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1359: The evolution of an enzyme engineer who changed chemistry
Episode 1359
In nature, enzymes are the catalysts that make much of biology work. They jumpstart chemical reactions that either wouldn’t happen, or would happen s…
2 months ago
1358: Why is brain cancer so hard to treat?
Episode 1358
Brain cancers are rare, but devastating. Patients face short life expectancies after diagnosis. Brain tumors are often impossible to remove completel…
2 months, 1 week ago
1357: How can astronaut food be better?
Episode 1357
Astronaut food is not known as a frontier of culinary imagination, unless you count rehydrated shrimp cocktail. As NASA prepares for longer trips to …
2 months, 1 week ago
1356: The reality of living with extreme heat in India
Episode 1356
At one point this year, the 50 hottest cities on the planet were all in one country: India. The average peak temperature in those cities was 112 F. I…
2 months, 1 week ago
1355: Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time
Episode 1355
About 130 days a year, a research vessel leaves Miami and sets out to catch, measure, sample, tag, and release sharks in Florida’s coastal waters. Ov…
2 months, 1 week ago
1354: The Black women codebreakers of the Cold War
Episode 1354
During the early Cold War era, the United States Army and later the NSA began recruiting and training codebreakers and intelligence officers to decip…
2 months, 1 week ago
1353: Asha de Vos’ journey from deck hand to marine science leader
Episode 1353
The tropical waters of Sri Lanka, an island off the coast of India, are home to a population of blue whales unlike any other. These whales stay put, …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1352: Why worry about my data If I have nothing to hide?
Episode 1352
In the last couple months, Vermont, Alabama, and Oklahoma have passed data privacy laws. Massachusetts is negotiating its own version. Meanwhile, con…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1351: Peering through dust clouds to the center of the galaxy
Episode 1351
In 2020, Andrea Ghez shared the Nobel Prize for her observations of a supermassive compact object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy—an object tha…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1350: 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…
2 months, 2 weeks ago