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2 days ago | whyy.org | Grant Hill

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the morning of May 4, 2000, the U.S. Army was under attack. It started around 6:45 a.m., when technicians at Fort Bragg in North Carolina got word from two other bases that something was up with their computer networks. The issue was narrowed down to the email server of the Army’s largest command. Something was spreading amongst its 50,000 users.

Feb 10, 2025 | whyy.org | Grant Hill

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Two lonely strangers log onto an anonymous video chat roulette website and spark an immediate, deep connection. They don’t understand what is happening, but they know that “this” — whatever “this” is — feels real. Convinced they are soulmates, the two silently type back and forth for hours in awe of this once in a lifetime feeling.

Dec 9, 2024 | whyy.org | Grant Hill

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joshua Plotkin, a biology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, uses mathematics to study the forces that drive organisms like viruses to evolve. But now, with the help of an unlikely tool, he wants to use similar mathematical models to shed light on something equally dynamic: language.

Jul 22, 2024 | whyy.org | Grant Hill

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When word of a revolutionary new hepatitis-C treatment first reached her clinic in Seattle, infectious disease specialist Nina Kim said it felt like a weight had been lifted off her and her colleagues. “It was finally the breakthrough we were waiting for,” said Kim, who is also a professor at the University of Washington’s Department of Medicine.

Jun 17, 2024 | whyy.org | Grant Hill

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curiosity has always been a driving force in neurologist Rick Bedlack’s life – noticing things and then trying to figure out how they work, or how they came to be.