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.

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These university students have found a way to make prosthetic limbs affordable to the masses

Mexicans are dealing with the same drought as their northern neighbors, but with less water

Should the last samples of smallpox virus be saved?

Oops! Major miscalculations and brilliant blunders aren't unheard of in science

A new report confirms that Antarctica is melting--still slowly, but twice as fast as four years ago

While the rain has stopped in the Balkans, rescue workers still have a lot to do

The Balkans' flooding is linked to climate change. And here's how

The worst flooding in a century in the Balkans is uncovering another menace — landmines

How climate change is altering environments as small as your backyard garden

Researchers may have found the fountain of youth — for mice

What makes people overturn police cars in authoritarian China?

Fracking went on trial and a Texas family beat the industry

Your favorite produce probably comes with a side of pesticide

Scientists say the retreat of west Antarctica's ice sheet is unstoppable

Champagne may be in trouble, but climate change has sparkling wine from England on the rise

Europeans can now request information about themselves be removed from the web

Should we have a 'right to be forgotten' on the Net?

A reporter finds China's tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it

With a changing climate, the French see trouble ahead for champagne

Canada moves to put toughter limits on dangerous oil trains