RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk now about how scientists test new drugs. A lot of the drugs made for humans are tested first on mice or other lab animals, although one of the big problems is that most drugs that work in mice don't work in pe...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's hard to overstate how the technology developed by Apple has revolutionized our lives. But fast forward to 2017; innovation now is increasingly coming from other companies. NPR's Laura Sydell looks at the reasons behind that...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's take a poetry break now with a few more of your Twitter poems. It's a beautiful day here in Washington, D.C., so a good time to hear a few reflections on springtime and nature, like this one from Mark Holoweiko in Michigan....
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, there was a time when going out on weekends didn't mean Netflix and chill or dining out at the latest restaurant. It meant going out to dance, and in the '20s and '30s that meant swing dancing. Born in Harlem, N.Y....
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to music. Many people were shocked and upset by the death of singer-songwriter Prince last April. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WHEN DOVES CRY) PRINCE: (Singing) Dig if you will the picture of you and I engaged in a kiss. MARTIN: New Y...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Audiences had an unusual opportunity over the weekend to see classic movies the way they were originally projected. The TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood played movies on old-style nitrate film. It's very rare and beautiful...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The plotline in CW's Jane The Virgin is just a little bit complicated. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, JANE THE VIRGIN) ANTHONY MENDEZ: (As narrator) All right, here we go. As you know, Jane was accidentally artificially insemina...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A few years ago, Laura Kipnis, a tenured professor at Northwestern, published an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, she argued that the rules governing sexual relationships between students and professors...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico is a huge expanse of pure, white sand dunes that form a shifting, spectacular landscape. Here's NPR's Melissa Block with the latest in her series Our Land on a place l...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK, now for some cute but worrying science from the animal world. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area posted a photo earlier this week that is insanely adorable. It's of a newly found mountain lion kitten...
ALEX GOLDMARK, HOST: We've been working on this episode for a long while. We had it ready to go. And then, like the rest of the world, we got news that President Trump had ordered missile strikes in Syria. Today's show is in part about responding to...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We start this hour with reaction to President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airbase. That happened last night in response to an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on civilians...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to close things out today by hearing about a new program that opens with a scene all too familiar from the nightly news - a young man is dead in the street, shot by a police officer who thought he saw a weapon. It tur...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we're going to get some more of your Twitter poetry submissions. All this month, we're inviting you to send us your original poems of 140 characters or less. This week - quite a few have had what I suppose you could call poli...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The aging British matinee idol thinks he's been given too small a role as the uncle of twin sisters. The American who's supposed to play a hero is as dull as a stick. But a young woman in the script department has an idea that migh...
