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1425 episodes transcribedNationwide, almost 65% of adults have had at least one vaccine shot, but vaccination rates vary significantly depending on the state. NPR health corre...
Paleontologist Yara Haridy looks at fossilized bones for a living. When she randomly walked by a scientific poster one day, she discovered an entirely...
There's big change that's happening in the field of artificial limbs: artificial limbs that both move — and feel. NPR correspondent Jon Hamilton expla...
Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong speaks with Janina Jeff, the host and executive producer of In Those Genes, a "science and culture podcast that uses g...
Researchers say the concept of achieving herd immunity threshold isn't the right finish line to end the pandemic. It's an elusive number to define in...
Happy Pride, Short Wave Listeners! Here's a fun episode from our archives to celebrate the month!It's another "Back To School" episode where we take a...
Scientists and students with disabilities are often excluded from laboratories — in part because of how they're designed. Emily Kwong speaks to disabl...
Juul Labs seemingly started out with the aim to reduce smoking, but the company's e-cigarettes came to symbolize something very different: a teen vapi...
Researchers report in the journal Science that they appear to have some clues about the origin of Earth's plutonium - which has been long debated. Cor...
Eight states have passed an important milestone: getting 70% of all adults vaccinated with at least one shot. That's a number President Biden wants th...
**Heads up. This episode discusses addiction and alcoholism.**Some doctors are seeing a disturbing spike in lethal alcoholic liver disease, especially...
Solar geoengineering--the human attempt to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight away from Earth--is fraught with technological and ethical challenge...
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps to improve the country's public lands, forest...
In general, there are more men in STEMM fields than women. Representation in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine is even lower for wo...
Many Americans are baring their faces in public again, following new CDC recommendations that fully vaccinated people don't need them in most settings...
(Encore.) Drug overdose deaths are on the rise all around the country, including in Chicago, Illinois. ProPublica Illinois reporter Duaa Eldeib explai...
It's the latest installment of our series, "Animal Slander," where we take a common saying about animals and see what truth there is to it. The case b...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the proportion of emergency department visits by children in mental health crises w...
Mud and dirt have often been treated as waste products from excavation or dredging sites. But these days, coastal communities need massive amounts of...
Some colleges and universities have announced that COVID vaccination will be mandatory (with some exemptions) and the FDA has authorized the Pfizer CO...
