Search results for

Manure from pig farms doesn't just contain residues of antibiotics used in livestock. It also carries high concentrations of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new study of Chinese pig farms finds. And researchers say "it's a global problem."

After he helped to develop the bluesy, driving hard bop style in the '50s and '60s, his funkier commercial hit recordings shaped black pop music through the advent of hip-hop. A committed music educator, the Detroit native was 80 when he died last week.

We know a great deal about life and its pre-biotic precursors. But do we now understand how life is built from non-life? This is still an open question. Philospher Alva Noë considers this state of affairs in the context of the storm of controversy surrounding Thomas Nagel's book.

Rob Lowe is just as friendly and enthusiastic as the character he plays on NBC's Parks and Recreation. He talked to Host Alex Cohen with Member Station KPCC about his movie and TV career, and the word that has brought him a new following, "literally." We're just glad to say he LITERALLY loves NPR.

Producer and songwriter Jeff Bhasker has worked with Kanye West and Beyonce, and is up for four Grammy Awards, including producer of the year for his work on the album Some Nights by the band fun. Now, he says he's looking for a solo career.

The Oscar winner performs songs with a roadhouse feel, including his own "As I Do My Dancing."

We had a special visit this afternoon from Butler University Mascots, Blue II & III (Trip), who came to Washington, D.C., itching to show their NPR love (so excited, in fact, that they could barely sit still).

NASA stitched together satellite images of the powerful Nor'Easter pounding New England. The storm is driven by the interaction of two packets of energy within different streams.

Drop a cat from a bed, a chair or a tree, and it will do its wriggly thing and land on all four feet. Cats are famous for this. But we've discovered an animal that does it better. Meet the new champ.

In a new memoir, Sampson Davis describes what it was like to return to the hospital where he was born to become an emergency physician. He says his mother taught him that "once you make it, you have to come back and help other people."