Kimberly McCoy
Producer at Short Wave
(she/her) / producer @NPRShortWave /‘19 @AAASMassMedia Fellow at PBS @NewsHour / BioChem PhD / Avid Ice angler / Punny /🗻 and 🐕❤️er
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npr.org | Emily Kwong |Kimberly McCoy |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
A bug that jets pee? These comics illustrate nature's real-life superpowers Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1244690932/1269090490" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> This panel is from the "Slingshot Spiders" comic that describes the manuscript "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs", published in the journal Current Biology.
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flipboard.com | Emily Kwong |Kimberly McCoy |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Curious Kids: If you scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean, does it get lower? If you scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean, does it get lower? –Ellis, 6 and a half, Hobart This is a great question Ellis! The short answer is …
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npr.org | Regina G. Barber |Hannah Chinn |Kimberly McCoy
Wiggles in space: how scientists find distant planets : Short Wave Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside our solar system in real life? One way is by looking for the stars that wiggle. Historically, astronomers have measured those wiggles via the Doppler method, carefully analyzing how the star's light shifts.
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2 weeks ago |
npr.org | Regina G. Barber |Rachel Carlson |Kimberly McCoy
Would ketamine treatment help if you didn't know you got it? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1266983531/1269001437" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> What if you could get all the potential benefits of ketamine without the "trip"? One researcher tested this very idea out by putting his patients to sleep.
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2 weeks ago |
tpr.org | Regina Barber |Rachel Carlson |Kimberly McCoy |Juana Summers
Running an entire marathon takes a lotof energy. Neuroscientist Carlos Matute knows this: he's run 18 of them. He wondered how runners' bodies get the energy they need to make it to the finish line. His new research in the journal Nature Metabolism may be the first step in answering the question – and suggests their brains might be (temporarily) depleting a fatty substance that coats nerve cells called myelin. Myelin makes up about 40% of the brain. It helps electrical signals travel around.
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