Science Friday

Best Science Books Of 2021, Glitter Bad For Environment. December 31, 2021, Part 1

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Glitter Gets An Eco-Friendly Glimmer Glitter—it’s everywhere this time of year. You open up a holiday card, and out comes a sprinkle of it. And th...

American Chestnut, ‘Don’t Look Up’ Movie, Aurora Electrons. December 24, 2021, Part 1

24 Dec 2021

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The Resurrection Of The American Chestnut At the turn of the 20th century, the American chestnut towered over other trees in forests along the eastern...

Looking Back On A Century Of Science, Holiday Math. December 24, 2021, Part 2

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Looking Back On A Century of Science In 1921, the discovery of radium was just over 20 years in the past. And the double helix of DNA was still over t...

Big Trees, Masks And Singing, Capturing Holiday Scents, Unseen Body. Dec 17, 2021, Part 2

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Big Trees, Big Benefits When you think about big trees, likely what comes to mind are some of the Earth’s biggest trees, like giant sequoias or redw...

James Webb Space Telescope, Vaccination And Church, Maine Puffins. Dec 17, 2021, Part 1

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Spike In Winter COVID Cases Begins The United States reached a grim milestone this week: 800,000 total deaths from COVID-19. A winter spike in COVID...

Vocal Fry, Indigenous Tribes And The Colorado River, Year In Space. December 10, 2021, Part 2

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Why Of Vocal Fry For decades, vocal fry lived a relatively quiet existence. A creaky or breathy sound that occurs when your voice drops to its low...

Michael Pollan On Mind-Altering Plants, A Second Pandemic Winter. December 10, 2021, Part 1

10 Dec 2021

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How America Is Preparing For Another Pandemic Winter The weather is getting colder, the days are getting shorter, and the world is approaching the two...

Omicron Variant, Quantum Computing, Xenobots, SciFri Trivia. Dec 3, 2021, Part 2

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Decoding Quantum Computing The computer chips that are delivering these words to you work on a simple, binary, on/off principle. There’s either a vo...

Ralph Nader On 55 Years Of Car Safety, Spinal Cord Research, Omicron And Travel Bans. Dec 3, 2021, Part 1

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Travel Bans Do Little To Slow Spread Of Omicron After South African researchers first detected the new COVID variant Omicron last week, it’s alread...

Futuristic Freezing, Koji, Cheese Microbiome, Wine-Bottle Resonators. November 26, 2021, Part 1

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

New Cold Storage Method Solves Freezer Burn—And Saves Energy Have you ever pulled a long-anticipated pint of ice cream out of the freezer, only to f...

Candy COVID Test, Ig Nobel Prizes 2021. November 26, 2021, Part 2

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A More Delicious COVID Screener One of the most bizarre symptoms of COVID-19—a nearly surefire way to know if you have been infected—is a loss of ...

Thanksgiving Food Science, Force of Infection, Food Inequality. Nov 19, 2021, Part 2

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Blunting The Force Of Disease Is Complicated  COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease. But their efficacy in lab-controll...

Picking Right COVID Test For Holidays, “Big Bang Theory” Of Cancer. Nov 19, 2021, Part 1

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s How Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Addresses Science President Joe Biden signed a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill into law this Monday....

Mammoth Pool Fire, Fun Squirrel Facts, Soil Importance. Nov 12 2021, Part 2

12 Nov 2021

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As Wildfire Intensity Rises, So Does The Human Toll Of Blazes It was Labor Day 2020, and Mammoth Pool Reservoir, in California’s Sierra Nevada, was ...

Psychedelics Can Treat Depression, Climate Meeting, Dopesick Show. Nov 12 2021, Part 1

12 Nov 2021

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Psilocybin Effective In Treating Serious Depression Depression is often treatable with medication, therapy, or a combination of the two. But some 30% ...

Kids Under 12 Vaccine, Reduced Cow Methane From Seaweed Diet, Lost SciFri Theme Song. November 5, 2021, Part 2

06 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fact Check My Feed: More Kids Can Get COVID-19 Vaccines. Now What? Many parents around the U.S. breathed a sigh of relief—or an even more intense em...

