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Democrats and Republicans often have trouble seeing one another's perspectives. Researchers think this might be driven in part by their earliest experience of power — the family.

Why Does This Election Have Us So Down? Social Science May Have An Answer

U.S. politics have long been marked by disagreement and even rancor. But 2016 feels worse than usual. NPR's Hidden Brain podcast offers one explanation why, from deep in our psychological frameworks.

Former Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey makes a major gift to UNO's Political Science Department

Former Omaha mayor Mike Fahey is putting his support toward the University of Nebraska Foundation and UNO’s Department of Political Science.Randall…

Video stills from Vick Krishna's viral video.

The Viral TikTok That Explains Vaccine Science — And Makes You Laugh

A viral TikTok makes vaccine science understandable and pretty funny (it's a horror film parody). NPR caught up with creator and star Vick Krishna — tech expert by day, videographer by night.

According to legend, the Explorers Club — a society of scientific adventurers — served its members a prehistoric dish at its annual dinner in 1951. By some accounts, the mystery meat was woolly mammoth; by others, extinct giant sloth. Now DNA analysis has provided a definitive answer — and unraveled a decades-long deception.

Two Grad Students Use Science To Bust The Dinner Hoax Of The Century

In 1951, members of the scientific Explorers Club thought they had dined on prehistoric meat dug out of the Alaskan tundra. The meal became legend. Now two Yale students have unraveled the deception.

This week in science: biodegradable plastic, crops on Mars and deer vs. caribou

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about biodegradable plastic, simulating growing crops on Mars, and how deer are disrupting caribou populations.

9-Year-Old Helps Shape Obama Administration's Approach To Science

The administration gathered feedback from students about what they want in STEM programs after Jacob Leggette encouraged the president to ask students their opinions at a White House science fair.

3 economists win Nobel Prize in economic sciences for work on banks, financial crises

The Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm has announced the winners for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.

Notification of Unusual Event no longer in place at Cooper Nuclear Station

By Katie Knapp SchubertOmaha, NE – A Notification of Unusual Event is no longer in place at Brownville's Cooper Nuclear Station.NPPD officials issued that…

The science is clear that teens can benefit from later school start times, but in Nashville and other communities, it's politically difficult to make the change.

Science says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?

Reasearch shows teens don't get sleepy until 10:45 or 11 p.m. But high school classes in Nashville still start at 7:05 a.m. "It's not a badge of honor," says the mayor.

Southwest aircraft takes a dive to avoid midair collision

The Southwest Boeing 737 dropped almost 500 feet to avoid another aircraft.

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