Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core
First this week, Associate Editor Kelly Servick joins us to discuss a big push to develop scalable blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease and how this could advance research on the disease and its treatm...
22 Jul 202126min
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have catal...
15 Jul 202125min
Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books
First this week, Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with author Patrick Radden Keefe about his book Empire of Pain and the role scientists, regulators, and physicians played in the rollout of Oxyconti...
8 Jul 202141min
Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure
First this week, Contributing Correspondent Sam Kean talks with producer Joel Goldberg about techniques museum conservators are using to save a range of plastic artifacts—from David Bowie costumes to ...
1 Jul 202139min
Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science
First this week, Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady talks with host Sarah Crespi about controversy surrounding the use of Botox injections to alleviate depression by suppressing frowning. Ne...
24 Jun 202132min
Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep...
17 Jun 202123min
Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families
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10 Jun 202128min
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in how amat...
3 Jun 202138min
