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Beavers Can Help With Climate Change. So How Do We Get Along?
Episode 1053
NPR's Tom Dreisbach is back in the host chair for a day. This time, he reports on a story very close to home: The years-long battle his parents have …
2 years ago
Sustainable Seafood Is All Around You — If You Know Where To Look
Episode 1052
Roughly 196 million tons of fish were harvested in 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The organization a…
2 years ago
An 11-Year-old Unearthed Fossils Of The Largest Known Marine Reptile
Episode 1051
When the dinosaurs walked the Earth, massive marine reptiles swam. Among them, a species of Ichthyosaur that measured over 80 feet long. Today, we lo…
2 years ago
The Nightmarish Worm That Lived 25 Million Years Longer Than Researchers Thought
Episode 1050
500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. During this period of time, known as the Cambrian period, basically all life was in the …
2 years ago
How The Brain Experiences Pleasure — Even The Kind That Makes Us Feel Guilty
Episode 1049
We've all been there: You sit down for one episode of a reality TV show, and six hours later you're sitting guiltily on the couch, blinking the scree…
2 years ago
What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water
Episode 1048
Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency announced new drinking water standards to limit people's exposure to some PFAS chemicals. For decades, …
2 years ago
The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality
Episode 1047
It's National Siblings Day! To mark the occasion, guest host Selena Simmons-Duffin is exploring a detail very personal to her: How the number of olde…
2 years ago
How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball
Episode 1046
It's baseball season! And when we here at Short Wave think of baseball, we naturally think of physics. To get the inside scoop on the physics of base…
2 years, 1 month ago
The "Barcodes" Powering These Tiny Songbirds' Memories May Also Help Human Memory
Episode 1045
Tiny, black-capped chickadees have big memories. They stash food in hundreds to thousands of locations in the wild – and then come back to these stas…
2 years, 1 month ago
How To Make The Most Of Next Week's Solar Eclipse
Episode 1044
On April 8, the moon will slip in front of the sun, blocking its light and creating an eerie twilight in the middle of the day. Stars will come out, …
2 years, 1 month ago