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Everything You Never Knew About Squash And Pumpkins
Episode 647
It’s a wonderful time of the year: squash, pumpkin, and gourd season. But how do those giant, award-winning pumpkins grow so big? And what’s the diff…
2 years, 2 months ago
How A University Is Adjusting One Year After ChatGPT
Episode 644
One year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot that can generate shockingly convincing text. Since then, it has become a center of gr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Euclid Telescope’s First Images | A Black Hole That Came From Gas
Episode 646
A new ESA telescope could help us understand how dark matter and dark energy influence the structure of the universe. Also, using both JWST and the C…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Five Elements Define Life On Earth
Episode 642
Over 99% of a human cell is made up of just five elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus. That same elemental mix exists, with m…
2 years, 2 months ago
Climate Future Exhibit | Oregon's Proposed Fish Vacuum
Episode 639
A Climate Change Exhibit Asks ‘What If We Get It Right?’
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and co-founder of the nonprofit Urban Ocean L…
2 years, 2 months ago
How A Deaf Advisory Group Is Changing Healthcare
Episode 641
When Tamiko Rafeek admitted herself to the hospital a few years ago, she asked for an interpreter. “I was feeling very, very sick that day,” she reca…
2 years, 2 months ago
40 Years Of Sounding The Alarm On Nuclear Winter
Episode 643
This week holds anniversaries for two important milestones in nuclear warfare. On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated a massive hydrogen bo…
2 years, 2 months ago
CRISPR-Based Sickle Cell Treatment | Pain Tolerance From Neanderthals
Episode 640
If given final approval by the FDA, this sickle-cell treatment would be the first to use gene-editing CRISPR technology on humans. Also, gene variant…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Poisons Have Shaped Life On Earth
Episode 637
When you think of poisons, you might think of chemicals like cyanide, arsenic, or the deadly concoction left out for rats. But have you thought of ac…
2 years, 2 months ago
Placenta Research May Help Explain Pregnancy Loss
Episode 635
Content warning: This interview includes discussion of miscarriage and pregnancy loss, and may be triggering for some listeners.
The placenta is an in…
2 years, 2 months ago