On this week's show, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how dogs' cold noses may be able to sense warm bodies . Read the research .
International News Editor Martin Enserink shares the latest from our reporters covering coronavirus .
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Marvel's Next Superhero Idea Focuses on…Brexit - WSJ
EDINBURGH, Scotland—Captain America and Superman emerged at a time of looming global conflict in the 1930s and '40s.
Now Marvel Comics is launching a new team of superheroes representing England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Their mission is to see if they can get along peaceably after Britain's exit from the European Union and defeat the Skrulls, an extraterrestrial race of shape-shifters from the planet Skrullos.
SETI@home's crowdsourced search for aliens ending after 21 years - CNN
(CNN) Scientists at the University of California Berkeley's SETI@home project say they'll stop sending new work to the network of volunteers, who've been using their computers to search for aliens since 1999.
Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped crunch data for SETI@home in the last two decades. On March 31, the project will stop sending out new work to users, but this is not the end of public engagement in SETI research. pic.twitter.com/P0t0v8w7n4
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Tanya Kharina wrote 'Alfie's Way' to help children understand people who are different from them.
First known extraterrestrial protein possibly spotted in meteorite | Space
A research team claimed to have found the first known extraterrestrial protein, spotting it in a space rock that fell to Earth 30 years ago.
The scientists, led by Malcolm McGeoch of the Plex Corp. in Fall River, Massachusetts, analyzed the meteorite Acfer 086, which landed in Algeria in 1990. High-precision mass spectrometry revealed the presence of a novel protein, McGeoch and his team wrote in a new paper that's available on the online preprint site arXiv.org.
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A book by two Science Communication Program alumni celebrates the human fascination with maps, displaying more than 200 maps across history (and even fiction) and exploring the intriguing stories behind them
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In 1977, two spacecraft—Voyager 1 and 2—were launched into space carrying a pair of round metal plaques filled with information designed to acquaint any extraterrestrial who happened to find them with Earth and its inhabitants.
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PODCAST: Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life, ft.… https://t.co/Dg77880ZVo SETIInstitute (from Mountain View, CA) Fri Mar 06 00:16:01 +0000 2020
Dogs' noses just got a bit more amazing! Not only are they up to 100 million times more sensitive than ours, they c… https://t.co/WhcGclvTlv nywolforg (from South Salem, New York) Sat Feb 29 15:12:49 +0000 2020
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