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Nonstop Flight: How The Frigatebird Can Soar For Weeks Without Stopping

One of the frigatebirds that researchers tagged soared 40 miles over the Indian Ocean without a wing-flap. These birds were photographed in the Galapagos. Lucy Rickards/Flickr hide caption

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Nonstop Flight: How The Frigatebird Can Soar For Weeks Without Stopping

Scientists have been attaching transmitters on the huge seagoing birds and are astonished by their ability to stay aloft.

Nonstop Flight: How The Frigatebird Can Soar For Weeks Without Stopping

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Researchers Examine Family Income And Children's Non-Cognitive Skills
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Hidden Brain

Researchers Examine Family Income And Children's Non-Cognitive Skills

Barbara Wolfe and Jason Fletcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found children from lower income families have lower non-cognitive skills than children from richer families.

Researchers Examine Family Income And Children's Non-Cognitive Skills

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Wednesday

Brexit's Impact Stretches From Deep Space To Nuclear Fusion

The Joint European Torus, a European fusion project in the U.K., gets most of its funding from the EU. Brexit may change that, and the even larger ITER fusion project. EUROfusion hide caption

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Parallels

Brexit's Impact Stretches From Deep Space To Nuclear Fusion

Scientists are worried about how Britain's departure from the European Union would hurt the continent's mega-projects and its researchers. Scientific collaboration "should know no borders," says one.

Virtual Reality Aimed At The Elderly Finds New Fans

Virginia Anderlini (right) was the first private client to try out Dr. Sonya Kim's new virtual reality program for the elderly, and says she's eager to see more. Kim's handful of programs are still at the demo stage. Kara Platoni/KQED hide caption

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Virtual Reality Aimed At The Elderly Finds New Fans

KQED

Some doctors are finding that virtual travel — to Venice, a Hawaiian beach or Africa — can open new worlds to people confined by low mobility, dementia or depression.

Beyond Sightseeing: You'll Love The Sound Of America's Best Parks

Moraine Park is a grassy valley inside Rocky Mountain National Park. Wes Lindamood/NPR hide caption

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Beyond Sightseeing: You'll Love The Sound Of America's Best Parks

The National Park Service is racing to record soundscapes of each park that capture nature for the ear. "If we start to lose sounds of wilderness, we start to lose a piece of us," one scientist says.

Beyond Sightseeing: You'll Love The Sound Of America's Best Parks

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Tuesday

West Virginians Turn To Federal Government For Help After Devastating Floods

Shane Altzier sweeps out the mud from the utilities office in Rainelle, W.Va., one of the towns hardest hit by floods that tore through the state on Friday. More rain this week has slowed cleanup efforts. Steve Helber/AP hide caption

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West Virginians Turn To Federal Government For Help After Devastating Floods

In West Virginia, residents are beginning to clean up after record floods destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses and killed at least 23 people.

Ancient Shipwreck Off Greek Island Yields A Different Sort Of Treasure

Antikythera team members Nikolas Giannoulakis, Theotokis Theodoulou, and Brendan Foley inspect small finds from the shipwreck, while decompressing after a dive of 165 feet beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea in Greece. Brett Seymour/EUA/WHOI/ARGO hide caption

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Ancient Shipwreck Off Greek Island Yields A Different Sort Of Treasure

Divers exploring the famous Antikythera shipwreck, 200 feet beneath the water's surface in Greece, have turned up a heavy object they think might have been a powerful weapon in the first century B.C.

Ancient Shipwreck Off Greek Island Yields A Different Sort Of Treasure

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The Cheater's High And Other Reasons We Cheat
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Hidden Brain

The Cheater's High And Other Reasons We Cheat

Like it or not, cheating and lying are part of being human. But our propensity to cheat varies based on the situation. This week we delve into how cheating works.

The Cheater's High And Other Reasons We Cheat

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Monday

Nothing Says 'Hip' Like Ancient Wheat

An illustration shows spikes of different types of wheat: (1) Polish wheat (2) Club wheat (3) Common bread wheat (4) Poulard wheat (5) Durum wheat (6) Spelt (7) Emmer (8) Einkorn. The Library of Congress/Flickr The Commons hide caption

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The Salt

Nothing Says 'Hip' Like Ancient Wheat

Many consumers in North America and Europe are willing to pay a premium for nutritious, organic grains. That makes the market ripe for a revival of millennia-old bread wheat, some plant breeders say.