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Babies got beat: Why rhythm might be innate
Episode 1426
Rhythm is everywhere. Even if you don’t think you have it, it’s fundamental to humans’ biological systems. Our heartbeat is rhythmic. Speech is rhyth…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
How do extreme G-forces affect Olympic bobsledders?
Episode 1425
Olympic sliding sports – bobsled, luge and skeleton – are known for their speed. Athletes chase medals down a track of ice at up to 80 or 90 mph. Wit…
3 months ago
Autism: debunking Trump claims, and what scientists still don't know
Autism has a long history of misinformation that continues to today. The Trump administration has perpetuated some of this misinformation in the last…
3 months ago
Why research into ‘forever chemicals’ includes firefighters
PFAS make pans nonstick, clothes waterproof and furniture stain resistant. They're so ubiquitous, they're even inside of us. Now, researchers are loo…
3 months ago
Lessons and failures from the Challenger space shuttle explosion
Episode 1422
On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Ch…
3 months ago
How scientists predict big winter storms
Episode 1421
This past weekend, Winter Storm Fern struck the States. Sleet, snow and ice battered Americans all the way from New Mexico to New York. Scientists pr…
3 months ago
What drives animals to your yard? It's complicated
Listener Shabnam Khan has a problem: Every time she works in her garden, she’s visited by lizards and frogs. Shabnam has lived in the metro Atlanta a…
3 months, 1 week ago
Iran offline: How a government can turn off the internet
There’s an ongoing, near-total blackout of the internet in Iran. The shutdown is part of a response by the government to ongoing protests against ris…
3 months, 1 week ago
The plight of penguins in Antarctica
Episode 1418
A new study shows penguins are breeding earlier than ever in the Antarctic Peninsula. This region is one of the fastest-warming areas of the world du…
3 months, 1 week ago
A failed galaxy could solve the dark matter mystery
Episode 1417
Cloud 9 is a failed galaxy. It’s a clump of dark matter, called a dark matter halo, that never formed stars. But this failure could be the key to a m…
3 months, 1 week ago