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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Artificial intelligence is getting a foothold in medicine. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved a computer algorithm that can help doctors identify wrist fractures. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have much more

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hawaii's Volcanic Eruption Draws Scientific Interest

Hawaii's Volcanic Eruption Draws Scientific Interest AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The images from the volcanic eruption on Hawaii's Big Island are both breathtaking and terrifying. Lava is gushing from cracks in the earth, blasting at times more than 200 fee

美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite So Much Winning, The Right Feels Like It's Losing

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The right holds many of the nation's levers of political power. Republicans control the House of Representatives, the Senate, the White House and a majority of the country's governors' mansions. Conservatives dominate the Supreme C

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pentagon Acknowledges Mistakes As It Briefs Families Of Troops Killed In Niger

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In early October of last year, U.S. troops were ambushed by Islamist extremists while on patrol in Niger. Four Americans and four Nigerian soldiers were killed in the fighting. The Pentagon hasn't said much about what happened that

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kim, Moon Pledge Denuclearization Of Peninsula And End To Korean War

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The leaders of the rival Koreas have agreed to work towards formally ending the Korean War and to seek a nuclear-free peninsula. That agreement came out of a day-long and historic summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South

美国国家公共电台 NPR Official Says Investigation Doesn't Support Allegations Against White House Doctor

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Used To Be A Dreamer': To Change The World, Souad Massi Starts With Herself

SOUAD MASSI: (Singing in Arabic). ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the past 20 years, Souad Massi has written provocative songs challenging authority and weaving stories. She sings in Arabic, French and Berber, the languages of her native Algeria. In her 20s,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: How do you tell what's real from what's not on the Internet, especially when paid foreign agents and political operatives are working hard to create believable stories that are complete fiction? This is something Wikipedia co-found

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Push From Activists, Chicago's South Side Gets An Adult Trauma Center

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, the south side of Chicago gets something it hasn't had in decades - a high-level adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospital. Trauma centers treat people with the most acute wounds, including gunshot injuri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Poetry Month: What Makes A Haiku A Haiku?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A 'Ragged School' Gives U.K. Children A Taste Of Dickensian Destitution

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Failure To Save A Child In Wartime Inspires Wound-Healing Tech

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And experience in a country with enormous numbers of war wounds has led to techniques that heal them more quickly. A Harvard team developed the new technologies. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports the work was inspired by one scientist's

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Florida, Cities Challenge State On Gun Regulation Laws

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A school shooting in Florida prompted a nationwide drive for more gun laws, but cities in Florida are not likely to join in. The state of Florida did impose a waiting period for gun purchases and raised the age for gun sales to 2

美国国家公共电台 NPR You May Live Longer By Severely Restricting Calories, Scientists Say

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you eat less food, can you live longer? Scientists have debated this question for years. Some studies in fish, rats and monkeys suggests that doing so actually can help you live longer. But there have been very few studies in

美国国家公共电台 NPR Steven Bochco, Groundbreaking TV Producer, Dies at 74

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Border Patrol Agent Dies Mysteriously. The Sheriff Has A Simple Theory

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The mysterious death of a Border Patrol agent in West Texas last November led to two opposing theories. Some folks were convinced that smugglers or illegal border crossers attacked the agent with rocks. The local sheriff says he

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Efforts To Control Rare And Deadly Bacteria Working

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The federal government set up a network last year to identify deadly germs called nightmare bacteria. Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that network is helping control these germs. And the CDC says the sys

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In Europe, if you find a webpage about you and you don't like it either because it says something not true or because it's too personal, you can make Google hide it from the search results. It is the law. Google has done this

美国国家公共电台 NPR Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In college, it's hard to learn while you're hungry. That's a message Temple University education professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has been hitting for her whole career. She self identifies as a scholar activist. She's advocated for fr

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dessa Separates Head From Heart, With A Little Help From Science

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The musician Dessa is kind of a science geek. She doesn't use those exact words to describe herself, but it is clear from recent projects that she is fascinated with how the brain works and how the head ends up affecting the hear