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The goo under your fridge or air conditioner just might help fight climate change. Here’s why

If you have a drip tray under your fridge that’s filled with orange goo, you might have an organism living with you that science wants to know about. A researcher at Colorado State University is collecting samples from people’s homes that he thinks could hold solutions to climate change and pollution.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill Monday.

Rep. Liz Cheney read text messages she said Mark Meadows got during the Jan. 6 siege

In the messages, Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity urge Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

Guy Raz

Guy Raz is the host, co-creator, and editorial director of three NPR programs, including two of its most popular ones: TED Radio Hour and How I Built This.Both shows are heard by more than 14 million people each month around the world. He is also the creator and co-host of NPR's first-ever podcast for kids, Wow In The World.

Mariah Carey and K-pop group Stray Kids rule this week's charts

Holiday music rules the pop charts once again this week, as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" scores its 17th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 — the third longest run of all time.

Former Trump administration advisor Steve Bannon surrenders at the FBI Washington Field Office in Washington, DC on Monday. He's been charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.

Steve Bannon threatens vengeance after surrendering on criminal contempt charges

Former President Donald Trump's onetime top adviser surrendered to federal authorities Monday. Bannon was indicted last week for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Who Are The Power Players In Colorado's Political Funding?

Corporations and billionaires – and their extravagant contributions to the presidential campaigns – have drawn the most national attention this year in…

"I've oftentimes been the only woman in a big band, the only woman backstage, the only woman in a studio; but I'm happy to say, I think that is changing," says musician, producer and artist manager Briana Harris. She's a participant in Project Traction, a new nonprofit that aims to boost the number of women and nonbinary people in production roles in the music industry.

Women hold a fraction of music industry jobs. A new program seeks to change that

Data shows just a small fraction of people in the music industry are women, especially in studio jobs like audio production. A new nonprofit aims to change that – and their newest venture is focused on Northern Colorado artists. On In The NoCo, we talk with local musician Briana Harris about the project, and why it matters.

A proposed drilling project in Weld County would bore five miles under the town of Erie. It has the town's residents enraged and the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission recently stepped in to put a stay on the project. Extraction Oil & Gas — the company proposing the project — must now investigate a second possible site before a decision is made.

How Erie residents pushed back against a drilling project that would have reached 5 miles beneath the town

A proposed drilling pad near Erie would bore 5 miles underneath the town. In a recent hearing, residents expressed their outrage at a project that could endanger their health and their town’s wellbeing. The state stepped in and postponed the project... but residents still don’t know what will happen. KUNC’s Rae Solomon spoke about this controversy on today’s In the NoCo.

This photo shows John Ingold, a health care reporter for The Colorado Sun, wearing a light blue button-down shirt and smiling for the camera with a white background behind him.

Yes, Colorado has three different lab testing scandals. Here’s what you need to know

Colorado officials in recent months have investigated three different scandals involving problems with laboratory tests. Two of them involve monitoring for water contamination, and one involved tainted DNA tests in criminal cases. So how concerned should Colorado residents be? We dig into what’s happening, today on In The NoCo.

A woman and three men, all engineers from the Colorado School of Mines and Orbital Mining Corporation, work on a prototype of an electrical grid being developed to power infrastructure on the surface of the moon.

An electrical grid on the moon? Colorado School of Mines students work with NASA to make it possible

Humans living on the moon may be far off in the future. But the ability to provide power to that lunar colony is at least one step closer to reality, after two researchers from the Colorado School of Mines developed a working prototype of an electrical grid that can survive the harsh conditions on the moon. We’ll hear how it works on today's In The NoCo.

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