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A Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposes U.S. Postpandemic Vulnerabilities

Hinzugefügt: 12. März 2025

It’s been five years since COVID was declared a global pandemic. Local, national and global public health agencies mobilized to contain the spread of COVID, but experts worry that backlash against...

Measles Misinformation, Ozone Recovery and Woolly Mice

Hinzugefügt: 10. März 2025

With measles cases on the rise, experts are pushing back against misleading claims about vitamin A as a substitute for vaccination. A Supreme Court ruling has reshaped the Environmental Protection...

Author John Green on How Tuberculosis Shaped Our Modern World

Hinzugefügt: 7. März 2025

John Green is an author, advocate and one half of the Vlogbrothers. His latest book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, comes out on March 18. Green joins host Rachel Feltman to share how tuberculosis...

Must Be Microplastics on the Brain

Hinzugefügt: 5. März 2025

Not much passes into our brain from the rest of our body, to the chagrin of drug makers everywhere. So it should be cause for concern when a study found that microplastics were somehow ending up in...

How Did a Volcano Turn a Brain to Glass? Plus, Measles, Mystery Illness and Microbes

Hinzugefügt: 3. März 2025

Officials have confirmed the first measles death in an outbreak in West Texas. A meeting to discuss which strains to focus on for next year’s flu vaccines was canceled by the Food and Drug...

Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?

Hinzugefügt: 28. Februar 2025 - Durchschnittliche Bewertung: 3

Have you ever had a song continue to loop in your brain no matter how hard you tried to shake it? These “earworms” are more than just an annoyance—they’re a phenomenon scientists have studied for...

Saying Farewell to the Spacecraft That Mapped the Milky Way

Hinzugefügt: 26. Februar 2025

The Gaia spacecraft stopped collecting data this January after about 11 years and more than three trillion observations. Senior space and physics editor Lee Billings joins host Rachel Feltman to...

Measles Outbreaks, Asteroid Risks and Fish Friends

Hinzugefügt: 24. Februar 2025

The black hole at the center of our galaxy is emitting near-constant, random light. The European Space Agency has approved astronaut candidate John McFall, making McFall the first physically...

Where Did Curly Hair Come From? Biological Anthropology May Provide Insights

Hinzugefügt: 21. Februar 2025

It’s fairly strange that humans, unlike many other mammals, don’t have hair all over. Our lack of body hair and wide geographic distribution led to the variation of sun-protective melanin in our...

Exploring the Hidden Life in the Air around Us with Carl Zimmer

Hinzugefügt: 19. Februar 2025

Scientists now agree that COVID spreads via airborne transmission. But during the early days of the disease, public health officials suggested that it mainly did so via close contact. The...

Valentine’s Day Isn’t Just for Romance—The Science of Deep Friendships

Hinzugefügt: 14. Februar 2025

Love isn’t just about romance. This Valentine’s Day, we’re exploring the power of deep nonromantic bonds. Host Rachel Feltman sits down with Rhaina Cohen, a producer and editor for NPR’s podcast...

An Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032. What Can We Do about It?

Hinzugefügt: 12. Februar 2025

The European Space Agency recently announced that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2 percent chance of hitting our planet in 2032. The probability of impact is difficult to predict exactly...

Microplastics on the Mind, Superstrong Shrimp and Bird Flu Transmission

Hinzugefügt: 10. Februar 2025

A subtype of H5N1 bird flu that has been found in cattle for the first time suggests that the virus jumped from birds to the animals twice. A headline-making study estimates that we have a spoon’s...

Trump’s Executive Orders Create Confusion for Researchers

Hinzugefügt: 7. Februar 2025

The first few weeks of the Trump administration have been marked by chaos and confusion for the nation’s health and science agencies. A funding freeze broadly targeting language around diversity,...

Avoiding Outrage Fatigue in Overwhelming Times

Hinzugefügt: 5. Februar 2025

It’s almost impossible not to feel outraged these days. But overexposure to information that makes us angry can wear us down. Senior health and medicine editor Tanya Lewis joins host Rachel Feltman...

Tuberculosis Outbreak, RFK, Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings and Polar Bear Hair

Hinzugefügt: 3. Februar 2025

This week we’re recapping Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s confirmation hearings. Highly pathogenic H5N9, a strain of bird flu, was found in U.S. poultry. A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is making...

Are You Tired of Feeling Cynical? Hopeful Skepticism Could Be a Way Out

Hinzugefügt: 31. Januar 2025

It’s easy to be cynical about the state of the world—even when you’re a researcher who studies empathy and kindness. Stanford University psychologist Jamil Zaki turned his own negativity into his...

Science Will Stare Directly Into the Sun--And Love It

Hinzugefügt: 29. Januar 2025

The sun is in the middle of its solar maximum, the part of its 11-year solar cycle that was responsible for the stunning auroras seen across the globe last year. This year is looking equally...

WHO Withdrawal, Bird Flu Updates and a Link between Fitness and Treatment Outcomes

Hinzugefügt: 27. Januar 2025

Executive orders that impact science and health in the U.S. came quickly after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Tanya Lewis, senior editor of health and medicine, explains how grievances...

Combatting Climate Anxiety through Community Science

Hinzugefügt: 24. Januar 2025

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the news these days and to fear for the future. What if you could interrupt doomscrolling and contribute to conservation at the same time? That’s the idea behind...