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Bigger Than A T. Rex, With A Duck's Bill, Huge Arms And A Hump
Scientists announced Tuesday they've solved the mystery of the Mongolian ostrich dinosaur. The mystery began in 1965, when fossil hunters found a pair of 6-foot-long, heavily clawed arm bones in Mongolia's Gobi desert. Nobody had seen anything like them before. Now, scientists say, they've got the rest of the beast ... ...Read More
KQED News
Bigger Than A T.Rex, With A Duck's Bill, Huge Arms And A Hump
Scientists announced Tuesday they've solved the mystery of the Mongolian ostrich dinosaur. The mystery began in 1965, when fossil-hunters found a pair of 6-foot-long, heavily clawed arm bones in Mongolia's Gobi desert. Nobody had seen anything like them before. Now, scientists say, they've got the rest of the beast ... and ...Read More
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Sunken U-Boats Off North Carolina Coast A Significant Find For Historians
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KQED News
Bigger Than A T.Rex, With A Duck's Bill, Huge Arms And A Hump
Scientists announced Tuesday they've solved the mystery of the Mongolian ostrich dinosaur. The mystery began in 1965, when fossil-hunters found a pair of 6-foot-long, heavily clawed arm bones in Mongolia's Gobi desert. Nobody had seen anything like them before. Now, scientists say, they've got the rest of the beast ... and ...Read More
KQED News
Sunken U-Boats Off North Carolina Coast A Significant Find For Historians
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State of Health
Ebola Is Not That Contagious, and 10 Other Quick Facts
Two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas contracted Ebola from a patient they were treating, but 44 of 48 others who came in contact with the patient, including his fiancee, have completed their quarantine period and are cleared of the disease. The remaining four should complete their quarantine ...Read More
KQED Science
As More Crude Oil Rolls In, a Push for Better Track Inspection
In response to concerns about the risks of crude by rail, Union Pacific has begun to boost its rail inspection program by dispatching vehicles with lasers that can find tiny track imperfections.
KQED News
The Story of California Water, According to Jerry Brown
Gov. Jerry Brown was invited to speak Monday at a Stanford symposium on the future of U.S. water policy. Brown, running for his fourth term as governor, used his appearance at The Hamilton Project conference to give a sort of oral history of ...Read More
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Why Are The Great Lakes On The Rise?
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KQED Science
Drought-Stressed Crops May Be Better For You
Scientists in California's Central Valley are testing the nutrient content of fruits grown with less-than-normal amounts of water. And the findings so far are raising a question: will consumers buy fruits that are just as nutritional, or sometimes higher in antioxidants, if they aren't as pretty?
KQED News
Our Skulls Might Have Evolved To Withstand Blows To The Face
Prehistoric life really might have been nasty, brutish and short. Although many scientists believe that a diet of nuts, seeds and other tough, brittle foods shaped our faces, a June study in Biological Reviews suggests that violence had a heavier hand in its evolution. "We suggest that many of the facial ...Read More
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DOD: Climate Change Is A Volatile Factor In International Security
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NASA To Replace Iconic Countdown Clock After Maintenance Skyrockets
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KQED Science
NASA’s MAVEN Mission Investigates Mars’ Atmosphere
NASA's latest mission to Mars, MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile Evolution), entered Martian orbit less than a month ago on September 21. It's already rewarded us with revealing insights into the disappearance of Mars' atmosphere.
KQED News
Startup's New Sprays Promise Longer-Lasting Fruit, Fewer Pesticides
Scientists at startup Apeel Sciences have figured out the secret to doubling lifespans. Not our lifespans, alas, but those of fruits and veggies. And they do it naturally. It's a big deal. Worldwide, we throw away about a third of our food, some $750 billion per year — <a target=_blank rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf" ...Read More
State of Health
Poll: More Than Half of Americans Worry About Ebola Outbreak in U.S.
A Harvard School of Public Health poll finds that more than a third of Americans (38 percent) are worried that Ebola will infect them or a family member over the next year.
QUEST
In Rare Sea Snail, Scientists Find Compound That Could Help Cancer Patients
PORT HUENEME — Frank Oakes is betting his future on a snail. Thousands are suctioned onto the walls of 19 outdoor aquaculture tanks behind his office in Port Hueneme, California, south of Santa Barbara. Shaped like oblong cinnamon rolls, the black, tan, and striped snails may live up to 60 ...Read More
KQED Science
New Paper Outlines Updated Look on San Andreas Fault System
A new study from our local earthquake experts has put new and clearer numbers on the risk of large earthquakes in the Bay Area's future--evidence of new progress in this slow process of enlightenment.
KQED Science
Bay Area Remembers the Loma Prieta Earthquake
The 25th Anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake comes up on Friday, and the Bay Area is full of commemorative events, as well as resource fairs to help people prepare for future quakes.
QUEST
Is Project-Based Learning the Way to Go?
From KQED Education Do Now: More than 5,000 schools nationwide have transitioned from traditional learning methods to project-based learning (PBL). Should all schools move in this direction and implement PBL in their science classes?
