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2 days ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s catch up on some of the science news you may have missed last week. First, a space-junk update. By the time you listen to this a Soviet-era spacecraft may or may not have crash-landed on Earth. Kosmos-482, which the U.S.S.R. launched back in 1972, was meant to follow the successful probes Venera 7 and Venera 8 in landing on and studying Venus.
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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 week ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Just to give you a heads-up, we’ll be talking about physical fitness today. We’ll touch on topics such as disordered eating and intentional weight loss. Social media is full of fitness influencers promising “bikini bodies” and hawking fat-burning cardio routines, especially for women and femme-presenting people.
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1 week ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! And happy May. I hope the weather is pleasantly springy wherever you’re listening from. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed last week. First, a crucial report on climate change is under threat.
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1 week ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Even if you don’t know what the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List is off the top of your head, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve heard of it: the IUCN keeps tabs on the conservation status of living organisms all over the globe.
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3 weeks ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Gary Stix |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. It goes without saying that a lot has changed at Scientific American since our first issue came out in 1845. But the magazine—and the world of science journalism in general—also looks radically different today than it did in, say, 1990. That’s when today’s guest first started working at SciAm. Until his retirement earlier this month Gary Stix served as Scientific American’s senior editor of mind and brain topics.
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4 weeks ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jen Schwartz |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. With everything from bird flu to norovirus making headlines these days, it can feel like the world is just packed with dangerous pathogens we need protection from. What if we could get a hand from an all-natural disinfectant that was more than 100 times more effective than bleach but so gentle and safe that you could spray it into your eyes?
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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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2 months 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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2 months 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?
