
Health & Science
This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...
Air Date: April 5, 2016
Listen 00:05:42The Stresses of Medical School
Going to medical school is stressful – that’s not surprising But new research finds that the demands, cost, and competitive natur ...
Air Date: April 4, 2016
Listen 00:03:09ATLAS maps movement of asteroids
Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...
Air Date: March 29, 2016
Listen 00:07:37Each year, close to 40,000 Americans die by suicide – and researchers are always looking for new ways to prevent these deaths. But – ...
Air Date: March 28, 2016
Listen 00:03:22New Jersey girls find a voice and mentors at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab STEM conference
It was a loud, busy day. Nearly 600 middle- and high-school girls filled the ground floor of Princeton University’s Frick Chemistry ...
9 years ago
ListenEuropean Space Agency and Roscosmos partnered to send a methane-hunting orbiter and a EDL systems tester to Mars. Should arrive in Octobe ...
Air Date: March 21, 2016
Listen 00:05:13Breast cancer and mental health
New research led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich takes a closer look at the impact of a breast cancer diagnosis on people ...
Air Date: March 21, 2016
Listen 00:03:07Where medicine and literature overlap, the excellence of both professions is at play
The British Medical Journal lists more than 40 physicians who became notable authors. They include Somerset Maugham, Sir Arthur Conan Doy ...
9 years ago
A look at the work of Albert Einstein – he was born on March 14 in 1879. Today is also the birthday of Gene Cernan (born in ...
Air Date: March 14, 2016
Listen 00:06:47Cultivating Compassion for Aging
So often, the milestones of old age sneaks up on us. Even as we gain the advantage of experience, there are less comfortable changes to c ...
Air Date: March 11, 2016
Listen 00:50:28Life after lead poisoning: one family’s story
When the Degenharts bought their house, they knew it would be a fixer-upper. But they didn’t know that it would land their son, Jos ...
9 years ago
ListenA heart attack becomes an unwelcome source of poetic inspiration
Marylou Kelly Streznewski describes herself as a model of health. And for most of her life, she took it for granted. But that chan ...
9 years ago
ListenClocks shift forward one hour this Sunday morning (2 a.m.) A total solar eclipse can be seen this week in Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawes ...
Air Date: March 7, 2016
Listen 00:05:42Surveys by the national sleep foundation find that between eleven and 23 percent of live-in couples sleep in separate beds. Does this mea ...
Air Date: March 7, 2016
Listen 00:03:09For years, we’ve heard that meditation is good for our bodies and minds – but scientific studies on the practice have been la ...
Air Date: March 1, 2016
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