Science, Tech & Environment
Science Friday
August 27, 2016
Scientists have used the Standard Model of particle physics since the 1970s. The model has explained and predicted many properties of our universe. But scientists know other particles exist that will fill in the gaps in our current understanding. Finding them is one of the great challenges of this century.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
$2750 a month for every adult, guaranteed? Switzerland's considering it
PRI's The World
October 14, 2013
Adults in Switzerland could be in for a windfall, under a proposal set for a national referendum. The government would provide every adult $2,750 a month, every month, in what's known as a "basic income." One economist says it's not as whacky as it may seem to us.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Swiss voters reject a plan to give everyone a guaranteed basic income
PRI's The World
May 23, 2016
Updated
The plan would have given every adult citizen $2,600 per month. For free. Voters questioned how exactly it would be paid for and implemented.
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Health & Medicine
Historical photos circulating depict women medical pioneers
PRI's The World
July 15, 2013
A photo of three pioneering women doctors has been circulating in social media -- but they're not wearing white lab coats. They're wearing culturally significant dress and they represent the first women doctors from their countries, back in the 1800s.
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Science, Tech & Environment
The future of agriculture may be too small to see. Think microbes
PRI's The World
July 02, 2014
Climate change is going to throw a host of new problems at agriculture. Now some researchers say one of the solutions to these problems is microbes. In particular, fungi.
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Arts, Culture & Media
The life and work of surrealist genius, H.R.Giger
PRI's The World
May 13, 2014
Surrealist artist H.R. Giger has died after a fall in his home. Giger was an inspiration to a generation of artists, writers and movie-makers. He was the guy who drew the face-sucking space parasite, Alien.
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Politics
As gun control debate rages, Switzerland offers interesting correlation -- but is it real?
PRI's The World
January 31, 2013
Switzerland is often held up by gun rights advocates as a model of what the United States could be with the right gun laws. But many in Switzerland say, not so fast. They point to already tightened restrictions and a, crucially, a healthcare safety net that lets fewer people go witout treatment.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Should we use art or science to explore the origins of the universe?
Studio 360
December 26, 2015
Thousands of scientists and engineers are hard at work at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, trying to discover the origins of the universe. Lately, however, a few teams of artists have joined them in their work.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Man attempts to cross the Alps wearing prosthetic hooves
PRI's The World
February 25, 2016
Artists sometimes come up with the darnedest ideas. Thomas Thwaites is a case in point. Thwaites is a 34-year-old artist from London who decided he wanted to experience what it's like to live life as an animal.
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Science, Tech & Environment
In physics, failure brings almost as much excitement as success
Science Friday
August 27, 2016
Scientists have used the Standard Model of particle physics since the 1970s. The model has explained and predicted many properties of our universe. But scientists know other particles exist that will fill in the gaps in our current understanding. Finding them is one of the great challenges of this century.
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Arts, Culture & Media
A muralist is painting weeds to represent the margins of society
PRI's The World
August 31, 2016
"I don’t paint dainty little grandmotherly botanical illustrations."