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Cities can be places of learning for any age.

How To Spark Learning Everywhere Kids Go — Starting With The Supermarket

3:27pm October 03, 2016

by Anya Kamenetz

A $20 intervention caused a big boost in conversations between parents and kids. Researchers say there are lots of untapped opportunities like these to help kids learn out of school.

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, smiles as he speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a phone during a press conference in Tokyo today, after he was awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize.

Japanese Biologist Wins Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine

11:24am October 03, 2016

by Rob Stein

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to a Japanese scientist who explained that cells have their own versions of recycling plants, how they work, and the role of this process in diseases.

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A new study says brain games won't make you smarter.

Brain Game Claims Fail A Big Scientific Test

8:34am October 03, 2016

by Jon Hamilton

When a team of researchers evaluated the scientific literature on brain games, they found little evidence that the products improve memory or thinking in real-world tasks.

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The smokestack of a factory on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, on Sunday.

India Ratifies Paris Climate Change Agreement

5:31pm October 02, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Sixty-two countries have now joined the plan. Together, they account for about 52 percent of global emissions, which is a little short of the 55 percent threshold to make the agreement binding.

An inmate firefighter examines a burning structure while battling the Loma fire near Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday.

After Record Heat, California Fires Burn Into The Fall

11:20am October 02, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

A wildfire near San Jose, Calif. has destroyed a dozen homes, and threatens more than 150 structures. Meanwhile, the massive Soberanes fire is still burning two months after it began.

Prof. Dana Carney, co-author of a 2010 Psychological Science study on the idea of "power poses," says she now has no "faith in the embodied effects of power poses."

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'Power Poses' Co-Author: 'I Do Not Believe The Effects Are Real'

3:31pm October 01, 2016

NPR's Scott Simon talks to behavioral scientist Uri Simonsohn about how one of the scientists behind 2010 research on 'power poses' is distancing herself from that work.

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Hurricane Matthew Strengthens Into Category 5 In Caribbean

4:54am October 01, 2016

by The Associated Press

With wind speeds of 160 mph, the storm is expected to make landfall on Jamaica on Monday, and remains a threat to Haiti and Cuba. Forecasters say it's the strongest in the Atlantic since 2007.

A model of the planned Dream Chaser mini-shuttle designed by Sierra Nevada Corp. is displayed in March 2014 for a news conference at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

The United Nations Is Launching A Space Mission

9:24pm September 30, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The U.N. is planning to send its first spacecraft into orbit, packed with scientific experiments from countries that can't afford their own space programs.

Wetland forest clear-cut by the Roanoke river, just south of Windsor, NC. Likely logged in Winter, 2015.

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Mighty Trees, Warriors Against The Threat Of Climate Change

1:00pm September 30, 2016

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

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The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Can We Preserve Seed Diversity For The Future?

8:19am September 30, 2016

by NPR/TED STAFF

Biodiversity archivist Cary Fowler explains how the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will prepare humans for the climate change and its effect on our environment and our food supply.

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