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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Is there any chance Russia-US tensions could end up on the International Space Station?

Facebook saved these bears from a life in captivity

A scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones

Even when your dad's a physicist, it's hard to wrap your head around the Big Bang discovery

Is this Siberian fox wild, domesticated or something in between?

Is your BPA-free water bottle as safe as you think it is?

Last week's bad air over Paris led to a free Metro and a day of driving restrictions

How does a jetliner go missing with all of today's technology?

How the missing Malaysian jetliner has evolved into a media mystery spectacle

America may finally be learning the lessons of the 1970s oil shock

40 years after the Arab oil embargo, America still loves its petroleum

Science reporter Miles O'Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assig

Israeli techie says it takes a cyber hacker to catch a cyber hacker

A Great White Shark makes a transatlantic crossing — and you can follow along

A Florida nail technician helped researchers develop a tracking device for endangered sea turtles

Edward Snowden was bigger than a rock star at his SXSW panel today

One lesson of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is that Japan's culture needs to change

Is your toaster keeping an eye on you?

In Brazil, indigenous tribes are still struggling to protect the rainforest — and their culture

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