Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture

21.03.2024 • 00:35:49

New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests when a conventional and organic farm are neighbors ...

Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

14.03.2024 • 00:29:14

Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain This week we have two neuroscience stor...

A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair

07.03.2024 • 00:30:03

What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticity First up this week, Online News Editor ...

The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

29.02.2024 • 00:29:42

Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the body First u...

What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all

22.02.2024 • 00:47:46

On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting First up ...

What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

15.02.2024 • 00:46:19

Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar First up on the show this week, MythBus...

A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators

08.02.2024 • 00:31:21

More than 200 materials could be “altermagnets,” and the impact of odiferous pollutants on nocturnal plant-pollinator interactions First up on the s...

A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs

01.02.2024 • 00:30:14

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 neurons F...

A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior

25.01.2024 • 00:28:08

On this week’s show: A roundup of stories from our daily newsletter, and the ripple effects of the invasive big-headed ant in Kenya First up on the s...

Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw

19.01.2024 • 00:36:29

Investigation shows journal editors getting paid to publish bunk papers, and new techniques for finding tumor DNA in the blood First up on this week...