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The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy
Jul 14, 2022On this week’s show: The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope hint at the science to come, and disentangling the itch-scratch cycle After years of delays, the James Webb Space Telescope l...
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
Jul 07, 2022On this week’s show: A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank, and an attempt to improve police responsiveness to violence against women First up this week on the podcast...
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis
Jun 30, 2022On this week’s show: A boost in research ships from an unlikely source, and how the 2022 Tonga eruption shook earth, water, and air around the world For decades, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society...
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation
Jun 23, 2022On this week’s show: Whether biofuels for planes will become a reality, mitigating climate change by working with nature, and the second installment of our book series on the science of food and agric...
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits
Jun 16, 2022On this week’s show: Tracing the roots of Long Covid, and an argument against using the same DNA markers for suspects in law enforcement and in research labs for cell lines Two years into the pandemi...
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid
Jun 09, 2022Two decades after it disappeared in nature, the stunning blue Spix’s macaw will be reintroduced to its forest home, and lessons learned from Texas’s major power crisis in 2021 The Spix’s macaw was fi...
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning
Jun 02, 2022On this week’s show: Exploring the historic Maya’s astronomical knowledge and how grasshoppers clone themselves without decreasing their fitness First this week, Science contributing correspondent Jo...
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa
May 26, 2022What we learned from a seismometer on Mars, why it’s so difficult to understand the relationship between our microbes and our brains, and the first in our series of books on the science of food and ag...
Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names
May 19, 2022On this week’s show: The shadow of Milky Way’s giant black hole has been seen for the first time, and bottlenose dolphins recognize each other by signature whistles—and tastes It’s been a few years ...
Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic
May 12, 2022On this week’s show: Lipid nanoparticles served us well as tiny taxis delivering millions of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, but they aren’t optimized—yet, and why we might need inflammation to stop c...