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Hearing the Aesthetic It's all about the visual this week. Stories include the examinations of both dust and ancient dung fungus, salvaging Hubble and a restoration of eyesight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Major Revisions The EPA studies the Chesapeake Bay water and makes moves to better manage the U.S.'s largest estuary. Also one new study shines light on why some people just can't loss weight, while another suggests that children with Autism may also suffer from poor motor skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ice Heats Up and Leaves Fall Down A baby's cry reveals the language of their parents, NASA takes pictures of melting ice, the pig genome gets sequenced, and who leaves fall off trees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carbon, You Are My Shinning Star Carbon is this week's star at the Science Desk. Congress evaluates both the pros and cons concerning planting forests to remove carbon dioxide, and trys to quantify the carbon dioxide a car produces when running on biofuels; plus the taste of carbonation is revealed. Also, the desk explores why musicians hear better and samples some wild cricket sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accolades and Millstones NASA makes a big mess on the moon, NPR tracks down this year's Medicine or Physiology and Physics Nobel winners, and decomposition never felt so good. Oh yeah, that's science baby... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frogs Find Love and Other Modern Marvels NASA orchestrates a major collusion on the Moon, neuroscientists find that it takes the human brain about half a second to process speech, some Australian frogs' mating calls jump a few octaves higher, and cap-and-trade may not be the perfect answer to regulating greenhouse gas emissions after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frogs Find Love and Other Modern Marvels NASA orchestrates a major collusion on the Moon, neuroscientists find that it takes the human brain about half a second to process speech, some Australian frogs' mating calls jump a few octaves higher, and cap-and-trade may not be the perfect answer to regulating greenhouse gas emissions after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accolades and Millstones NASA makes a big mess on the moon, NPR tracks down this year's Medicine or Physiology and Physics Nobel winners, and decomposition never felt so good. Oh yeah, that's science baby... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As the World Turns Causes behind this week's geologic tragedies are investigated. Also, NASA needs a plutonium fix, the hominid family tree finds a long lost relative, and some fun bird noises during intimate moments. NPR's Science Desk delivers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As the World Turns Causes behind this week's geologic tragedies are investigated. Also, NASA needs a plutonium fix, the hominid family tree finds a long lost relative, and some fun bird noises during some intimate moments. NPR's Science Desk delivers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Forward, Looking Back Despite its urgency, climate diplomacy is slow going in New York at the UN. Thanks to growing global demand for refrigerators and air conditioners HFC's, a low profile greenhouse gas, may soon be causing large problems for the atmosphere. Three new studies show that the Moon is covered with a very thin film of water and another new discovery in China of a mini T-Rex, called Raptorex, reveals information about the famous dinosaur's evolutionary history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Problems Solved In Unexpected Ways A proposal for NASA regarding a nautical mission to sail the super cold nitrogen seas of Saturn's moon of Titan surfaces; a surprising new study claims to have cured color blindness in mature male squirrel monkeys shocks the neuroscience community, one researcher attempts to predict disastrous tipping points, and DNA cracks down on illegal poaching by testing fancy boats and hunks of meat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Travel and Ancient Threads This week NPR's science desk explores Hubble's future and views pictures from space. Ancient Georgian textiles are uncovered, Congress tries to bury carbon and the kilogram is reweighed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Written For Monkeys Strikes A Chord Stories in this episode: 1) Some scientists think no-till farming may not contain carbon better than conventional farming. 2) Music can alter our emotions, and a new study shows that it can move monkeys, too. 3) Scientists have big hopes for tiny lasers. 4) Babies and dogs make the same classic mistake: A new study reveals a link between the way dogs and infants think. