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Sharon McKeeman, the founder of Let Them Breathe, speaks to parents who kept children home from school to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools. Balboa Park in San Diego, Calif. Oct 18, 2021.

Parents protest California COVID vaccine mandate for kids

Many parents at the rally Monday had pulled their children out of school to attend the rally.

Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman.

Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.

Saturn, right with Jupiter in the night sky over Burnsville, N.C., during December's great conjunction.

Saturn Will Soon Put On Its Best Show Of The Year. Here's Where And How To See It

Wipe the dust off your binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show of the year — an act Jupiter will soon follow.

Climate Report Co-Author: 'The Pile Of Evidence Is Now Enormous'

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kim Cobb, one of the lead authors of the U.N.'s new landmark climate report, about the urgency of acting to lower emissions and how oceans are impacted by climate change.

Lava from a volcano reaches the sea on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, in the early hours of Wednesday, prompting concerns about toxic gas.

A Week After A Volcanic Eruption, A Spanish Island Faces A New Threat: Toxic Gas

Lava has been flowing since Sept. 19 and has just reached the Atlantic Ocean. When the lava spills into the sea, it can create toxic gas; officials told residents to seal their windows and doors.

Flooding in Imperial Beach, Jan. 18, 2019 (left); 2007 Witch Creek Fire (right).

San Diego scientists give mixed reaction to climate summit

Researchers are both hopeful and apprehensive about the climate conference underway in Scotland.

NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looks on during the game between the Miami Heat and Milwaukee Bucks at the Fiserv Forum in 2019 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Says NBA Players Should Get Vaccinated Or Be Kicked Off The Team

The 2021-2022 NBA season is set to begin in a few weeks without a vaccine mandate for players. Instead, unvaccinated players will have to submit to regular testing.

Estabrook talks with diet gurus and sifts through dieting history and the latest nutrition studies. He discovers that unfortunately, these diets don't really work in the long term for most people because they are too strict or require unnatural patterns of eating.

When Your Fad Diet Fails, And It Probably Will, 'Just Eat'

Diets often fail in the long term because they're too strict or require unnatural eating habits. In a new book, Barry Estabrook turns to science and history to find a weight-loss regimen that works.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Alumna and astronaut Megan McArthur, in blue flight suit, taken in Bldg. 5 Motion Based Simulator.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Alumna Launches Into Space

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Alumna and astronaut, Megan McArthur, pilots into space as part of the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station.

In this Thursday, May 13, 2021, file photo, a posted sign thanks visitors for wearing masks in Santa Monica, Calif.

CDC Reverses Course On Indoor Masks In Some Parts Of US

The new guidance follows recent decisions in Los Angeles and St. Louis to revert to indoor mask mandates amid a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations that have been especially bad in the South.

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