PRI's The World Science

Each week, The World's Rhitu Chatterjee brings you the latest and greatest science news from all four corners of the globe. The World is a US-based international news and analysis program co-produced by the BBC, PRI, and WGBH.

PRI's The World Science

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The Internet goes ape over a monkey selfie and the copyright battle it sparked

Europe's space probe is poised for a trip around the solar system — with a comet

The key to some major endangered species crime investigations is a small lab in Oregon

A record Internet data heist can't be fixed with a password change

New lawn 'mooers' keep the grass trimmed in parks outside London

How American seafood goes almost everywhere except America

Are antibiotics in livestock helping fuel 'superbugs'? Scientists and courts fight it out

Yes, steak is expensive. But its true cost is even higher than you may think

Drones are making tentative steps into the US civilian space

Fracking often gets blamed for water problems, but it's not a clear cut case

A new online tracking tool may be shadowing you on the web

Jennifer Lopez has a species of water mite named after her. Really

Name the lost landmass that once bridged the UK and Europe

After a long journey from Africa, a new tropical disease sets up shop in Florida

Women unite in the slums of Nairobi to provide clean water

Why some Kenyan villagers take AK-47s to fetch water

Evangelicals increasingly are embracing environmentalism

June set a new global temperature record

A Liberian describes the hard reality of Ebola: 'You're running even from people you love'

What would life on Mars be like? A Canadian scientist spent months in a NASA-built dome to find out