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Science

An autonomous tank is demonstrated in France last month. Leading researchers in artificial intelligence are calling for laws against lethal autonomous weapons. They also pledge not to work on such weapons. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)
NPR
Military
Technology

AI innovators take pledge against autonomous killer weapons

The position of the pledge is ultimately to encourage global governments to take legal action to ban any possibility of future destruction.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Biology
Medicine

Aroused: how hormones control us

Guest: Randi Hutter Epstein We blame a lot on our hormones – weight gain, sex drive, sleep loss, mood swings, i ...

Air Date: July 19, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
The planet Jupiter now has a total of 79 identified moons. (QAI Publishing/UIG via Getty Images)
NPR
National
Space

Galileo would be stunned: Jupiter now has 79 moons

More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter's moons, astronomers have found a dozen more.

8 years ago

SPACE EXPLORATION, APOLLO 11 MISSION, FIRST  MAN TO LAND ON MOON, WALK ON MOON, AMERICAN ASTRONAUT WITH U.S. FLAG, SPACE SUIT, LUNAR SURFACE, FOOTPRINTS, CENTURY SHOWCASE
Skytalk
Space

Relive Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

Follow a replay of the NASA lunar exploration events from 49 years ago online. ...

Air Date: July 17, 2018

Listen 07:50
Verizon crews pump water from an access tunnel in Manhattan in 2012 after flooding from Superstorm Sandy knocked out underground Internet cables. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
Technology

Rising seas could cause problems for internet infrastructure

The dense network of cables that make up the internet is likely to be inundated with saltwater as sea levels rise, a new analysis suggests.

8 years ago

Drone footage captured by Anthony Murphy shows the outline of an ancient henge, visible in the pattern of crops grown in a field near Newgrange, Ireland. (Anthony Murphy/Mythical Ireland)
NPR
Environment

In Ireland, drought and a drone revealed the outline of an ancient henge

A drone flight and a lingering dry spell have exposed a previously unknown monument in Ireland's Boyne Valley, forgotten for thousands of years and long covered by crops.

8 years ago

The osprey population has grown in part because of a decline in contaminants in the Delaware estuary. (Photo/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Biology
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Delaware estuary’s ospreys recover as fish contaminants decline, report says

The population growth suggests an overall improvement in the region’s ecological health.

8 years ago

U.S. Coast Guard photo.
Down the Shore
Biology
New Jersey
Outdoors

Crews successfully disentangle distressed humpback whale in N.J. bay

The juvenile whale - estimated to be more than 30-feet-long - was freed Wednesday, months after the first reports of entanglement by a piece of gill net.

8 years ago

Image: Sharon Pittaway/Unsplash
The Pulse
Health Care

DNA, Adapted

The Pulse explores how the environment shapes biology. Turns out that influence goes deep, down to the molecular level — to th ...

Air Date: July 13, 2018

Listen 48:57
Physiological psychologist Leslie Stein tips back a sip of PTC, a chemical cousin to a compound found in Brussels sprouts. Stein finds the flavor unpleasant, while others find it intollerably bitter, and to some its taste is neutral. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Biology

Same genes, different tastes

Researchers say environmental factors could explain why some identical twins taste things differently

8 years ago

Listen 05:38
Biologist Jessy Bokvist holds a coho salmon tissue sample in a lab at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Before DNA can be analyzed, Bokvist has to isolate it from tissue samples. (courtesy of Molly Segal)
The Pulse
Environment

Epigenetics may hold answers to the survival of hatchery-born salmon

Coho salmon born in captivity are less likely to survive than those born in the wild, and scientists think captivity may be to blame.

8 years ago

Listen 06:23
In this artistic rendering, a blazar is accelerating protons that produce pions, which produce neutrinos and gamma rays. Neutrinos are always the result of a hadronic reaction such as the one displayed here. Gamma rays can be produced in both hadronic and electromagnetic interactions. (Artist rendering courtesy  IceCube/NASA)
Delaware
Space

Astronomers identify supermassive black hole as source of neutrinos

A team of astronomers believe they've found the mysterious source of high energy neutrinos that travel for billions of light years in space before hitting Earth.

8 years ago

The Wingohocking combined sewer outfall carries storm and sewer water into the Frankford Creek, and trash.
PlanPhilly
Environment
Philadelphia

Looking to cut plastics pollution in the ocean? Start upstream

While beach towns in N.J. and Del. work to curb the use of plastic straws, bags, containers, and even balloons, researchers say it appears the real problem lies upstream.

8 years ago

Listen 5:13
This Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, released by the Nevada Department of Corrections, shows the execution chamber at Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev. Nevada plans to carry out its first execution in 12 years using a never-before-tried combination of drugs that drew a court challenge over concerns that a convicted murderer could suffer during the lethal injection. Scott Raymond Dozier is scheduled to die July 11, 2018. An American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada official called for Gov. Brian Sandoval or prisons chief James Dzurenda to stop the planned execution until questions about the process and drugs are answered. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP, File)
Law
Medicine

N.J. drug company’s lawsuit could derail Nevada execution

A last-minute lawsuit filed by a drug company that doesn't want its product used in "botched" executions could derail a scheduled execution.

8 years ago

With its artificial intelligence, My Loopy has seven toy-grade sensors that respond to touch, light, sound, proximity, temperature, and motions to learn from its user and their environment. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
Kids
Technology

‘My Loopy’ robot ‘comes to Earth’ to teach children how to write computer code

With its artificial intelligence, My Loopy has seven toy-grade sensors that respond to touch, light, sound, proximity, temperature, and motions to learn from its user.

8 years ago

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