Science Friday
Episodes
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
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Valley Fever And COVID-19, Structure of Conspiracy Theories, New Climate Wars. Jan 15, 2021, Part 2
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How The West Is Battling COVID-19 And Valley Fever For the past year, the COVID-19 crisis has taken up much of our attention. But the pandemic can com...
How The COVID-19 Vaccine Was Developed And Is Being Distributed. Jan 15, 2021, Part 1
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How Did A Vaccine Get Developed In Less Than A Year? From the first discovery of a strange new respiratory virus in Wuhan, China, in January of 2020, ...
COVID Fact Check, Aging Cells, News Roundup. Jan 8, 2021, Part 1
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fact Check My Feed: What’s Up With These COVID-19 Mutations? It’s a new year, and that means there’s a whole slew of new COVID-19 news to dive i...
Fundamentals of Physics, Giant Ancient Birds, 2021 Space Outlook. Jan 8, 2021, Part 2
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Finding New Particles On The Frontier of Physics As a theoretical physicist, Frank Wilczek has made a career out of dreaming up new ways to understand...
They Might Be Giants, Animal Sounds Quiz, Luxury Ostrich Eggs. Jan 1, 2021, Part 2
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They Might Be Giants With A Timely Reminder: “Science Is Real” Fans of the band They Might Be Giants are likely to be familiar with the band’s v...
Christmas Bird Count, Black Birders Week, Science Diction: Vaccine. Jan 1, 2021, Part 1
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where Did The Word ‘Vaccine’ Come From? As we head into 2021, there’s one word on all of our minds: Vaccine. It may be in headlines right and le...
Indigenous Astronomy, Auroras, Inclusive Science. Dec 25, 2020, Part 2
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nature’s Own Holiday Light Show The spectacular glowing green of the Northern Lights is caused by charged particles from the solar wind interacting ...
2020 In Review, Charismatic Tubeworms, Dog Evolution. Dec 25, 2020, Part 1
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2020: The Year In Science, With Wendy Zukerman It’s the end of the year, and time to reflect. While there’s no doubt the coronavirus and efforts t...
Black Holes, Scallop Die-off, River Sound Map. Dec 18, 2020, Part 2
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Black Hole? A new book, Black Hole Survival Guide, explores different theories of what would happen if you jumpe...
Future Of Climate Change, Tongue Microbiome. Dec 18, 2020, Part 1
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How The Past Hints About Our Climate’s Future Ask a climate scientist how much the earth will warm as a result of the carbon dioxide we’re emittin...
Science Books of 2020, ANWR Drilling, Science Diction. Dec 11, 2020, Part 2
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trump Administration Rushes To Sell Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Land For Drilling In a last-minute push, the Trump administration announced Thurs...
Vaccination Logistics, Europe’s Green Deal. Dec 11, 2020, Part 1
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin In The U.K. This week, the U.K. began its vaccination effort against COVID-19 with Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman fr...
Virtual Worlds And Wildfire Health Effects. Dec 4, 2020, Part 2
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Science Friday’s Second Life: The Voyage Home Do you remember Second Life? That online virtual world where you can create an avatar, build whatever ...
David Attenborough, China’s Moon Mission, COVID Approved In U.K. Dec 4, 2020, Part 1
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Attenborough Observes A Natural World In Crisis If you were to make a list of celebrities of the natural world, Sir David Attenborough would mos...
Your Cheese’s Microbiome, COVID Reinfection Questions, Future Of Meat. Nov 27, 2020, Part 1
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can You Get COVID-19 More Than Once? SciFri producer Elah Feder’s friend tested positive for antibodies a few months ago—but last month, she devel...
Ig Nobel Prizes, Koji Alchemy. Nov 27, 2020, Part 2
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laugh Along At Home With The Ig Nobel Awards We know traditions are different this year. Maybe you’re having a small family dinner instead of a huge...
Roman Mars, Disinformation, Ancient Female Big Game Hunters. Nov 20, 2020, Part 2
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring The Invisible Architecture Of Cities With Roman Mars On a walk through your city or town, there are all sorts of sights and sounds to take i...
