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PRI's The World
July 27, 2017
Britain said Wednesday it will outlaw the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans from 2040 in a bid to cut air pollution but environmental groups said the proposals did not go far enough.
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PRI's The World
July 27, 2017
An archivist found more than 2,000 notebooks left behind in Harvard University storage for 50 years. Now, she’s working to make sure the notebooks from Harvard’s first women astronomers are available to the world.
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The Conversation
July 26, 2017
Researchers at the University of Western Australia have developed non-invasive means for measuring stress and mood in animals and are now working with sheep farmers to improve the well-being of their animals. PTSD has been identified in elephants, dogs, chimpanzees and baboons, for example.
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Science Friday
July 25, 2017
The concrete in ancient Roman harbors has grown stronger over time — the result, scientists now say, of complex interactions between seawater and volcanic ash in the mortar.
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Living on Earth
July 24, 2017
Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” arrived in the US in 1860, as the slavery debate raged and Civil War loomed. Its ideas were instantly absorbed into those discussions.
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Living on Earth
July 23, 2017
According to a study published in the journal Science, global warming will devastate the economy in parts of the US in years ahead, if temperatures are allowed to rise unabated.
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This Muslim purge in Myanmar is so awful you can see it from space
GlobalPost
November 15, 2016
Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames.
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Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren't the same thing
The Takeaway
September 18, 2014
If you've given up on reading paper books for the ease of your e-reader's screen, you may want to step back a bit. Neuroscience confirms that our brains use different areas to read on paper and screens, and you need to exercise both.
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New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants
Science Friday
January 10, 2014
Plants have senses that put humans to shame. Not only do they hear (yes, it's true) and smell, they can also sense the presence of water, and even an object in their space. Now new research suggests that plants can actually learn and remember.
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El Niño is back, and global temperature records are in danger
PRI's The World
May 13, 2015
Updated
El Niño is back. That could mean trouble for crops from Africa to Australia, drought relief for Brazil and California — and new record global temperatures as the Pacific Ocean warms up and brings the heat along with it.
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Seeking the long-lost 'City of the Monkey God' in dense Honduras jungle
PRI's The World
January 04, 2017
A new book tells the story of the treacherous scientific expedition that re-discovered a lost civilization.
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One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is 'totally speechless' over the push to limit immigration
PRI's The World
October 11, 2016
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart won a Nobel Prize in chemistry this year. Like the five others who won in the US, he is an immigrant.
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Here’s why new EPA chief Pruitt is ‘absolutely wrong’ about CO2 and climate change
PRI's The World
March 12, 2017
Scott Pruitt says there's no proof that carbon dioxide pollution is causing the Earth to heat up. Well-established science — and a scientist who's a fellow Republican — says that's flat-out wrong.
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Welcome to the 'Double El Niño' — and more extreme weather
Living on Earth
March 22, 2015
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A second helping of El Niño could help usher in the next phase of global warming. When it comes, the consequences could be devastating.
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Are we witnessing the death of 'uh'? Um, maybe — and not just in English
The World in Words
February 05, 2015
We humans have been dropping "um," "uh" and other expressions of hesitation into our speech for a long time — maybe for as long as we've had language. More recently, linguists are noting a shift in usage across a number of Germanic languages from "uh" to "um."
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