The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer
As a teenager living in St. Vincent, Richie Robertson saw first-hand what a volcanic eruption did to life on the island. Forty years later, he was the scientist the community turned to when the same v...
19 Maj 202528min
Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status
The lesser prairie chicken was granted endangered species status in 2023. Now the Department of the Interior is moving to revoke those protections. What can this bird known for its flamboyant courtshi...
16 Maj 202518min
Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires
Firefighting is a career with an inherent cancer risk, but a full understanding of what those risks are has been elusive. An important registry designed to help understand the link between firefighter...
15 Maj 202518min
Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods
What does it take to create and maintain one of the largest repositories of botanical information in the world? For starters, it can mean helicopter-ing into remote nooks of the Amazon, hiking through...
14 Maj 202529min
Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas
Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical p...
13 Maj 202517min
The Leap: I Was Considered A Nobody
Biochemist Kati Karikó spent decades experimenting with mRNA, convinced that she could solve the problems that had kept it from being used as a therapeutic. Her tireless, methodical work was dismissed...
12 Maj 202527min
Cuts To NASA And A Fast-Track For Deep Sea Mining
Proposed budget cuts for NASA would jeopardize space research. And an executive order could change the political tides for deep sea mining.On May 2, the Trump Administration proposed a 24% budget cut ...
9 Maj 202525min
How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other?
Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have their own language? Their own culture? Their own comp...
8 Maj 202523min
