Oct 10, 2014 Columbus Day is on Monday. The three ships in Christopher Columbus' fleet back in 1492 were the Nina, the Pinta - and the Santa Maria, which was his flagship. Centuries later, there's a great historical puzzle about the Santa Maria... |
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Oct 10, 2014 Some designers say they've come up with a portable cooking pot that is powered by built-in magnets. Just grab the pull cord on the pot to spin the magnets, which in turn generate the heat. Ashley De Garmo is one of the designers... |
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Oct 10, 2014 Some robots are programmed to repeat the same motions, over and over again. But the folks at Cornell University are trying something else: developing ways to help household robots be more intuitive, so they can do a better job of helping us... |
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Oct 10, 2014 Suppose you want to learn something - a foreign language, let's say. What would it take to help you to learn better? Sure, motivation and practice are important. But here's another key ingredient: curiosity... |
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Oct 9, 2014 One day a long time ago, a guy fishing along the banks of Columbia River in what is now Washington State was hit by something somebody threw at him. The 9,000-year-old skeleton is known as "The Kennewick Man"... |
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Oct 9, 2014 There are cancer radiation clinics in the U.S. and elsewhere that now include proton as well as other therapies. But the one in Prague called the Proton Therapy Center treats up to 2,500 patients a year with high doses of proton beams only... |
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Oct 9, 2014 In action movies, the star usually faces some great - and often pyrotechnic - peril. With certain exceptions, chances are a stunt double may have stood in during those scenes when things were blowing up all over the place... |
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Oct 9, 2014 It's going to be possible apparently to treat your allergies while brushing your teeth. Now, if you were popping a pill while brushing your teeth, that might be a problem - but not with a specially designed toothpaste... |
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Oct 8, 2014 Have you heard about the National Guard's Youth ChalleNGe Academies? They're all about giving chances to high school dropouts - and 80 percent of the kids who attend go on to attend college or get real jobs... |
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Oct 8, 2014 Earlier, we visited a National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Academy for high school dropouts outside of Los Angeles with our CBS News colleague Michelle Miller. Meet some of the teens who are now attending the Sunburst Academy... |
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Oct 8, 2014 Perhaps it won't be long until you can buy an entire wardrobe of wearable tech gear. There are "smart watches" and "smart glasses," of course. And now, there is also a "smart jacket" for runners that can track their progress in real time... |
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Oct 8, 2014 If you're a wine critic, your nose and your tongue are the two most important tools of your trade. Well, some students in Denmark have created a device that they say could shake up the sommeliers. It's called the "Mini-Mouth"... |
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Oct 7, 2014 Do you know much about Open Water Swimming? Well, you're not alone. It's pretty unheard of, says our CBS News colleague Jeff Glor - but it's also rather unforgiving. He visited the southern coast of Ireland for "60 Minutes Sports" on Showtime... |
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Oct 7, 2014 In the kitchen, most of us like cooking a lot more than we like cleaning up afterwards. Dirty dishes do tend to pile up in a hurry. Maybe we should ask a robot to do that work for us. Well, some scientists in Britain say they've built one... |
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Oct 7, 2014 Once upon a time, four guys sang about their living quarters under the sea. The Beatles wouldn't have been able to fit in the latest submarine that's on the market. But if you have a lot of cash, you too can have your own personal submarine... |
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Oct 7, 2014 The woodpecker spends a lot of time slamming its head and beak into trees at a high rate of speed just to find food. But how does he manage to avoid brain injuries from all that pecking? The tough little bird can teach us a thing or two... |
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Oct 6, 2014 Have you met the amazing Sebastian Thrun? I promise you're going to meet him soon. And when you meet him, I think you'll find he'll teach you things that will blow your mind. He is an engineering whiz. And John Blackstone is a friend of his... |
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Oct 6, 2014 If you've ever signed up for something online, chances are you've seen a page of "Terms and Conditions." Sometimes, it's many pages of "Terms and Conditions." Did you read them? Do you ever read them? I think we both know the answer... |
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Oct 6, 2014 In one of the "Terminator" movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger faces another cyborg assassin - but this one can repair itself, because it's made out of "liquid metal." And sure enough, some scientists are catching up with Hollywood... |
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Oct 6, 2014 Texting while driving is a very dangerous thing to do. And too many of us who know better still do it, anyway - even though there are graphic public warnings about the consequences. Now, there is another tool that could help law enforcement... |
