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Underwater microphones capture the distinct sounds of iceberg births

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

At the ocean’s edge, slabs of ice break off of glaciers and tumble into the water as icebergs. But these iceberg births are poorly understood. Scientists don’t know how the ice will break or how much the glacier will lose.

In Earth flyby, massive asteroid reveals a moon of its own

By Joshua Barajas

Earth’s close encounter with Asteroid 2004 BL86 on Monday revealed that the massive space object had a traveling companion: its own moon.

Kepler finds galaxy’s oldest solar system

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

The Kepler Space Telescope found the oldest solar system in the galaxy. While digging through backlogged data from the Kepler telescope, scientists found Kepler-444, an 11.2 billion year-old star in the Milky Way orbited by at least five Earth-sized planets.

New ‘smart’ keyboard detects typist

By Ruth Tam

A 'smart' keyboard could trigger a wireless alarm if anyone but the programmed user even taps on it.

Virtual reality bursts through the movie screen at Sundance

By PBS News Hour

What if watching a movie was more like being inside the movie? With virtual reality, your brain can be tricked into believing that you’re flying or in a different country -- a powerful creative tool for storytellers. Jeffrey Brown visits…

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Triggering thirst with the flip of a switch

By Justin Scuiletti

What if you could trick your brain into thinking you weren't thirsty in the first place without ingesting a single drop of water, or make yourself believe you are thirsty when you are not?…

Comcast ghostwrote letters for politicians to send to FCC

By Ruth Tam

Comcast ghostwrote letters to the FCC from local politicians in favor of the merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

Climate change and nuclear weapons push Doomsday Clock closer to midnight

By Eric Krupke

Scientists moved the hands on the Doomsday Clock two minutes on Thursday. The clock now stands at three minutes to apocalypse.

President calls climate change the ‘greatest threat to future generations’ in State of the Union

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Calling climate change the "greatest threat to future generations" in his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Obama called out climate change deniers.