30 Years Of Science Friday, Kansas’ Wind Energy Plan, Vaccinating Kids Under 12. November 5, 2021, Part 1

06 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Behind The FDA’s Decision To Vaccinate Kids Under 12 This week, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 12 was officially recommended by the CDC,...

Kids Next For Pfizer Vaccine, Side-Channel Surveillance, Medical Maggots. Oct 29, 2021, Part 1

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Younger Kids Next In Line For COVID-19 Vaccines This week, an FDA advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend that the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfiz...

Rising Seas Stories, Pseudo-Biology of Monsters, Howling Wolf Soundscape. Oct 29, 2021, Part 2

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Science Behind Cryptid Sightings People around the world have long been fascinated by the idea that there are strange creatures out there, ones th...

Genome Traces, Beavers and Wildfire, Halloween DIY, Volcanoes. Oct 22, 2021, Part 2

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Ancient Neanderthal Traces Hidden In Your Genome Just how much of your genome is uniquely human? It turns out the number of genetic components in ...

Filipino Nurses, Francis Collins Exit Interview. Oct 22, 2021, Part 1

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Biden’s Administration Preps For A Crucial Climate Conference This week, CDC advisers gave their support to approve COVID-19 vaccine boosters for th...

Shinnecock Nation, Marsh Science, Weekend Stargazing. Oct 15, 2021, Part 2

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On Long Island, A Tribal Nation Faces Growing Pressures The Hamptons on Long Island are known as a mansion-lined escape for wealthy New Yorkers. But t...

Native Biodata, Indigenous Carbon Resistance, COVID Boosters Next Steps. Oct 15, 2021, Part 1

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

More Boosters, For More People This week, an FDA advisory committee met to pore over data and debate the role of COVID vaccine boosters. And on Thursd...

Air Conditioning, Face Recognition Neurons. Oct 8, 2021, Part 2

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Hot And Cold Past Of The Air Conditioner In the Northeast, the leaves have started changing colors, heralding the season of pumpkins, sweaters, an...

State Of COVID And Antiviral Pill, Future Pandemics. Oct 8, 2021, Part 1

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

First Malaria Vaccine Is Approved by WHO The malaria parasite is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing on average about 500,000 ...

A Century Of Science, Book Club: Rising, Charismatic Creature Update. Oct 1, 2021, Part 2

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Looking Back On A Century of Science In 1921, the discovery of radium was just over 20 years in the past. And the double helix of DNA was still over t...

Primate Parasites, Spider Mating Songs, Spotted Lanternfly. Oct 1, 2021, Part 1

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare Is Hard Enough to Get. If You’re A Trans Youth, It’s Even Harder Healthcare can be difficult to access for anyone—that’s been made ...

Nuclear Plant Decommissioning, Fauci Kid’s Book, Pigeon Vs Shoebill. Sept 24, 2021, Part 2

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant To Say Goodbye To Its Radioactive Waste Just before Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth is expected ...

Two Climate Change Bills, COVID Vaccine Boosters. Sept 24, 2021, Part 1

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ice-Hunting Lunar Rover Robot Gets A Landing Site This week, NASA announced that it had selected a destination for a planned robotic lunar rover calle...

Endemic Diseases, Insects and Light, Opossum vs Aye-Aye. Sept 17, 2021

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nighttime Streetlights Are Stressing Out Urban Insects As insect populations—including bees, moths, and other pollinators—decline worldwide, resea...

Living With Wildfire, 7,000 Steps A Day Okay, Kids’ Mars Questions. Sept 17, 2021, Part 1

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists Potty Train Cows To Lower Greenhouse Gasses Scientists have known it for a long time: Cattle are a major source of nitrogen emissions, cont...

Covid And Disabilities, Alzheimer’s And Inflammation, Ultrasonic Sound. Sept 10, 2021, Part 1

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

New Policies Emerge In The Wake Of Climate-Connected Disasters This week, people across the United States continued to be reminded of the results of a...

