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Jersey City’s New Police Chief Has Never Been a Cop
Should a civilian run the police? Jersey City thinks so.
NASA Landed a Probe on an Ancient Asteroid and Took a Sample In First for U.S.
"A piece of primordial rock that has witnessed our solar system’s entire history may now be ready to come home for generations of scientific discovery,” said a NASA scientist of the U.S.'s first attempt to return an asteroid sample to Earth.
The World’s First Malaria Vaccination Is Here
It’s not perfect and it may be inconvenient but it’s an important milestone in saving millions of lives.
Great White Shark Tagged for the First Time in Canadian Atlantic Waters
Heather Bowlby at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax tagged the shark with a location tracker that will monitor its movements for nearly a year.
The Mysterious Disappearance of North America's First Dogs
When people migrated to North America some 10,000 years ago, they brought their canine companions with them.
The All-Girl Afghan Robotics Team Was Banned from Entering the US. Now It's Inspiring a Revolution
This weekend, the Afghan Dreamers won the Rookie Inspiration Award at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Detroit.
The First Spacewalker Cheated Death And Crash-Landed In a Forest Full of Wolves
Humanity’s first spacewalk seems even crazier 52 years later.
"World’s First" Bacteria-Grown Book Combines Science and Culture
Dr. Simon Park's microorganisms have produced their own copy of 'On the Origin of Species.'
28 Hours on the Clock: ‘Unethical’ Trial May Have Put Med Students at Risk
In what one watchdog group calls a “highly unethical” trial, first-year medical residents worked 28 hours at a stretch or longer.
A First Nations Community Has Blockaded Their Gulf Islands Territory Over Valuable Phallic Clams
The Chemainus First Nation say they’ve been let down by a recent Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) policy decision to restrict their ability to culture geoducks, a hugely valuable clam species that is already harvested commercially in the area.