Health & Science
A Better Way to Build a Black Hole
A new possibility has arisen for giant black hole formation: Massive gas clouds in a galaxy may be able to collapse directly into a black ...
Air Date: August 2, 2016
Listen 00:06:13We have about six weeks until Labor Day – so how has your summer been so far? Have you been able to fit in all of the fun and relax ...
Air Date: July 26, 2016
Listen 00:03:48This month marks the 40th anniversary of the landing of the Viking spacecraft on Mars back in 1976. There were two landers about the size ...
Air Date: July 26, 2016
Listen 00:04:4740 years after Legionnaires outbreak, the case for a ‘Safe Breathing Water Act’
Forty years ago this month, more than ...
9 years ago
If Bela Batorfi has his way, Hungary may soon be synonymous with complex dental procedures in the way that France is known for baguettes ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:51Sentient creatures on planets orbiting two stars enjoy a different perspective of the heavens above. Now astronomers have sighted a three ...
Air Date: July 18, 2016
Listen 00:06:20The impact of violent images on our health
The more time we spend online, the more we end up witnessing violence and violent incidents. The video of Philando Castile bleeding to de ...
Air Date: July 18, 2016
Listen 00:03:03Attention Deficit Disorder and Education
Attention Deficit Disorder has certainly faded from the headlines a bit in recent years, but it still affects millions of people – ...
Air Date: July 12, 2016
Listen 00:00:20The Moon slides past Mars and Saturn this week – Mars on Wednesday and Saturn on Friday . . . If you can see the moon you can fin ...
Air Date: July 12, 2016
Listen 00:04:53Dr. Dan gathered together academics Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David Redlawsk and clinician Lisa J. Cohen for a non-partisan discussion o ...
Air Date: July 11, 2016
Listen 00:50:31Correlating intense emotions with specific health conditions
Researchers have long known that intense emotions felt over time can affect our health. A new study digs a bit deeper: it analyzed argume ...
Air Date: July 5, 2016
Listen 00:03:29The fourth of July offers out-of-doors celebrants an opportunity to enjoy fireworks at nightfall, and then nature’s pyrotechnics u ...
Air Date: July 5, 2016
Listen 00:05:30Are good care and compassion lost in efforts to curb opioid prescriptions?
“I feel like I have to re-prove myself every time I go to the doctor” — a patient and a health policy expert weigh in on Am ...
9 years ago
Listen 10:28Let there be light (gathering) in the darkest parts of Chile
Thanks to dark, dark skies; Northern Chile currently houses 50% of the world’s light gathering capacity, soon to be 70% – tha ...
Air Date: June 28, 2016
Listen 00:06:21Why don’t young doctors want to work in primary care?
Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...
9 years ago
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