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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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Jan 24, 2025 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Kelso Harper
Rachel Feltman: If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, you’ve probably seen the phrase “go touch grass” at least once. It might not always be delivered with love and kindness, but it’s usually pretty good advice; getting out into nature and getting your hands dirty is a great antidote to the rage and despair so many of us feel when we read the news.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
eoswetenschap.eu | Kelso Harper
ADHD-symptomen verergeren vlak voor en tijdens de menstruatie, toont een nieuwe studie aan. Dit zou gevolgen kunnen hebben voor de diagnosestelling en behandeling van ADHD. Ooit dachten onderzoekers dat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, beter bekend als ADHD, een onveranderlijke aandoening was: je hebt het of je hebt het niet, einde verhaal. Maar inmiddels is duidelijk dat de symptomen van ADHD kunnen veranderen tijdens iemands leven.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
scientificamerican.com | Kelso Harper
Researchers once thought of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as an unchanging condition: either you have it or you don’t, end of story. But it’s become clear that ADHD symptoms can change across a person’s lifespan, and new research shows that symptoms can even change over the span of a menstrual cycle.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Kelso Harper
In election debates, language matters. So Scientific American reached out to a linguist for a professional analysis of the recent presidential and vice presidential debates. Nicole Holliday is an acting associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a sociophonetician—someone who studies the relationship between language and social identity. Part of her research centers on political speech, and she’s writing a book about what it means to sound presidential.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Kelso Harper |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio
NASA: Scientific American, this is Mission Control, Houston. Rachel Feltman: Station, this is Scientific American. How do you hear me? Matthew Dominick: Loud and clear. Welcome to the cupola on the space station. Feltman: Matthew Dominick just wants to give us all a little bit of space.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Kelso Harper |Fonda Mwangi
On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. Scientific American makes history with NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick by conducting the first-ever interview from the scenic cupola on the International Space Station.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Kelso Harper
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. Last week, NASA’s Perseverance rover started a slow but steady slog. The bot landed in Jezero Crater when it first arrived on Mars back in February 2021. Now it’s busting out—but very slowly and cautiously. NASA says it will take Perseverance months to ascend the rough terrain of the crater’s western rim.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Kelso Harper
Rachel Feltman: Wendy Zukerman is used to tackling big, messy questions. That’s pretty much the point of her hit podcast Science Vs: she and her team take on fads and trends to figure out the facts. But she recently took on what might be her most taboo subject to date—something that’s gotten so little attention from scientists that she had to go collect data on it herself: anal sex. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.