Oyster Breeding, Climate Communication, Hellbender Vs Mantis Shrimp. Sept 10, 2021, Part 2

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To Breed An Oyster In the ocean, climate change involves more than just warming temperatures. Water levels are shifting, and ocean chemistry is changi...

COVID Fact Check, Ocean Circulation and Climate, Bread Culture. Sept 3, 2021, Part 2

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fact Check My Feed: Why Are People Taking Discredited Horse Medicine For COVID-19? If you’ve been online at all in the past few weeks, you’ve prob...

Schools And The Delta Variant, Doubts For High-Tech Air Purifiers. Sept 3, 2021, Part 1

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nation Grapples With Several Climate Disasters At Once Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc on the eastern U.S. this week. It all started in Louisiana, leaving...

Medieval Bones, Bird Ancestors And Dinosaurs. August 27, 2021, Part 2

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Skeletal Record Of Medieval England Society Whether you like it or not, a record of your life is constantly being chronicled. No, not through the in...

Pfizer Vaccine Approval, Making Solar Power For Everyone. August 27, 2021, Part 1

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pfizer’s Vaccine Is Now Fully Approved. What’s Next For The Pandemic? This week, the COVID-19 vaccine marketed by Pfizer finally received full FDA...

Third Thumb, Nostalgia, Orcas. Aug 20, 2021, Part 2

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You, Too, Can Be All Thumbs. Or At Least Three. Take a look at your hand and fingers—and imagine that instead of five digits, you had an additional ...

Delta Variant in Kids, Myers-Briggs Personality Test, Suicide in Communities of Color. Aug 20, 2021, Part 1

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why The Delta Variant Will Make More Kids Sick As cases of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 continue to spike around the U.S., children...

Elephantquakes and Margaret Atwood. August 13, 2021, Part 2

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Stomp, A Roar, An Elephantquake? An adult African elephant, the largest land animal on Earth, can weigh as much as two tons. Their activities—walk...

Electric Fish Communication, Science Crimes, Lighting Cave Art. August 13, 2021, Part 1

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This Fish Is The Master Of The Poignant Pause When listening to a well-practiced speaker, like during a lecture, a political event or during a favorit...

Bad Data, CRISPR Therapies, Wildfire Impact, Oilbirds. August 6, 2021, Part 2

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How Imperfect Data Leads Us Astray Datasets are increasingly shaping important decisions, from where companies target their advertising, to how govern...

Infrastructure Package, Covid News, Line3 Pipeline. August 6, 2021, Part 1

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Sees The End Of The Road President Biden’s huge infrastructure bill is finally seeing the end of the road. T...

Gut Fungi, Olympic Challenges, Planetary Seismology. July 30, 2021, Part 2

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Getting To Know The Fungus Among Us (In Our Guts) Your gut microbiome is composed of more than bacteria—a less populous, but still important, reside...

New CDC Mask Rules, Viral Persistence, Disaster Preparedness. July 30, 2021, Part 1

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With Delta Rising, New Rules On Masks And Vaccines This week, the CDC released new guidelines for mask use in the U.S., just months after many cities ...

Shellfish Deaths, Chemical Safety, Humpback Songs. July 23, 2021, Part 2

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Billions Of Sea Creatures, Lost To Heat Waves A couple weeks ago, the Pacific Northwest saw record-breaking temperatures. News coverage captured count...

Surgeon General, Blockchain. July 23, 2021, Part 1

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Flooding Worldwide Fits Climate Change Models While the western United States is burning again this summer, other parts of the world are drowning. Ger...

Songbird Mystery, Sweat, Betelgeuse. July 16, 2021, Part 2

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Songbirds Suffer Mystery Illness From The East Coast To The Midwest The reports started in late May: Songbirds in Washington, D.C. and neighboring reg...

New Battery Technology, COVID Rise From Unvaccinated Populations. July 16, 2021, Part 1

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Research For New Battery Technology Is Gaining Steam As countries around the world set their goals for decarbonizing their economies, it’s becoming ...

