Noam Hassenfeld

Washington

Host at Vox

Host and Senior Producer at Unexplainable

host/composer - unexplainable from @voxdotcom. formerly @today_explained, @latinousa, @inthethickshow

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Lab-grown blood can save lives - but what’s the holdup?

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Noam Hassenfeld

Peter Dazeley/Getty ImagesNoam Hassenfeld is the host and senior producer of Unexplainable, Vox’s science podcast about everything we don’t know. He co-created the show and also composes the music. In his free time, while working as a clerk at a local Australian railway, James Harrison saved millions of lives — with his blood. Harrison had particularly special plasma: It had a rare antibody that doctors used to make a medication for pregnant mothers with different blood types from their newborns.
The real quest for fake blood

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Noam Hassenfeld

In his free time, while working as a clerk at a local Australian railway, James Harrison saved millions of lives — with his blood. Harrison had particularly special plasma: It had a rare antibody that doctors used to make a medication for pregnant mothers with different blood types from their newborns. When this happens, it can lead to the mother’s immune system attacking the still-developing red blood cells of the fetus.
Best 70 Science News Podcasts

1 month ago | millionpodcasts.com | Noam Hassenfeld |Byrd Pinkerton |Meradith Hoddinott |Mandy Nguyen

Here is our list of top Science News podcasts you can listen to or contact them for your outreach campaign. Find hosts, booking agents and producers info for each podcast for collaboration. Podcast Media Contact Database Streamline Your Podcast Outreach with EaseAre you a PR professional, marketer, outreach manager, or a business owner looking to get featured on the right podcasts?
Are sleep twitches related to dreams?

2 months ago | vox.com | Noam Hassenfeld

Ever wondered what your pets are dreaming about when they suddenly kick their paws in their sleep? Maybe they’re chasing a mouse, or a cat. Maybe they’re pawing at you for treats. Or, maybe they’re just running around the house, rummaging through the garbage, scratching the couch, jumping on beds — all the things they’re not allowed to do when they’re awake. It’s hard to say. But one thing is for sure: People have been connecting these sudden twitches to dreams in animals, and in humans, for years.
'Mexicans Don’t Play Basketball'

Jan 31, 2025 | latinousa.org | Noam Hassenfeld |Luis Eduardo Luna

In 1939, a Mexican-American high school basketball team shocked the world. More than 25 years before Texas Western made history by winning the NCAA championship with the first all African-American starting lineup, an all Mexican-American team from Lanier High School won the San Antonio city championship. But this was no ordinary school. Lanier High School was the first vocational school in an urban center in the country.
What a practical approach to AI looks like, according to an expert

Sep 5, 2024 | vox.com | Noam Hassenfeld

I host Vox’s science podcast, Unexplainable (which you should listen to!). We’re always looking for the open questions at the forefront of science, so you can imagine that we’ve spent a fair amount of time exploring the potential of AI. We did a whole series called the Black Box last year, which got into how no one really knows how AI works, how it’s hard to predict what it might look like someday, and how it’s even harder to say how it’ll impact our world.
How much can we actually control inflation?

Jun 26, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Noam Hassenfeld

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We still don’t really know how inflation works

Jun 26, 2024 | vox.com | Noam Hassenfeld

Inflation and the economy are still the biggest issues on many voters’ minds heading into the 2024 election, even though inflation has come down from its dizzying height in June 2022, when prices were climbing at almost 9 percent. Last month, it was a much more manageable 3.3 percent. But it’s still not entirely clear what brought inflation down. In a recent episode of Unexplainable, we looked at why this is still such a difficult mystery to crack.
Why a solar physicist has been chasing solar eclipses for more than three decades

Apr 3, 2024 | vox.com | Noam Hassenfeld

On Monday, April 8, millions of people will get to see the Great North American Eclipse. Most people on the continent will see a partial solar eclipse, the sun gradually getting smaller as the moon passes in front of it. But if you’re in exactly the right place — along the narrow path of totality that runs from Mexico to Indianapolis to Montreal — the moon is going to line up directly in front of the sun and completely block it out. “When it happens, it feels like magic.
10 ocean mysteries scientists haven’t solved yet - Vox.com

Jan 20, 2024 | thepressroom.info | Byrd Pinkerton |Sarah Gailey |Noam Hassenfeld |Mandy Nguyen

The Earth is mainly a water world — more than 70 percent of its surface is covered by oceans — and yet we know so little about what resides beneath the waves. The ocean, in this light, is like an alien world within our own. Many of its creatures are still unknown to us — both in kind and number. Their behaviors and adaptations remain inexplicable. Even the very contours of this world are still unmapped: We probably know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the ocean floor.