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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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The Pulse
Science

The Hidden Costs of Science

In science, we tend to focus on the destination, not the journey. But for every big breakthrough, every historic discovery, there are cou ...

Air Date: October 16, 2020

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Dr. Sean Dooley briefs reporters at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Saturday. Trump was admitted to the hospital after contracting the coronavirus. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

Trump is taking remdesivir. Here’s how it works to control the coronavirus

Trump is on day two of a planned 5-day course of remdesivir. The medication works by making it harder for the coronavirus to replicate within the body.

6 years ago

This February 2018 photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Public Health shows The Gesundheit II machine in Dr. Donald Milton's Public Health Aerobiology, Virology, and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Public Health in College Park, Md. (University of Maryland School of Public Health via AP)
Science

Tiny airborne particles may pose a big coronavirus problem

One study is trying to help scientists and researchers answer one big question: Just how does the virus that causes COVID-19 spread from one person to another?

6 years ago

Researchers of the Rio de Janeiro State University prepare an instrument to sample airborne sewage droplets for the presence of the new coronavirus at the Santa Marta slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 27, 2020. The researchers are working together with volunteers of a local sanitation team to see if they can detect the virus in the air and evaporation from the slum’s open-air sewers. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
The Pulse
Science

Science and Medicine, Under Pressure

The pandemic has put a lot of pressure on both our health care system and the scientific process — exposing weaknesses that have long e ...

Air Date: September 18, 2020

Listen 48:24
Dr. Alexis Lieberman. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Some doctors think they’ve found a cheap, generic drug which treats COVID-19. So why hasn’t anyone heard of it?

How faulty data, Big Pharma and the fallout from hydroxychloroquine has haunted the research world, as desperate doctors and researchers look for a COVID-19 treatment.

6 years ago

Listen 14:52
(Jesse Zhang for NPR)
NPR
Health

A COVID-19 vaccine may be only 50% effective. Is that good enough?

As scientists race to develop a vaccine that proves "safe and effective," that doesn't mean it will prevent infection in everyone who gets it.

6 years ago

A young woman doing work on a computer, sitting next to a robot working on a computer
The Pulse
Science

The Future of Work

Technology is always changing the way we work, and what kinds of jobs are available. But now these changes are happening at lightning spe ...

Air Date: September 4, 2020

Listen 49:18
In this Friday, June 12, 2020 file photo, a woman has blood drawn for COVID-19 antibody testing in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Health

Large antibody study offers hope for virus vaccine efforts

Antibodies that people make to fight the new coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly, as some earlier reports suggested.

6 years ago

'Disease tolerance' is the ability of an individual, due to a genetic predisposition or some aspect of behavior or lifestyle, to thrive despite being infected with an amount of pathogen that sickens others. It might play a role in asymptomatic coronavirus infections. (Alexander Spatari/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Scientists explore why some people are able to live with an infection unscathed

What if your body could corral an infection instead of eliminating it? Immunologists who see this in plants wonder what role it might play in asymptomatic COVID-19 infections.

6 years ago

Mosquito
The Pulse
Science

Buzz Off, Mosquitoes

Most of us dread mosquito season — but on some level, you’ve got to admire these pesky bloodsuckers. Over the millennia, they’v ...

Air Date: August 28, 2020

Listen 49:44
A personality test showing options for extrovert and introvert
The Pulse
Science

The Puzzle of Personality

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

Air Date: August 14, 2020

Listen 48:47
Jordan Emerson was a member of the Whiz Kidz race team in Scarborough, Maine.  (Courtesy of Jordan Emerson)
The Pulse
Science

How a brain injury turned a teenager from shy to sociable 

A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon. 

6 years ago

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Atlantic Ocean in N.J.
Down the Shore
Science

‘Sea lice’ reported at N.J. beaches is actually jellyfish larvae, biologist says

Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said the larvae were likely pushed to New Jersey from Florida by Tropical Storm Isaias.

6 years ago

Hair coloring
The Pulse
Health

Beauty and Health

Health and beauty may go together in the drugstore — but in real life, the two aren’t always so simpatico. From excessive dieting to ...

Air Date: July 31, 2020

Listen 49:13
Tech language
The Pulse
Science

How Tech is Changing the Way We Talk

Technology isn’t just changing our world — it’s changing the words we use to describe it. Language is evolving at breakneck speed, ...

Air Date: July 24, 2020

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