"Man Up": How A Fear Of Appearing Feminine Restricts Men, And Affects Us All You've certainly heard some variation of the phrase "be a man." But what does that even mean? This week, we question our existing definitions of masculinity. We'll meet a man who works in a field traditionally considered "women's work." And we'll hear from a researcher who says manhood is "hard to earn and easy to lose." Shankar Vedantam
2 Immunologists Win 2018 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine James P. Allison, 70, and Tasuku Honjo, 76, won the prize for their discovery of cancer therapy that works by harnessing the body's own immune system. Richard Harris
Holly Ridings On Breaking A Glass Ceiling At NASA Holly Ridings, NASA's first-ever female chief flight director, weighs in on being a woman in the field with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
EPA To Dissolve Office Of Science Advisor As part of a broader reorganization, the EPA will eliminate the science advisor role created to counsel acting EPA Administrator, Andrew Wheeler. Critics fear the move is a further demotion of scientific research. NPR Staff
Why did an octopus-wielding sea lion slap a kayaker in the face? A sea lion in a viral video was probably just messing around with its food. Researchers say sea lions don't care enough about humans to want to slap one of us with an octopus. NPR Staff
The Effects Of Sexual Assault On The Brain NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Jim Hopper, a teaching associate at Harvard Medical School, about sexual assault and its effects on the brain.
NASA Hosts Conference All About Looking For Signs Of Civilization Beyond Earth NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with astrophysicist Adam Frank, who is attending a NASA conference in Houston that's exploring how to discover intelligent life beyond earth.
Environmentalists Concerned That More Coal Ash Ponds Will Spill Into Rivers Environmental groups are closely watching coal ash storage ponds in North and South Carolina as rivers swollen by rain from Hurricane Florence continue to rise. Nurith Aizenman
Science Reveals How Fruit Keeps A Lid On Ripening Until The Time Is Right Humans have harnessed the ripening power of the plant hormone ethylene for centuries, but a recent discovery of how a plant controls the hormone may lead to more precise human control of ripening. NPR Staff
Spock's Fictional Home Planet Discovered Gene Roddenberry once declared that if Spock's fictional home planet Vulcan did exist, it would probably orbit the star called 40 Eridani A. Astronomers have now found this star does have a planet.