Red wolves are being reintroduced to the wilds of North Carolina. The animal once ranged throughout the southeast and as far north as Pennsylvania. The effort is hailed as the first successful reintroduction of a predator that had been declared extinct in the wild. But the program has its critics. From Chapel Hill, North Carolina, […]
Human disease can often be chalked up to both our genes and the environment. But, just how these two factors conspire with each other is poorly understood. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences wants to shed light on that complex interplay through a new effort dubbed the Environmental Genome Project. A Human Genome Project […]
The Takeaway discusses the future of vacation with Eric Jones, an IT director who rarely takes time off, Eric Berridge, co-founder of Bluewolf, a company that offers unlimited vacation, and Kari Henley, board director at the Women and Family Life Center.