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Oct 3, 2014 With all the volcanic activity these days - from Iceland to Hawaii to Japan - some people are wondering if volcanoes are more likely to act up at certain times than others. Is there such a thing as a volcano season? |
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Oct 3, 2014 The same three guys who wrote the best-selling book "1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off" have now outdone themselves in a new book: "1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop"... |
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Oct 3, 2014 We were telling you earlier about the new Quite Interesting Facts book. The 1,339 facts in this new book are jaw-dropping, indeed. Facts can be dull as dishwater, but some people can tell a fact - and some can't. These Brits sure can... |
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Oct 3, 2014 We call them the laws of physics - the natural rules that make the Universe work the way it does. We think those laws can't be broken - except when they are. A case in point is something that we'll call "The Impossible Engine"... |
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Oct 2, 2014 It can take a long time to climb out of a deep hole. That was true about the job market right after the recession - but more recently, we've seen gradual improvement. And now, according to a CareerBuilder survey, we may be at a tipping point... |
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Oct 2, 2014 Sometimes, cancer patients treated with chemotherapy suffer severe and chronic pain that doesn't go away - even if the treatment succeeds and the cancer does go away. Enter a machine called "The Scrambler" now being tested at the Mayo Clinic... |
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Oct 2, 2014 Architects in London are giving people a chance to build their own home with parts printed on a 3D printer. It's known as the "Wikihouse" - and our CBS News colleague Alphonso Van Marsh paid a visit to the place... |
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Oct 2, 2014 As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." And in the family of birds, starlings are quite a social bunch. Their acrobatic swirls they make whenever they decide to fly together have delighted - but also puzzled - bird experts for years... |
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Oct 1, 2014 Ellis Island has many visitors every day from across the country and around the world. But it's only starting today that they can see a certain part that has been off limits for decades: where the sick were taken after they arrived there... |
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Oct 1, 2014 Scientists at Imperial College London are actively working on ways to genetically harness the power of bacteria - specifically, E. coli - to produce propane on a commercial scale. Today's bacteria is tomorrow's biofuel... |
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Oct 1, 2014 Astronauts are used to wearing bulky suits that make them look sort of like blown-up balloons - but there's an idea to give the spacesuit a makeover for the 21st Century. It's a skin-tight spacesuit, developed by the folks at MIT... |
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Oct 1, 2014 The Farm-to-Table Movement encourages people to eat food from local farms. But one of the nation's top chefs has a curious twist on that. Chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill wrote the book "The Third Plate." And what is "The Third Plate"? |
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Sep 30, 2014 It is only right that we remember and honor those in the military who have given their lives in wartime. But it's also fitting that we honor - as a new memorial does - those injured who survive and carry on living with their disabilities... |
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Sep 30, 2014 On our last broadcast, our CBS News colleague David Martin was telling us about Washington's newest monument, opening Sunday - to honor American Veterans Disabled for Life. Joe Bacani is one of those wounded warriors... |
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Sep 30, 2014 There's a startup company in Silicon Valley that has used nanotechnology to produce a hydrophobic material that can be woven into a shirt. Reminds me of the Alec Guinness movie "The Man in the White Suit"... |
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Sep 30, 2014 When a soldier is wounded on the battlefield, chances of survival depend on minutes - even seconds. And there's now a device that may help make all the difference in the world, thanks to some folks at Johns Hopkins University... |
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Sep 29, 2014 You might think billionaires are a dime a dozen these days. There are so many of them around. But on this day in 1916, the world got its first billionaire. Want to take a guess who it was? John D. Rockefeller... |
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Sep 29, 2014 The use of drones continues to grow. And like any new gadget, work continues all over the globe to improve drones. A company in Massachusetts has unveiled a way to use a spy drone it believes could revolutionize search and rescue operations... |
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Sep 29, 2014 It is so easy - altogether too easy - to get distracted when we're in the middle of something, isn't it? Concentration can be difficult in those circumstances - and it doesn't take much to short-circuit our short-term memory, either... |
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Sep 29, 2014 How do hummingbirds flap their wings like they do? Scientists say the ratio of the wings' length to their width is the reason why. We can learn a lot from hummingbirds which we can apply to our own manmade objects in the sky... |
