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It’s a melaninlike substance that scientists can tune to different degrees of UV protection.

Cleveland ranks among the nation's top cities with the most preventable deaths related to air quality issues. Things are getting worse with climate change. Doctors and environmentalists see climate change as a public health crisis and an opportunity.

Navajo President Russell Begaye says Trump "has not lifted a finger" to help save a major coal-fired power plant on the Navajo reservation.

There are no known cyberattacks or hacks that originated as a result of information gained through the review process but it's still cause for concern.

Is Italy just lucky? Have the country’s counter-terrorism policies — born out of years of anti-mafia policing and intelligence work and a decade of bloody political violence in the 1970s — given Italian officials an edge in the age of Isis? Or are there other factors at play?

Four grenades were hurled at the high court from a helicopter and bullets were fired at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday, leader Nicolas Maduro said, in a potentially dramatic escalation of the violence gripping the oil-rich South American country.

South Korea's dovish new President Moon Jae-In — who backs engagement with the nuclear-armed North — heads to Washington this week for talks with his hawkish US counterpart Donald Trump, as Pyongyang defies international sanctions to accelerate its missile program.

Scientists want to build the most advanced telescope in the world — once they can decide on a place to put it.

The US has warned Syria that it will pay a heavy price if it uses chemical weapons again. The White House also said Syria's allies, Iran and Russia, would be held responsible. The ratcheting of tension comes as regional powers compete for advantage in a post-ISIS world. The tension carries the risk of war.

A new study indicates that bats host a significantly higher proportion of zoonoses, diseases that originate in animals and can be transmitted to humans.

The World Health Organization has announced the success of a new Ebola vaccine — but also warned it isn't a silver bullet.

Donald Trump broke a 20-year-long tradition by not hosting a White House dinner to mark the end of Ramadan. Humorist Wajahat Ali says it sends an awful message to Muslim Americans like him, but you have to keep your sense of humor about it.

When does a 'dialect' become a 'language'? And what does it matter? This week on the podcast we look at two places that defy traditional definitions: Scandinavia and the Balkans.

Renee Rabinowitz was asked to change seats on a flight from Newark to Tel Aviv. She agreed but felt she'd been wronged. Later, she sued the airline and won in a landmark case.

Representatives of Qatar-funded Al Jazeera say a demand to shut down the news network is an attack on media freedom.

Stephanie Nolen, Latin America correspondent for Globe & Mail covered the AIDS pandemic in Africa, and was recently in Venezuela. She writes, "There is nowhere in the world today where people are dying of AIDS at the pace and in the sheer numbers that they are in Venezuela: Even the poorest African countries today have HIV treatment programs."

US President Donald Trump hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for a first face-to-face meeting, seeking to forge a chemistry that can add new fizz to a flourishing relationship between the world's two largest democracies.

Immigration advocates say that ICE agents are increasingly turning up at court dates that have nothing to do with immigration issues. And ICE agents are taking undocumented people into custody.

Hundreds of veterans — who served in the US military as noncitizens — were later deported for committing civilian crimes.

Members of ISIS are putting up fierce resistance as an Iraqi offensive for Mosul's Old City, where a few hundred militants are believed to be holed up, entered its second week.

Noncitizens are eligible to serve in the US military. But even as veterans, they can still be deported if they commit crimes after they leave the service.

Who’s the most-clichéd author? Which common pronoun is nearly absent in “The Hobbit?” And what’s a cinnamon word?

Narcotics smuggling through Central America has led to the loss of as much as 1 million acres of forest over the past decade. Illegal cash from cocaine trafficking is sometimes laundered by clearing forests for cattle ranching and other legitimate ventures.

During her years as a film star, little was known of Lamarr’s offscreen technological inventions. Now, Hollywood is finally taking notice.

The Białowieża Forest in Poland and Belarus contains some of the last remaining old-growth forests in Europe. Protections are strong in Belarus, but some areas in Poland are managed as commercial forest and the Polish government has now authorized a threefold increase in logging.

Nabra Hassanen's killer was found to be an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, spurring the claim that undocumented immigrants are dangerous.

Multiple sources revealed to the Associated Press that a US ally, the United Arab Emirates, is torturing prisoners in a network of prisons across southern and eastern Yemen, and that Americans are interrogating detainees at some of these same prisons.

The latest edition of Politico Magazine asks the question: "Who Killed Otto Warmbier?" The answer is more complicated than you might think.

The World spoke with Wired reporter Andy Greenberg, who found that Russia has been using Ukraine as a testing ground for its cyberwarfare techniques since 2014.

Amid confidence that Democrat Hillary Clinton still had the election in the bag, the administration delivered warnings to Moscow but left countermeasures until after the vote.

The Family Reunions Project goes beyond seeing photos on Facebook or calling relatives over Skype. But the project's creators were not prepared for how people would react when they put on goggles and "visited" home.

The 142-page bill, which includes cuts to Medicaid, would end the individual mandate set up by the Affordable Car Act, which was a key component that kept the law functioning.

A 3-year-old anti-corruption probe called Operation Car Wash has advanced deep into the backrooms of Brazilian politics and business, implicating politicians from all major parties.

As a plan to overhaul America's health care system makes its way through Congress, we take a look at how one country has managed to maintain high-quality care while controlling costs.

The 23-year-old Cuban composer, director and singer didn't pay attention to Santería until she learned its music.

Christian relief worker David Eubank has taken his family to war-ravaged Mosul to rescue civilians targeted by ISIS. Eubank tells host Marco Werman about his daring missions under fire and his occasional self-doubt.

Despite not speaking Spanish, nor having ever visited her husband’s native country, Andrea Hernández packed up her four kids and decided to move to El Salvador.

The World's Marco Werman wanted to get a taste of what the people who patrol our waters do, and what their job is like these days. So he joined the Coast Guard on patrol at their base, right here in Boston harbor.

The young prince already wielded huge power before he became heir, spearheading a sweeping economic and social reform program for the ultraconservative kingdom.

More Indiana factory jobs that President Trump tried to save are heading for Mexico.

What’s the difference between the 2017 Women’s March, and the 1963 March on Washington? Zeynep Tufekci explores protests in an internet age.

Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Muslim high school student from northern Virginia, was murdered this week after late-night prayers at a mosque. The crime has rattled American Muslims.

Climate change is slowly making parts of Antarctica turn green. New species of plants and insects are taking hold, threatening to transform the continent's delicate ecosystem.

The World's Beirut correspondent Richard Hall selected images from his reporting on the historic movement of migrants and refugees, across continents and oceans, from the past few years.

The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the US drug operation that sparked it.

“We won’t call something anti-Semitism until we really know it’s anti-Semitism."

According to the suit’s creators, it can cut the metabolic cost of a treadmill run by 5.4 percent.

Mexico’s estimated 25.6 million indigenous people are largely absent from their nation’s mainstream political life. María de Jesús Patricio Martínez aims to change that.