African Wild Dogs, Spotted Lanternfly, Seashells. July 9, 2021, Part 1

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sniffing Out How To Save African Wild Dogs One of the most endangered mammals on Earth, African wild dogs are known for their oversized ears, social b...

John McPhee’s Annals Of The Former World. July 9, 2021, Part 2

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Writing, Like Geology, Requires A Little Digging When author John McPhee first considered the piece of writing that would become his 1998 book, Annals...

Garden Hotline, Benjamin Franklin. July 2, 2021, Part 2

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Science Of Your Summer Vegetable Garden Planting and tending to a vegetable garden is both an art and a science. If all goes well, you’ll be enj...

Extreme Heat, COVID Delta Variant, Poe’s Science. July 2, 2021, Part 1

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Alarming Impacts Of Extreme Heat This week, the Pacific Northwest was hit by a record breaking heat wave, with temperatures rising as high as 116 ...

Cephalopod Week Wrap Up, California Carbon Credits Error. June 25, 2021, Part 1

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

California’s Climate Program Is Actually Adding Carbon To The Atmosphere California has a reputation as the state that’s doing the most about clim...

UFO Report, Animal Play, Alzheimers and Music. June 25, 2021, Part 2

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is The Truth About UFOs Out There? Over the past several years, U.S. Navy pilots have reported several instances of ”unexplained aerial phenomena”...

Immunocompromised and Covid, Summer SciFi Reading. June 18, 2021, Part 2

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

COVID-19 Vaccines May Not Protect Immunocompromised People This week, California and New York, two of the states hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandem...

Marijuana And Medicine, Cephalopod Week, Environmental Antidepressants. June 18, 2021, Part 1

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How To Talk About Medical Marijuana With Your Doctor Over the last decade, cannabis has had a moment. Thirty-six states and Washington D.C. have legal...

Health Equity And Trans Health, Human-Robot Relationship. June 11, 2020, Part 1

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Biden’s New Assistant Secretary Of Health On Protecting Trans Youth The American healthcare system is facing some incredible challenges: Black and L...

Alzheimer’s Treatment Controversy, Science Mistakes, Chonky Fish. June 11, 2020, Part 2

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

FDA’s Approval Of Debated Alzheimer’s Treatment Raises Controversy This week, the FDA gave the green light to a drug for the treatment of Alzheime...

Genetics of Depression, Engineering Humans for Space, Tech Ethics. June 4, 2021, Part 2

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Research Reveals 178 Genes Are Associated With Depression If you have a family member that suffers from depression, chances are you may have more than...

Fauci On 40 Years Of HIV/AIDS, Watermelon Origins, Venus Missions. June 4, 2021, Part 1

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Fauci Reflects On 40 Years Of HIV/AIDS Research Every week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases its regular report o...

Sand Sustainability, Jane Goodall, Morphing Pasta, Cicada Snacks. May 28, 2021, Part 2

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shifting The Sand Business To Greener Practices Sand is one of the most in-demand natural materials on the planet—some 50 billion tons of sand and g...

Vaccine Hesitancy, Colorado River Drought, Alternative Syrups. May 28, 2021, Part 1

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How Do We Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy? This Memorial Day weekend, many people will be traveling to the beach, hitting the road or socializing with frie...

Cybersecurity, Baseball Physics, Opioid Trial. May 21, 2021, Part 2

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Americans’ Online Security Needs An Update Last week, all eyes were on the shutdown of a gas pipeline that delivered fuel to large portions of the S...

Global Vaccination, Malaria Vaccine, Zombie Wildfires. May 21, 2021, Part 1

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How Do You Solve a Problem Like World Vaccination? Here in the U.S., it feels as if we’ve turned a corner in the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the popu...

NFTs and Art, Neuralink, Preserving Endangered Foods. May 14, 2021, Part 2

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s Behind The Blockchain-Based Art Boom? From multi-million dollar art sales to short NBA video clips, non-fungible tokens have taken off as ...

