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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Biologist Jessy Bokvist holds a coho salmon tissue sample in a lab at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Before DNA can be analyzed, Bokvist has to isolate it from tissue samples. (courtesy of Molly Segal)
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Epigenetics may hold answers to the survival of hatchery-born salmon

Coho salmon born in captivity are less likely to survive than those born in the wild, and scientists think captivity may be to blame.

7 years ago

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Photo: Elana Gordon/WHYY
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Science

Crisis Mode

As drug overdose deaths continue to soar, cities hit hard by the opioid crisis are considering a controversial new proposal: safe injecti ...

Air Date: July 6, 2018

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Inside Insite, North America’s first public supervised injection facility, located in Vancouver. Photo by Elana Gordon/WHYY
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Health

Lessons from Vancouver: U.S. cities consider supervised injection facilities

Vancouver is home to North America’s first, public supervised injection facility — and an explosion of spin-offs designed to prevent overdose deaths.

7 years ago

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Science

Science and the Fourth of July

Rebroadcast: Happy Birthday, America! From the very beginning, science has shaped this country. Many of the Founding Fathers — Madison, ...

Air Date: June 29, 2018

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Health

Weighed Down

Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make us pack on the pounds — we sit at desks all day, grab fast food on the run, and ...

Air Date: June 22, 2018

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Feliciano Pagan, a Medicaid recipient in Philadelphia, looks over his medically tailored meals made at the kitchens of the nonprofit MANNA and paid for by Health Partners Plans, his Medicaid health plan.
The Pulse
Health

Rx: zucchini, brown rice, turkey soup Medicaid plan offers food as medicine

A small group of insurers offers some members with serious illnesses medically tailored meals to improve their health.

7 years ago

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(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Do soda taxes help or hurt the poor?

Supporters say taxing sugary drinks is a boon for public health — detractors say the levy is a menace for low-income communities. Who’s right?

7 years ago

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Science

Hurricanes

The Atlantic hurricane season is here — that time of the year when tropical storms whip their way in from the sea, cutting paths of des ...

Air Date: June 15, 2018

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Roxannie Vazquez watches over her son Jacob Ramiro at the neo-natal intensive care unit of a hospital in Macon, Georgia. He suffers from chronic lung disease. His mom says mold grew in his ventilator in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria damaged the pediatric hospital in San Juan. (Emily Cureton)
The Pulse
Health

Meet baby Jacob

Baby Jacob weighed less than a pound when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico ripping into the hospital roof over his head.

7 years ago

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Rosita Canboh and community members in Barrio Las Vegas, Cayey, make mosquito nets for their neighborhood. Photo by Fernando Silva
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Health

In Puerto Rico, residents band together to defend against mosquitos

In Puerto Rico's mountain towns, grassroots community groups are finding purpose and protection by making homemade mosquito nets.

7 years ago

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Minerva Ortolaza holds a rechargeable bulb her sister, Santa, uses to light her house. The Ortolazas didn't have light for months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and they had to change their routines to make do. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
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Science

Puerto Rico crawls toward full re-electrification

As the island’s utility struggles to turn the lights back on, there’s a larger conversation about rebuilding better.

7 years ago

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Science

What Lab Animals Teach Us

We have dogs to thank for pacemakers. We probably should be a little grateful to mice for the development of chemotherapy. Cows helped us ...

Air Date: June 8, 2018

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Diana Goodrich and JB Mulcahy are the directors of the Cle Elum Chimp Sanctuary, home to seven chimpanzees once used in biomedical research. (Eilís O’Neill)
The Pulse
Science

At this retirement home, chimps are in charge

Chimpanzees used in biomedical research often have no place to go when they retire. But a sanctuary in central Washington state is now home to seven animals, and counting.

7 years ago

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A zebafish larva sits in agarose gel to stabilize it on a glass microscope slide. A microelectrode, which looks like a needle point, measures electricity in its brain, telling scientists how often and how severe its seizures are
The Pulse
Science

Zebrafish are the new lab rats

At the University of Calgary scientists say this tiny, tropical fish may be a quicker, cheaper way to find new drugs to treat epilepsy.

7 years ago

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Three mice climb on and around a clear transport tube. These mice also have crinkled paper nesting material, which they have gathered into one end of their cage in preparation for building a nest. Photo credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography
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Science

Is it important to keep lab rats happy?

Veterinarians say bored mice and rats that live in barren cages are bad test subjects.

7 years ago

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