Health & Science
Women’s emotional labor on your behalf comes with a cost
I have opened my mind and my heart and given my time to others to unload their burdens on me despite my own turmoil and trauma, because I thought it was my duty as a woman.
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An aspiring astronaut’s life on fake Mars
Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi
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Exoplanets in the neighborhood
The twin 10m Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea in Hawaii have identified 100 more exoplanet candidates. On
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Air Date: February 20, 2017
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Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh
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Air Date: February 17, 2017
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One scientist is creating ‘brain soup’ to calculate brain power
Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size.
Don’t judge a brain by it
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For this couple, starting a family turned into planning brain surgery
About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a
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We celebrate two giant birth anniversaries this week: Wednesday is the 453rd anniversary of Galileo and Sunday is the 544th anniversary o
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Air Date: February 13, 2017
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Artificial pancreas could mean “freedom” for diabetic patients
For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care. About one million Americans have Type 1 d
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Synchronized defense: How animals move as one to avoid predators
When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.
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New procedure leads to miraculous recoveries in stroke patients
On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That
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How electroconvulsive therapy’s troubled past has colored its modern use
Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati
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Listening to the brain to reveal damage and disease
Researchers are studying the way the brain processes sound to better understand – possibly even diagnose – concussions.
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February 6th is the 46th anniversary of the first space sport. On this day in 1971, golf enthusiast-turned-astronaut Alan Shepard hit a g
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Air Date: February 6, 2017
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Dr. Derrick Pitts and Dave Heller recap some important dates in space exploration this week.
On February 1, 13 years ago, the Space
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Air Date: January 30, 2017
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A Jehovah’s Witness balances surgery with beliefs
When Audrey Butler dedicated herself to becoming a Jehovah’s Witness seven years ago, she knew she would never accept a blood trans
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