Famous Arecibo Observatory Decommissioned, Biden’s Climate Change Plan. Nov 20, 2020, Part 1
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Puerto Rico's Famous Arecibo Observatory Decommissioned The astronomical observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has been standing since 1963. It has wea...
Body Temperature, COVID Vaccines, Dog Genomics. Nov 13, 2020, Part 2
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our Average Body Temperature Is Getting Cooler We’ve all been getting our temperature checked on the regular these days. Most restaurants and busine...
Biden’s COVID Transition Team, Election Drug Policy Reform. Nov 13, 2020, Part 1
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The New Biden Administration Plans For COVID-19 It’s been less than a week since it became clear that Joe Biden would be the president elect. While ...
Climate Policy And The Election, COVID Winter Forecast, Murder Hornets. Nov 6, 2020, Part 1
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What Will The Pandemic Look Like During The Winter? It’s been almost a year since officials in China announced the spread of a mysterious pneumonia,...
Ancient Algae, COVID Holidays, Accessible Pregnancy Test. Nov 6, 2020, Part 2
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How Algae Survived A Mass Extinction Sixty-six million years ago when an asteroid slammed into what is now the Yucatan peninsula, it set off a period ...
Book Club Finale, Floating Nuclear Plants. Oct 30, 2020, Part 2
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pushing Boundaries In Fantastical Fiction The Science Friday Book Club has spent all of October immersed in short stories by Indigenous, Black, Chi...
Science And The Election, Disinformation, Vampire Bats. Oct 30, 2020, Part 1
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Choosing the next U.S. president is not the only decision voters will make in the upcoming 2020 elections. Major science policies are also on the ball...
Should We Trust Election Forecasting, COVID Dreams. Oct 23, 2020, Part 1
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first “scientific” election poll was conducted in 1936 by George Gallup, who correctly predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would win the pres...
Teaching in a Pandemic, Inheriting Stress, Book Club. Oct 23, 2020, Part 2
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even In A Pandemic, Science Class Is In Session This academic year, school campuses across the United States look very different. Instead of crowded h...
U.S. COVID Spikes, Blockchain Chicken Farm, Book Club: Chicanafuturism. Oct 16, 2020, Part 2
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Across The Country, A Spike In Coronavirus Cases Over 217,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S., and many states are seeing an upswing in case ...
The Black Hole At The Center Of The Galaxy, Shipwreck Microbes. Oct 16, 2020, Part 1
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 2020 Nobel Prize winners have been announced, and among them is UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez, who split the prize with Roger Penrose and Reinhard G...
Science News, Nobel Roundup, Book Club. Oct 9, 2020, Part 1
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What Is The Status Of President Trump’s COVID-19 Case? Late last week, President Trump announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was ad...
Solar System Smackdown: Mars v. Venus, Mussel Mystery. Oct 9, 2020, Part 2
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Solar System Smackdown: Mars Vs. Venus One of the fiercest hunts in the solar system is the scientific search for signs of extraterrestrial life—whe...
Antarctic Ice, Itching, Ancient Birds. Oct. 2, 2020, Part 2
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New Study Shows No Second Chance For Antarctic Ice Shelves From the heat waves and wildfires in the western U.S. to the active hurricane season in the...
Trump Tests Positive For Coronavirus, COVID-19 Fact Check, SciFri Book Club. Oct. 2, 2020, Part 1
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The news hit us overnight: President Trump, the First Lady, and at least one member of the president’s staff tested positive for COVID-19. Just befo...
Feather Communication, Thermal Imaging Wildfires, Tick Saliva. September 25, 2020, Part 2
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thermal Imaging Technology Helps Firefighters See Through Smoke Wildfires are still raging out west, and states are using anything in their arsenals t...
Indigenous Fire Management, Oliver Sacks Film. September 25, 2020, Part 1
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Down a long, single-lane road in the most northern part of California is Karuk territory—one of the largest Indigenous tribes in the state. It’s h...
SciFri Extra: After 20 Years, The ‘Cosmic Crisp’ Has Landed
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This fall, there’s a new apple all around town. After 20 years of development, the Cosmic Crisp has landed. Today, we're bringing you an episode of...
