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The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH
Apr 10, 2025First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big changes in science funding and government jobs this month, including an order to cut billions in co...
Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
Apr 03, 2025Geoengineering experiments face an uphill battle, and a way to combat the pregnancy complication hyperemesis gravidarum First up on the podcast, climate engineers face tough conversations with the pu...
Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots
Mar 27, 2025First up this week, urban wildfires raged in Los Angeles in January. Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall discusses how researchers have come together to study how pollution from buildings at su...
Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea
Mar 20, 2025First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss stories from the sea, including why scientists mounted cameras on seabirds, backward and upside-down; newly dis...
Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH
Mar 13, 2025First up this week, science policy editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the latest news about the National Institutes of Health—from reconfiguring review panels to canceled grants ...
Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker
Mar 06, 2025First up this week, International News Editor David Malakoff joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the most recent developments in U.S. science under Donald Trump’s second term, from the impact of tariff...
Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home
Feb 27, 2025First up this week, Kata Karáth, a freelance journalist based in Ecuador, talks with host Sarah Crespi about an effort to identify traditionally prepared shrunken heads in museums and collections arou...
Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability
Feb 20, 2025First up this week, researchers face impossible decisions as U.S. aid freeze halts clinical trials. Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how organizers of U.S. Agen...
Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants
Feb 13, 2025First up this week, International News Editor David Malakoff joins the podcast to discuss the big change in NIH’s funding policy for overhead or indirect costs, the outrage from the biomedical communi...
How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth
Feb 06, 2025First up this week, Staff Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss mapping clogs and flows in Earth’s middle layer—the mantle. They also talk about recent policy stories on NASA’s reactio...