Regina G. Barber
Co-Host at Short Wave
Astrophysicist, Pop-culture obsessed, Chin@-Chicana, Scientist in Residence at #NPRShortWave. Opinions are my own. She/Ella/她 (Pic: Farrah Skeiky/NPR) #SciComm
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npr.org | Jessica Yung |Regina G. Barber |Rebecca Ramirez
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flipboard.com | Jessica Yung |Regina G. Barber |Rebecca Ramirez
President Trump’s executive order aimed at revitalizing the coal industry means nothing in the fight against climate change. Read on for an opinion writer’s explanation. Cutting coal only hurts the US and won’t stop climate changeTo coal or not to coal? Given the loud shrieks of climate change zealots, one would think that the world is going to end in a few years if we don’t …
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flipboard.com | Regina G. Barber |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Archaeologists Found a 2,000-Year-Old Garden Beneath a Church. It May Be the Site of Jesus's Tomb. The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary. A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. • The church 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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npr.org | Rachel Carlson |Regina G. Barber |Hannah Chinn
Here's why researchers are making new psychedelic-like drugs — without the trip Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1243652744/1269030122" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Individual neurons are labeled with fluorescent proteins using the brainbow technique.
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Thank you @AnilOza16 for being so amazing! We miss you at SW! I want to be the kind of reporter you are......GREAT! See ya on the East Coast!
today, on @NPRShortWave, I bring you: snails 🐌, worms 🪱, killifish 🐠, whales 🐳, lizards 🦎, finches 🦜, ostriches 🦤, mice 🐭 AND OF COURSE, RATS 🐀 @ScienceRegina & I talk about how rats became synonymous with research — and what a better model organism could look like https://t.co/RqtJgRvKwL
The book #ItWontAlwaysBeLikeThis was Amazing! I read it in one sitting! @MalakaGharib, it was a completely riveting & relatable story. As a fellow mixed kid with 2 non-western cultures, I felt so seen. Also, the music references = my childhood! I saw Sonic Youth 3 times in one yr
We got the rat beat!!!!!
tomorrow’s @NPRShortWave 👀 https://t.co/QRj6FLzJh5
