Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up
Despite not having a known function, cellular “vaults” are on the verge of being harnessed for all kinds of applications, and looking at the evolution of brown fat into a heat-generating organ First...
6 Juni 202437min
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials
Studying color vision in with children who gain sight later in life, joining a cancer trial doesn’t improve survival odds, and the first in our books series this year First on this week’s show, Staff...
30 Maj 202444min
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud
A roundup of online news stories featuring animals, and researchers get crows to “count” to four This week’s show is all animals all the time. First, Online News Editor Dave Grimm joins host Sarah C...
23 Maj 202433min
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters
On this week’s show: What happens when the body’s own immune system attacks the brain, and how otters’ use of tools expands their diet First on the show this week, when rogue antibodies attack the b...
16 Maj 202432min
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects
Jupiter’s moon Io has likely been volcanically active since the start of the Solar System, and a proposal to safeguard healthy human subjects in clinical trials First on the show this week, a look at...
9 Maj 202429min
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice
Bringing historical seismic reports and modern seismic risk maps into alignment, and a roundup of stories from our newsletter, ScienceAdviser First on the show this week, a roundup of stories with o...
2 Maj 202424min
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series
Researchers try to identify effective loneliness interventions, making the Sandmeyer safer, and books that look to the future and don’t see doom and gloom First up on the show, Deputy News Editor Ke...
25 Apr 202442min
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut
A different source of global warming, signs of a continentwide tradition of human sacrifice, and a virus that attacks the cholera bacteria First up on the show this week, clearer skies might be acce...
18 Apr 202438min