New Mask Rules, Pain Algorithm, Assorted Nuts, Muldrow Glacier. May 14, 2021, Part 1

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fully Vaccinated Can Unmask Often, CDC Says As the number of vaccinated Americans continues to rise and evidence mounts that the vaccines may reduce v...

Beetles, Wildfires, Woodchip Bioreactor. May 7, 2021, Part 2

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Beetle’s Chemical (And Plastic) Romance For many species of beetle, the key to finding a mate is scent: Both females and males give off pheromones...

Herd Immunity, Crossword Program. May 7, 2021, Part 1

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Weighing COVID-19 Vaccinations For Teens Federal officials are reporting that the Food and Drug Administration is poised to authorize Pfizer’s COVI...

Viking Metal, Possible Futures, Global Pollination. April 30, 2021, Part 2

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Uncovering Metal Crafts Of The Viking Age Vikings are often associated with scenes of boats and fiercely-pitched battles. But new research, published ...

The Past And Future Of Plastics Tech. April 30, 2021, Part 1

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Future Of Plastics Plastics do a lot of good. They’re sturdy, they’re clean, and the COVID-19 pandemic has really highlighted their benefits, ...

Gender-Affirming Health Care, Defining ‘Life’. April 23, 2021, Part 2

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Proposed Legislation Threatens Trans Rights Nationwide Since the start of the 2021 legislative session, members of more than 30 state legislatures hav...

Climate Summit, Offshore Wind, Hummingbirds. April 23, 2021, Part 1

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

World Leaders Gather Virtually For Climate Summit Forty world leaders attended an international summit on climate change to discuss how each country w...

History Of Conservation, Right Whales Decline. April 16, 2021, Part 1

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Conserving More Than Just the Planet’s ‘Beloved Beasts’ Historically, “conservation” simply meant not overhunting a game animal, preserving ...

Understanding Caribbean Volcano Eruption, Billions Of T-Rexes, Pterosaur Necks, Lost Feasts. April 16, 2021, Part 2

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding St. Vincent’s Volcanic Eruption Since April 9th, the Caribbean island of St. Vincent has been rocked by eruptions at the La Soufrière...

Piano AI, Giraffes, Alzheimer’s, Mime Psychology. April 9, 2021, Part 2

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

New AI Composes Songs From Silent Performance Videos There have been many awkward attempts in the quest to train algorithms to do what humans can. Mus...

Future For Long COVID Patients, Getting COVID Info To Sihk Truckers. April 9, 2021, Part 1

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What Does The Future Look Like For COVID-19 Long-Haulers? There’s something strange happening with some people who’ve gotten sick with COVID-19: S...

Pollination, Beekeeping How-To, Sunflower Project. April 2, 2021, Part 2

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Buzz Over Non-Bee Pollinators When you think of pollinators, bees are probably the first insect that comes to mind. But there are actually all sor...

Unexpected Physics, Controlling Cow Methane, Spring Break. April 2, 2021, Part 1

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Signs The Standard Model Of Physics May Be Incomplete The pandemic has slowed many projects around the world, but scientists and engineers are nearing...

Spring Climate Effects, Octopus Sleep, Housing and Health. March 26, 2021, Part 2

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In New York, Essential Workers Face Eviction If you walk through many towns during this pandemic, you can tell that something is different just by loo...

Racism And Mental Health, How To Milk Ticks. March 26, 2021, Part 1

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Mental Health Costs Of ‘Everyday’ Racism On March 16, a 21-year-old white man killed six Asian women and two other people in multiple shooting...

SciFri Extra: The Origin Of The Word 'Introvert'

20 Mar 2021

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Science Diction from Science Friday is back! Their latest episode is all about a recent buzzword: "Introvert."  In 2013, introverts staged their come...

Greenland Plants, Privacy and Big Data, Rainbows. March 19, 2021, Part 2

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Under A Mile Of Ice, A Climate Clue Scientists studying sediment taken from a core sample of the Greenland ice sheet just 800 miles from the North Pol...

COVID Questions, Introvert Origin. March 19, 2021, Part 1

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rise In Anti-Asian Violence Is At The Intersection Of Racism And Disease Earlier this week, eight people were killed at three Atlanta-area massage par...

