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Friday

Environment

International Leaders To Discuss Substances That Cause Global Warming

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy about next week's international conference on substances in air conditioners and refrigerators that heat up the atmosphere.

International Leaders To Discuss Substances That Cause Global Warming

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Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends

(Left to right) NYU medical students Brian Chao, Michael Lui, Hye Min Choi, and Varun Vijay take the team approach to learning about the anatomy of cells, and how disease can disrupt them. Analyzing big data sets is now a routine part of their studies, too. Cindy Carpien for NPR hide caption

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Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends

KFF Health News

It's not enough anymore to learn how to size up the symptoms of a particular patient, say specialists in bioinformatics. Modern doctors need to learn to see patterns in huge data sets, too.

Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends

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Thursday

Why Is It So Hard To Save Gulf Of Maine Cod? They're In Hot Water

Zach Whitener, research associate at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, holds a cod while collecting samples for a study. Gulf of Maine Research Institute hide caption

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The Salt

Why Is It So Hard To Save Gulf Of Maine Cod? They're In Hot Water

In the past decade, the Gulf of Maine warmed faster than 99.9 percent of the global ocean. The rapid warming explains why recent fishing policies failed to rebuild the cod population, a study finds.

Why Is It So Hard To Save Gulf Of Maine Cod? They're In Hot Water

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Planet Money

Along U.S.-Canada Border, A Booming Business For Dinosaur Bones

Dinosaur fossils are often found along the U.S.-Canada border. But what happens after someone discovers them on their land depends on what the rules are about ownership, scholarship and preservation.

Along U.S.-Canada Border, A Booming Business For Dinosaur Bones

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Community Health Workers Reach Some Patients That Doctors Can't

Dr. Janina Morrison, right, speaks with patient Jorge Colorado and his daughter Margarita Lopez about Colorado's diabetes at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Heidi de Marco/Kaiser Health News hide caption

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Community Health Workers Reach Some Patients That Doctors Can't

KFF Health News

Los Angeles is finding that community health workers — problem solvers who are untrained in medicine, but fluent in compassion — can be key to helping the county's sickest and neediest get better.

Wednesday

Environment

Why Fighting Climate Change Requires Changing The Narrative

NPR blogger Adam Frank says Americans need to stop carrying the guilt of climate change, so that we can move on and fix it.

Why Fighting Climate Change Requires Changing The Narrative

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Most E-Cigarette Users Are Current And Ex-Smokers, Not Newbies

E-cigarettes work by heating up a fluid that contains the drug nicotine, producing a vapor that users inhale. The devices are most popular among young adults, ages 18 to 24, a federal survey indicates. iStockphoto hide caption

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Shots - Health News

Most E-Cigarette Users Are Current And Ex-Smokers, Not Newbies

A large study suggests some may use e-cigarettes to quit smoking tobacco. But the survey also shows that nearly 10 percent of young adults who have never smoked tobacco have used the devices.

Most E-Cigarette Users Are Current And Ex-Smokers, Not Newbies

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Tuesday

NASA Spacecraft To Skim Past Saturn's Icy Moon

This false-color image of Enceladus shows so-called "tiger stripes" across the moon's icy surface. Researchers believe the stripes are caused by an ocean beneath the ice. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute hide caption

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The Two-Way

NASA Spacecraft To Skim Past Saturn's Icy Moon

The Cassini probe will pass within just 30 miles of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The goal is to search for signs of habitability.

NASA Spacecraft To Skim Past Saturn's Icy Moon

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Heroin, Opioid Abuse Put Extra Strain On U.S. Foster Care System

A young boy talks with Tina Cloer, director of the Children's Bureau, in Indianapolis. The nonprofit shelter takes in children from the state's Department of Child Services when a suitable foster family can't be found. Cloer says the average length of stay at the shelter has increased from two days to 10 in 2015. Jake Harper/Side Effects Public Media hide caption

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Heroin, Opioid Abuse Put Extra Strain On U.S. Foster Care System

WFYI

Roughly 265,000 U.S. kids entered foster care last year — the highest number since 2008. Officials say the abuse of heroin or prescription painkillers by more parents is one reason for the increase.

Heroin, Opioid Abuse Put Extra Strain On U.S. Foster Care System

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Hidden Brain

Candy For Your Vote, Kid? A Test Of Political Bribery

NPR's Shankar Vedantam tells Steve Inskeep about a Halloween experiment to see whether children can be swayed to change their political preferences with candy.

Candy For Your Vote, Kid? A Test Of Political Bribery

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Things That Go Bump In The Lab: Halloween And The Science Of Fear

The ScareHouse in Pittsburgh is curated in part by sociologist Margee Kerr. Rachellyn Schoen/ScareHouse hide caption

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Hidden Brain

Things That Go Bump In The Lab: Halloween And The Science Of Fear

This week, the Hidden Brain podcast explores the science of fear — traveling to a haunted house curated by a scientist to investigate what scares us, and why some people enjoy feeling fear.

Things That Go Bump In The Lab: Halloween And The Science Of Fear

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