Moths, Alan Alda, Graveyard Lichens. Nov 1, 2019, Part 2
There are over 160,000 species of moths worldwide, and they come in all different shapes and sizes. For example, the Comet Moth, native to the rainforests of Madagascar, boasts vibrant red and yellow ...
1 Nov 201946min
PFAS Lawsuit, Bat Disease. Nov 1, 2019, Part 1
Eighteen years ago, a lawyer named Robert Bilott sent a letter to the EPA, the attorney general, and other regulators, warning them about a chemical called PFOA, short for perfluorooctanoic acid. Outs...
1 Nov 201946min
“Black Software” Book, Mucus. Oct 25, 2019, Part 2
When the World Wide Web was first being developed, African American software engineers, journalists and entrepreneurs were building search engines, directories, and forums to connect and bring on blac...
25 Okt 201946min
Spiders, Quantum Supremacy, Missouri Runoff. Oct 25, 2019, Part 1
Spiders were one of the first animals to evolve on land. And over the span of 400 million years of speciation and evolution, they’ve learned some amazing tricks. One of their trademarks? The strong, s...
25 Okt 201946min
Policing And Mental Health, Ancient Clams, Moon Plan. Oct. 18, 2019, Part 2
In the 1980s and 1990s, in the midst of rising crime rates and a nationally waning confidence in policing, law enforcement around the country adopted a different approach to addressing crime. Instead ...
18 Okt 201947min
Degrees Of Change: Climate Change Migration. Oct. 18, 2019, Part 1
When the water rises, whether from heavy rains or rising seas, communities have a few options: reinforce flood-threatened homes, rebuild after the water recedes, or—in places where the threat of repea...
18 Okt 201947min
Office Air Pollution, Tetris Decisions, Alzheimer's Update. Oct 11, 2019, Part 2
If you live and work in an urban area, you might think about the air quality outside your home or workplace. But what about the air quality inside the office? It turns out that on average, indoor envi...
11 Okt 201947min
Trust In Science, California Power Outages, Regrowing Cartilage. Oct 11, 2019, Part 1
Despite widely reported attacks on science, the vast majority of Americans continue to trust scientists, according to the latest survey from the Pew Research Center. Many listeners of Science Friday m...
11 Okt 201946min