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Sep 26, 2014 In the last five years, hackers have been responsible for at least 236 million reported corporate data breaches. At the University of Southern Maine, Prof. Charles Largay teaches people how to think like hackers to stop the hacking... |
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Sep 26, 2014 There's a new way of screening now for polyps that could lead to colon cancer that does not involve a colonoscopy. Are you going to miss colonoscopies? Me neither. This new method was developed at the University of Miami... |
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Sep 26, 2014 Apple's new iPhone 6 is a hot seller here in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Our CBS News colleague in Beijing, Seth Doane, tells us that they haven't been officially approved for sale there - but they're selling big anyway... |
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Sep 26, 2014 On vacation, you probably buy souvenirs for people - maybe a little trinket of some kind. Well, next time you go to London, why not buy yourself a subway station? Some pieces of the Tube are for sale... |
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Sep 25, 2014 It's estimated that at least twenty-five percent of former NFL players can expect to develop a form of dementia later in life - and at an earlier age than most men. Our CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook visits Dave Herman... |
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Sep 25, 2014 One challenge for solar power as an alternative to fossil fuels is storage. If your power plant relies on the Sun, you have to be able to store the electricity that's generated when the Sun is out, so that the electricity is always available... |
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Sep 25, 2014 Climate change is a worldwide phenomenon - and it is affecting not only humans, but wildlife too - including birds. Our CBS News colleague Dean Reynolds reports on one bird in particular: the vanishing loons of Minnesota... |
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Sep 25, 2014 For many of us, getting a good night's sleep can be elusive. There's a "smart" light bulb that can mimic a sunset - and help prepare your body to go to sleep. It's called the Drift Light, made by a company in Utah called Saffron... |
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Sep 24, 2014 There's a place in Alexandria, Virginia that helped determine the outcome of World War II. It had no name, just a Post Office Box Number: "PO Box 1142." Our colleague Seth Doane went to see it - and there was nothing there... |
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Sep 24, 2014 James Robinson has spent his life saving lives. At age 74, he's a retired emergency medical services captain who's now teaching other people to save lives in a tough part of New York City. He trains people who want to become EMTs... |
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Sep 24, 2014 What 3D printing can do seems limitless. Sure, the technology is still in its early stages. But in South Carolina, scientists are using 3D printing as part of a process they call "biofabrication." Dr. Michael Yost explains... |
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Sep 24, 2014 It's one of the great mysteries of life: What is consciousness? How does it develop? How does it work? Scientists don't have a lot of good answers to questions like those - but they are working to find some... |
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Sep 23, 2014 What happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri last month caught the attention of the whole country, as our Sunday Morning colleague Jane Pauley reminded me the other day. Amid all the anger and shouting was an eleven-year-old boy... |
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Sep 23, 2014 Offhand, it's hard to see how dumping ice water over a person's head could possibly do anybody any good. But the ALS Association has raised a ton of money that way. However they spend all that money, people will be paying attention... |
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Sep 23, 2014 Let's talk about two simple words: "Thank You." We teach our children to say "Thank You" to show good manners - and it turns out that those words can go a long way. A case in point is how they help us form relationships with other people... |
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Sep 23, 2014 We've heard a lot lately about the long-term effects from concussions in football. And now, some scientists have proposed a special type of breathalyzer test that could detect concussions in athletes more quickly than we can now... |
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Sep 22, 2014 The U.S. Military is always looking for new ways to help soldiers on the battlefield. One project aims to give soldiers superhuman speed. Engineering student Jason Kerestes of Arizona State University is lead researcher... |
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Sep 22, 2014 People can surprise you sometimes. Our CBS News colleague Steve Hartman found three people in Pittsburgh who sure surprised him. One is a tough police detective named Jack Mook - and the others are two boys he met, Jessee and Josh... |
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Sep 22, 2014 Maybe this has happened to you: You're late for work, so you rush to the train station - only to find the station is jammed, the train is nowhere in sight and the station staff is not being too helpful. Would hearing this make you feel better? |
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Sep 22, 2014 Most of us don't think twice about what the temperature was yesterday - let alone a hundred-and-fifty years ago. But weather data from that far back does offer a treasure trove of information now - particularly about the Arctic... |
