All Things Considered The story of Fred the mastodon A mastodon named Fred, also known as the Buesching mastodon, is a distant relative of the modern elephant. Fred's skeleton is preserved in the Indiana State Museum.
This company wants to pay you $2,000 to infest your home with cockroaches A North Carolina-based company is looking for a few study participants who are willing to welcome roughly 100 cockroaches into their homes. It got more than 2,500 applications in less than a week.
Grab your binoculars: 5 planets are lined up nicely for you to see at dawn this month Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be sequentially aligned and visible at dawn throughout June. The last time this happened was in 2004.
Morning Edition How Deep Squeak, an A-I program with a weird name, is detecting whales Artificial Intelligence is booming. And now an A-I program is being used to search for whales.
All Things Considered Encore: The United States' only native parrot is being studied, to save it We know the bird can mimic human speech; now a researcher is trying to understand parrot-to-parrot communication. He's looking at the red-crowned parrot, which is the only parrot native to the U.S.
KUOW Newsroom Tri-Cities researchers say they can extract lithium from water. That's a big deal. The nanoparticle technology could supply a large share of the lithium needed for batteries as America transitions to electric vehicles.
Morning Edition How can mas shootings be prevented? Definitive answers are hard to come by Gun violence has a huge impact on public health, but the amount of money and attention directed toward research on preventing mass shootings and firearm deaths doesn't reflect the scale of the crisis.
Monkeypox isn't like COVID-19 — and that's a good thing Although monkeypox's recent spread has caused concern, its similarities to smallpox have given the public health world a head start on combating it.
This 830-million-year-old crystal might contain life. And we're about to open it From lemons to ham, salt is a handy food preservative. But researchers studying some really old salt crystals found them preserving something else — evidence of life.
All Things Considered Parachutes for spacecraft are challenging to design and worrisome to engineers Boeing's Starliner capsule is to return to Earth after a stay at the Space Station as part of a test mission before it flies astronauts. The parachutes are among the systems engineers are monitoring.
