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New Telescope Captures The Cosmos In Groundbreaking Detail
Episode 1062
The first images from the brand new Vera C. Rubin Observatory have finally been unveiled, and they show us the cosmos like never before. The camera c…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
How Scientists Made The First Gene-Editing Treatment For A Baby
Episode 1061
Last month, scientists reported a historic first: they gave the first personalized gene-editing treatment to a baby who was born with a rare life-thr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Ancient Bone Proteins May Offer Insight On Megafauna Extinction
Episode 1060
Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Leap: You Do Realize… That’s Impossible
Episode 1044
As a grad student, Suchitra Sebastian wasn’t sure she wanted to be a physicist. But when one of her experiments gave an unexpected result, she was ho…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
What We’re Learning From The James Webb Space Telescope
Episode 1059
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) started collecting data nearly three years ago, and it has already transformed our understanding of the univers…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
How ‘Super Agers’ Stay Sharp And Active Longer Than Their Peers
Episode 1058
Ever noticed how some people get to their 80s and 90s and continue to be healthy and active? They spend their days playing mahjong, driving to lunch,…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
A Dino’s Last Dinner And Eavesdropping Birds
Episode 1057
While there are a lot of dinosaur fossils, and a lot of plant fossils, the precise connection between the two has been something of a mystery. Now, r…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
What Are The Best Practices For Prostate Cancer Screening?
Episode 1056
Last month, former President Joe Biden announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The news sparked a larger con…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Leap: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Episode 1043
Biochemist Virginia Man-Yee Lee has spent a lifetime in the lab, figuring out what happens in the brains of people with neurodegenerative diseases. S…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
RFK Jr. Reshuffles CDC Vaccine Panel With Vaccine Skeptics
Episode 1055
On Monday, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel that advises the CDC on who should get certain vaccines and wh…
7 months ago