Robin Steinberg: How Can We End The Injustice Of Bail? The bail system disproportionately impacts low-income people of color and pressures defendants into pleading guilty. But Robin Steinberg is implementing a plan to fix this--without waiting for reform. NPR Staff
Steven Wise: If Chimpanzees Can Feel And Think, Should They Also Have Legal Rights? Animals like chimpanzees are autonomous beings with rich emotional lives, says animal rights lawyer Steven Wise. He's working to get courts to recognize them as "legal persons" and grant them rights. NPR Staff
U.S. And Russian Astronauts Safe Following Rocket Malfunction After Launch NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield about Thursday's failed launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station.
Manned Rocket Headed For International Space Station Fails, Makes Emergency Landing Astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin were on board when their Soyuz MS-10's booster malfunctioned. The two made it out safely. Bill Chappell
How To Prevent Brain-Sapping Delirium In The ICU People who suffer from prolonged delirium in the hospital are likely to develop long-term mental problems like dementia. Doctors have come up with techniques they say can reduce delirium in the ICU. Richard Harris
Why Experts Have A Hard Time Predicting A Hurricane's Intensity Hurricane forecasters still face the challenge of predicting a storm's intensity. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with meteorologist Angela Fritz of The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang about why.
Can Genome Sequencing Help Northwest Orcas Recover? Could genome sequencing help save a declining population of Pacific Northwest orcas? NPR Staff
With $1 Million, Exxon Mobil Corp Helps Fund Carbon Tax Campaign Exxon Mobil pledges to support passage of a carbon tax. Analysts say the company would rather face a single, overarching tax than a patchwork of taxes and regulation to address climate change. John Ydstie
There Is Good News In The Universe, You Just Have To Look At Some Dirt To Find It Astrophysicist Adam Frank says you don't have to look to the stars to be impressed with the cosmic matter that binds us together. Pick up some dirt!
Inside The EPA: How Employees Are Reacting To The U.N. Climate Report The United Nations released a climate report on Monday, but how does it fit with EPA policies? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Washington Post reporter Brady Dennis about how EPA employees are responding.