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Maureen Hanley reports on the efforts of Irish Radio (RTE) to reserve their deteriorating collection of field recordings of traditional Irish usic. Some of the recordings date back to the 1920's, and are in the process of eing digitaly re-mastered.

Human cloning is back in the news with announcements by two groups that they are ready to try cloning a human. But as NPR's Joe Palca reports, most other researchers in the field think these claims are scientifically premature, to say the least.

They're not the remains of the lost city of Atlantis, but scientists believe the discovery of a field giant columns rising from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean will yield new information about the history of our planet. NPR's Joe Palca has a report.

Actions related to housing development at Beech Street and Shelbourne Avenue, and updates to plans at Carden Springs were all approved at Monday's town council meeting.

Some of the tens of thousands of seeds stored at a facility in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley may hold keys to helping the planet's food supply adapt to climate change. Many seeds were saved from Syria's war.

There's still a week's worth of medals to be handed out, as competitions ramp up in track and field, soccer and boxing. The excitement has yet to begin in breaking, Taekwondo and weightlifting.

Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.

For the past 15 years, writer Brian Hayes has made a hobby out of studying — and photographing — the manmade. He is the author of Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape. His subject on a recent trip to Washington? Traffic lights.

The hearing is the first about Abrego Garcia's case since El Salvador's president told reporters he is not going to "smuggle a terrorist into the United States."

Mike Dubke served as White House communications director for then-President Trump's first term. He shares his thoughts on some of the possible incoming members of the next administration.