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Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Fl…
5 years ago
Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions
Most research on aging has been done on model organisms with limited life spans, such as flies and worms. Host Meagan Cantwell talks to science write…
5 years ago
COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities
Science News Staff Writer Kelly Servick discusses how physicians have sifted through torrents of scientific results to arrive at treatments for SARS-…
5 years ago
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills
Science Staff Writer Adrian Cho joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about plans for the next generation of gravitational wave detectors—including one wit…
5 years ago
The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color
Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a 2000-year-old pet cemetery found in the Egyptian city of Berenice an…
5 years ago
Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
First up, science journalist Julia Rosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about a growing fleet of radar satellites that will soon be able to detect minu…
5 years, 1 month ago
All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets
Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to take on some of big questions about the COVID-19 vaccines, such as: Do they stop transmissi…
5 years, 1 month ago
Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess
Science journalist Rachel Cernansky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall project and the important difference …
5 years, 1 month ago
Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing
This week we’re dedicating the whole show to the 20th anniversary of the publication of the human genome. Today, about 30 million people have had the…
5 years, 1 month ago
Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps
On its first day, the new Biden administration announced plans to recalculate the social cost of carbon—a way of estimating the economic toll of gree…
5 years, 2 months ago