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Respiratory viruses rise across the U.S. New year kicks off with a rise in respiratory virus infections and hospitalizations 02:54 As the new year gets underway, health officials are issuing a nationwide alert about a triple threat: The simultaneous spread of the flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The Centers for Disease Control
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Good news you may have missed in 2023 – CBS News Watch CBS News Bad news can break suddenly, but good news can be found everywhere, all the time—if you know where to look. From technology and medicine to the environment, correspondent David Pogue brings us some of the recent headlines that remind us 2023
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The Endangered Species Act at 50 – CBS News Watch CBS News Historian Douglas Brinkley celebrates the success of the 1973 law that finally gave legal protection to America’s iconic flora and fauna facing extinction. In the half-century since the law’s introduction, an astonishing 99% of the threatened species originally listed have survived. View CBS
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They’re braving some of the highest, driest, coldest and windiest conditions on the planet, but American scientists in Antarctica believe the effort is worth it. They’re searching for a sample of the oldest ice ever found, which could help us better understand climate change. The expedition to Antarctica is part of COLDEX, a federally funded
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The story of Christmas features a miraculous astronomical sight. But this Christmas, we’re blessed with an abundance of new miraculous visions from the skies, courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope, which lifted off on Christmas Day two years ago … from Jupiter and its rings (a mere 385 million miles away), to the Carina Nebula
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The James Webb Space Telescope’s remarkable gifts – CBS News Watch CBS News On Christmas Day 2021 the James Webb Space Telescope was blasted into orbit. In the two years since the telescope has performed like a champ, capturing phenomenal images of the heavens and collecting data about distant planets. Correspondent David Pogue reports on
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They’re small, furry and look like mice — but scientists say they’re actually a new species of hedgehogs. An international collaboration of researchers led by Smithsonian scientists identified five new species of soft-furred hedgehogs, according to a study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The scientists said they were able to use
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Scientists investigating how Antarctica’s ice sheets retreated in the deep past have turned to an innovative approach: studying the genes of octopuses that live in its chilly waters. A new analysis published Thursday in Science finds that geographically-isolated populations of the eight-limbed sea creatures mated freely around 125,000 years ago, signaling an ice-free corridor during
Read MoreIceland’s volcanic eruption could last months Iceland’s volcano continues to spew lava, and eruption could last months 01:40 A volcano in southern Iceland, near Grindavik, began erupting in spectacular fashion Monday night following weeks of warning signs, including thousands of earthquakes. Iceland’s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened an approximately 2.5-mile-long fissure and created lava fountains
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NASA beamed ultra-high definition video of a cat named Taters back to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away, the space agency said Monday. The 15-second cat video was sent to Earth as an experiment for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications. The space agency hopes to one day stream very high-bandwidth video and other data
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