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- Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdosesFirst up on the podcast, host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Adrian Cho talk football and the latest science behind helmets engineered to reduce head injuries. Have better materials and testing led to fewer concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in players? Next on the show, more than 100,000 people die from opioid overdoses in North […]
- Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuelsFirst up on the podcast, how do we protect astronauts when they leave the shelter of Earth’s protective magnetic fields and face the slow, constant bombardment of space radiation? Freelance science journalist Elie Dolgin joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss what we know about the damage from high-velocity particles and the research being done to […]
- Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbesFirst up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome, when microbes inside the human gut make too much alcohol; how doctors can use a public repository, the Mexican Biobank, to guide patient care; and preliminary findings that surgery on the brain’s plumbing shows promise for Alzheimer’s disease. Next […]
Expert Insights
- As the Arctic Gets Louder, Narwhals Are Going QuietIn a warming Arctic, noise from growing shipping traffic is interfering with the ability of narwhals to hunt and communicate.Read more on E360 →
- China to See Solar Capacity Outstrip Coal Capacity This YearThis year China will see its solar capacity outstrip its coal capacity for the first time, according to an industry group.Read more on E360 →
- India Says Its Grasslands Are 'Wastelands.' Medieval Folklore Suggests OtherwiseThe sprawling grasslands of western India are, in the popular imagination, the remains of woodlands that were leveled under British rule — areas to be reforested, rather than conserved. But a recent analysis of stories, songs, and poems from centuries past reveals that western grasslands predate British colonization.Read more on E360 →
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