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How AI Is Speeding Up Scientific Discoveries
Episode 966
Artificial intelligence can code computer programs, draw pictures and even take notes for doctors. Now, researchers are excited about the possibility…
3 years ago
The Microbiologist Studying The Giant Floating Petri Dish In Space
Episode 965
Microbiologist Monsi Roman joined NASA in 1989 to help design the International Space Station. As the chief microbiologist for life support systems o…
3 years ago
Florida Corals Are Dying. Can A 'Coral Gym' Help Them Survive?
Episode 964
Coral reefs in Florida have lost an estimated 90% of their corals in the last 40 years. And this summer, a record hot marine heat wave hit Florida's …
3 years ago
Choose Your Own Adventure — But Make It Math
Episode 963
Ever read those Choose Your Own Adventure books of the '80s and '90s? As a kid, mathematician Pamela Harris was hooked on them. Years later she reali…
3 years ago
Body Electric: The Body Through The Ages
Episode 962
Being inside, hunching in front of a computer screen for hours at a time – these things take a toll on our minds and our bodies. Today on the show, …
3 years ago
It's Fat Bear Week!
Episode 961
Y'all, it's the most wonderful time of the year: Fat Bear Week! Brown bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve are putting on the pounds before th…
3 years ago
Why Chilean Mummies Are Decomposing After 7,000 Years
Episode 960
Here on Short Wave, we're getting into the Halloween spirit a little early with a look at the world's oldest mummies. They're found in modern-day nor…
3 years ago
Seaweed is piling up on beaches. This robot might be its match
Episode 959
A new robot is designed to sink sargassum before the stinky seaweed comes ashore. Blooms of sargassum, a leafy brown seaweed, have increased in size …
3 years ago
The Tiny Worm At The Heart Of Regeneration Science
Episode 958
A tiny worm that regenerates entire organs. A South American snail that can regrow its eyes. A killifish that suspends animation in dry weather and r…
3 years, 1 month ago
Osiris-REx and the quest to understand the solar system's origin
Episode 957
In 2016, NASA launched a spacecraft to do something rarely attempted before: Collect space rocks from a potentially dangerous asteroid. The mission, …
3 years, 1 month ago