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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…
10 months, 2 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…
10 months, 2 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…
10 months, 2 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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Leap: A Scientist’s Quest To See Every Organism On Earth
Episode 1042
Manu Prakash is many things—biologist, engineer, inventor, philosopher—but what he isn’t is conventional. Following his instincts has led Manu to his…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Are We Prepared To Fight ‘The New Polio’?
Episode 1051
A mysterious disease called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been appearing in emergency rooms for about a decade. The disease has caused otherwise h…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
How Science Communication Can Step Up Amid Federal Cuts
Episode 1050
It’s a precarious time for science in the United States. Federal funding is being slashed, career scientists are being laid off, and researchers are …
10 months, 4 weeks ago