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5 days ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Naeem Amarsy |Fonda Mwangi |Kelso Harper |Carin Leong |Jeffery DelViscio
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field trips with an auditory journey to Brookhaven National Laboratory. This Long Island facility boasts seven Nobel Prize–winning discoveries and more than 70 years of groundbreaking research into energy and the environment.
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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio |Kelso Harper |Carin Leong
Rachel Feltman: Hey, it’s Rachel, and I am here in a bunny suit at MIT.nano with Professor Vladimir Bulović, who is going to show us around. Vladimir Bulović: Well, it’s a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for coming. [The] goal of this space is to enable anyone to build anything they wish. Feltman: Hey, it's still Rachel, but now I'm here at the Scientific American recording studio. As you just heard, today's episode is a little different than our standard format.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carin Leong |Allison Parshall
Parenting a flock of Northern Bald Ibises is a demanding job. For the past six months, biologists Barbara Steininger and Helena Wehner have spent every day hand-feeding and raising dozens of these endangered chicks. They couldn’t pass their fostering duties off on anyone else during that time—the juvenile birds needed to imprint on them and them alone. Steininger and Wehner then took to the skies to guide their young charges on the birds’ first migration.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carin Leong |Allison Parshall
There’s a meme about bears floating around the Internet: “If not friend, why friend-shaped?”This is an intriguing question if you decide to take it seriously. Most deadly apex predators have a certain ferocity to them that doesn’t scream “friend”—think lions, wolves and crocodiles. So why do bears seem so cute and cuddly? Have we just been conditioned by teddy bears and Paddington to find them safe and comforting, or is there something else going on?
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Kelso Harper |Carin Leong
Kelso Harper: Hey science nerds, happy Monday. It’s Kelso Harper, multimedia editor here at Scientific American. I’m filling in for our esteemed host Rachel Feltman while she takes a well-deserved break. But don’t worry—she’ll be back on Wednesday to talk about a culinary delicacy that may take you by surprise: cicadas. But for now, it’s time to catch up on some science news! For Science Quickly, I’m Kelso Harper.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Josh Fischman |Tanya Lewis |Carin Leong |Elah Feder
Tanya Lewis: Hi, this is Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series!Josh Fischman: We bring you the latest vital health news: Discoveries that affect your body and your mind. Lewis: And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy. I’m Tanya Lewis. Fischman: I’m Josh Fischman. Lewis: We’re Scientific American’s senior health editors. Fischman: Today’s episode covers a topic that many parents-to-be have struggled with: fertility.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Tulika Bose |Allison Parshall |Carin Leong
Bose: Hello fellow math nerds! This is Tulika Bose, Senior Multimedia Editor at Scientific American. If you miss that famous Scientific American Martin Gardner column from the 1950’s — never fear, we have some great mathematical content coming your way in the New Year. But for now, I’d like to leave you with one of my favorite stories from this last year, hosted and edited by the incredibly talented Allison Parshall.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carin Leong
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare on LinkedInShare via EmailPrintThe stories we tell about orcas might say more about us than about themCarin Leong: Orcas have been all over the news recently. [CLIP: News montage]Leong: Earlier this year the story of orcas ramming into yachts off the Spanish coast kind of took off.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Carin Leong
Sierra Ward: James 5:7-8: Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Bob Bratcher: Silver Star has been here since 1936. It is, once Homestake closed, the oldest continuously operating business in town. I bought it in August 2001. Homestake was almost closed at that point.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Josh Fischman |Carin Leong |Alexa Lim
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare on LinkedInShare via EmailPrintFewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame? Tanya Lewis: Hi, this is Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series!Josh Fischman: We bring you the latest vital health news: discoveries that affect your body and your mind. Lewis: And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy. I’m Tanya Lewis.
