Urban Forests And Climate Change, HIV Treatment Progress. September 4, 2020, Part 1
New York City’s skyline is dominated by tall skyscrapers—but there’s a surprising amount of forest in the city known as a concrete jungle. Tree canopy actually covers about 20% of the city. In fact, w...
4 Sep 202046min
Milky Way Gas, COVID Ventilation, Immunotherapy And The Microbiome. August 28, 2020, Part 2
Recently, a group of scientists studying the Milky Way through the world’s largest ground-based radio telescope identified something they had never seen—a cold, dense gas that had been ejected at high...
28 Aug 202047min
Coronavirus Immunity, Ask A Cephalopod Scientist. August 28, 2020, Part 1
How well you fare in fighting a new pathogen like SARS-CoV2 depends in large part on how your immune system responds to—and kills—the virus. The immune system’s job is to protect you from invasions, b...
28 Aug 202047min
Pregnancy And Coronavirus, Good News For Corals. August 21, 2020, Part 1
There’s no guidebook for how to have a baby during a pandemic. Experiences like having loved ones present at the delivery, or inviting grandparents over to meet a newborn have not been an option for e...
21 Aug 202047min
Iowa Derecho, Showering And Hygiene, Parasites. August 21, 2020, Part 2
Dealing With The Aftermath Of Iowa’s Devastating Derecho It’s been more than a week since the state of Iowa was hit by a surprise visitor: a line of thunderstorms with unusual power and duration, kno...
21 Aug 202047min
Contraceptive Access, Robot Bias, Story Structure. August 14, 2020, Part 2
Roboticists, like other artificial intelligence researchers, are concerned about how bias affects our relationship with machines that are supposed to help us. But what happens when the bias is not in ...
14 Aug 202047min
Faster COVID-19 Testing, Hell Ants. August 14, 2020, Part 1
Throughout the pandemic, testing has continued to be one of the biggest issues, particularly in the United States. Some scientists say that the solution is to rethink our COVID-19 testing strategy, fo...
14 Aug 202046min
SciFri en Español: El Río Hirviente De Perú Tiene Más De Lo Que El Ojo Ve
En el verano del 2019, Rosa Vásquez Espinoza bioquímica y candidata a Ph.D. en la Universidad de Michigan Ann Arbor, fue en una expedición al Río Hirviente en la Amazonía peruana para colectar microbi...
12 Aug 202020min
