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Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money
Jun 27, 2024Guest host Meagan Cantwell talks to Staff Writer Erik Stokstad about a new weapon against crop-destroying beetles. By making pesticides using RNA, farmers can target pests and their close relatives, l...
The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution
Jun 20, 2024On this week’s show: Scientists are expanding the hunt for habitable exoplanets to bigger worlds, and why improvements in air quality have stagnated in Los Angeles, especially during summer, despite c...
How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice
Jun 13, 2024On 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 gives clues to ancient Maya rituals and malaria’s gl...
Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up
Jun 06, 2024Despite not having a known function, cellular “vaults” are on the verge of being harnessed for all kinds of applications, and looking at the evolution of brown fat into a heat-generating organ First...
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials
May 30, 2024Studying 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 series this year First on this week’s show, Staff...
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud
May 23, 2024A 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, Online News Editor Dave Grimm joins host Sarah C...
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters
May 16, 2024On 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 show this week, when rogue antibodies attack the b...
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects
May 09, 2024Jupiter’s moon Io has likely been volcanically active since the start of the Solar System, and a proposal to safeguard healthy human subjects in clinical trials First on the show this week, a look at...
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice
May 02, 2024Bringing historical seismic reports and modern seismic risk maps into alignment, and a roundup of stories from our newsletter, ScienceAdviser First on the show this week, a roundup of stories with o...
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series
Apr 25, 2024Researchers try to identify effective loneliness interventions, making the Sandmeyer safer, and books that look to the future and don’t see doom and gloom First up on the show, Deputy News Editor Ke...