What babies can tell us – and why we need to listen
If you've ever seen an infant lying on its back, you've surely seen them endlessly waving their arms and legs in seemingly haphazard ways. And crying? To the uneducated eye and ear, it does all seem a...
27 Dec 202541min
ENCORE: When the doctor is out
ENCORE: This episode was first published in Oct. 2023. Sierra Leone used to be the most dangerous place in the world to give birth. Without enough doctors to do C-sections, women and babies were dying...
18 Sep 202534min
ENCORE: Running rats and healing hearts
ENCORE: This episode was first published in Sept. 2023.In 1998, a young Norwegian exercise physiologist found that a technique he had used to help Olympic athletes could help heart patients too. But h...
14 Aug 202534min
Walrus tusks were Viking age gold
Historians have floated a half-dozen theories for why Viking Greenland settlements suddenly vanished in the 1300s and 1400s, after nearly 500 years of occupation. Was it climate change, the Black Deat...
10 Juli 202530min
An accidental discovery: From failed experiment to new antibiotic
NTNU professor Marit Otterlei nearly threw out the contaminated cell culture where she and her colleagues were testing a new cancer drug.The problem arose on a hot summer day, in Trondheim, in a count...
13 Juni 202528min
New clues from old bones: Norwegian Vikings were very, very violent
We may think the Vikings were all the same, but it turns out that Viking violence wasn’t the same everywhere. New research shows that Norwegian Vikings were buried with 50 times more weapons—and had ...
15 Apr 202531min
Old flames die hard – the saga of solar cookers
Jimmy Chaciga, a PhD research fellow at Makerere University in Uganda, thinks he has what it will take to get Ugandan households to adopt solar-powered cookers. First, cookers need to be simple to ope...
14 Feb 202521min
From Running Rats to Brain Maps: A Nobel Odyssey
When the phone rang 10 years ago while Norwegian neuroscientist May-Britt Moser was in a particularly engaging lab meeting, she almost didn't answer it.Good thing she did! It was Göran Hansson, secret...
26 Nov 202437min
