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Storm Warning: Why Hurricanes Are Growing Beyond Measure, with Michael Wehner
May 16, 2024We all know that extreme weather events like hurricanes are getting worse due to climate change, but what scientists would really like to know is: By how much worse exactly? This year a team of resear...
How To Manifest Your Future Using Neuroscience, with James Doty
May 02, 2024We've all heard the phrase "Manifest Your Destiny" when it comes to wanting that new promotion, figuring out a new career path or just trying to achieve that long-term goal. It turns out that the act ...
Why We Die—And How We Can Live Longer, with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
Apr 18, 2024They’re perhaps the oldest questions in the science: Why do we die? And could we find a way to live forever? But for decades, anti-aging research was a “backwater” of the scientific community, conside...
What Dogs Are Teaching Us About Aging, with Daniel Promislow
Apr 04, 2024Every dog owner has faced the hard realization that their dog won’t live as long as they do, but we’ve all probably wondered: Why do some dogs live longer than others? It turns out that several factor...
Where Has Alzheimer’s Research Gone Wrong? with Karl Herrup
Mar 21, 2024For more than a century, scientists have been studying Alzheimer’s disease and developing theories about its underlying cause. The leading theory for decades has been that abnormal amyloid plaques in ...
Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitoes Could Help Save Lives, With Scott O'Neill
Mar 07, 2024Mosquito-borne diseases are one of the greatest global health threats, infecting around 700 million people every year with Zika virus, dengue fever, malaria and yellow fever — which can all be deadly ...
Why Shaming Other Countries Often Backfires, with Rochelle Terman
Feb 22, 2024How do you stop a government from continuing to commit human rights abuses? You could take them to an international court of justice, or file a complaint at the UN. But none of those bodies have any e...
Can Trump Legally Be President?, with William Baude
Feb 06, 2024The Supreme Court’s decision on whether Colorado can take former President Donald Trump off the ballot in the 2024 election may be one of the most consequential in its history. The case will turn on t...
What Our Hand Gestures Reveal About Our Thoughts, with Susan Goldin-Meadow
Jan 25, 2024Language shapes our world. But when we speak, there is actually a secret conversation happening beyond our words. It’s happening not with our mouths—but with our hands. Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow is a ...
Psychedelics Without Hallucinations: A New Mental Health Treatment? with David E. Olson
Jan 11, 2024The United States is facing a real mental health crisis. In the last few years, one possible treatment has gotten a lot of press: psychedelic drugs. But what is actually happening in a person’s brain ...