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Should Daylight Saving Time Be Permanent?
Episode 775
Correspondent Allison Aubrey talks to host Emily Kwong about the pros and cons of adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time or year-round Standard Time.
3 years, 2 months ago
Allergic To Cats? There's Hope Yet!
Episode 774
Katie Wu is a cat person. She has two of them: twin boys named Calvin and Hobbes. But up until grad school, she couldn't be anywhere close to a cat w…
3 years, 2 months ago
Saving The Pacific Lamprey
Episode 773
Pacific lamprey have lived on Earth for about 450 million years. When humans came along, a deep relationship formed between Pacific lamprey and Nativ…
3 years, 2 months ago
Donate Your Body To Science?
Episode 772
Halloween calls to mind graveyards and the walking dead, so, naturally, Short Wave wanted to know what happens when you donate your body to real scie…
3 years, 2 months ago
100 Years Of Box Turtles
Episode 771
The common box turtle is found just about anywhere in the continental United States east of Colorado. For all their ubiquity, it's unclear how many t…
3 years, 2 months ago
He Had His Father's Voice: Tracking A Rare Bird Hybrid
Episode 770
When Steve Gosser heard the song of a scarlet tanager in the woods, he knew to look for a bright-red bird with black wings. But when he laid eyes on …
3 years, 2 months ago
The Tigray Medical System Collapse
Episode 769
The civil war in Ethiopia is destroying the medical system in the northern Tigray region, which serves nearly 7 million people. Doctors are operating…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Tigray Medical System Collapse
Episode 769
The civil war in Ethiopia is destroying the medical system in the northern Tigray region, which serves nearly 7 million people. Doctors are operating…
3 years, 2 months ago
When Autumn Leaves Start To Fall
Episode 768
Botanist and founder of #BlackBotanistsWeek Tanisha Williams explains why some leaves change color during fall and what shorter days and colder tempe…
3 years, 2 months ago
New Discoveries In Underwater Plant Sex
Episode 767
Plants living underwater can't count on pollinating insects to get it on. The prevailing theory has been that pollen moves underwater simply by float…
3 years, 2 months ago