Onur Guentuerkuen, a biological psychologist at Bochum University in Germany, has studied the Turkish whistling language. It can be understood up to almost four miles away.
As the U.S. says it will almost double the number of migrants it accepts in the next two years, NPR's Renee Montagne speaks to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.
Workers at Volkswagen headquarters in Germany are mostly tight-lipped about the company's involvement in a vast emissions scandal, but local residents say they are shocked — and worried about VW's future.
Arvind Thiruvengadam and colleagues at WVU got excited when they won a grant in 2012 to test emissions on a few diesel cars. He figured the data might result in some papers a few people might read.
A week ago, two pranksters called Elton John and pretended to be Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Thursday, the real Putin phoned the singer and proposed that they meet.