- BreakingCountries Struggle To Agree On Rules For Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
As a major climate conference nears its end in Poland, negotiators are still haggling over the rules nations must follow in order to meet their commitments to reduce greenhouse gases.
- 10 hours ago, 14 Dec 18, 10:05pm - - Scientists Are Fighting For The Stricken Pickle Against This Tricky Disease
Downy mildew, once just a nuisance, has evolved into a devastating adversary to the pickle, as it now quickly adapts to fungicides and pickle hybrids, and can lay waste to crops in a matter of days.
- 19 hours ago, 14 Dec 18, 1:02pm - - Yum and Yuck: The Psychology Of What We Eat...And What We Spit Out
This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we dig into the culture and psychology that determines the foods that make us salivate and the scents that make us squirm.
- 1 day ago, 13 Dec 18, 10:00pm - - Scientists Say Gene-Edited Babies Claim Is 'Wake-Up Call' For World
U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Academy of Sciences call for international gene-editing standards. Critics blast statement as inadequate.
- 2 days ago, 13 Dec 18, 7:02pm - - After Another Deadly Disaster, A Call To Hit The Pause Button On Rebuilding
Scientists say too often after deadly natural disasters, like the recent wildfires in California, there is a rush to rebuild, but not always smartly.
- 2 days ago, 13 Dec 18, 10:00am - - Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses
When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.
- 2 days ago, 13 Dec 18, 12:16am - - Arctic Report Card Documents 'Cascading Effects' Of Warming Ocean Temperatures
The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the "most unprecedented transition in history" in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.
- 2 days ago, 12 Dec 18, 9:28pm - - What's Wrong With The Argument 'The Climate Is Always Changing'
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with climate scientist Stephanie Herring about why the argument "the climate is always changing" is problematic in explaining the temperature changes around the world today.
- 2 days ago, 12 Dec 18, 9:23pm - - Mayors And Governors Rebut Trump Administration Position At Climate Summit
Federal officials at the U.N. climate meeting are ignoring climate science and touting coal and fossil fuels. But local and state authorities pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own.
- 3 days ago, 12 Dec 18, 3:50pm - - VIDEO: Cosmonauts Slice Spacecraft For Clues To Cause Of Mysterious Hole
A small hole in spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has sparked an investigation into its origin. Cosmonauts spent hours on a spacewalk to gather samples in hopes of determining its cause.
- 3 days ago, 12 Dec 18, 10:24am - - Advanced DNA Technology May Help To Identify Korean War Unknowns
The Pentagon is exhuming all of the more than 650 Korean War unknowns in a Honolulu military cemetery. Advances in DNA technology and other forensics make their identification highly likely.
- 3 days ago, 12 Dec 18, 10:18am - - Mystery Blast Sank The USS San Diego in 1918. New Report Reveals What Happened
A team of researchers had been trying to determine whether the armored cruiser was lost to sabotage, an accident or an attack.
- 3 days ago, 11 Dec 18, 9:35pm - - Miracle On Your Street: How The Post Office Handles Holidays
Is the USPS headed for a revamp?
- 4 days ago, 11 Dec 18, 3:06pm - - U.N. Climate Change Summit Enters Crucial Final Week
World leaders are gathered in Poland this week to discuss climate change. The U.S. hosted a meeting on coal, a highly polluting fuel, that many developing nations depend on.
- 4 days ago, 11 Dec 18, 10:05am - - How I Made It: The Professor From the Pueblo, Rodrigo Bañuelos
Latino USA catches up with Rodrigo Bañuelos at the Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.
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