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Jorge Salazar

Do cell phones kill honey bees? May Berenbaum answers

Bee expert May Berenbaum explains that there's no reliable evidence that cell phones kill honey bees. "Not scientifically robust," she says.

E.O. Wilson on the future of biology

Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson talked to EarthSky about advances we might see in in the future of biology in the 21st century.

Robert Walker: Population challenges ahead

The world’s 7 billion people face new challenges from population growth, according to Robert Walker, executive vice-president of the Population Institute.

Gabriela Salvador on Pro Mujer in Latin America

Gabriela Salvador said, "Women come to us for loans and we take the opportunity to reach out to them and give them health services and education."

Robert Zubrin on why we should go to Mars

Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society says there are three reasons we should go to Mars: the science, the challenge, the future.

Heavenly Palace modules makes historic space dock

China made a historic space first today with the dock of the Heavenly Palace modules, pieces of a permanent space station to be completed by 2020.

Joel Cohen: Top 10 key population trends on Earth with 7 billion

How can we understand a world with 7 billion people? Population expert Joel Cohen explains the top population trends on a planet with 7 billion inhabitants.

Hal Levison on Saturn’s weird moon Iapetus

"Iapetus is one of the weirdest things in the solar system, said Levision, "and as we study it more and more, it gets weirder and weirder."

Andrea Milani calculates odds of killer asteroids

Will a killer asteroid strike the Earth in the foreseeable future? Andrea Milani calculates the odds. Read more about the results here.

Using Landsat to monitor our water use from space

Monitoring our water use from space with pinpoint accuracy, even at the scale of individual fields. Read more about LandSat with Martha Anderson.