Eating More Oysters Helps Us—And The Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay produces around 500 million pounds of seafood every year, providing delicious blue crabs, striped bass, oysters, and more to folks up and down the coast. It’s one of the most produc...
10 Apr 202418min
How Trees Keep D.C. And Baltimore Cool
Springtime is a great reminder of just how beautiful trees can be. Cherry blossoms and magnolias put on a gorgeous show, but trees aren’t just there to look good. They play an important role in absorb...
9 Apr 202412min
Predicting Heart Disease From Chest X-Rays With AI | Storing New Memories During Sleep
Dr. Eric Topol discusses the promise of “opportunistic” AI, using medical scans for unintended diagnostic purposes. Also, a study in mice found that the brain tags new memories through a “sharp wave r...
8 Apr 202418min
Recipient Of Pig Kidney Transplant Recovering | Answering Your Questions About April 8 Eclipse
A Massachusetts man who received a kidney from a genetically modified pig is recovering well. Also, on April 8, a total solar eclipse will plunge parts of North America into darkness. Scientists answe...
5 Apr 202430min
Our Inevitable Cosmic Apocalypse
When it comes to the eventual end of our universe, cosmologists have a few classic theories: the Big Crunch, where the universe reverses its expansion and contracts again, setting the stars themselves...
4 Apr 202418min
The Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind And Right Whales
By the time researchers found the dead whale on a Martha’s Vineyard beach, her jet-black skin was pockmarked by hungry seagulls, her baleen had been dislodged from her mouth, and thin rope was wrapped...
3 Apr 202418min
The Bumpy Road To Approving New Alzheimer’s Drugs
In the past few years pharmaceutical companies have developed a string of new Alzheimer’s drugs called anti-amyloids, which target amyloid plaques in patients’ brains. These plaques are one of the key...
2 Apr 202417min
‘3 Body Problem’ And The Laws Of Physics | In Defense Of ‘Out Of Place’ Plants
Particle accelerators, nanofibers, and solar physics: The science advisor for the Netflix adaptation breaks down the physics in the show. Also, in her new book, Jessica J. Lee looks at how humans have...
1 Apr 202423min
