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Sep 5, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Regina Barber
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about a newly discovered species in California's Mono Lake, dogs understanding words, and the death of a beloved beluga whale. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
weku.org | Regina Barber
New York: The city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of and more recently ... home to a mysterious ant spreading across the city — before continuing across metropolitan and even state lines. Scientists first noticed this ant — now dubbed the ManhattAnt — in 2011. Nobody knew where it came from, and it was largely ignored until it began taking the streets by storm. Now, these ants have become true New Yorkers: Climbing high-rises and speed walking across the city.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
kosu.org | Regina Barber
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Berly McCoy of Short Wave about the formation of the moon's wispy atmosphere, sea lion cameras and the Perseid meteor shower.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
kuow.org | Emily Kwong |Regina Barber
This week in science: swimming lions, the 'glass' skin craze and a rotten egg planetNPR's Short Wave brings stories of lion brothers making a record-breaking swim in Uganda, the skincare trend among pre-teens that is worrying dermatologists, and a planet that smells like rotten eggs.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
vpm.org | Regina Barber
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Kimberly McCoy of Short Wave about an impending star explosion, a lynx that’s come back from the brink of extinction, and a newly discovered dinosaur. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
gpb.org | Regina Barber
This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might have memorized that there were nine planets in our solar system, as heard in the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song, Interplanet Janet. Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special status as one of the solar system's planets. Then, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Regina Barber
This story is part of Short Wave’s series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might have memorized that there were nine planets in our solar system, as heard in the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song, Interplanet Janet. Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special status as one of the solar system’s planets. Then, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
wrvo.org | Regina Barber
Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International Astronomical Union convened in Prague to reconsider what counts as a planet in our solar system. IAU members decided that there were three criteria to be a planet — and Pluto did meet all of them.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
kosu.org | Regina Barber
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about shark migration, why woodpeckers are "metalheads," and how the brain interprets the word "not."
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May 31, 2024 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Regina Barber |Emily Kwong |Rachel Carlson |Michael L. Levitt
A silky shark named Genie traveled from the Galapagos Islands out to the open ocean and back – over 17,000 miles – over the course of a year and a half. This is the longest recorded migration for a silky shark. Marine scientist Pelayo Salinas de León and his team named Genie in honor of the late marine biologist Eugenie Clark. Also known as "The Shark Lady," Clark devoted her life to the study of sharks and to improving their reputation.
