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Nov 25, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Tanya Lewis |Jeffery DelViscio |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week by catching up on the latest science news. First, we’ve got a brief update from Tanya Lewis, a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American. She’s here to unpack the news that President-elect Donald Trump plans to put Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. First, I just want to say that I believe radical optimism is going to be an important part of our tool kit in the months to come. So I’m going to do my best to bring you stories that show how innovation can help change the world for the better. We’re going to keep introducing you to brilliant people who are working to solve problems that seem insurmountable.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada |Jeffery DelViscio
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s get the week off to a great start by catching up on the latest science news. We’ll start about 3 billion years ago, when scientists say a giant space rock may have helped jump-start life as we know it.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. Earlier this month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a surge in whooping cough cases, bringing us back to pre-pandemic patterns for the disease, which is also known as pertussis. We’ve seen about five times as many whooping cough cases this year as we had by the same time in 2023.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s get the week started by catching up on some of the latest science news. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes were announced last week, so let’s start with a quick laureate rundown.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s kick off the week by catching up on some of the latest science news. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The death toll for Hurricane Helene was still rising at the time of this recording on Friday, with hundreds of people missing across hundreds of miles and at least a million people without power.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! And happy autumn. I hope you’re enjoying some lovely crisp sweater weather wherever you are right now. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. But before we get into some of the science stories you might have missed last week, we’ve actually got a special little segment to share with you —so let’s just dive right in.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada |Jeffery DelViscio
Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s kick off the week by catching up on the latest science news. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. First up we’ve got an update on Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. These two NASA astronauts set out to spend just over a week in space in June, but now they won’t actually be home until around February.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy September, listeners! Let’s lean into those new school year vibes by learning a little something. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman—and this is your weekly science news roundup. First, some good news for anyone glued to their phone, which—I mean, if you’re not, congratulations, I guess. A new paper offers reassurance that cell phones don’t give you brain cancer, which is great, phew…. So, how did we get here?
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Anaissa Ruiz Tejada
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s start the day off right by catching up on some of the science news you may have missed last week. For Scientific American Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. This past Friday, a global outage hit Microsoft Windows devices and . Flights all over the world were grounded as several major US airlines, as well as a few international carriers, had problems with their computer systems.
