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  1. 20 hours ago

    The next time you swat a fruit fly in your kitchen, take heart from the fact that people have apparently been struggling with these fly infestations for around 10,000 years.

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  2. 21 hours ago

    North Korea appears to be expanding a missile base in a remote, mountainous part of the country, according to new commercial satellite imagery studied by independent researchers.

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  3. Dec 6

    The fortuitous dip in emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, during the past three years is over, as economies turn up. The trend in the near future looks grim, say climate scientists.

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  4. Dec 6

    Author Tayari Jones says there are two things to consider as a book matchmaker: "You have to match what you think your friend would like to read, with what you think your friend should read — and you have to make a Venn diagram of that."

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  5. Dec 5

    Ahead of the holidays this year, we're inviting writers to talk about the books they'll be gifting to friends and family. Here's the list that Tayari Jones, author of "An American Marriage," has compiled for her loved ones.

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  6. Dec 5

    As climate negotiators from around the world meet in Poland this week and next to figure out how to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, they are hearing some discouraging news: Emissions of the biggest pollutant, carbon dioxide, are going up.

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  7. Dec 4

    When applying to many of the nation's top universities, if you aren't accepted in that first, extremely competitive, round of admissions, you're not likely to get in. But some institutions are trying to change that.

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  8. Dec 4

    The proposed barrier would cut off 70 percent of the National Butterfly Center's property, putting it in a no man's land along the Rio Grande. More than 200 species have been documented at the center.

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  9. Dec 4

    The U.N. climate meeting underway in Poland is the most important climate conference since the 2015 Paris Agreement set emissions reduction goals for nearly every country on Earth.

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  10. Dec 3

    Leaders from around the world are attending a major climate conference in Poland, where they will focus on how to implement the goals they set during the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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  11. Dec 3

    On an average day at the National Butterfly Center in South Texas, visitors can see 100 different species and as many as 200,000 individual butterflies. The center also sits directly in the path of the Trump administration's proposed border wall.

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  12. Dec 3

    Former President George Herbert Walker Bush was eulogized on Monday during a Capitol ceremony by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who called him "a humble servant who loved his fellow citizens."

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  13. Dec 1

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  14. Dec 1

    Tonight on All Things Considered, we're remembering President George H.W. Bush with historian and of The Oak Ridge Boys, one of President Bush's favorite bands.

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  15. Nov 30

    Matt Bai and Jay Carson wrote the screenplay of a new drama about the swift 1987 downfall of the Democratic presidential candidate — an event Bai says has a "direct throughline" to President Trump.

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  16. Nov 30

    One of the first Chicano rock bands, Thee Midniters were often called East L.A.'s Beatles. Their instrumental track "Whittier Blvd." was a regional smash that pointed to a coming cultural movement.

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  17. Nov 30

    Harvard University researchers probed the way ADHD is assessed by taking advantage of a quirk found in many U.S. school systems that means some kids are a year younger their classmates.

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  18. Nov 30

    During a study, people with symptoms suggesting depression felt better immediately when tiny pulses of electricity reached a brain area called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex.

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  19. Nov 29

    There's new evidence that mild pulses of electricity can relieve depression — if they reach the right target in the brain.

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  20. Nov 29

    "Whittier Blvd.," by the group Thee Midniters, became a cultural signpost for young Mexican-Americans in the 1960s and the years that followed, in Los Angeles and beyond.

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