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Sep 19, 2014 Doctors at the Mayo Clinic are starting a second round of human clinical trials to see if massive doses of measles virus can attack and eradicate cancer. Stacy Erholtz, who has multiple myeloma, participated in the first round - and saw success... |
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Sep 19, 2014 Our CBS News colleague Michelle Miller has met a young entrepreneur in Englewood, New Jersey who seems headed for sweet success. I do mean young - and I do mean sweet. I'm talking about Cory Nieves and his Mr. Cory's Cookies... |
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Sep 19, 2014 When we first meet The Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz," he's stuck in the forest, because he had rusted after getting caught in the rain. Maybe if he had known about a wonder paint to keep the rust away, he wouldn't have gotten stuck... |
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Sep 19, 2014 Those of us who have pets know that there is a special bond between us and them. We're sure that there's something interesting going on in the brains of our cats or our dogs. But what is it exactly? Vint Verga wants to figure that out... |
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Sep 18, 2014 A plane is quite a complex piece of machinery - and everything has to hold together. There is something else that is also complex and has to hold a lot of things together: your brain. What if you could steer a plane with the power of your brain? |
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Sep 18, 2014 One of the most violent volcanic eruptions in history happened more than a thousand years ago at Mount Paektu in what is now North Korea. The secretive North Korean Government wouldn't let any Western scientists get close enough - 'til now... |
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Sep 18, 2014 If you like to hop on a bike, maybe you like to take a scenic ride somewhere near a body of water - by a river or by a lake or ocean. Now, you wouldn't think of riding your bike on the water. But a man in California has thought of that... |
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Sep 18, 2014 You're listening to music through your earbud headphones, and then you unplug them and stuff them in your pocket. Later, when you pull the earbuds out of your pocket, the cords have become jumbled knots that take forever to undo... |
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Sep 17, 2014 You don't expect to meet a football player in a bookstore, but that is where Kathy Rackley met Malcolm Mitchell. Our CBS News colleague Steve Hartman met them both - "on the road," of course - in Athens, Georgia.... |
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Sep 17, 2014 Nearly one out of ten adults in the U.S. is either blind or otherwise visually impaired, even if they wear glasses or contact lenses. There's a device in the works to help those people read just about anything that's put in front of them... |
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Sep 17, 2014 Here's an age-old question: What gives meaning to our lives? And here's another: How do we live long lives? It turns out the answers to both questions have something in common, according to researchers in the U.S. and Canada... |
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Sep 17, 2014 There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Since we rely so much on our smartphones, it's too easy to get too attached to them. Well, there are ways to kick that kind of habit - and the latest entry is called "The No-Phone"... |
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Sep 16, 2014 The mother of our Sunday Morning colleague Mo Rocca lives in the United States now, but she was born and raised in Colombia. She has some very fond memories of the place, from a time before Colombia became known for drugs and violence... |
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Sep 16, 2014 On our previous broadcast, Mo Rocca was telling us about how his mother's home country - Colombia - had been dragged into darkness by the violence of the drug trade, especially in Medellin. How things have changed for the better since... |
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Sep 16, 2014 There is a beetle whose ultra-thin scales are so white that they're whiter than the paper we now use. That's a shade of white that really grabbed the attention of some scientists at Cambridge University in England. So, what did they learn? |
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Sep 16, 2014 We sure love our smartphones and our tablets and our laptops, don't we? We can take them with us - and stay connected - just about anywhere we go. But, it can be quite a hassle to keep all our devices charged up while we're on the road... |
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Sep 15, 2014 This Thursday, voters in Scotland will decide whether to in effect secede from the United Kingdom - and make Scotland an independent country. A Yes vote seemed highly unlikely at first - but now, says our CBS News colleague Mark Phillips... |
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Sep 15, 2014 We were telling you earlier about Scotland's scheduled vote this Thursday on what amounts to a divorce from the rest of the United Kingdom. Our CBS News colleague Mark Phillips thinks that's a good analogy... |
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Sep 15, 2014 British scientist Jim Usherwood believes he can help soldiers who have to trek for many miles wearing heavy loads on their backs with footwear that eases the strain on their shins - and literally puts a spring in their step... |
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Sep 15, 2014 Carbon emissions - including those emitted by the plastics industry - are part of the air pollution problem. But what if you could remove some that schmutz from the air - and recycle it to make something useful out of it? |
