Robyn Williams: And this is The Science Show on RN where we just heard Amanda Bauer talk about all those robots running the giant instruments. Here's one of them. Amanda Bauer: This is the robot. The robot reaches down and clamps onto one of these li...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We turn our attention now to Europe where migration from war-torn countries is changing the face of many cities, like Calais, France. Migrants use Calais as a staging ground to reach Britain where they believe asylum conditions a...
Sleep. It's something we spend about a third of our lives doing, but do any of us really understand what it's all about? Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awak...
Norman Swan: Hello, and welcome to the Health Report with me, Norman Swan. Today, your heart and your genes. Most people think of congenital heart disease as heart abnormalities which affect babies. But in fact it's a bigger problem for adults and ma...
I know a man who soars above the city every night. In his dreams, he twirls and swirls with his toes kissing the Earth. Everything has motion, he claims, even a body as paralyzed as his own. This man is my father. Three years ago, when I found out th...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This week we asked listeners and social media followers to tell us about unusual things that may scare them. Not international terrorism or certifiable phobias, but real fears we carry around that some people may not understand. Ma...
So, people want a lot of things out of life, but I think, more than anything else, they want happiness. Aristotle called happiness the chief good, the end towards which all other things aim. According to this view, the reason we want a big house or a...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: In Nashville this weekend, there's an exhibition of masks, not the kind that are used to hide, disguise or play dress-up. These have been worn by people with head or neck cancer. The plastic and mesh masks are used during radi...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. If you are sitting down listening to this Health Report, stand up. Move your legs. Touch your toes, if you can. Do anything but sit. If you cut down on the time you spend sitting, you might live l...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Millions of computers and networks are at risk after a security flaw, which is being called Shellshock, was found last week. Now this is not a virus. It's a bug - a mistake in code. And it turns out, it's actually been around...
SCOTT SIMON: Douglas Coupland has written a book about a company that's not a household name but has laid enough optic cable to circle the globe many times. And if it were to vanish tomorrow, in many ways we would vanish to each other. Alcatel-Lucent...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Steven Johnson's new book, How We Got To Now, is a history of the modern world. His vision is that technology has shaped people and society. And he follows six innovations which he believes brought us to where we are today. Hi...
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Ari Shapiro. This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the free speech movement at the campus of UC Berkeley in California. The movement launched massive sit-ins and protests that would help define a gen...
Robyn Williams: Australia has some of the finest living dinosaurs in the world. Yes, I mean birds. Our birds were among the first purveyors of birdsong in ancient history, so the science suggested earlier this year, despite what David Attenborough ha...
There is an entire genre of YouTube videos devoted to an experience which I am certain that everyone in this room has had. It entails an individual who, thinking they're alone, engages in some expressive behavior wild singing, gyrating dancing, some...
