Making the power grid 'smart' could save us all money and prevent blackouts. Chattanooga made the $280 million investment.

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Let's get smart about our power grid.

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A young Duke professor won $250,000 for her algorithms that could find symptoms of heart disease when they start

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Amanda Randles, a professor of biomedical sciences at Duke University, won the Association for Computing Machinery's $250,000 Prize in Computing.

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This $119 houseplant is bioengineered to remove harmful air pollution in your home.

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Billions of pollution-eating bacteria thrive around the roots of Neo Px, the first houseplant bioengineered to reduce indoor air pollution.

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The $6 billion project to power 1 million NY homes with clean energy is the first of its kind

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Hydroelectric power from Canada could soon power a million homes in New York City via the CHPE transmission line.

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See the $36 billion Great Green Wall in Africa that's an attempt to hold back desertification

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Since 2007, a variety of projects have started as part of the Great Green Wall, including growing gardens in Senegal.

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See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found

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Located in Los Angeles, the La Brea tar pits are a piece of the ancient past stretching back 50,000 years.

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Bird flu particles were found in pasteurized milk. A former surgeon general says he isn't changing what he eats.

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Driver Tony Kanaan of Brazil takes the traditional drink of milk after winning the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again.

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Scientists collect organic material from a dead porpoise on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, during a bird flu outbreak in São José do Norte, Brazil.

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NASA video shows the sun just blasted out 4 eruptions at the same time. The rare event may have sent plasma hurtling toward Earth.

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Eruptions appeared in four spots on the sun at the same time.

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America generates 40 million tons of plastic waste a year — and it can't be recycled

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Americans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere.

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