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3D images of galaxies will rock you (ft. Queen)
Episode 1360
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see."
There’s s…
2 weeks ago
The evolution of an enzyme engineer who changed chemistry
Episode 1359
In nature, enzymes are the catalysts that make much of biology work. They jumpstart chemical reactions that either wouldn’t happen, or would happen s…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why is brain cancer so hard to treat?
Episode 1358
Brain cancers are rare, but devastating. Patients face short life expectancies after diagnosis. Brain tumors are often impossible to remove completel…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
How can astronaut food be better?
Episode 1357
Astronaut food is not known as a frontier of culinary imagination, unless you count rehydrated shrimp cocktail. As NASA prepares for longer trips to …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The reality of living with extreme heat in India
Episode 1356
At one point this year, the 50 hottest cities on the planet were all in one country: India. The average peak temperature in those cities was 112 F. I…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time
Episode 1355
About 130 days a year, a research vessel leaves Miami and sets out to catch, measure, sample, tag, and release sharks in Florida’s coastal waters. Ov…
3 weeks ago
The Black women codebreakers of the Cold War
Episode 1354
During the early Cold War era, the United States Army and later the NSA began recruiting and training codebreakers and intelligence officers to decip…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Asha de Vos’ journey from deck hand to marine science leader
Episode 1353
The tropical waters of Sri Lanka, an island off the coast of India, are home to a population of blue whales unlike any other. These whales stay put, …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Why worry about my data If I have nothing to hide?
Episode 1352
In the last couple months, Vermont, Alabama, and Oklahoma have passed data privacy laws. Massachusetts is negotiating its own version. Meanwhile, con…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Peering through dust clouds to the center of the galaxy
Episode 1351
In 2020, Andrea Ghez shared the Nobel Prize for her observations of a supermassive compact object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy—an object tha…
3 weeks, 6 days ago