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NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with ecologist Justin Stewart about mapping the complex network of fungi connecting the Earth's plants.
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The crew of four — NASA astronaut and commander Randy Bresnik, European Space Agency pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA mission specialists Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas — are scheduled to launch...
Gray whales are showing up in San Francisco Bay, a detour on their long migrations from Mexico to Alaska. They seem to be searching for food, as changing ocean conditions...
A team at the University of Chicago has discovered a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states that are normally difficult to produce.
If you have ever watched a kid who's missing their front teeth try to eat an apple, you know how important teeth are from a biological standpoint. Well, a new study looks at the outermost layer of teeth, and as NPR's Nate Rott reports, what it found could apply far beyond the kitchen table. So they looked at samples of early humans dating back nearly 18 million years ago from three different species of hominins, one that anthropologists know ate tough, sinewy meat at that time, one that didn't, and one that ate a mixture.
Scientists who have spent decades learning how the brain works say they are ready to start fixing it when it breaks. A brain research center in Seattle called the Allen Institute is working to develop genetic therapies for diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS and Huntington's. HAMILTON: One reason that's possible is research funded by the BRAIN Initiative, a program announced by President Obama back in 2013.
President Trump continues to whittle away at federal science funding. RIDDLE: Well, first of all, it literally could affect any kind of federally funded science in the United States - public health, vaccines, biotechnology, social and behavioral science, climate. ELIZABETH GINEXI: When we're designing a study to a new cancer therapeutic, do you want Russell Vought, who is not a scientist, to determine which immunotherapy is ready to go into a phase 3 trial?
Researchers from Columbia University and University Hospital Tübingen have discovered a protein that appears to play a major role in weakening CAR T cells over time. The findings, published in Cancer Discovery , could help improve CAR T-cell therapy, particularly against solid tumors that have proven difficult to treat. "Our goal is to improve the effectiveness of CAR T cells in solid tumors as well," says Celina May, co-first author of the study and a member of Prof.
NPR's Short Wave talks about a weakness in a well-known insect repellant, how plants call wasps to their defense and how bigger rewards speed up learning, in mice. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It's time now.
