Science Friday
Episodes
Why People Can’t Read Bar Graphs, First Complete Human Genome Released, Mars Book Club Finale. April 1, 2022, Part 2
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can You Read A Bar Graph? Bar graphs seem like one of the simplest ways to represent data. Many people assume that the longer the bar, the bigger the ...
Experimental HIV Vaccines, Lithium Mining In Oregon, Controlling The Tawny Crazy Ant. April 1, 2022, Part 1
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why Another Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsed On March 15, the Conger ice shelf, a piece of ice half the size of Rome, collapsed in eastern Antarctica. It...
Ukraine And The Energy Market, More West Nile Virus, Bird Flu In Chickens, 5,000 Exoplanets Found. March 25, 2022, Part 1
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How Has The War In Ukraine Shaped The Global Energy Market? Russia’s war on Ukraine sent shock waves through the global energy market. The United St...
How Vampire Bats Evolved To Drink Blood, Ethics Checks On Brain Research, Cicada Exhibit. March 25, 2022, Part 2
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How Vampire Bats Evolved To Drink Blood Vampire bats subsist solely on blood: In technical terms, they’re what’s called “obligate sanguivores.”...
James Webb Focused Image, Decarbonize Your Home, Wildlife Crime. March 18, 2022, Part 1
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The James Webb Telescope Releases Its First Focused Image This week eager astronomers got an update on the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Dandelion Sensors, GoFundMe Healthcare Shortcomings, Where Did Mars’ Water Go. March 18, 2022, Part 2
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Flower Power: Floating Sensors Inspired By Dandelions Dandelions’ white puff balls are irresistible—kids delight in blowing on them until the seed...
Will Russia’s War Spur Clean Energy Efforts, What Is “Life,” Scientific Sewer Tour. March 11, 2022, Part 2
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Russia’s War In Ukraine Finally Spur A Clean Energy Revolution? This week President Biden tightened sanctions on Russia, cutting off imports of...
Mask Mandates Drop, International Salmon Survey, Long COVID Answers And Questions. March 11, 2022, Part 1
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Mask Mandates Drop, COVID Cases Increase In Some Parts Of World Later this month, Hawai’i will become the 50th and final state in the U.S. to dro...
T. Rex Dispute, Texas Trans Healthcare, Russian Cyber Warfare, Bird Calls. March 4, 2022, Part 1
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Tyrannosaurus Rex Is Having An Identity Crisis There are few creatures, present or extinct, that hold the iconic status of the Tyrannosaurus rex. ...
Lack Of Black Physicists, Solar Outages, Martian Meteorites, What Is A Butt. March 4, 2022, Part 2
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Where Are The Black Physicists? Black scientists make up less than one percent of physics PhDs in the U.S. And since 1999, most physics departments in...
Bridge Infrastructure, Cat Ancestor Gap, Lab Mice, Power Of The Dog, Mars Book Club. Feb 25, 2022, Part 2
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pittsburgh’s Bridge Collapse Spotlights America’s Infrastructure Woes Our modern world is made up of infrastructure: Roads, buildings, and bridges...
Eye Implant Ethics, Sled Dogs, Tranquility Sound Scapes. Feb 25, 2022, Part 1
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Farmer, Global Health Leader, Dies At 62 Paul Farmer, physician and co-founder of the humanitarian medical organization Partners in Health died u...
Paralysis Treatment, Protein Vaccines Advantages, How Cuba Made Five Vaccines, Fish Sounds. Feb 18, 2022, Part 2
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New Device Helps People With Paralysis Walk Again Spinal cord injuries are notoriously difficult to treat, especially for those who have been paralyze...
Successful HIV Treatment, Improving Health Equity, Fusion Energy Record. Feb 18, 2022, Part 1
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Third Person Cured From HIV, Thanks To Umbilical Cord Stem Cells The third person ever, and the first woman, has been cured of the HIV virus, thanks t...
How Grief Rewires The Brain, New Cancer Therapy, Olympic Battery-Heated Skiing Shorts. Feb 11, 2022, Part 2
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How Grief Rewires The Brain Being a human can be a wonderful thing. We’re social creatures, craving strong bonds with family and friends. Those rela...
Science Advisor Resigns, COVID Drug Treatments, Science Drag Artists. Feb 11, 2022, Part 1
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An Abrupt Departure For Biden’s Science Adviser This week, Eric Lander, the Presidential science advisor and head of the Office of Science and Techn...
Phasing Out “Problematic” Plastics, Sticky Surface Science, Monarch Boom. Feb 4, 2022, Part 2
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phasing Out “Problematic” Plastics Plastic packaging is just about impossible to avoid. Getting takeout? You’ll likely wind up with a plastic co...
Brain Donation, Meat And Human Evolution, Bird Song, Space Station Retirement. Feb 4, 2022, Part 1
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Date Set For International Space Station’s Burial At Sea The International Space Station was never going to last forever. And its expiration date ha...
Fake COVID Testing Sites, Cannabis And Exercise, Electric Aviation. Jan 28, 2022, Part 2
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beware Of Fake Pop-Up COVID Sites In recent months, mobile COVID-19 testing tents and vans have sprouted on urban sidewalks and street curbs as demand...
Saving Manatees, Nighttime Satellite Streaks, Webb Telescope Update. Jan 28, 2022, Part 1
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Space-X Booster To Hit The Moon, After Years Of Hurtling Through Space A Space-X rocket booster is on track to slam into the moon, which scientists pr...
Epstein-Barr Virus and MS, Agrivoltaics, Ag School Influence, Social Cues From Saliva. Jan 21, 2022, Part 1
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists Are Working On A Universal COVID Vaccine As the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spike around the U.S., there are scienti...
Airborne eDNA, Beetle Jumps, Wordle Psychology, City Pigeons. Jan 21, 2022, Part 2
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Identifying Animals Through Airborne DNA In recent years, the technique of eDNA—environmental DNA, or samples taken from the environment, as opposed...
Historic Big Bang Debate, Black Hole Sounds, Plant DNA Mutations. Jan 14, 2022, Part 2
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Debate Over How The Universe Began Even though it’s commonly accepted today, the Big Bang theory was not always the universally accepted scientifi...
Omicron And Kids, Ivermectin Origins, Icefish Nests. Jan 14, 2022, Part 1
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Replacement Heart, From A Pig This week, doctors reported that they had successfully transplanted a heart taken from a pig into a human being, a typ...
Omicron News, COVID Severity Questions, Bird Count. Jan 7 2022, Part 1
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Omicron Variant Drives Winter COVID Surge The United States set a global record this week, recording roughly one million new coronavirus tests in a si...
Pizza Science, Remembering E.O. Wilson And Richard Leakey. Jan 7 2022, Part 2
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How A Former Microsoft Exec Mastered The Perfect Slice—Using Science Who doesn’t love pizza? It’s a magical combination of sauce, cheese, crust,...
Celebration Of Weird Ice, Non-Melting Jelly, Former NIH Director Reflects On His Tenure. December 31, 2021, Part 2
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the Arctic To Enceladus: A Celebration Of Unusual Ice With the Arctic’s annual summer ice cover hovering at record lows; and a new record low i...
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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...