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Why Can’t Scientists Agree On The Age Of The Universe? with Wendy Freedman
Oct 03, 2024How old is the universe—and how fast is it expanding? These are part of one of the biggest—and most contested—questions in science, and the answers could change our understanding of physics. In this e...
What Are We Getting Wrong About Young Voters?, with Cathy Cohen
Sep 19, 2024One of the biggest questions of every election is: What’s going on with young voters? There is endless speculation on the news about what young people care about, but very little good research examini...
Why Are More Women Saying No To Having Kids? With Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Sep 05, 2024More and more women in the United States are saying no to motherhood. Alarmingly, in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate reached the lowest number on record. But the idea of non-motherhood is actually not a...
How Homeownership Shaped Race In America, with Adrienne Brown
Aug 22, 2024Race has played a huge role in the creation of mass homeownership in the United States. Discriminatory housing practices including redlining, exclusionary zoning and whitewashing led to great disparit...
Fighting Back Against AI Piracy, with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng
Aug 08, 2024If you’ve spent any time playing with modern AI image generators, it can seem like an almost magical experience; but the truth is these programs are more like a magic trick than magic. Without the hum...
The Bioelectric Future of Regenerative Medicine
Jul 25, 2024In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity—electrical signals that communicate to our cells how to rebuild themselve...
Is Mindfulness The Secret To Health?
Jul 11, 2024Can you heal faster just by tricking your brain? Could you lose weight with only a change of mindset? Could you think yourself into being younger? If you think the answer to all these questions is no,...
Feeling Stuck? Here’s How To Achieve a Breakthrough, with Adam Alter
Jun 27, 2024We've all been stuck at some point in our lives — whether we've been stuck at a job and wanting to make a career change, stuck in a location and wanting to move somewhere new, or stuck in relationship...
What Makes Something Memorable (or Forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge
Jun 13, 2024There is a science to what we remember and what we don't. For instance, why do we remember certain pieces of artwork, some brands’ logos, or even people's faces? University of Chicago psychologist Wil...
Learning To Speak To Whales Using AI, with David Gruber
May 30, 2024If aliens landed on Earth tomorrow, how would we talk with them? Well, we already have a kind of creature on this planet we could attempt to talk to first, and in the last few years a team of renowned...