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Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut
Apr 18, 2024A different source of global warming, signs of a continentwide tradition of human sacrifice, and a virus that attacks the cholera bacteria First up on the show this week, clearer skies might be acce...
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene
Apr 11, 2024]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and what it takes to turn a symbiotic friend into an organelle First up on the show this week, clinical tr...
When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?
Apr 04, 2024Tracing the arrival of rats using bones, isotopes, and a few shipwrecks; and what scientists have learned in 50 years about our famous ancestor Lucy First on the show: Did rats come over with Christ...
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career
Mar 28, 2024Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters section First on this week’s show, a robot that can predict your smile. Hod Lipson, a roboticist and professor at Colum...
Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
Mar 21, 2024New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests when a conventional and organic farm are neighbors First up on this week’s show, a new treatment to s...
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain
Mar 14, 2024Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain This week we have two neuroscience stories. First up, freelance science journalist Sara R...
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
Mar 07, 2024What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticity First up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk about a l...
The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change
Feb 29, 2024Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the body First up this week, a new approach to slowing climate cha...
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
Feb 22, 2024On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting First up on the show this week, news from this year’s annua...
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication
Feb 15, 2024Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Ch...