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Shaggy Dog Story This week science reporters Richard Harris and Chris Joyce bring us stories of recent advancements in the genetics of both human diseases and dog's shaggy coats. We also hear about new data on the neccessary evil of agriculture: nitrous oxide. Listen to find out what laughing gas has to do with our increasingly flimsy ozone layer and why the kilogram has a weight problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Super Rice' and Unicorn Tricksters of the Sea Boots sloshing through rice fields in Bengladesh, California sea lions jostling on California harbors, and the splish-splashing of the elusive Narwhal...just some of the sounds in this week's podcast. You'll also hear about one strategy to feed a planet of 9 billion people, and how scientists recently transformed bacteria into a completely different species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Cave Dwellers to Flying Scientists This week it's been all about human successes and setbacks. We've learned that humans discovered the power of fire earlier than we thought, but that a mission to Mars isn't exactly in our stars. We've built science laboratories in airplanes, but that won't help us save the corals in the seas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colliders, Clunkers And Chimps, Oh My The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is on course to start up again in November after being broken down for a year. The "cash for clunkers" program may not be as environmentally beneficial as it seems. And scientists have found genetic evidence that a deadly form of malaria may have jumped from chimps to humans relatively recently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jellyfish Motion Mixing The Ocean While many world fisheries seem doomed to extinction, some fisheries are rebounding thanks to strict fishing laws. You'll hear one fish bring the ocean to life with its growls, hums and grunts. Some swimming marine life, including jellyfish, may affect climate change by stirring up ocean water. Meanwhile, climate change may be causing more frequent deadly rain-on-snow events that starve large arctic animals like oxen and reindeer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA: From Space Race To The Future On the 40th anniversary of the first voyage to the moon, we look at NASA, then and now. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin recall their historic moon walk and talk about the excitement surrounding their flight. These days, NASA wants to go to the moon again, this time with different motivations. But some say we should head for new destinations instead of going back to the moon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aerial Wars: Moths Click To Evade Bat Sonar The toucan's beak isn't just an attractive ornament, it cools the bird down. Of course, humans cool themselves a different way - and can withstand higher temperatures than you would think. Timing is everything for a flock of migratory birds that swoop in and feed on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware. But climate change may be shifting the tight calendar that nature has set up for the birds. And a moth species has evolved to outsmart bats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alien Stowaways And Moonlight Love Scientists say that horses are running faster these days because jockeys make themselves light as air. Horseshoe crabs gather by the thousands at high tide to spawn under the full moon. Organisms transported in a ship's ballast water may become invasive species in other waters. And, despite loosened federal regulations, scientists still can't use federal dollars to create new stem cells lines, leaving the expensive task up to the private sector or states. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robot Lawn Mowers and Dubious Brain Images Brain images may not tell us as much as we think they do. If your teenager won't mow the lawn, a robot will do the job. Obama's new stem cell rules will give scientists more freedom to do their research. Climate change was the subject of both the international climate talks at the G8 Summit in Italy and US Senate hearings this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Bones and Dinosaur Skin Scientists discover a rare dinosaur fossil with its skin intact. Genomic testing suggests the immune system plays a role in schizophrenia. A body farm uses donated human bodies to educate students in forensics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doesn't Your River Burn? Scientists may have found water on one of Saturn's moons. A river that was once so polluted it caught on fire is now all cleaned up. A California think tank says global warming will get more buy-in if people think of it as an economic opportunity. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world's oldest instrument, a 40,000 year-old flute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monkey Giggles, Math Marvels and more... NASA's lunar mission takes off to map the moon's surface and search for water. Mathematicians find a new prime number that is nearly 13 million digits long and the search continues. Scientists debate whether shading the earth would counteract global warming. A new government energy plan would affect everything from the car you drive to the light bulbs you use. Do we share laughter with primates and other animals? Listen to laughing bonobos, chimps and babies and decide for yourself! