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The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research
Jul 16, 2025Come with Science Quickly on a field trip to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Host Rachel Feltman is joined by Matthew E...
This Surgery Can Lead to Weight Loss—But Stigma Is Harder to Shake Off
Jul 14, 2025Each year more than half a million people undergo bariatric surgery, a procedure geared toward weight loss. But research shows that stigma around weight can continue to affect people’s lives even duri...
Why Do We Sing? Musicologists and Neuroscientists Seek an Answer
Jul 11, 2025Last year Science Quickly looked across disciplines to piece apart the science of singing. To understand why humans sing, musicologists collaborated on an international study of folk music. To underst...
What Does an Ailing Coral Reef Sound Like?
Jul 09, 2025Sick coral reefs are visually striking—bleached and lifeless, far from the vibrancy we’ve come to expect. But what does an unhealthy coral system sound like? In this rerun, conservation bioacoustics r...
An Astronaut Shares His Passion for Space Photography—Live, from the ISS Cupola
Jul 07, 2025Ten months ago Science Quickly made space history by conducting the first-ever live interview from the cupola of the International Space Station (ISS). Astronaut Matthew Dominick spoke with Rachel Fel...
Move Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the Skies
Jul 02, 2025Drone shows are replacing fireworks for summer celebrations. They’re safer and more environmentally friendly but complicated to program and run. A recent preprint paper proposes an algorithmic solutio...
Talking to the Host of Drilled about the Legal Battles around Standing Rock
Jun 30, 2025Protests around the construction of the now complete Dakota Access Pipeline brought national attention to Energy Transfer, the company that built and owns the pipeline and funded private security agai...
How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)
Jun 27, 2025Creating a bird flu vaccine requires several layers of bioprotective clothing and typically a whole lot of eggs. H5N1 avian influenza infections have gone from flocks of chickens to herds of cattle an...
Bird Flu’s Jump to Cattle Took Dairy Farmers by Surprise (Part 2)
Jun 25, 2025Dairy cattle have become an intermediary between avian influenza found in wild birds and the handful of recorded H5N1 bird flu cases in humans. Senior news reporter Meghan Bartels took a trip upstate ...
How Bird Flu Went from an Isolated Avian Illness to a Human Pandemic Threat (Part 1)
Jun 23, 2025Bird flu outbreaks in poultry and cattle have caused concern for public health officials. There have been few reported cases of human transmission, but the growing risks of H5N1 avian influenza have v...