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IG Nobels Honor Inane Yet Useful Scientific Discoveries

7:15am September 22, 2014

The Detroit Medical Center rediscovered a folk remedy from the 1800s — stop a nosebleed by shoving pork up your nostrils. Other winners: banana research and dogs sense the Earth's magnetic field.

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Mars Has A New Visitor From Earth

7:15am September 22, 2014

by Joe Palca

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft on Sunday night fired its six main rocket engines for 33 minutes. That slowed the probe down enough so it could be captured by the Red Planet's gravity.

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The Poor Don't Always Benefit From Democracy, Mortality Rates Show

11:02pm September 21, 2014

by Shankar Vedantam

Is Democracy a key to better levels of health in a country? That's long been the belief, but we hear about some research that shows that isn't always the case.

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Mission To Study Mars' Climate Enters Red Planet's Orbit

10:41pm September 21, 2014

by Joe Palca

Scientists hope NASA's MAVEN probe, which went into orbit Sunday night, will provide insight into why the Martian climate changed drastically billions of years ago.

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Organizers Hope U.N. Climate March Will Be Largest In History

11:16am September 20, 2014

by Joel Rose

Hundreds of thousands are expected at a march in New York City ahead of the United Nations climate summit. Organizers want to send a message to world leaders that it's time to take concrete action.

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The new capsules are being built by Boeing and SpaceX. They look similar, but there are differences.

How NASA's New Spaceships Stack Up

10:24pm September 19, 2014

by Geoff Brumfiel

Earlier this week, NASA awarded two contracts for new spaceships to commercial companies. Here's how they compare.

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The HIV – Tobacco Connection

4:13pm September 19, 2014

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks

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The photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in New York City on Thursday, says we are at a "special moment" — our world now needs to be protected from climate change and other forces.

His Camera Takes Us To The World 'We Must Preserve'

3:36pm September 19, 2014

by Rena Silverman

In the new exhibit "Genesis," the noted photographer Sebastiao Salgado shares his vision of "a kind of state of humanity of the planet," from Amazon tribes to frozen Siberia.

Japanese giant hornet vs. European honeybees.

'Murdersquishing' Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous Hornets

3:28pm September 19, 2014

by Robert Krulwich

They are small. They are weak. They are vulnerable. But these little bees take on a humongous predator in the most ingenious way.

This human-scale lab rat cage is parked near a skate park in Denver, Colo., to make a point about the lack of science on marijuana.

Colorado Tries Hard To Convince Teens That Pot Is Bad For You

10:29am September 19, 2014

by Maanvi Singh

Do you want to be a lab rat? That's what teenagers are doing when they smoke marijuana, the state of Colorado says. But since hard evidence of marijuana's harms is scanty, it may be a tough sell.