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Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money
Guest host Meagan Cantwell talks to Staff Writer Erik Stokstad about a new weapon against crop-destroying beetles. By making pesticides using RNA, fa…
1 year, 9 months ago
The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution
On this week’s show: Scientists are expanding the hunt for habitable exoplanets to bigger worlds, and why improvements in air quality have stagnated …
1 year, 9 months ago
How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice
On this week’s show: Companion animals such as dogs occupy the same environment we do, which can make them good sentinels for human health, and DNA g…
1 year, 9 months ago
Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up
Despite not having a known function, cellular “vaults” are on the verge of being harnessed for all kinds of applications, and looking at the evolutio…
1 year, 9 months ago
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials
Studying color vision in with children who gain sight later in life, joining a cancer trial doesn’t improve survival odds, and the first in our books…
1 year, 10 months ago
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud
A roundup of online news stories featuring animals, and researchers get crows to “count” to four
This week’s show is all animals all the time. First,…
1 year, 10 months ago
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters
On this week’s show: What happens when the body’s own immune system attacks the brain, and how otters’ use of tools expands their diet
First on the s…
1 year, 10 months ago
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects
Jupiter’s moon Io has likely been volcanically active since the start of the Solar System, and a proposal to safeguard healthy human subjects in clin…
1 year, 10 months ago
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice
Bringing historical seismic reports and modern seismic risk maps into alignment, and a roundup of stories from our newsletter, ScienceAdviser
First o…
1 year, 11 months ago
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series
Researchers try to identify effective loneliness interventions, making the Sandmeyer safer, and books that look to the future and don’t see doom and …
1 year, 11 months ago