Climate Change Is Upending The Home Insurance Market
You can’t get a mortgage without home insurance. But in some parts of the country, it’s becoming harder and harder to find a plan, as insurance companies drop homeowners and pull out of entire states...
24 Jul 202518min
What The Sigma Is Algospeak?
Gen Alpha slang can seem unintelligible to adults, but linguist and TikToker Adam Aleksic argues language development in the internet age is worth legitimate study. Adam talks to Host Flora Lichtman a...
23 Jul 202518min
How Millions Of Flies Can Help Stop The New World Screwworm
The New World screwworm has cattle ranchers, entomologists, and the federal government on edge. The pest was successfully eradicated from the US decades ago, but has recently been moving north from So...
22 Jul 202512min
Why Is The Scopes Trial Still Relevant 100 Years Later?
In July 1925, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial captivated the nation. On its face, the case was relatively straightforward: A Tennessee biology teacher named John Scopes was accused of teaching human evoluti...
21 Jul 202518min
Why Don’t We Have A Vaccine For Lyme Disease?
It’s shaping up to be one of the worst tick years yet, and concerns about Lyme disease—which is transmitted through the bites of some species—are high. Aside from a short-lived vaccine released in the...
18 Jul 202518min
Is This PTSD Treatment Too Good To Be True?
About 7% of veterans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that number can be closer to 30% for those who have served in a war zone. But PTSD has been treated pretty much the same way...
17 Jul 202512min
Is It Time For A New Model Of The Universe?
For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence that the universe is...
16 Jul 202528min
How PFAS From A Military Base Has Sickened Nearby Residents
For decades, residents of the small city of Newburgh, New York, were unknowingly drinking water contaminated with toxic PFAS—also known as forever chemicals. The source turned out to be firefighting f...
15 Jul 202512min
