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A roundup of online news stories featuring animals, and researchers get crows to “count” to fourThis week’s show is all animals all the time. First, Online News Editor Dave Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss stepping on venomous snakes
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 dietFirst on the show this week, when rogue antibodies attack the brain, patients can show bizarre symptoms—fro
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 trialsFirst on the show this week, a look at proposed protections for healthy human subj
Bringing historical seismic reports and modern seismic risk maps into alignment, and a roundup of stories from our newsletter, ScienceAdviserFirst on the show this week, a roundup of stories with our newsletter editor, Christie Wilcox. Wilco
Researchers try to identify effective loneliness interventions, making the Sandmeyer safer, and books that look to the future and don’t see doom and gloomFirst up on the show, Deputy News Editor Kelly Servick explores the science of loneline
A different source of global warming, signs of a continentwide tradition of human sacrifice, and a virus that attacks the cholera bacteriaFirst up on the show this week, clearer skies might be accelerating global warming. Staff Writer Paul V
]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and what it takes to turn a symbiotic friend into an organelleFirst up on the show this week, clinical trials of new and old treatments for Long Covi
Tracing the arrival of rats using bones, isotopes, and a few shipwrecks; and what scientists have learned in 50 years about our famous ancestor LucyFirst on the show: Did rats come over with Christopher Columbus? It turns out, European colon
Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters sectionFirst on this week’s show, a robot that can predict your smile. Hod Lipson, a roboticist and professor at Columbia University, joins host Sarah Crespi to d
New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests when a conventional and organic farm are neighborsFirst up on this week’s show, a new treatment to stave off prion disease goes into clinical tr
Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brainThis week we have two neuroscience stories. First up, freelance science journalist Sara Reardon looks at why infants’ memories fade.
What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticityFirst up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk about a large genome sequencing project in India that
Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the bodyFirst up this week, a new approach to slowing climate change: dehydrating the stratosphere. Staff Wri
On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meetingFirst up on the show this week, news from this year’s annual meeting of AAAS (publisher of Science) in
Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a barFirst up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp about the state of scholarl
More than 200 materials could be “altermagnets,” and the impact of odiferous pollutants on nocturnal plant-pollinator interactionsFirst up on the show this week, researchers investigate a new kind of magnetism. Freelance science journalist Z
A remote island may hold clues for the future of El Niño and La Niña under climate change, and how pressure in the blood sends messages to neuronsFirst up, researchers are digging into thousands of years of coral to chart El Niño’s behavior
On this week’s show: A roundup of stories from our daily newsletter, and the ripple effects of the invasive big-headed ant in KenyaFirst up on the show, Science Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about snake ven
Investigation shows journal editors getting paid to publish bunk papers, and new techniques for finding tumor DNA in the bloodFirst up on this week’s episode, Frederik Joelving, an editor and reporter for the site Retraction Watch, talks wit
The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth
Assessing environmental damage during wartime, and tracking signaling between fetus and motherFirst up, freelance journalist Richard Stone returns with news from his latest trip to Ukraine. This week, he shares stories with host Sarah Crespi
Best of online news, and screening for tuberculosis using soundThis week’s episode starts out with a look back at the top 10 online news stories with Online News Editor David Grimm. There will be cat expressions and mad scientists, but also
Seeking the Majorana fermion particle, and a look at El Salvador’s adoption of cryptocurrencyFirst up on the show this week, freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky and host Sarah Crespi discuss the hunt for the elusive Majorana fermion p
Top science from 2023, and a genetic tool for pangolin conservationFirst up this week, it’s Science’s Breakthrough of the Year with producer Meagan Cantwell and News Editor Greg Miller. But before they get to the tippy-top science find, a fe
A look at cognition in livestock, and the coevolution of wild bird–human cooperationThis week we have two stories on thinking and learning in animals. First, Online News Editor David Grimm talks with host Sarah Crespi about a reporting trip
Raising the pH of the ocean to reduce carbon in the air, and robots that can landscapeFirst up on this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall discusses research into making oceans more alkaline as a way to increase carbon ca
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