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July 28, 2008 - 12:00pm
NASA's latest robot has already found frozen water and is looking for more signs that the Red Planet could support life.
July 28, 2008 - 12:00pm
Even so-called "mild" head injuries turn out to be anything but.
July 28, 2008 - 12:00pm
A pair of mammoth skeletons is found locked together by their tusks. What happened?
July 28, 2008 - 12:00pm
Once scorned for his ideas about how cancer grows, the late Judah Folkman is now hailed as a visionary.
July 21, 2008 - 12:00pm
A century after falling out of favor among doctors, medicinal leeches are back in hospitals, sucking away on patients' wounds.
July 21, 2008 - 12:00pm
Astronomers have their radio telescopes tuned to receive signals from alien worlds. But is anybody out there?
July 21, 2008 - 12:00pm
Three separate teams overcome a biomedical hurdle -- creating stem cells without the use of human embryos.
July 21, 2008 - 12:00pm
Meet a marine biologist and explorer who has engineered new ways to spy on deep-sea creatures.
July 11, 2008 - 11:00am
Clues to the origins of human language are turning up in the brains of birds.
July 11, 2008 - 11:00am
Behind the dazzling display of the aurora borealis are space storms that could turn the lights off here on Earth.
July 11, 2008 - 11:00am
A former tennis prodigy aims to create advanced prosthetic limbs controlled by human thought.
July 10, 2008 - 3:00pm
In this audio feature, engineer Michael Todd explains how new sensing technologies may help detect structural problems within bridges before they become dangerous.
July 3, 2008 - 11:00am
Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope.
July 3, 2008 - 11:00am
Our most distant primate ancestors, which took the stage shortly after the dinosaurs left it, were tree-dwellers the size of mice.
July 3, 2008 - 11:00am
He jumped the fence from Mexico to work as a farmhand and ended up a leading brain surgeon.
July 3, 2008 - 11:00am
A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter.
June 27, 2008 - 6:00pm
In this video dispatch, learn why George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence all of their DNA.
June 24, 2008 - 10:00am
Join host Neil deGrasse Tyson for a fantastic voyage through Earth's molten core -- without getting burned.
June 23, 2008 - 10:00am
Genetic testing to assess risk factors for a handful of serious illnesses is now commercially available. But is it a good idea?
June 23, 2008 - 10:00am
See how clever computer algorithms can distinguish a master fake from a masterpiece.
