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Why a paper about relocating coastal communities hit a nerve
Episode 1350
Back in May, a paper published in Nature Sustainability reignited a decades-old debate about coastal Louisiana: Should people leave? Climate research…
4 weeks ago
How do you piece together what life was like in Pompeii?
Episode 1349
Pompeii is known for its disastrous end with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but for archeologists, what came before is just as interesting. Research…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Hold the lettuce: Updates on the 'explosive' cyclospora outbreak
Episode 1348
An outbreak of the foodborne illness cyclosporiasis has sent thousands of people running to the bathroom this summer. Health officials have linked th…
1 month ago
A space telescope launch + Alvin submersible check-up
Episode 1347
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for an early launch at the end of August. It will rest about a million miles from Earth at Lagrang…
1 month ago
How does a tick bite cause a red meat allergy?
Episode 1346
For two decades, a perplexing illness has been spreading: After a lone-star tick bite, people find themselves with a severe allergic reaction to red …
1 month ago
What will our reaction be when we discover aliens?
Episode 1345
One of the most irresistible questions in sci-fi stories about aliens is what our reaction will be when we learn of their existence. Horror? Bewilder…
1 month ago
Beautiful botflies, luscious leeches, and the wonder of parasites
Episode 1344
Dino Martins has plucked maggots out of a dead elephant, pulled botflies out of camel snot, and willingly let a horsefly feast on him. Why? Because h…
1 month ago
China's booming biotech, from a brain implant to drug discovery
Episode 1343
In March, China became the first country to approve an invasive brain-computer interface beyond clinical trials. The implant, called NEO, is now avai…
1 month ago
Reconnecting with the night sky and reining in light pollution
Episode 1342
What happens when the skies are no longer dark at night? Writer Craig Childs biked from the brightest night sky, to the darkest, to find out what we …
1 month, 1 week ago
Amid shifting politics, can we build stable global health systems?
Episode 1341
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has become the third-largest on record. And while the regional response is …
1 month, 1 week ago