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Forecast For Vikings-Seahawks Game Reminds Former Player Of 'Freezer Bowl'

4:31pm January 08, 2016

The weather for Sunday's Vikings vs. Seahawks football game looks like it will be ridiculously cold. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Dave Lapham, a former player for the Cincinnati Bengals and currently the color analyst for the Bengals radio broadcast, about how to survive the frigid conditions.

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Clever New Cancer Treatments Being Developed Locally

2:49pm January 08, 2016

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Envir

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U.S. Weather Wet And Wild In 2015, Though No Big Hurricanes

1:25pm January 08, 2016

by Christopher Joyce

The U.S. had 10 weather events in 2015 that cost $1 billion or more in damage, with December the warmest and wettest month on record. Climate scientists blame a warming climate and strong El Nino.

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Animal Rights Group Loses Copyright Suit Over Monkey Selfies

10:36pm January 07, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a monkey cannot own the copyrights to selfies he took.

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Crews work on a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles in early December. A leak has allowed tons of methane to escape into the surrounding neighborhood; stopping it is taking months because of pressure from th

California Declares State Of Emergency Over Months-Long Gas Leak

7:39pm January 07, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Since October, a natural gas storage well near Los Angeles has been spewing hundreds of tons of methane gas each day. The leak isn't expected to be fixed for months.

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Debate Over Bird Flu Research Moratorium Flares Up Again

7:25pm January 07, 2016

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Scientists are convening to debate whether experiments that make some viruses more contagious in order to advance understanding of potential outbreaks are worth the risk of creating one.

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Neanderthals, represented here by a museum's reconstruction, had been living in Eurasia for 200,000 years when Homo sapiens first passed through, and the communities intermingled. The same genes that today play a role in allergies very likely fostered a q

Itchy Eyes? Sneezing? Maybe Blame That Allergy On Neanderthals

7:03pm January 07, 2016

by Rob Stein

At least three genes that predispose some of us to hay fever and other allergies came from Neanderthal DNA, scientists say. The genes very likely boosted the immunity of our early ancestors.

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Us Your Toilets (Without Parasites)

7:01pm January 07, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

The Romans are famous for their baths, aqueducts and toilets. But the sanitary innovations might not have done as much to improve health as was once believed.

The stomach of Oetzi, who was mummified in ice, was home to bacteria that scientists were able to identify. The same species lives in the gut of many modern humans.

Stomach Of Ancient Iceman Held Microbes Like Ours

6:25pm January 07, 2016

by Geoff Brumfiel

Scientists analyzed the tummy of a 5,300-year-old ice mummy and found bacteria that many modern humans still carry.

Southern California Moves To Protect Homeless As El Niño Rain Hits Region

7:12pm January 06, 2016

by Ina Jaffe

Rain, and lots of it, is falling in parts of California as the first of several El Niño storms makes its way across the state. In the Los Angeles area, county officials have spent extra to offer more shelter options for its large homeless population.

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