Skip to main content
Nevada Public Radio
  • News 88.9 KNPR
  • Classical 89.7 kcnv
  • Magazine Desert Companion
  • About

    How to reach us

    1289 S. Torrey Pines Dr.
    Las Vegas, NV 89146

    Main Number:  1-702-258-9895
    Toll Free: 1-888-258-9895

    More contact info

     

     

      • Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Employment
      • FCC Applications
      • CPB Compliance
      • Our Policies
      • Listen on the Radio
      • Other Ways to Listen
      • Sign-up for NVPR News
      • FCC Public Inspection File
      • CPB Funding
      • History
    • News 88.9 KNPR
    • Classical 89.7 KCNV
    • Desert Companion
  • Programs
  • Events
  • Support
  • myPublicRadio
  • Donate Now

Main menu

Search

Listen

News 88.9 KNPR
Classical 89.7 KCNV
Podcasts view all

member station

Support

Subscribe to humans

humans

NPR
Video: Future You, With Elise Hu
Researchers have found that giving your brain a little electrical zap while you sleep can lead to quicker learning and improved memory. Future You's episode 6 explores what this will mean in 2050.

VIDEO: The Military Discovered A Way To Boost Soldiers' Memories, And We Tried It

Oct 22, 2019
Researchers have found that giving your brain an electrical stimulation while you sleep can lead to quicker learning and improved memory. Future You's episode 6 explores what this will mean in 2050.
NPR
Book Reviews
<em>Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals,</em> by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

In 'Wildhood,' Scientists See Similarities In Adolescent Humans And Other Animals

Sep 16, 2019
Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own, and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.
NPR
Video: Future You, With Elise Hu

VIDEO: Move Objects With Your Mind? We're Getting There, With The Help Of An Armband

Jul 16, 2019
You know "the Force" that binds all things — the one that can let your mind move objects? The latest Future You video demos an armband that allows users to control objects with thoughts.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Video: Future You, With Elise Hu

Higher, Better, Stronger, Faster — Brain Science Is Trying To Get There

Jun 06, 2019
A headset that electrically stimulates your brain while you practice a motor skill claims to help you improve in less time. What does this mean for human abilities by 2050?
  • Listen Download
NPR
Research News
The Xiahe mandible was originally found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave. Researchers say the bone is 160,000 years old and came from a Denisovan.

Denisovans, A Mysterious Kind Of Ancient Humans, Are Traced To Tibet

May 01, 2019
Until now, the only Denisovan remains came from a cave in Siberia. The new find is "much more complete," one expert says.
NPR
The Two-Way
An illustration from 1870 shows Prehistoric men using wooden clubs and stone axe to fend off an attacks by a large cave bear. The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a species of bear that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene and became extinct at the begin

New Study Says Ancient Humans Hunted Big Mammals To Extinction

Apr 19, 2018
As humans spread around the globe, other big mammals vanished. Researchers believe it's because they were tasty.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Hidden Brain
Sometimes it can feel like there is a terrorist attack on the news every other week. But how much attention an attack receives has a lot to do with one factor: the religion of the perpetrator. <em>David McNew /AFP/Getty Images</em>

The Weight of Our Words

Apr 13, 2018
Violent crimes committed by Muslims are much more likely to be reported as "terrorism." And that has disturbing consequences for the way Muslims are perceived.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Shots - Health News

When It Comes To Romantic Attraction, Real Life Beats Questionnaires

Sep 06, 2017
Questionnaires of the sort used by dating apps don't come close to predicting initial attraction compared with meeting someone in real life, a study finds. The ineffable mystery of romance remains.
NPR
13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Who Were Your Millionth-Great-Grandparents?

Aug 01, 2017
Our pre-human ancestors are back there somewhere in the deep time that makes up Earth's braided history of life and change — and we are the tip of the spear moving that life forward, says Adam Frank.
NPR
Shots - Health News
An orangutan mother and her 11-month old infant in Borneo. Orangutans breast-feed offspring off and on for up to eight years.

Orangutan Moms Are The Primate Champs Of Breast-Feeding

May 17, 2017
Orangutans breast-feed up to nine years, longer than any other primate. That may help offspring survive food shortages. But humans may have gained a survival advantage from weaning earlier.
NPR
The Two-Way
Don Swanson, a paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum, points at a rock fragment near a large horizontal mastodon tusk fragment.

New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived In The Americas Far Earlier Than Thought

Apr 26, 2017
Until now, the earliest signs of humans in the Americas dated back about 15,000 years. But new research puts people in California 130,000 years ago. Experts are wondering whether to believe it.
  • Listen Download
NPR
Shots - Health News
The name hippocampus comes from the Greek word for seahorse. It's a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory.

The Seahorse In Your Brain: Where Body Parts Got Their Names

Dec 16, 2016
What are those dog ears doing on my heart? Ancient anatomists named body parts after things they resembled in real life. So you've got a rooster comb in your skull and a flute in your leg.
  • home
  • How to reach us
  • About
  • Support
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • NVPR News
  • Instagram

© All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy

PRXNPRAPMBBC INN