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Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?
Sep 05, 2024The latest in our series on global equity in science, and how better memory helps chickadees live longer First up this week, as part of our series on global equity in science, Contributing Correspond...
A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism
Aug 29, 2024First up this week on the podcast, the latest conservation news with Staff Writer Erik Stokstad. Stokstad and host Sarah Crespi talk about the fate of snow crabs in the Bering Sea, how much we have be...
Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote
Aug 22, 2024First up this week on the show, uncounted kilometers of fences are strung across the globe. Researchers know they interfere with wildlife migrations and sometimes make finding food and safety difficul...
The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise
Aug 15, 2024First up this week, Deputy News Editors Elizabeth Culotta and Shraddha Chakradhar join host Sarah Crespi to talk about the launch of a new series highlighting the latest in postcolonial science. They ...
The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine
Aug 08, 2024Researchers debate if humidity makes heat more deadly, and finding excess diabetes cases in Ukrainian people that were born right after the 1930s famine First up this week, which is worse: the heat o...
Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy
Aug 01, 2024First up this week, we hear about caves on the Moon, a shake-up at Pompeii, and the iron-lined teeth of the Komodo dragon. Reporter Phie Jacobs joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss these news stories an...
Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots
Jul 25, 2024Tackling air pollution—indoors and outdoors, how burned-up satellites in the atmosphere could destroy ozone, and the latest in our series of books on a future to look forward to First up this week, S...
New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game
Jul 18, 2024First up this week, Staff Writer Adrian Cho talks with host Sarah Crespi about a fusion company that isn’t aiming for net energy. Instead, it’s looking to sell off the high-energy neutrons from its fu...
How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations
Jul 11, 2024Rodenticides are building up inside unintended targets, including birds, mammals, and insects; and bringing bioacoustics and artificial intelligence together for ecology First up this week, producer ...
What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer
Jul 04, 2024First up this week, guest host Kevin McLean talks to freelance writer Andrew Zaleski about recent advancements in the world of synthetic blood. They discuss some of the failed attempts over the past c...