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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…
8 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…
8 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,…
8 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…
8 months, 3 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…
9 months 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…
9 months 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…
9 months ago
What’s Next For China’s Space Program?
Episode 1054
This week, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft sent back its first image from space. It’s headed to a rendezvous with the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, one of Earth…
9 months ago
The Ruin And Redemption Of The American Prairie
Episode 1053
The prairie might just be the most underappreciated landscape in the United States. Beginning in the early 1800s, the majority of these grasslands we…
9 months ago
Bedbugs Have Been Bugging Us Since Before Beds
Episode 1052
Bedbug infestations are not just a modern problem—these pests have been with early human ancestors for 245,000 years, causing problems long before th…
9 months, 1 week ago