Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep...
17 Juni 202123min
Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families
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10 Juni 202128min
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in how amat...
3 Juni 202138min
Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands
First this week, Lucia Melloni, a group leader in the department of neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, talks with host Sarah Crespi about making the hard problem of con...
27 Maj 202127min
Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers
Staff Writer Kelly Servick talks with host Sarah Crespi about the pairing of a specific type of psychotherapy with the drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, for treating post-traumatic stress disorder...
20 Maj 202124min
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations—instead of pumping health-harming chemicals ...
13 Maj 202134min
Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects
Rich Stone, former international news editor at Science and current senior science editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about concernin...
6 Maj 202130min
Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys
Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a company that stores renewable energy by hoisting large objects in massive “gravity batteries.” Also on this week’s ...
29 Apr 202122min