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Rover That Got Stuck on Mars Hubble - past, present and future. Plus, the Mars Rover that got stuck, well, on Mars. Are Phtalates in plastic tubing harming babies in the NICU? It's incredibly difficult to figure out. Jon Hamilton explains why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prehistoric Porn? You Decide ... One thing science agrees on - global warming will eventually cause the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to melt. But how will that affect ocean levels? A lot or ..... nearly a lot? Capitol Hill grapples with climate change legislation and is she porn or is she art or is she just? The intriguing discovery of the oldest representation of a human is very VERY female. So what does it all mean? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Gallimaufry of Grid, Grippe and Groove The genetic origins of the H1N1 'swine' flu. And why DO those initial disease outbreaks, think SARS and West Nile Virus, scare the 'H—L' out of us? We'll talk about the quirks of epidemiology. And dancing animals, who knew? Actually, those of us with pets already did know but Nell Greenfield Boyce has a wonderful story and great music. Plus, The GRID, The GRID .. the complications of making it green. Chris Joyce does NOT hold back on this one. Check it out. (Oh, forgot to mention, y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some Answers To Swine Flu Questions Just how dangerous is swine flu? What would going to a WHO pandemic level 6 really mean? Why is flu seasonal? NPR's Joe Neel and Richard Knox answer these listener & reader submitted questions and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swine Flu Special Update Science and Health Desk editors and reporters discuss the week's events surrounding the swine flu/2009 H1N1 outbreak. They discuss the timeline of events, the status of vaccines, what the WHO Phase 5 designation means. tags: influenza, h1n1, medicine, health, pandemic, outbreak, vaccine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Swine Flu Special NPR Health and Science editors and reporters discuss Swine Flu events of the last 9 days. What do we really know about this flu strain and what are some of the important questions yet to be answered? If this outbreak becomes a pandemic, will it be as deadly as previous pandemics. And what's the best 20 second song to sing while you're washing your hands? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bovine Essence and Global Warming on Capitol Hill The bovine genome has been completed and Jon Hamilton tells us all about it. Chris Joyce discusses climate change legislation hearings on the hill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Slippery Decks Meet Seedballs Joe Palca reports on the impact of climate change on trees. Researchers are worrying they coudl dry up. Biosphere 2 - where is it today? The principle that dictates what chemicals are approved and which aren't and is that science? Technologies ship crews can use to protect themselves against pirates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prime Search And Shakespeare In search of next world's largest prime numbers, genetically engineered batteries, and was Shakespeare wrong? Through Juliet's lips, Shakespeare said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But the Bard may have been wrong - names do matter. Language researchers say how sweet the rose does depend on what you call it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Willpower And Good Fat, Brown Fat We all have habits, the question is do you have the willpower to sustain the good ones and resist bad ones. And the discovery of a good type of fat in our bodies. Also, we revisit a story about HIV from 25 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radioactive Hearts and the Ambiguity of Death Scientists have always believed heart cells cannot regenerate. Take all that scar tissue that remains following heart attacks. But some very clever scientific probing has found out otherwise. Also, pthalates. Were they banned from children's toys for scientific or political reasons? And, believe it or not but size does matter - when it comes to the larynx of the Hammerhead Bat, that is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A City of Fishes Chris Joyce reports on an amazing discovery of enormous numbers of herring beneath the ocean using sonar. Space tourist Charles Simonyi and a one of a kind discovery in the nubian desert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Cows Under Power Lines Still Face North? Why do cows tend to face north and then what happens when they stand underneath power lines? The affect of magnetism on animals. Also, new research on melting ice in Antarctica and what that means for coastal cities. Dinos with Feathers? Joe Palca is highly skeptical.. That and more .. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Brain (And God) How the brain perceives "God" in both believers and non believers. What is the root of our susceptibility to disease? For decades the infectious germ was thought to the be the culprit. Now, genetics seems to be playing a role as well. The grid - what Washington wants to do about it. And Yucca Mountain - yes, we're still talking about Yucca Mountain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eyes in the Skies and Drying up Rainforests The supply of US satellites that provide data on climate change is flagging. Drought in the Amazon impacts the rainforests usefulness in soaking up carbon dioxide and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. A look at PGD and how families use it who worry about their children inheriting genetic diseases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Standing Inside the Oldest Footprint Chris Joyce reports on a million plus year old human footprint discovered in Kenya. Joe Palca discusses the science behind detecting aging suspension bridges and Jon Hamilton reports on the striking similiarities between Mad Cow disease and Alzheimers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin and the Brain Jon Hamilton reports on scientists different views on what the brain and the mind tell us about the existence of a higher power. Also, Liane Hansen travels to Kansas to learn how science students reconcile their views on faith and natural selection. And the amazing vocalizations of hyenas.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neanderthal Genome and Darwin's 200th Neanderthal Genome close to being completed. An astronauts video satirizes the space agency's bureaucracy, Charles Darwin turned 200 this past week - Joe Palca visits England where the celebration is, well, a big deal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E-normous Ancient Snakes and E-volution! Science editor Alison Richards joins the podcasting team this week to discuss enormous ancient snakes and an ever changing climate (oh and of course Charles Darwin - his birthday is coming up). Plus, a bit on the brain and how it perceives color and Robert Krulwich on the color of one's skin... how long have you had that tan? Apparently only a couple hundred generations! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Green Green But is it Too Late? Richard Harris reports on a study showing that climate change is irreversible. The new president's green jobs push and the passionate search for killer whales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Green Inauguration Ball and Antarctica warming Green Inauguration Ball, warming in Antarctica, the anniversary of the pheromone and getting ready for the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Green Inauguration Ball and Antarctica warming A Green Inauguration Ball, warming in Antarctica, the anniversary of the pheromone and getting ready for the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China's Electric Car and Steven Chu - Obama's Pick for Energy Secretary Jon Hamilton and Chris Joyce discuss Steven Chu - Obama's pick for Energy Secretary. Chu, along with Obama's other cabinet choices, will likely signal a change in attitude toward climate, environment and energy. Jon Hamilton reports on a program designed to teach autistic children social skills and pink iguanas in the Galapagos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lazy Eyes and Mosquitoes in Love Chris Joyce and Joe Palca discuss amblyopia - a condition known as lazy eye. We'll hear Chris's story on singing mosquitoes. Richard Harris reports on the fishing industry in California. And "who let the frogs out?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corals Suffer and A Blind Man Sees Richard Harris reports on new research showing the impact of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on coral reefs. Joe Palca tells the story of a blind man who can see. Brigid McCarthy explains why adults can learn to play an instrument just as easily as children - if they'd only put their minds to it. And one man in LA who held onto his trash for an entire year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earthquakes, Eggs and Nothing Geologists predict another big earthquake within the decade, Joe Palca reports on 'nothing', Chris Joyce and Joe Palca chat about social marketing and green buying and Robert Krulwich reports on essays written by MIT students about when they first began to think like a scientist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Dogs Get Jealous? Elephant Life span shorter in Zoos Nell Greenfield Boyce reports on a study of dogs and a sense of fair play and jealousy, Joe Palca reports on a study showing that elephants in zoos don't live as long as elephants in the wild. A man known only as H.M. died this past week. We'll learn why he was so important to the world of brain science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Dogs Get Jealous? Elephants Live Shorter Lives in Zoos Jealousy and Fair Play in Dogs, Elephants and Live Shorter Lives in Zoos, H.M. - the man with no memory died this past week, The Day The Earth Stood Still Goes Intergalactic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Woolly Mammoths and Flushing Toilets: Chris Joyce Muses Joe Palca reports on what scientists have learned from the DNA from fossilizied Woolly Mammoth hair. Chris Joyce takes us to the birthplace of the flushing toilet. Nell Boyce reports on the 'flexetarian'. Richard Harris discusses the impact of too much carbon dioxide on the planet's oceans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Phoenix Mars Probe