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Sep 12, 2014 To build a bridge in Alexandria, Virginia, they had to tear down a gas station. And in the process, they found a cemetery that nobody realized was there - a secret cemetery, says our CBS News colleague Wyatt Andrews... |
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Sep 12, 2014 Nature has inspired musicians for ages. And now, a new symphony might be played in the Brazilian rainforest as well as in a concert hall. Composer Richard Blackford wants to bring some of the natural world to the stage... |
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Sep 12, 2014 Maybe you've heard other people say they can "smell" money. Imagine that. Well, some scientists are imagining a device that could do just that. They say they've already captured the unique smell of our own paper money... |
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Sep 12, 2014 A popular device for discouraging dogs from doing things we don't want them to, like wandering away, is an e-collar - "e" as in "electric" - that dog collar that gives him a shock every time he tries to... |
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Sep 11, 2014 We know that the rain falleth on the just and the unjust alike - and when it doesn't fall, the same thing is true. It just doesn't seem fair that no good deed goes unpunished. And in bone-dry California, says our CBS News colleague Ben Tracy... |
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Sep 11, 2014 Last night, President Obama spoke of ISIS. "America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat," said Mr. Obama in a prime-time address from the White House. He laid out a four-part strategy to fight the terrorist group... |
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Sep 11, 2014 Flies are such pesky critters, aren't they? That noise they make is anything but music to our ears. But, there's a certain type of fly with exceptional hearing that might hold the key to better hearing aids for us... |
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Sep 11, 2014 While R2-D2 and his pal C-3PO are trying to help save the galaxy in "Star Wars," a real-life robot named "Violet" is zapping "superbugs" and eliminating bacteria at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Pittsburgh... |
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Sep 10, 2014 In London today starts something new: The Invictus Games - wounded warriors from 13 countries competing in sports such as running, swimming, cycling, basketball and archery. Jan Crawford met with some Team U.S.A. members... |
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Sep 10, 2014 Is it true that brown is the new green for lawns in California? Homeowner Paul Moser used to have the biggest lawn on his block - and he was proud of it, too. Not anymore. Here's what he told our CBS News colleague Teri Okita... |
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Sep 10, 2014 Scientists say these days, more and more of us are having what are known as "lucid" dreams - the kind of dreams where we know we're dreaming, even though we're fast asleep. Those dreams might also help us when we're awake... |
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Sep 10, 2014 When it comes to shoes, there are so many different kinds and colors to choose from. But how many shoes can keep your feet warm in the winter? Well, there's now an invention aimed at keeping your toes cozy: the "Digitsole"... |
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Sep 9, 2014 A hundred years ago, half of American school kids were taught in a one-room schoolhouse. But after the First World War, people moved into cities - although such schools still exist, says our CBS News colleague Barry Petersen... |
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Sep 9, 2014 On our last broadcast, our CBS News colleague Barry Petersen was at a one-room school in the mountains. Most of us associate such teaching with the Prairie - as in Little House, remember? Welcome to the Strange School in Michigan... |
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Sep 9, 2014 Sports cars don't have a reputation that you would call "green-friendly." And when you see a sports car, you probably don't think of salt water, either. But there's a sports car out there that does run on salt water... |
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Sep 9, 2014 Moths can be a pesky bunch - and most of them are nocturnal. But during the day in North Carolina, scientists are raising what you might call "cyborg moths" that they say could help us in many ways... |
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Sep 8, 2014 Our skin is our first layer of defense against the elements. And when aircraft are thousands of feet in the sky, they have to brave a lot of elements, too. Now there is a "smart skin" that's being developed for aircraft... |
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Sep 8, 2014 For many people, reading glasses become essential as they get older. But there's a technique on the horizon that can make those reading glasses a thing of the past. All you need is a certain kind of "raindrop"... |
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Sep 8, 2014 For some, cycling is a sport - but for others, it's just another way to get around. Well, safety is always a concern. And there's a device that acts as a "sixth sense" for cyclists to help keep them safe on the road... |
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Sep 8, 2014 Maybe someday, you'll be able to send and receive a food photo as a text message on your smartphone - along with the scent of the food attached. Actually, someone has come up with such a gadget: the "oPhone"... |
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