Health & Science
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 ...
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 ...
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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Intergalactic Space not so Spacey?
How is it that the Milky Way’s 11 most distant stars are 300,000 light years from Earth, well beyond th ...
Air Date: January 23, 2017
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Researchers at Massachussetts General Hospital and other institutions are gaining a better understanding of & ...
Air Date: January 17, 2017
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Larry Molnar, an astronomy professor at Calvin College, announced last week that he and his students are foll ...
Air Date: January 17, 2017
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Vera Rubin’s son reflects on how she paved the way for women
His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...
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Thinking without a centralized brain: the intelligence of the octopus
An octopus does not think with its arms, per say, but it comes pretty close. The majority of octopuses’ neurons are not centrally l ...
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Dave Heller and Dr. Pitts start by discussing some amazing exoplanet discoveries. In 2017, we can look forward to NASA launching TESS (Tr ...
Air Date: January 9, 2017
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The Opioid Epidemic—from the headlines to hope
The news can sound dire. Opioid addiction is ruining families and taking lives at an ever increasing rate. In this roundtable discussion ...
Air Date: January 6, 2017
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