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Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question
Episode 1280
Gen Z and younger millennials are the most climate literate generations the world has ever seen. They learned about climate change in school; now, it…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Great Space Race ... With Clocks
Episode 1279
Happy Memorial Day, Short Wavers! This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right …
11 months, 1 week ago
Flamingos: The Water-Bending Physics Masters
Episode 1278
Riddle us this: Which animal is pink, curved beaked and a master of the physics required to create water tornadoes? If you guessed flamingos, you're …
11 months, 1 week ago
New Antivenom, Thanks To 200 Intentional Snake Bites
Episode 1277
What's it like to get bit by a venomous snake? "It's like a bee sting times a thousand," Tim Friede says. Tim would know. Over the past few decades, …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Will Trump Unleash Energy Dominance Or Damage?
Episode 1276
The Trump administration is rewriting policies and reducing funding for multiple agencies that handle climate change, including NOAA, EPA and FEMA. W…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Could Wormholes Exist?
Episode 1275
In science fiction, wormholes are hyperspace subway tubes linking one part of a galaxy directly to another, distant point. But could they actually ex…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Orange Cat Lovers, Rise Up!
Episode 1274
Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team. Scientists have long suspected that orange c…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How Baby Bats Learn To Eavesdrop On Dinner
Episode 1273
Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping.
"And then these frog-eating bats, for exam…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Learning A Second Language As An Adult
Becoming fluent in a second language is difficult. But for adults, is it impossible? Science says no. In this encore episode, Short Wave host Emily K…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Indicator: American Science Brain Drain
Episode 1271
Today, we're airing an episode of NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. It's about a group of people we know well: scientis…
11 months, 3 weeks ago