Nursing Homes, Volcano Science. Sept 18, 2020, Part 2
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
America’s Elder Care Has A Problem Since the pandemic began, long-term care facilities across the country have experienced some of its worst effects...
West Coast Fires, Sen. Ed Markey, Deafness Cures. Sept 18, 2020, Part 1
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peak wildfire season is just beginning on the West Coast, but 2020 is already another unprecedented year. In California, more than 2.2 million acres h...
Medium Black Holes, World of Wonders, Warsaw Typhus. Sept 11, 2020, Part 2
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why A Medium-Sized Black Hole Is Surprising Physicists If you’re looking for a black hole, they normally come in two sizes. There’s the basic mode...
The Wonders of Moss, Clean. Sept 11, 2020, Part 1
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These Moss Are Living Their Best Life—Under Rocks Desert mosses live a much different life than their cousins in lush, water-rich forests. In fact, ...
Fact Check Your Feed, Climate And Fungi, Cells Solve A Maze. September 4, 2020, Part 2
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can Fungus Survive Climate Change? One of the most extensive global networks for sharing information and moving around essential nutrients is hidden f...
Urban Forests And Climate Change, HIV Treatment Progress. September 4, 2020, Part 1
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New York City’s skyline is dominated by tall skyscrapers—but there’s a surprising amount of forest in the city known as a concrete jungle. Tree ...
Milky Way Gas, COVID Ventilation, Immunotherapy And The Microbiome. August 28, 2020, Part 2
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, a group of scientists studying the Milky Way through the world’s largest ground-based radio telescope identified something they had never ...
Coronavirus Immunity, Ask A Cephalopod Scientist. August 28, 2020, Part 1
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How well you fare in fighting a new pathogen like SARS-CoV2 depends in large part on how your immune system responds to—and kills—the virus. The i...
Pregnancy And Coronavirus, Good News For Corals. August 21, 2020, Part 1
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no guidebook for how to have a baby during a pandemic. Experiences like having loved ones present at the delivery, or inviting grandparents ...
Iowa Derecho, Showering And Hygiene, Parasites. August 21, 2020, Part 2
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dealing With The Aftermath Of Iowa’s Devastating Derecho It’s been more than a week since the state of Iowa was hit by a surprise visitor: a lin...
Contraceptive Access, Robot Bias, Story Structure. August 14, 2020, Part 2
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roboticists, like other artificial intelligence researchers, are concerned about how bias affects our relationship with machines that are supposed to ...
Faster COVID-19 Testing, Hell Ants. August 14, 2020, Part 1
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the pandemic, testing has continued to be one of the biggest issues, particularly in the United States. Some scientists say that the soluti...
SciFri en Español: El Río Hirviente De Perú Tiene Más De Lo Que El Ojo Ve
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
En el verano del 2019, Rosa Vásquez Espinoza bioquímica y candidata a Ph.D. en la Universidad de Michigan Ann Arbor, fue en una expedición al Río ...
Biden Climate Plan, Boiling River. August 7, 2020, Part 1
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, Vice President Joe Biden unveiled his plan for climate change—a sweeping $2 trillion dollar platform that aims to tighten standards for ...
The End of Everything, Bright Fluorescence, Gene Editing a Squid. August 7, 2020, Part 2
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the eventual end of our universe, cosmologists have a few classic theories: the Big Crunch, where the universe reverses its expansion...
COVID In Prisons, How Sperm Swim. July 31, 2020, Part 2
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread, it’s become clear certain populations are particularly at risk—including those serving sentences in prisons a...
Science In Space, Sports and COVID, Science Diction. July 31, 2020, Part 1
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Astronauts have conducted all sorts of experiments in the International Space Station—from observations of microgravity on the human to body to grow...
SciFri Extra: The Origin Of The Word 'Ketchup'
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Science Diction is back! This time around, the team is investigating the science, language, and history of food. First up: Digging into America's fa...
Three Missions To Mars, COVID Fact Check, Solar Probes. July 24, 2020, Part 1
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, your news feed is likely still overflowing with both breaking research and rumors. Virologist Angela Rasmussen of ...
