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New technology may let you throw away your ice scrapers

By Justin Scuiletti

Forget blasting your defrosters and scraping windshields tirelessly in the wintertime -- a new technology may help keep them ice-free.

Are you getting enough vitamin A? Probably, but half of the world isn’t

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Scientists are genetically modifying crops like rice to get vitamin A into impoverished diets in southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. NewsHour explains why this vitamin is so important, where you can get it and why you shouldn't eat polar bear…

From marriage equality advocate to materials scientist, MacArthur Foundation names 21 new ‘geniuses’

By Victoria Fleischer

What do a civil rights lawyer, a graphic memoirist and an environmental engineer have in common? They are all 2014 MacArthur Fellows.

A dinosaur fit for land and water: Spinosaurus unveiled

By Carey Reed

Newly-unveiled fossils indicate a dinosaur known as Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was built to live part of the time in water, according to a report published online for the journal Science.

For dyslexic students, are smart phones easier to read than books?

By Ruth Tam

In a recent report for the National Science Foundation's "Science Nation," NewsHour Science correspondent Miles O'Brien explored how smart phones could help people who are dyslexic with their reading skills.

Scientists develop new method for detecting illegal ‘bath salts’ drugs

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Scientists have developed a new method for identifying illegal “bath salts,” synthetic drugs recently banned in the United States.

Ozone layer slowly recovering after decades of damage

By Joshua Barajas

Good news: after 35 years of facing depletion, Earth's ozone layer has shown signs that it's recovering, a U.N. scientific panel said Wednesday.

This telescope is so extreme, the weak of heart need not apply

By Joshua Barajas and Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Deadly altitudes, breathtaking skies, treacherous roads, wild donkeys -- it's all part of working on the most sophisticated telescope in the world.

Apple offers new way to access your wallet with your phone

By PBS News Hour

Apple unveiled its new products -- a larger iPhone, as well as the Apple Watch and a new pay system -- that boast advances for phone, watch and wallet. Gwen Ifill interviews John Simons of the Associated Press for a…

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