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Esperanto Speakers To Gather On Whidbey Island, Celebrate Language's Arts Scene

In the 1800s, a Polish doctor wished there was an easy way for his polyglot neighbors — and everyone, really — to communicate. So, he invented a language:…

What Your Phone Does On Vacation While You’re Not Looking Can Cost You

Imagine getting a $700 phone bill. It happened once to KPLU travel expert and tour guide Matthew Brumley.“I was stuck in Capetown in a cable car, heading…

UW Researchers: Tiny-Brained Fruit Flies Are Top Gun Fliers

New research out of the University of Washington shows that an insect with a brain smaller than a salt grain can take complex evasive action in flight.…

New research has traced chili peppers back to their origin in eastern Mexico.

Chili Say What? Linguistics Help Pinpoint Pepper's Origins

It turns out the first chili peppers were grown by humans in eastern Mexico. And it's not the same region where beans and corn were first grown, according to new ways of evaluating evidence.

This mouse egg (top) is being injected with genetic material from an adult cell to ultimately create an embryo — and, eventually, embryonic stem cells. The process has been difficult to do with human cells.

First Embryonic Stem Cells Cloned From A Man's Skin

Scientists based their technique on the one used to create the sheep Dolly years ago. These cells might one day be useful in treating all sorts of diseases.

Postmates appeals to workers looking for a secondary income, CEO and co-founder Bastian Lehmann says.

Can The Peer Economy Deliver Profits?

Postmates is among a group of app-powered services popping up around the U.S., with a simple promise: deliver food or merchandise in as little as an hour. But can they succeed where Kozmo.com didn't?

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