Long-Term COVID Effects, Dicamba and Agriculture, Mosquitoes. July 24, 2020, Part 2
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since the beginning of the pandemic, hospitals have been treating and triaging an influx of COVID-19 patients. Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill ...
How Brains Organize Smells, Plant Evolution In Art, New Hearing Aids. July 17, 2020, Part 2
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How we smell has been a bit of a mystery to scientists. Other senses are easier to understand: For example, it’s possible to predict what a color wi...
Coronavirus And Schools, New Mars Rover. July 17, 2020, Part 1
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach August, many of our young listeners and their parents are starting to think about going back to school. Usually, that might mean gettin...
Great Indoors, Science Museums, Who Owns The Sky. July 10, 2020, Part 2
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A whole lot of folks’ summer plans have been cut short this season. Maybe you were planning a family road trip to visit a national park. Or your loc...
Degrees of Change: Changing Behavior. July 10, 2020, Part 1
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past months, our Degrees of Change series has looked at some of the many ways our actions affect the climate, and how our changing climate ...
Summer Science Books, Naked Mole Rats. July 3, 2020, Part 2
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has nixed many summer vacation plans, but our summer science book list will help you still escape. While staying socially distant, you ca...
Making The Outdoors Great For Everyone. July 3, 2020, Part 1
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the start to a holiday weekend, which often means spending time outdoors, whether that’s going to the beach, on a hike, or grilling in a park...
Honeybee Health, Assessing COVID Risk, Seeing Numbers. June 26, 2020, Part 2
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This past year was a strange one for beekeepers. According to a survey from the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership, U.S. beekeepers lost more than 40%...
Checking In On Kids’ Mental Health During the Pandemic. June 26, 2020, Part 1
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the U.S., we’re heading into the fourth month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing and lockdowns have taken a toll on everyone’s mental ...
SciFri Extra: A Pragmatic Wishlist For AI Ethics
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, three major tech companies publicly distanced themselves from the facial recognition tools used by police: IBM said they would sto...
Facial Recognition, Hummingbird Vision, Moon Lander. June 19, 2020, Part 2
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Protests Shine Light On Facial Recognition Tech Problems Earlier this month, three major tech companies publicly distanced themselves from the facia...
Doctor Burnout, International Doctors. June 19, 2020, Part 1
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A Crisis Of Health In Healthcare Workers Content Warning: This segment contains talk of suicide. For help for people considering suicide, call the Na...
Proactive Policing, The Social Brain. June 12, 2020, Part 2
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s and 1990s, in the midst of rising crime rates and a nationally waning confidence in policing, law enforcement around the country adopted ...
Anthony Fauci On The Pandemic’s Future. June 12, 2020, Part 1
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the pandemic, immunologist Anthony Fauci has gained fame as “America’s doctor.” He’s a leading scientist in the government’s response...
Breast Cancer Cultural History, Butterfly Wings. June 5, 2020, Part 2
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘Radical’ Explores The Hidden History Of Breast Cancer Nearly 270,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, along with a couple t...
Police Behavior Research, Dermatology In Skin Of Color, Coffee Extraction. June 5, 2020, Part 1
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans by police brutality and racial inequality continue to fuel demonstr...
Vaccine Rate Decrease, Mind-Body Music. May 29, 2020, Part 1
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One unintended consequence of families sheltering at home is that children’s vaccination rates have gone way down. In New York City, for example, va...
Bio-Inspired Concrete, Nose Microbiome, Space News. May 29, 2020, Part 2
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The human microbiome—our own personalized bacteria profile—plays a part in our health. The different parts of our body, from our skin to our gut, ...
Ancient East Asian Genomes, COVID And Clotting, And Cassowary Plumage. May 22, 2020, Part 2
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The cassowary, a large flightless bird native to Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, has a reputation for aggression and wickedly clawed feet t...
Degrees Of Change: Regulatory Rollbacks. May 22, 2020, Part 1
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is in the process of reversing nearly 100 environmental rules and regulations—threatening air, water, and public health. Fo...