NPR's Joe Palca reports on the Phoenix Mars probe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science for September 12, 2008 Stories 1) Robert Krulwich and America's Baldness Gap 2) Musical Interlude from Danny Kaye 3) Joe Palca and the Hand Gene 4) Richard Harris from the NPR Archives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science for September 5, 2008 Stories: 1) Ear Wax 2)The Monogamy Gene 3)Flying into a Hurricane Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR_On_Science_for_August_29,_2008 Stories: 1. Cows Point North or South from Nell Greenfieldboyce 2. Bigfoot! from Scott Simon 3. The Smell of Fear from Christopher Joyce Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science for August 15, 2008 Stories: The World's Smallest Snake from Nell Greenfield Boyce, Unexpected Discovery of Gorilla Population from John Nielsen, Genetically Engineered Corn in Honduras from Dan Charles, Chinese Organic Farm from Melissa Block Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science for August 7, 2008 Robert Krulwich/Mosquitoes Richard Harris/Home Energy Savings Joe Palca/Amblyiopia Joe Palca/Mars Update Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science for August 7, 2008 Robert Krulwich/Mosquitoes Richard Harris/Home Energy Savings Joe Palca/Amblyiopia Joe Palca/Mars Update Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science_May 6, 2008 NPR On Science: 1) Chemical Compass In Bird Brains? 2) Cloud Computing 3) Fungus Threatens Wheaties 4) Solving Climate Change With Beavers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science_April 11, 2008 NPR On Science: 1) Ukrainian Pop Star Pushes Climate Solutions 2) California Engineer Builds Plug-in Hybrid 3) Scientists Find Bacteria That Eat Antibiotics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR On Science_April 11, 2008 NPR On Science: 1) Ukrainian Pop Star Pushes Climate Solutions 2) California Engineer Builds Plug-in Hybrid 3) Scientists Find Bacteria That Eat Antibiotics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 04-13-2008 Health Stories: 1) Robots, Real and Fictional, Honored at Hall of Fame 2) Fur Seals' Decline Puzzles Aleuts, Scientists 3) A Simple Formula for Whitening Your Teeth 4) In 'Bonk,' Mary Roach Explores Science of Sex 5) Wind Farm Buffets Family, Town Relations 6) Proposal Favoring SCHIP's Poorest Kids Criticized Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 04-07-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Studying Regeneration for New Limbs, Organs 2) Study: Apple Logo Stimulates the Brain 3) Treating the Ails of Musicians 4) The Erotic Lives of Octopuses 5) Fossilized Feces Tell Tale of Earliest Americans 6) Michigan Schools Embrace Wind Power, Biodiesel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-30-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) The Pioneer Who Died for the South Pole 2) Wading Through an Endangered Species Backlog 3) The Young Genius Behind BitTorrent 4) An Opera Singer's Advice for Saving Your Voice 5) Beyond Recycling: Getting to 'Zero Waste' 6) U.S. Gives Nuclear Power a Second Look Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-23-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Study: Jazz Improv Cranks Up Brain's Creativity 2) Blossoms Springing Forward Earlier, Too 3) Math Major Explains Method to March Madness 4) New Tool Reassesses Osteoporosis Risk 5) Ob/Gyn Group: New Ethics Standards Misinterpreted 6) Doctors' 'Treat the Numbers' Approach Challenged Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-16-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise in China 2) Doctor Blogs Raise Concerns About Patient Privacy 3) Fishing Ban Considered as Salmon Dwindle 4) The Push-up: A Fitting Fitness Test 5) Boomers Reluctant over Long-Term Care Insurance 6) Study: 25 Percent of Teens Have STDs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-09-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Naming Species Before They Disappear 2) Light May Be Connected to Breast Cancer 3) Outlook for Oceans Bleak as Sea 'Deserts' Grow 4) Study Tracks 'Daylight Saving' Energy Use 5) Case Stokes Debate About Autism, Vaccines 6) Grand Canyon Flush Aims to Revive Colorado River Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-02-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) An Upside to the Invasive Zebra Mussel? 2) Latinos' Job Fatality Rate Highest of All Workers 3) A Donkey's Tale: When Urban Sprawl Encroaches 4) Researchers Unlock Secret of How Bats Fly 5) Poll: Broad Support for Requiring Health Coverage 6) Creative Play Makes for Kids in Control Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-24-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Enjoying Kimchi in Space 2) Mastodons in Manhattan: A Botanical Puzzle 3) Scientists Create Coffee-Making Robot 4) Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills 5) Study: Stroke Risk Triples for Women Ages 35 to 54 6) Dissecting People's 'Predictably Irrational' Behavior Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-17-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Book Takes Wide-Angle View of a Changing Planet 2) Bush Visits Africa, Where Villages Fight Malaria 3) The