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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Chilling Video Of Challenger Disaster Unearthed Rare home video footage of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle tragedy has been uncovered. Originally shot by Steven Virostek, the video has been made available online exclusively to The Huffington Post. Click the link above to watch and read more. WATCH: What Science Says About Prayer LOOK: Coolest Images From Hubble Telescope THIS WEEKEND: See 'Supermoon' In Night Sky Mankind's Remotest Relative? BLOG POSTS Dr. Marty Klein: Want to Undermine Science in Public Policy? Start With Sex The facts about sexuality should not be trivialized into a matter of opinion. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but everyone is NOT entitled to their own facts. Matthew Hutson: Teddy Bears Make You Friendlier -- and Maybe Healthier Given that isolation increases stress and cortisol production, and that petting dogs reduces blood pressure, the researchers suggest that touching a teddy bear might make you not just happier and nicer but healthier too. Howard Steven Friedman: NASA Simply Stopped Being a Priority Will we look back and ask ourselves whether the decision to abandon space was a wise decision? Or will historians look back and identify this decision as a textbook example of when America sacrificed long-term strategic goals for short-term interests. Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH: How to Tame Wild Sperm I whacked sperm the other day. In a scientific sort of way. I was in an embryology lab using a microscope to spot them and a skinny pipette to bop them on their heads. My job: to stop a few sperm in their tracks as if I were a real embryologist capturing one and cramming it into an egg. James M. Gentile: Basic Scientific Research and Its Transformational Potential As our nation's leadership in scientific and technological innovation is challenged as never before, federal funding of basic scientific research remains essential, but that research should be potentially transformational.

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