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Dec 14, 2023 | npr.org | Aaron Scott |Kimberly McCoy |Rebecca Ramirez

EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: You're listening to SHORT WAVE from NPR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)AARON SCOTT, HOST: In 2017, a medical company called Epic Systems rolled out a cutting-edge program to hospitals. It claimed to use artificial intelligence algorithms to predict which patients are at highest risk of sepsis, which is a deadly condition where the body responds improperly to an infection. SAYASH KAPOOR: Sepsis kills a lot of people.

Dec 4, 2023 | npr.org | Aaron Scott |Rebecca Ramirez |Gabriel Spitzer

This World Soil Day, take a look at the surprising science of soil Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1198908762/1216657168" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> TravelCouples/Getty Images TravelCouples/Getty Images It's easy to overlook the soil beneath our feet, or to think of it as just dirt to be cleaned up.

Dec 1, 2023 | mprnews.org | Regina Barber |Aaron Scott |Brent Baughman

Sleep. It's an essential biological function that has long intrigued scientists. Similar to the book Everyone Poops, most animals sleep. Scientists have studied everything from mice to fruit flies in the lab to get a better understanding of what happens when animals sleep — and why so many do it. However, gathering data on how animals sleep in their natural habitat has always been tricky and hard to do. But scientists did just that with wild chinstrap penguins in Antarctica.

Nov 30, 2023 | npr.org | Regina G. Barber |Aaron Scott |Brent Baughman

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis Antarctica) are pictured in Orne Harbour in the western Antarctic peninsula. Waddling over the rocks, legions of penguins hurl themselves into the icy waters of Antarctica, foraging to feed their young. Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis Antarctica) are pictured in Orne Harbour in the western Antarctic peninsula.

Nov 24, 2023 | npr.org | Aaron Scott |Kimberly McCoy |Rebecca Ramirez

Karen Chin in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, where she is the curator of paleontology. She is also a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a leading expert on fossilized dinosaur feces. Casey A. Cass/University of Colo hide caption toggle caption Casey A. Cass/University of Colo Karen Chin in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, where she is the curator of paleontology.