Science of the Perfect Souffle 4) Baba Amte, India's Social and Medical Crusader 5) Medicare Trigger May Bring Political Headache 6) Scientists Map Ocean Damage Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-10-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Knee Brace Stores Residual Energy 2) Chicken Industry Clogging Chesapeake 3) Court Rejects Bush Policy on Mercury Emissions 4) Staring into Night: Satellite Spotters Watch Back 5) Study: Ethanol Worse for Climate Than Gasoline 6) Rehab Isn't What It Used to Be Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-03-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Accidental Discovery Could Treat Memory Disorders 2) Soldiers' Head Injuries May Contribute to PTSD 3) Double Dipping Spreads Germs 4) Saudi Arabia's New Hospital Nears Completion 5) Explorer 1, America's Answer to Sputnik 6) Making Sense Out of Mercury in Fish Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-27-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) World's Coral Reefs Face Renewed Threats 2) Calif. Court Rules Companies Can Fire Pot Users 3) Genetic First: Bacterium's Code Built from Scratch 4) Air Force Alters Texas UFO Explanation 5) Officials Urge More Adult Vaccinations 6) A Space Race for Paying Customers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-20-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Study: Are River Restoration Efforts Misguided? 2) Hearing a Smile in Tone of Voice 3) Survey: Kids Frown on Clowns 4) Survey: Fewer Abortions, More RU-486 Use in U.S. 5) New Images May Shed Light on Mercury's Mysteries 6) Does 'Superior Mirage' Explain Texas UFO Reports? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-13-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) Researchers Grow a Beating Heart 2) Untangling Knot Formation Critical to DNA 3) Gas Cloud Headed for Milky Way Collision 4) Separating Medical Truth from Fiction 5) In Battle of Elephants and Ants, Trees Win Big 6) Predicting Psychotic Disorders in Teens Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-06-2008 Health & Science Stories: 1) 'The Science of Leonardo' 2) Carbon Offsets: Government Warns of Fraud Risk 3) Walruses Move Ashore as Arctic Ice Retreats 4) Who Benefits from Doctors' Free Drug Samples? 5) Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect 6) Overdose Rescue Kits Save Lives Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-30-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) New Space Promotes Intersection of Art, Science 2) African Ivory Headed for One-Time Auction 3) Searching for Life in Greenland's Icy Interior 4) Asteroid May Cross Path of Red Planet 5) Stem Cell Debate Still Thorny Despite Progress 6) Washington OK'd for Needle-Exchange Programs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-09-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Doctor Saved Michigan $100 Million 2) Fatality Prompts Scrutiny of Police Tasers in Canada 3) Faulty Crib Case Highlights Problems with Recalls 4) Parents Seek Alternatives to Chinese Toys 5) 'Marketplace' Report: Climate Change Conference 6) Autism Study Lends Credence to 'Fever Effect' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 11-18-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Sleep -- or Lack of It -- Becomes Marketer's Dream 2) Making SUVs Run Cleaner, Farther on Biodiesel 3) Nobel-Winning Climate Panel Calls for Urgent Action 4) The 'Dirt on Clean' in an Oversanitized World 5) Are All Soaps Created Equal? 6) U.N. Science Panel Sees Faster Warming of Earth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 10-28-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Chunk of Famed Meteorite Goes to Auction 2) Scientists Examine Climate Change in Bible Tales 3) Budget Space Travel Just Around the Corner? 4) Navigating the Pacific's 'Garbage Patch' 5) Technology Increasingly Tames Wildfires 6) Baseball Humidor Aids Fair Play in Denver Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-19-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Voyagers' Records Wait for Alien Ears 2) Psychologists Scrap Ban on Aiding in Interrogations 3) Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life 4) Parched Spanish Coast Taps Sea Water for Growth 5) Climate Connections: Algeria vs. the Sahara 6) Why are Moths Attracted to Flame? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-12-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Tracing Human Migration Through DNA 2) The Sweet Smell of Rain 3) High Temperatures Hurt Air Quality 4) 'Marketplace' Report: Cigarette Taxes and Smoking 5) Are Generic Biotech Drugs Coming Soon? 6) Nagasaki Aftermath Haunts U.S. Veteran Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-05-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Children's Insurance Legislation Faces Critics, Veto 2) Stronger Wildfires Part of Emerging Global Pattern 3) Race Around the World for a Cause 4) 'Phoenix' Land Rover Set for Red Planet Exploration 5) Revisiting the South Korean Stem-Cell Claim 6) Inventor Soars with Experimental Blimp Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-29-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Is Ancient People's End a Warning for the Future? 