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1281 episodes transcribedIt’s zombie season! At least if you’re watching the new season of the fungal thriller “The Last of Us,” airing right now on Max, which chronicles what...
Research suggests that better understanding the psychological and neurological components of chronic pain may lead to better treatments.Chronic pain i...
Researchers isolated one kind of cone in the eye and aimed lasers at it to allow subjects to see a super vibrant teal shade they call “olo.”Think abou...
How will market uncertainty and a lack of federal support for climate efforts affect the future of clean energy in the United States? Plus, many wetla...
With the help of cat owners, a new project investigates cats’ biology and aims to link some of their behaviors to their genes.Calling all cat people:...
An evolving technology is changing the lives of people with paralysis: brain-computer interfaces (BCI). These are devices that are implanted in the br...
In Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, inventor Josh Miele recounts his life story and path to becoming an accessibility designer.When inventor and scienti...
Are traffic engineering decisions based on evidence-based research? Not as much as you might think.If you’ve seen a car crash on the side of the road,...
The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, the molecule comes from microbes and phytoplankton. Also, re...
Imagine you’re diving into a cell. You’re paddling around in the cytoplasm, you’re climbing up a mitochondria. If you’re having a hard time picturing...
Bringing back Southwest peach orchards won’t be easy, but researchers are on the lookout for remaining trees—and they need help. And, the newly discov...
We are rounding up your questions about roads. What confounds you about traffic, or how interstates are laid out? Are there certain road design elemen...
On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony from Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s nominee to lead NASA...
We go inside the scientifically accurate ER world created for the TV show with one of its medical consultants.What is it actually like to work in an e...
NASA is planning to decommission the International Space Station by the end of 2030. The ISS, which began operations in 2000, is reaching the end of i...
What happens when AI moves beyond convincing chatbots and custom image generators to something that matches—or outperforms—humans?Each week, tech comp...
In many parts of the United States, spring has sprung. There’s nothing quite like those first few beautiful days of spring. They’re delightful—until t...
Over the past two decades, rates of peanut allergies in children have more than tripled. A variety of theories has been proposed to explain this, from...
The cuts hit multiple agencies, affecting work on HIV, gun violence prevention, vaccines, minority health research, and more.On April 1, thousands of...
Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecast. And, babies like...
