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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What nature can teach us about sustainability and innovation

These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.

What if someone could hack into a driverless car and slam on the brakes?

Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania's Holocaust escape tunnel

While Flint waits, Nestle pumps Michigan water on the cheap

A tiny Canadian town has a new best friend: This massive, gorgeous iceberg

Coke and Pepsi, gardening together in Mexican mountains to preserve urban water

Driverless cars could either be 'scary' or great for the environment

Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is officially dying

How to hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence

Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads

The noise of cities can harm our health but it can also make us more creative

El Salvador's new metal-mining ban is terrifying for 'artisanal' miners

Will El Niño return in 2017?

A bold plan to slow the melt of Arctic permafrost could help reverse global warming

Her love of the stars made her lose track of her life on Earth

Adios, vaquita marina? Mexico's 'little sea cow' is being pushed to the edge of extinction.

At-risk countries worry what 'America first' means for climate change

These capybaras escaped the zoo for a summer of love. Now they're back, with babies.

This pressurized, skirt-like machine helps keep astronauts fit