From a 340-year slavery law finally repealed to pancakes for cigarette butts: 10 solutions this week
A high-risk breast cancer diagnosis used to mean one thing: chemotherapy. A large UK trial just found that 68 percent of those patients could skip it safely, based on a genomic test that already exist...
12 Juni 22min
Pancreatic cancer cracked, hepatitis B cleared, and wild mice who run for joy
An oncologist cried at her desk when she read these latest trial results. Researchers put exercise wheels in empty fields and sand dunes, and wild mice found them and ran, unprompted, for no reward. A...
5 Juni 22min
David Attenborough's 100-year secret and seven other solutions this week!
Sir David Attenborough just turned 100! Arielle and Karissa cover his 10-minute secret to a long life along with seven other solutions this week — belugas who prove that their species is capable of re...
29 Maj 18min
(Guest Interview) She calls herself a mermaid now: How Swim Sista Swim Is Changing Who Belongs in the Water
Stephanie McKenzie has been swimming since she was a child. She came to Swim Sista Swim as an instructor and, as you'll hear in her voice, is a vibrant and confident woman on all counts. Yet she still...
22 Maj 33min
Gene therapy restores hearing, Gaza teens win a global prize, and eight more wins
Europe's first stadium built exclusively for women's football is going up in Brighton! And the most interesting design decision wasn't the pitch. It was the size. Arielle and Karissa cover ten solutio...
8 Maj 19min
Antarctic whales by the hundreds, the UK's generational smoking ban, and more positive news this week
For the first time in history, clean energy grew faster than global electricity demand and fossil fuel generation actually went down. That's not even the most surprising thing in this episode. Arielle...
1 Maj 20min
Good news for donkeys, rats, wildflowers, and people who hate step trackers
This week, a 58-day protest campaign just convinced Etsy to ban all animal fur starting this August. Germany spent decades digging coal out of the ground, leaving craters 200 feet deep. This month, th...
24 Apr 21min
