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Arts Week: Harnessing Bacteria For Art
Episode 791
Pull out your art supplies because it's time to get crafty—with agar! We're beginning Arts Week at the intersection of biology and art. Therein lies a creative medium that's actually alive. Scientist…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Happy Thanksgiving, All!
Episode 790
Emily and Aaron wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, and explain how you can help the show. Hint: It's giving us feedback about what you love and think we could do better on the show. You can take our surv…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Three Takeaways From The COP27 Climate Conference
Episode 789
The climate meeting known as COP27 has wrapped. Representatives from almost 200 countries attended to talk about how to tackle climate change and how to pay for the costs of its effects that the worl…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
A Taste Of Lab-Grown Meat
Episode 788
The idea came to Uma Valeti while he was working on regrowing human tissue to help heart attack patients: If we can grow tissue from cells in a lab, why not use animal cells to grow meat?
Food produc…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
A Deeply Personal Race Against A Fatal Brain Disease
Episode 787
In the mornings, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel's first job is to get their two garrulous kids awake, fed and out the door to daycare and kindergarten. They then reconvene at the office and turn thei…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Science Couldn't Save Her, So She Became A Scientist
Episode 786
The first time Sonia Vallabh understood something was very wrong with her mother Kamni was on the phone on her mom's 52nd birthday. She wasn't herself. By the end of that year, after about six months…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Killer Proteins: The Science Of Prions
Episode 785
Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prions don't contain genes, and yet they make more of …
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Where Do Climate Negotiations Stand At COP27?
Episode 784
Climate negotiations continue at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Tens of thousands of attendees from around the world have gathered in the seaside resort town. They've come to discuss some of the ke…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Searching For A New Life
Episode 783
Today, we pass the mic to our colleagues at All Things Considered to share the first piece in their series on the impact of climate change, global migration and far-right politics. They begin with t…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Corey Gray Is Picking Up Cosmic Vibrations
Episode 782
A pivotal week in Corey Gray's life began with a powwow in Alberta and culminated with a piece of history: the first-ever detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars. Cor…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago