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3 weeks 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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1 month 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.
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1 month 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?
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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Lee Billings |Jeffery DelViscio |Madison Goldberg
[CLIP: Theme music]Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking images of the cosmos and providing countless people around the world with very pretty phone backgrounds. But meanwhile a spacecraft you probably haven’t heard of has been busy shaping our understanding of the universe in a quieter, less glamorous way.
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2 months ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio
Rachel Feltman: Have you ever really thought about the hair that grows out of your head? I mean, I’m sure you’ve thought about your hair—in terms of which way to get it cut and how to get that one really wonky piece to behave itself—but have you ever considered why it is the way it is? For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. My guest today is biological anthropologist Tina Lasisi, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
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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?
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2 months ago | 
schwartzreport.net | Rachel Feltman |Tanya Lewis |Madison Goldberg |Fonda Mwangi
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately. To me personally, it feels unavoidable: I can’t look down at my phone or glance up at a TV without seeing something that makes me upset. And that’s really exhausting. But when outrage is everywhere, what can we do to keep it from getting to us?
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2 months ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Tanya Lewis |Madison Goldberg |Fonda Mwangi
[CLIP: Theme music]Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately. To me personally, it feels unavoidable: I can’t look down at my phone or glance up at a TV without seeing something that makes me upset. And that’s really exhausting. But when outrage is everywhere, what can we do to keep it from getting to us?
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2 months ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Madison Goldberg
[CLIP: “Let There Be Rain,” by Silver Maple]Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Hope your February is off to a great start. Let’s kick off the week by catching up on all the science news you might have missed. First, a quick note on some presidential moves that might impact health and science. Robert F.
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2 months ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Meghan Bartels |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Life as we know it couldn’t exist without the sun, but we know surprisingly little about our host star. That’s where the field of heliophysics comes in—and 2025 is set to be a banner year for folks who study the sun. Here to tell us more is Meghan Bartels, a senior news reporter at Scientific American. Meghan, thanks so much for coming on to chat today. Meghan Bartels: Thanks so much for having me.
