Can Better Equipment Eliminate Concussions In Sports?
Football season is well underway, and fans know those athletes get hit hard. Could better helmets and guidelines around concussion prevention someday eliminate head injuries from the sport? Host Flora...
29 Sep 202518min
Is Tylenol Use During Pregnancy Connected To Autism?
At a news conference on September 22, President Trump claimed that taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.” Ma...
26 Sep 202512min
How AI Advances Are Improving Humanoid Robots
Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far...
25 Sep 202518min
The High-Tech Lab Unlocking Secrets Of Coral Reproduction
In the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, scientists are on the cutting edge of growing coral. Rising ocean temperatures have caused mass coral bleaching, and experts are racing against the cl...
24 Sep 202518min
The Humble Microbe Could Help Us Understand Life Itself
Sift through your memories and excavate an image of a fossil. Maybe you’re picturing dinosaur bones, the imprint of an ammonite, or the fronds of a fern etched into stone. But there’s a whole other ca...
23 Sep 202512min
Raising A New Generation Of Bat Conservationists In West Africa
Nigeria is home to 100 known species of bats—about a third of Africa’s bat species—but scientists don’t know much about them. Ecologists Iroro Tanshi and Benneth Obitte, collaborators and life partner...
22 Sep 202518min
How Conservation Efforts Brought Rare Birds Back From The Brink
The overall state of birds can seem rather grim. Almost a third of North American bird species are in decline, and in the last five decades, more than 100 species have lost over half of their populati...
19 Sep 202518min
Teamwork Between Species Is The Key To Life Itself
Codependency between humans gets a bad rap. But in nature, species often rely on each other for survival. While humans think they’re in control of relationships between other species, like dogs and ev...
18 Sep 202518min
