The Leap: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Biochemist Virginia Man-Yee Lee has spent a lifetime in the lab, figuring out what happens in the brains of people with neurodegenerative diseases. She’s made key discoveries about Parkinson's, ALS, a...
16 Jun 202529min
RFK Jr. Reshuffles CDC Vaccine Panel With Vaccine Skeptics
On Monday, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel that advises the CDC on who should get certain vaccines and when. Then on Thursday, he appointed eight new member...
13 Jun 202525min
What’s Next For China’s Space Program?
This week, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft sent back its first image from space. It’s headed to a rendezvous with the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, one of Earth’s “quasi-moons,” where it will collect samples in ...
12 Jun 202519min
The Ruin And Redemption Of The American Prairie
The prairie might just be the most underappreciated landscape in the United States. Beginning in the early 1800s, the majority of these grasslands were converted into big industrial farms. Now, some u...
11 Jun 202518min
Bedbugs Have Been Bugging Us Since Before Beds
Bedbug infestations are not just a modern problem—these pests have been with early human ancestors for 245,000 years, causing problems long before the invention of beds. Lindsay Miles, an entomologist...
10 Jun 202518min
The Leap: A Scientist’s Quest To See Every Organism On Earth
Manu Prakash is many things—biologist, engineer, inventor, philosopher—but what he isn’t is conventional. Following his instincts has led Manu to his most ambitious project yet: mapping the whole tree...
9 Jun 202525min
Are We Prepared To Fight ‘The New Polio’?
A mysterious disease called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been appearing in emergency rooms for about a decade. The disease has caused otherwise healthy children to lose the ability to move their a...
6 Jun 202525min
How Science Communication Can Step Up Amid Federal Cuts
It’s a precarious time for science in the United States. Federal funding is being slashed, career scientists are being laid off, and researchers are considering leaving to work abroad. On top of that,...
5 Jun 202518min
