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A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports
Staff Writer Robert Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about a different approach to COVID-19 testing that might be useful in response to the high …
5 years, 4 months ago
Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel
Staff Writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the risk of the novel coronavirus infection to pregnant women. Early data suggest exp…
5 years, 5 months ago
Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint
Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his editorial on preventing vaccine hesitancy during the coronavirus pandemic…
5 years, 5 months ago
How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution
Contributing Correspondent Dennis Normile talks about a long-term study involving the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Seventy-five …
5 years, 5 months ago
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation
Contributing correspondent Gretchen Vogel talks about what can be learned from schools around the world that have reopened during the coronavirus pan…
5 years, 5 months ago
A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood
Contributing correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about the success of a fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments. Th…
5 years, 6 months ago
An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat
First up this week, News Intern Rodrigo Pérez-Ortega talks with host Meagan Cantwell about an oasis of biodiversity in the striking blue pools of Cua…
5 years, 6 months ago
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies how ocean waves disperse virus-laden aerosols, joins…
5 years, 6 months ago
Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses
Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Mervis joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how universities are dealing with the financial crunch brought on by the co…
5 years, 6 months ago
The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild
Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the ins and outs of coronavirus contact tracing apps—what they do, how they work, an…
5 years, 7 months ago