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2 days ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Meghan Bartels |Jeffery DelViscio |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura |Rachel Feltman
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to part two of our three-part series on the battle against bird flu. On Monday we followed flocks of wild birds to learn how new strains of avian influenza emerge and spread. Today we’re headed out to pasture to check out the next link in the chain from shorebird to human: poultry and dairy farms. Our host today is Meghan Bartels, a senior news reporter at Scientific American. Here’s Meghan now.
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1 week ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Lydia Denworth |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American's board of editors. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Over the last couple of decades, few science topics have made a bigger mainstream splash than the microbiome. Our growing understanding of the microbes that live on us, in us and around us has scientists analyzing—and trying to tweak—colonies from our armpits to our genitals.
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2 weeks ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In the animal kingdom lifespans can stretch from mere hours to entire centuries, but that’s just the start. Some creatures deteriorate so slowly that we’ve never actually caught them dying of old age. Others don’t seem to age at all. And some can apparently reset their biological clocks and bounce back to infancy to start all over again.
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3 weeks ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! It may technically still be spring, but with Memorial Day firmly in the rearview mirror and June upon us, let’s be real: it’s spiritually summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and we hope you’re enjoying it. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some recent science news you may have missed.
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4 weeks ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. How are you doing today, listeners? Would you say you’re flourishing? I’m guessing you probably wouldn’t—unless you have a particularly florid vocabulary. But researchers are increasingly focused on the idea of “human flourishing,” a multifaceted measurement that aims to take a holistic look at our collective well-being. Basically, humans who are flourishing aren’t just happy.
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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The World Health Organization . But when it comes to addressing infertility, male partners are often left out of the equation. Some studies suggest that in 18 to 27 percent of cases where a heterosexual couple seeks medical help for fertility issues, doctors won’t bother to run any tests on the man. Those stats might make you think male fertility issues are rare, but that’s definitely not the case.
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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Melissa Hobson |Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. There are a few animals that pretty much everyone likes: fluffy pandas, cute kittens and regal tigers. Dolphins would probably make the list for most folks; they’re intelligent, playful and have that permanent smile on their face. Watching them darting around in the water kind of makes you wonder: “What are those guys thinking?”It’s a question many scientists have asked. But could we actually find out?
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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, right? Well, it turns out they might be way more complicated than that, and that could have implications for everything from diet and exercise to treating mental health conditions. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Our guest today is Martin Picard, an associate professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University.
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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Alec Luhn |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura |Jeffery DelViscio
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much attention to the news to know that climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to melt—and to understand that this is a huge problem. Ice reflects sunlight, which helps keep cold places cold.
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1 month 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.
