Fonda Mwangi

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.

4 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jen Schwartz |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. With everything from bird flu to norovirus making headlines these days, it can feel like the world is just packed with dangerous pathogens we need protection from. What if we could get a hand from an all-natural disinfectant that was more than 100 times more effective than bleach but so gentle and safe that you could spray it into your eyes?

2 months ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This week marks the fifth anniversary of COVID being declared a global pandemic. So much changed about all our lives then that we are still feeling five years later. As we reflect on this anniversary, our producer Fonda Mwangi took a pulse check on where the U.S. public health system is now and the lessons it’s learned.

2 months ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Josh Fischman |Fonda Mwangi

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You know that feeling when you just can’t get a song out of your head—just a short part of it playing over and over?

2 months ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Madison Goldberg

[CLIP: Theme music]Rachel Feltman: Happy Valentine’s Day, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For many people today is all about scrambling to get last-minute dinner reservations and spending lots of money—I mean, uh, showing your significant other how much you care about them. But what about your other significant others? What about Galentine’s Day and Palentine’s Day?