mora Leeb places some pieces into a puzzle during a local puzzle tournament. The 15-year-old has grown up without the left side of her brain after it was removed when she was very young.

Meet the 'glass-half-full girl' whose brain rewired after losing a hemisphere

4:56pm March 22, 2023

by Jon Hamilton

Mora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example of a process known as brain plasticity.

Professor Stephanie Hughes and students categorizing various types of waste in January 2020.

Garbology is the study of trash. This is why students love it

10:10am March 22, 2023

by Claire Murashima

A professor lends worms to students, takes them to sewage processing plants and encourages them to answer their own questions about garbage. Sometimes, they even make a career out of it.

Aquatic plants and debris are exposed by the falling water levels at the Kakhovka Reservoir. Researchers say that the draining of the reservoir by Russian forces are but one example of the war's effect on Ukraine's water supply.

A shrinking reservoir signals Ukraine and Russia are waging a dangerous water war

7:30am March 22, 2023

Russia is using a dam it controls to release water from Ukraine's massive Kakhovka Reservoir. It's one of dozens of cases where the war is limiting access to safe water.