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How does law enforcement use science to prevent crime?

How does law enforcement use science to prevent crime?

NOVA Science Now host David Pogue wanted to know: "Can science stop crime?" From the so-called warrior gene to getting ahead of the hackers to predictive policing, how is science aiding police?

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Ask a Neuroscientist: Introverts and free will

Ask a Neuroscientist: Introverts and free will

This is the sixth in an occasional series called 'Ask a Neuroscientist.' Today, we take audience-submitted questions to Jason Castro, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Bates College in Maine, to learn more about how the brain works.
by Tom Weber

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Skydiver lands smoothly after 24-mile jump

Skydiver lands smoothly after 24-mile jump

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has landed on Earth after a jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive.

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Meteorologist: Supersonic skydive 'a go'

The weekend weather in New Mexico appears to be cooperating this time for a daredevil trying to become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.

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Shuttle crossing provides a unique teaching moment

When the space shuttle Endeavour weaves through working-class communities on its way to its retirement home, Hildreth "Hal" Walker Jr. wants the children he tutors to remember a few names: Ronald McNair. Mae Jemison. Charles Bolden.

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Mars rover's peek at rock turns up a curiosity

Mars rover's peek at rock turns up a curiosity

The first rock nuzzled by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is turning out to be a bit more unusual than scientists thought it would be.

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Nobel chemistry winner credits UMD years

Nobel chemistry winner credits UMD years

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to a Little Falls, Min., native who says that his experiences as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, Duluth made him want to pursue a research career.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Frenchman, American win physics Nobel

Serge Haroche of France and American David Wineland opened the door to new experiments in quantum physics by showing how to observe individual quantum particles without destroying them, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

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SpaceX launch good for NASA, not private firm

SpaceX launch good for NASA, not private firm

A private rocket successfully sent a capsule full of cargo zipping toward the International Space Station in a first of its kind delivery for NASA, but couldn't deliver on job No. 2: putting a commercial satellite into the correct orbit.

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Nobel prize to Briton, Japanese for stem cell work

Nobel prize to Briton, Japanese for stem cell work

A British researcher and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that ordinary cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells

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