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How Outrage Is Hijacking Our Culture And Our Minds
Source: NPRIt can feel impossible to escape outrage nowadays. Anger is present across our screens — from TV news to social media. New social science research ask... Read More
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3 Win Chemistry Nobel For Development Of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Source: NPRThe prize was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino." Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionized our lives," ... Read More
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New Research: China Is Winning Some Health-Care Battles — And Losing Others
Source: NPRA suite of new research shows the country beating infectious diseases over the last two decades. But deaths from lifestyle-related diseases like cance... Read More
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Ancient Greek Scroll's Hidden Contents Revealed Through Infrared Imaging
Source: NPRMore than 200 years ago, a scroll damaged by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was unrolled and pasted onto cardboard, even though it had writing on the ba... Read More
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Despite Thin Ice, Research Ship Finds Its Home In Frozen Floe For The Next Year
Source: NPRAn ambitious Arctic expedition has reached a milestone. Researchers have found an ice floe to freeze into, from which they'll study Arctic systems fro... Read More
BREAKING
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We're Pulling Tuna Out Of The Ocean At Unprecedented — And Unsustainable — Rates
Source: NPRA new study finds that tuna harvests, including of some species considered "vulnerable," have increased by an astonishing 1,000% in the last 60 years ... Read More
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Irrigation For Farming Could Leave Many Of The World's Streams and Rivers Dry
Source: NPRA new study shows many of the world's streams and rivers could dry up because people are draining underground aquifers that sustain streams through dr... Read More
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Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops
Source: NPRIrreversible lung disease has started to show up among young workers who cut, grind and polish countertops made of increasingly popular "engineered" s... Read More
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Pediatricians Stand By Meds For ADHD, But Some Say Therapy Should Come First
Source: NPRNew treatment guidelines don't assuage concerns that some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are being prescribed medication too s... Read More
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Just A Handful Of Nuts May Help Keep Us From Packing On The Pounds As We Age
Source: NPRU.S. adults put on about a pound a year on average. But people who had a regular nut-snacking habit put on less weight and had a lower risk of becomin... Read More
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UCLA Opens World's 1st Institute To Study Kindness
Source: NPRNPR's Michel Martin speaks with anthropology professor Daniel Fessler about UCLA's new Bedari Kindness Institute.... Read More
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Too Much Training Can Tax Athletes' Brains
Source: NPRResearch finds that triathletes who train too hard can impair a brain area involved in achieving goals like winning a race. Fatigued athletes choose i... Read More
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