Vaccine Rate Decrease, Mind-Body Music. May 29, 2020, Part 1
One unintended consequence of families sheltering at home is that children’s vaccination rates have gone way down. In New York City, for example, vaccine doses for kids older than two dropped by more ...
29 Touko 202046min
Bio-Inspired Concrete, Nose Microbiome, Space News. May 29, 2020, Part 2
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, each have their own microbial profile. A team of resea...
29 Touko 202046min
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
