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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Robert Gidney wipes away sweat while working in Palisades Interstate Park in Ft. Lee, N.J., Monday, July 2, 2018. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Hot, humid summer of discontent comes to an end

The summer of 2018 will be remembered as one of the hottest ever in New Jersey.

8 years ago

Immature human eggs (pink) were created by Japanese researchers using stem cells that were derived from blood cells. (Saitou Lab)
NPR
Biology
Innovation
International

Scientists create immature human eggs from stem cells

A team of Japanese scientists turned human blood cells into stem cells, which they then transformed into very immature human eggs.

8 years ago

Dessa went looking for the source of love in her brain, and then turned to the frontiers of neuroscience to try and heal a broken heart. (NPR's Skunk Bear YouTube)
NPR
Behavioral Health
Sex & Relationships

This rapper tried to use neuroscience to get over her ex

Clinicians have used neurofeedback to try and treat all kinds of mental health issues, and they say they've seen some positive results.

8 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Only Pluto Knows For Sure

A group of researchers, including the Principle Investigator for the New Horizons program, Alan Stern, have found that after a review of ...

Air Date: September 17, 2018

Listen 05:43
A man peers from his flooded home in Lumberton, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Environment
Public Safety

Florence death toll swells as rivers rise

"The risk to life is rising with the angry waters," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared as the storm's death toll climbed to 15.

8 years ago

Avalon's new weather station is mounted high above rooflines for accurate information (Borough of Avalon)
Environment
New Jersey
Public Safety

Avalon adds high-tech weather equipment for real-time storm information

Avalon has invested in tracking equipment that will allow it to make weather conditions easily available to residents of the borough at t ...

8 years ago

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are studying barn owls to understand how the brain maintains focus.
(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
NPR
Mental Health

Scientists study barn owls to understand why people with ADHD struggle to focus

Kids with ADHD are easily distracted. Barn owls are not.

8 years ago

A work truck drives on Hwy 24 as the wind from Hurricane Florence blows palm trees in Swansboro N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. (Tom Copeland/AP Photo)
Environment
Public Safety

Florence close to landfall in N. Carolina

The powerful storm already has inundated coastal streets with ocean water and left tens of thousands without power.

8 years ago

Hurricane Florence will bring tropical storm conditions to North Carolina and South Carolina on Thursday and hurricane conditions on Friday. This satellite image was captured around 1:45 p.m. ET Wednesday. (NOAA/STAR)
Environment

Time nearly up: Fierce Hurricane Florence aims at Southeast

Time is running short to flee Hurricane Florence, a monster of a storm zeroing in on the Southeastern coast with more than 10 million people in its potential path.

8 years ago

DCNR forester Ben Gamble, left, and Kelly Sitch, right, an ecologist for the agency, on a pipeline right-of-way in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Front

Bringing the forest back after shale gas

The Pennsylvania DCNR is testing how best to revive areas cleared for fracking.

8 years ago

Listen 4:23
A nearly 2,000-foot-long tube is towed offshore from San Francisco Bay on Saturday. It's a giant garbage collector, and the brainchild of 24-year-old Boyan Slat, who aims to remove 90 percent of ocean plastic by 2040. (The Ocean Cleanup)
NPR
Environment
Innovation
International

A massive floating boom is supposed to clean up the Pacific. Can it work?

"The ocean really needs all the help it can get."

8 years ago

FILE- In this Dec. 28, 1988, file photo shows members of the
Skytalk
Space

Starstruck by Star Trek

52 years ago, the television show Star Trek premiered! It spawned a whole new approach to space exploration and had an impact on ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018

Listen 05:13
Radio Times
Environment

Climate change, environmental regulation, and the Chesapeake Bay comeback

Guests: Jennifer Francis, Juliet Eilperin, ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the southeastern U.S. coast as a major hurricane on Thursday or Friday, after rapidly intensifying.
(National Weather Service)
NPR
Environment

Hurricane Florence spins up into a category 4 storm, aiming at U.S. East Coast

Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the southeastern U.S. as "a large and extremely dangerous hurricane," the National Hurricane Center says.

8 years ago

The Sahara desert creeps up on a palm field. (Fadel Senna /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
International

A scientist dreams up a plan to stop the Sahara from expanding

The Sahara desert is expanding, and has been for at least a century. It's a phenomenon that seems impossible to stop.

8 years ago

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