A California Highway Patrol officer checks cars that fell when the upper deck of the San Francisco Bay Bridge collapsed onto the lower deck after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. George Nikitin/AP hide caption
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Forest biologist Patricia Maloney is raising 10,000 sugar pine seedlings descended from trees that survived California's historic drought. Lauren Sommer/KQED hide caption
Alex, at 4 years and 11 months old, throws a toy football. Caroline Cheung-Yiu hide caption
A Boy's Mysterious Illness Leads His Family On A Diagnostic Odyssey
The Body:A Guide for Occupants, by Bill Bryson Doubleday hide caption
Mohammed Bawazeer (left) and Ian Riley carry a battery that will power the aeration system on Upper Klamath Lake for 32 hours, even if the sun isn't shining. Jes Burns/OPB hide caption
Pumping Oxygen In A Lake To Try To Save Fish Facing Climate Change
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Typhoon Hagibis left overturned cars and mud-slicked streets in Hoyasu, Japan. Rescue crews are still combing through areas that flooded after extreme rain caused rivers to break through levees. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption
Bill Bryson's Latest Is A Different Kind Of Journey — Into 'The Body'
Already, Health Canada has posted safety and efficacy data online for four newly approved drugs; it plans to release reports for another 13 drugs and three medical devices approved or rejected since March. Teerapat Seedafong/EyeEm/Getty Images hide caption
Although Gray will finally go home to Forest, Miss., she will return to Nashville once a month for four months to undergo blood tests and a bone marrow biopsy. But, she says, the hardest part is over. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption
A Patient Hopes Gene-Editing Can Help With Pain Of Sickle Cell Disease
Grandmother Maria Jose holds her twin granddaughters Heloisa (right) and Heloa Barbosa, both born with microcephaly, during their one-year birthday party on April 16, 2017, in Areia, Paraiba state, Brazil. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Depression symptoms dropped significantly in a group of young adults who ate a Mediterranean-style diet for three weeks. It's the latest study to show that food can influence mental health. Claudia Totir/Getty Images hide caption
A flood-prone area of Houston where houses have been bought out with help from the federal government is now an empty field. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
The 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Akira Yoshino (left), M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Dmitry Lovetsky; Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University; The University of Texas at Austin via AP hide caption
An artist's impression shows the planet 51 Pegasi b. Discovered in 1995, it was the first planet ever found orbiting a sunlike star outside our solar system. ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger hide caption
An app uses a smartphone camera to detect leukocoria, a pale reflection from the back of the eye. It can be an early sign of disease. Here it appears light brown compared the healthy eye. Munson et al., Sci. Adv. 2019; 5 eaax 6363 hide caption
Screaming Into The Void: How Outrage Is Hijacking Our Culture, And Our Minds
The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine are Gregg Semenza of the U.S., Peter Ratcliffe of Britain and William Kaelin of the U.S. They're seen here on a screen during a news conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Short Wave, NPR's new daily science podcast, starts October 15th. NPR hide caption
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The parts of the scroll were scanned using shortwave-infrared hyperspectral imaging. A. Tournié, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation hide caption