Traci Watson
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Traci spent 15 years at USA Today covering space, science, health and environmental issues.
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(March 17) -- If you have a basenji, Chinese shar-pei or chow chow snoozing at your feet, you'd better pamper your pet. You're living with blue-blooded canine royalty. Those three are among the most ...
Full Story »Obama May Need Heat Shield at Space Summit
(March 9) -- Tax Day may seem an odd choice to kick off a campaign for controversial changes to NASA that will require billions of taxpayer dollars, but that's the date the White House has in mind. T ...
Full Story »'Dream Team' Agrees Huge Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs
(March 4) -- For decades, scientists have debated exactly what kind of cataclysm was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Did a giant rock from outer space blast T. rex and his ilk off th ...
Full Story »Astronauts Face New Frontier: Unemployment
(Feb. 26) -- For 40 years, the American astronaut has been an icon of bravery and derring-do. But could these elite fliers be about to get their pink slips? Under a proposal by President Barack Obama ...
Full Story »Can't Place the Face? Maybe It's Your Genes
(Feb. 23) -- A guest at a party taps your shoulder and says, "Remember me?" If you don't, just blame it on your genes. New research shows that the ability to recognize faces is strongly genetic, mean ...
Full Story »Is Space Station Worth America's Billions?
(Feb. 19) -- Circling overhead is a laboratory in space that has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $50 billion over the past 16 years without producing any blockbuster scientific results. Now the White Hous ...
Full Story »Obama's Call to Endeavour Astronauts Gets Awkward
(Feb. 18) -- Astronauts flying in space are used to VIP phone calls that don't always go as scripted, but Wednesday's conversation was probably one of the most awkward. President Barack Obama used h ...
Full Story »New Tobacco Danger: 'Third-Hand Smoke'
(Feb. 8) -- Here's yet another reason to book a nonsmoking hotel room. Scientists have long known that the residue from cigarette smoke clings to surfaces for weeks and even months. Now there is new ...
Full Story »Too Many Deer? Call in the Wolves, Scientists Say
(Feb. 1) – Scientists are calling for a formidable new cadre of pest exterminators to prowl America's national parks: wolves. A coalition of researchers has proposed trucking wolves into parks ...
Full Story »Obama Mulls Outsourcing NASA's Next-Gen Shuttle
(Jan. 21) -- President Barack Obama will soon have to make the ultimate outsourcing decision: Should NASA farm out the job of carrying astronauts to space? Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, U.S ...
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