Virtual Disease, Daydreaming, Geoengineering. March 12 2021, Part 2

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Learning From World Of Warcraft’s Virtual Pandemic The widespread infection of roughly four million virtual characters all started with a giant sn...

Jackson Water Woes, Giant Telescope Mirror, Shark Sex. March 12 2021, Part 1

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What Went Wrong With Jackson, Mississippi’s Water? Residents of Jackson, Mississippi have been dealing with a water crisis since a storm rolled thro...

Conversations, Baby Teeth, Tasmanian Tiger. March 5, 2021, Part 2

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Is It Time To Say Goodbye? Imagine you’re having a conversation with someone. You may get the sense that they have somewhere else to be. Or you...

Implementing Oregon’s Drug Policy, Wisconsin Wolf Hunt, Johnson & Johnson Vaccine. March 5, 2021, Part 1

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oregon Just Decriminalized Small Amounts of All Drugs. Now What? On February 1, a big experiment began in Oregon: The state has decriminalized small a...

Texas Storm, NASA Climate Advisor, Mars Sounds. Feb 26, 2021, Part 1

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Does A Vaccine Help You If You’ve Already Had COVID-19? Vaccines doses have started to rollout and are getting into the arms of people. We know that...

Lucid Dreaming, Sex As A Biological Variable, Parachute Science, Global Vaccine Access. Feb 26, 2021, Part 2

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Memory And The Dreaming Mind If you’ve ever stayed up too late studying for a test, you know that sleep impacts memory—you need that precious shut...

Tech Unions, Color Perception, Fish Vs Birds. Feb 19, 2021, Part 2

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Reprogramming Labor In Tech More than 6,000 warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are midway through voting on whether they should unionize. If the ‘...

Fauci On Vaccines and Variants, Mummy Mystery, Texas Power Grid Failure. Feb 19, 2021, Part 1

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fauci Says Majority Of U.S. Adults Likely To Be Vaccinated By Late Summer We’re about a month shy of a big anniversary: one year since the World Hea...

Fish Eye Secrets, Human Genome Project, Science Diction 'Mesmerize.' Feb 12, 2021, Part 2

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing The World Through Salmon Eyes The saying goes, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” But for fish, the eyes are the window to the stomach....

The Effectiveness Of Double-Masking, Mars Landing Preview. Feb 12, 2021, Part 1

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Two Masks Are Better Than One Masks have been a big issue throughout the pandemic, from supply shortages to debates about when they should be required...

Four Lost Cities, Sourdough Microbiome, Queen Bees, Bison. Feb 5, 2021, Part 2

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

National Bison Range Returns To Indigenous Management Hundreds of years ago, tens of millions of bison roamed North America. They were an essential re...

COVID Variants And Vaccines, U.S. Energy Justice. Feb 5, 2021, Part 1

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Will Vaccines Work Against New Variants Of The Coronavirus? The rollout of COVID-19 vaccination programs around the world has been anything but smooth...

Medieval Bones, Vaccine Rollout, Florida Panthers. Jan 29, 2021, Part 2

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Skeletal Record Of Medieval England Society If you’ve ever fractured a bone, that skeletal trauma stays with you forever, even after it heals. So ...

Your Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines Answered, Placenta Science. Jan 29, 2021, Part 1

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Everything You Want To Know About COVID-19 Vaccines The U.S. has been vaccinating people against COVID-19 for a little over a month. While there have ...

Orange Bat, Greenland Bacteria, COVID Anniversary, Alien Argument. Jan 22, 2021, Part 2

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Orange Is The New Black—For Bats For a newly-described bat from West Africa, dubbed Myotis nimbaensis (mouse-eared bat from the Nimba Mountains), ...

Finding Lead Pipes Through Algorithm, How Soil Could Save The Planet. Jan 22, 2021, Part 1

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After Flint’s Crisis, An Algorithm Helps Citizens Find Lead Pipes It’s been nearly seven years since the beginning of Flint, Michigan’s water cr...