Biology

It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...

Thomas Starzl, whose death at age 90 was in the news last week, was the most driven man I've ever met.

Hint: It offered a slight chance of rebooting his damaged immune system.  About ten years ago, ...

Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh ...

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 ...

Guests: Sibryna Fulton, Tracy Martin, Diane Ackerman, Mohsin Hamid Coming up on this week’s edition of Radio Ti ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers are studying the way the brain processes sound to better understand – possibly even diagnose – concussions. < ...

Guests: David Biello, David Keith Global temperatures broke records again in 2016 for the third consecutive year. ...

Is there anything weirder than America’s native marsupial? Mike McGrath, host of You Bet Your Garden, will discuss wh ...

An octopus does not think with its arms, per say, but it comes pretty close. The majority of octopuses’ neurons are not centrally l ...

Guest: Dev Patel The new film Lion is based on the heart-wrenching true story of a young Indian boy, Sar ...

GUESTS: Peter Marra & Katie Lisnik Cats are described as either furry feline friends or free-ranging bird kil ...

Guests: John Rafferty, Jeff Brady In this hour, Marty continues her series of one-on-one interviews with candida ...