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1061: How Scientists Made The First Gene-Editing Treatment For A Baby
Episode 1061
Last month, scientists reported a historic first: they gave the first personalized gene-editing treatment to a baby who was born with a rare life-thr…
1 year, 3 months ago
1060: Ancient Bone Proteins May Offer Insight On Megafauna Extinction
Episode 1060
Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like…
1 year, 3 months ago
1044: 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…
1 year, 3 months ago
1059: 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
1058: 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,…
1 year, 4 months ago
1057: 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
1056: 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
1043: 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
1055: 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
1054: 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…
1 year, 4 months ago