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2 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s catch up on some of the science news you may have missed last week. First, a space-junk update. By the time you listen to this a Soviet-era spacecraft may or may not have crash-landed on Earth. Kosmos-482, which the U.S.S.R. launched back in 1972, was meant to follow the successful probes Venera 7 and Venera 8 in landing on and studying Venus.

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Just to give you a heads-up, we’ll be talking about physical fitness today. We’ll touch on topics such as disordered eating and intentional weight loss. Social media is full of fitness influencers promising “bikini bodies” and hawking fat-burning cardio routines, especially for women and femme-presenting people.

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! And happy May. I hope the weather is pleasantly springy wherever you’re listening from. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed last week. First, a crucial report on climate change is under threat.

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Even if you don’t know what the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List is off the top of your head, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve heard of it: the IUCN keeps tabs on the conservation status of living organisms all over the globe.

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Gary Stix |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. It goes without saying that a lot has changed at Scientific American since our first issue came out in 1845. But the magazine—and the world of science journalism in general—also looks radically different today than it did in, say, 1990. That’s when today’s guest first started working at SciAm. Until his retirement earlier this month Gary Stix served as Scientific American’s senior editor of mind and brain topics.