2) Artist Records Glacier's Sounds from the Deep 3) Albert Ellis: Father of Cognitive Therapy 4) Astronauts' Behavior Prompts NASA Policy Debate 5) Mystery Ice Crashes into Iowa Woman's Home 6) Befuddling Birth: The Case of the Mule's Foal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-22-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Proposal Funds Child Health Care with Tobacco Tax 2) Summer Bounty Prompts Preservation Lesson 3) Hotter, Drier Climate Moves Up Sky Islands' Slopes 4) Researchers Solve Checkers, Once and for All 5) Underground Lakebed Sparks Hope for Darfur 6) Health Care Mediators Beset with Difficult Choices Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 06-17-2007 Health & Science Stories: 1) Heading for Hills May Be Only Option on Fiji 2) Australia's Camels Thrive on Climate Swings 3) Cute, Fuzzy Buffalo Can Be Deadly, Park Warns 4) Fiji's Mangroves, Coral Under Assault 5) Are Computer Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? 6) Genetic Analysis Helps Track TB Infection Chain Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Apr 01 2007 Stories: 1) Antelope Squirrels and Muskrat Love in the Spring 2) Ransom Myers Predicted the Future of Fish 3) States Take Lead in Funding Stem-Cell Research 4) Alarm Over Missing Bees Prompts House Hearing 5) Young Women Consider the HPV Vaccine 6) When Brain Shuts Down, Legs Kick into Overdrive Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health&Science for Sunday, Mar 04 2007 Stories: 1) Parenting Advice from a Polish Holocaust Hero 2) The Long History of the Lunar Eclipse 3) Dangerous Wasabi Tube Sequestered on ISS 4) Village by Village, Stamping Out Guinea Worm 5) How Multitasking Affects Human Learning 6) Finding the Beauty in'Skin: A Natural History' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health&Science for Sunday, Feb 25 2007 Stories: 1) Governors Take the Lead Where Congress Lags 2) Artists'Masks Hid Wounds of World War I Soldiers 3) H.M.'s Brain and the History of Memory 4) Arctic Team Studies Global Warming, Inuit Culture 5) African Chimps Seen Crafting Small Weapons 6) Study Casts Doubt on New World's First Settlers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Jan 14 2007 Stories: 1) House Passes Plan to Negotiate Drug Prices 2) Scientists Find New Source of Stem Cells 3) Getting a Charge Out of Manure and Seawater 4) Drug Similar to Botox May Help Writer's Cramp 5) Surprise in the Sky: A Newly Discovered Comet 6) House Approves an Increase in Stem-Cell Research Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Jan 07 2007 Stories: 1) Is Mild Winter a Sign of Climate Change? 2) Regulations Could Make Outdoor Furnaces Safer 3) Agriculture Department Probes Rice Flap 4) What's Up with Those Utility Poles? 5) How to Make a Diet Work 6) FDA Approves Weight-Loss Drug for Dogs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Dec 31 2006 Stories: 1) Smokeless Tobacco Stirs Health Debate 2) Living 'A Life in Smoke' 3) Science Finds One Use for Fruitcake: Blow It Up! 4) Midway, a Protected Area, Is Also Underfunded 5) FDA Declares Cloned Food to Be Safe for Humans 6) Is Cloning the Next Step in Cattle Development? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health&Science for Sunday, Dec 24 2006 Stories: 1) Healing the Physical and Spiritual Wounds of War 2) Fighting'Food Insecurity'in Cincinnati 3) Climate Change Said to Confuse Europe's Birds 4) A Komodo Dragon Christmas Miracle? 5) Optical Illusion: Car Wheels Going'Round 6) Dispute over Mental Competency Blocks Transplant Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health&Science for Sunday, Dec 17 2006 Stories: 1) The Science Behind Making Moral Decisions 2) Comparing Mars and Venus in Neuroscience 3) Why Do Men Have Deeper Voices than Women? 4) FDA to Leave Antibiotic Ketek on the Market 5) When It Comes to the Spacewalk, Size Matters 6) Study Notes 2003 Drop in Breast Cancer Cases Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Nov 12 2006 Stories: 1) Older Malaria Drug Regains Effectiveness 2) Does a Bit of Steel Get Rid of That Garlic Smell? 3) String Theory and Other Timeless Notions 4) In Stem-Cell Transplants, Timing Is Everything 5) New Congress Gives Hope to Environmentalists 6) How the Brain Tames the Eyes' Wild Motions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Oct 08 2006 Stories: 1) American Geeks Outperforming Jocks This Year 2) Burundi's Free Health Care Saves Lives, Faces Fight 3) Scientists Propose Looking for Big Bang Messages 4) Theory and Observation Move Cosmology Forward 5) U.S. Easing Prescription Drug Border Checks 6) Company Makes Millions Selling the Moon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, Aug 13 2006 Stories: 1) The Stigma of AIDS Poses a Health Risk 2) Access to HIV Drug Therapies Remains Limited 3) A Bioethicist Takes a Peek at 'Body Worlds' 4) Origins of Exhibited Cadavers Questioned 5) BP Weighs Answers to Alaskan Pipeline Corrosion 6) It's Hard to Spot a Liquid Threat to Airline Safety Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Health & Science for Sunday, 30 Jul 2006 Stories: 1) Mathematician May Have Solved 100-Year-Old Problem 2) Justice Dept. 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