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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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut
A different source of global warming, signs of a continentwide tradition of human sacrifice, and a virus that attacks the cholera bacteria
First up o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene
]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and what it takes to turn a symbiotic friend into an orga…
1 year, 8 months ago