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Data Centers, Icy Moons And Chameleons
It’s another news roundup! This time, we cover how, using data analytics – and ironically, some AI – a team at Cornell University has mapped the envi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Future Of Immune Health Might Be Here
David Ewing Duncan has spent the last 25 years being poked and prodded in the name of science. He’s signed up for hundreds of tests because, as a jou…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
What Space Dust Reveals About Earth's Ice Age
Episode 1376
Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from asteroids and comets colliding…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Do Birth Control Side Effects Make It Worth Skipping?
Episode 1375
Recently, health influencers on Instagram and TikTok have been vocal about the side effects of hormonal birth control. Check out the most popular vid…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Fall foliage is still a mystery: Why do some leaves turn red?
Scientists know why leaves turn yellow in the fall: Chlorophyll breaks down, revealing the yellow pigment that was there all along. But red? Red is a…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Why Some Species Survive Mass Extinctions
Episode 1373
Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eru…
6 months ago
The Secrets Everyday Rocks Keep
Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says geologist Anjana Khatwa,…
6 months ago
Elections: A Big Math Problem
Ahead of Election Day tomorrow, millions of ballots are being cast in statewide, local and special elections. So, today, we're revisiting an episode …
6 months ago
This Week In Science: Spiders, TV Pixels And Storytelling
Episode 1370
Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR’s Ailsa Chang on a de…
6 months ago
Like Being Scared? Here’s Why
Like haunted houses? Scientists do! That’s because they’re an excellent place to study how humans respond to – and even actively seek out – fear. In …
6 months ago