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Sea Camp: Is Better Human Health Hidden In The Sea?
Jul 21, 2025For this week's Sea Camp, we're diving below the ocean's surface to explore the sunlight zone, the portion of ocean that's 0-200 meters deep. Here, we zoom in on some spineless inhabitants envied for ...
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
Jul 18, 2025Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this essential American service survive and thrive. Visit donate.npr.org now. To manage podcast ad preferenc...
These Scientists Are Using AI To Listen To Frogs
Jul 18, 2025If you were a miner in California during the Gold Rush, you might have dined on a California red-legged frog. The largest native frog in the western United States, this Golden State denizen used to be...
Who Is Using The 988 Crisis Line?
Jul 16, 2025The National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — 988 — launched on this day exactly three years ago. People who call the line seeking support are connected to a local network of crisis centers and a trained...
How Realistic Are Movie Dinosaurs?
Jul 15, 2025Jurassic Park: Rebirth is the latest installment in the Jurassic World series. And while dinosaur paleontologist Matt Lamanna has loved dinos — and the Jurassic Park franchise — his whole life, he say...
These Critters Call The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Home
Jul 14, 2025For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five gigantic garbage patches in the sea. These patches hang out at the nexus of the...
Meet the Third Ever (!!) Interstellar Comet
Jul 11, 2025A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known...
Evolution Went On Trial 100 Years Ago. Where Are We Now?
Jul 09, 2025This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" — where a teacher was charged with the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At the time, it was illeg...
Sea Camp: Why Are Ocean Currents Shifting?
Jul 07, 2025A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use of fos...
Why Dew Point Is This Summer's 'It Girl'
Jul 04, 2025Happy Independence Day, Short Wavers! Do you have plans outdoors this weekend and want to figure out just how swampy it's gonna feel? For that kind of mental preparation, we're revisiting an episode i...