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About Nsikan @MoNscience

Nsikan Akpan is the digital science producer for PBS NewsHour and co-creator of the award-winning, NewsHour digital series ScienceScope.

He holds a doctorate in pathobiology (Columbia University) and is an alum of the science communication program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Nsikan served on the board of the National Association of Science Writers from 2016 to 2019.

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The life of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, in pictures

A new photobiography details Sally Ride's childhood, her early struggles with stardom and the scientific zeal of America's first woman in space.

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Can your ‘brain fingerprint’ reveal how smart you are?

Neuroscientists at Yale University discover a way to identify individuals and predict their intelligence levels by using brain fingerprints based on functional MRI scans.

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DNA repair research wins 3 scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar split the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

Science Oct 06

Nobel Prize awarded for changing neutrinos, the ‘chameleons’ of particle physics

Takaaki Kajita of University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald of Queen's University in Canada have now won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.

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2,000-year-old Chinese herbal therapy plays major role in Nobel Prize for Medicine

William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu win this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research into drug treatments for parasites.

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What ‘The Martian’ can teach us about the weather on Mars

The Martian author Andy Weir and the NASA director of planetary science discuss the movie, Mars weather and where else people might one day live in our solar system.

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Mars has flowing rivers of briny water, NASA satellite reveals

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Science Sep 23

As a scientist, is the pope dodging the biggest contributor to climate change?

Once you’re a scientist, you’re always a scientist, and Pope Francis was once a scientist. In recent years, the pope’s outspoken views on issues like the environment seem to reveal his familiarity with life in a lab. Some scientists applaud…

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Take a look inside a sea level rise time machine

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Science Sep 16

How rising seas could sink the sea turtle

Climate change and sea level rise do more than just wash away sea turtle habitat.

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