Ancient East Asian Genomes, COVID And Clotting, And Cassowary Plumage. May 22, 2020, Part 2
The cassowary, a large flightless bird native to Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, has a reputation for aggression and wickedly clawed feet that can cause serious injury. Indeed, they’ve been...
22 Touko 202047min
Degrees Of Change: Regulatory Rollbacks. May 22, 2020, Part 1
The Trump administration is in the process of reversing nearly 100 environmental rules and regulations—threatening air, water, and public health. For example, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic,...
22 Touko 202046min
Galileo, Home COVID Monitoring Tech, Origin Of The Feces. May 15, 2020, Part 2
Galileo’s Battle Against Science Denial Galileo Galilei is known as the father of observational astronomy. His theories about the movement of the Earth around the sun and his experiments testing princ...
15 Touko 202046min
Global COVID Hotspots, Fact Check My Feed, Koji Fermenting. May 15, 2020, Part 1
Fact Check My Feed: Finding The Falsehoods In ‘Plandemic’ Science Friday continues to weigh the truth and sift through the seemingly never-ending stream of misleading claims about the novel coronaviru...
15 Touko 202046min
Moon Maps, Brain Replay, Contact Tracing. May 8, 2020, Part 2
Have you ever had to learn something new and repeat it over and over—until it feels like you’re doing it in your sleep? Maybe you are. In research published this week in the journal Cell Reports, scie...
8 Touko 202047min
COVID-19 Inequalities. May 8, 2020, Part 1
Coronavirus is still hitting the U.S. hard. And breaking down infections by race shows a striking pattern: Black, Latino, and Native American people are hit much harder than other communities. Nationa...
8 Touko 202046min
Evolutionary Biologist Neil Shubin, Bee Virus Behavior, Search for Lost Apples. May 1, 2020, Part 2
The Twists And Turns Of The Evolution Of Life On Earth In an evolutionary tree, neat branches link the paths of different species back through time. As you follow the forking paths, you can trace comm...
1 Touko 202045min
COVID-19 By The Numbers, 1918 Flu. May 1, 2020, Part 1
Navigating COVID-19 By The Numbers Ever since the first news about a new virus in China, we’ve been seeing projections, or models predicting how it might spread. But how are those models created? Ther...
1 Touko 202047min
