Sarah Crespi

6 days ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Meagan Cantwell |David Maloney |Jocelyn Kaiser

First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell worked with the Science News team to review how the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have impacted science. In the segment, originally produced for video, we hear about how the workforce, biomedical research, and global health initiatives all face widespread, perhaps permanent damage, with News staffers David Malakoff, Jocelyn Kaiser, and Rachel Bernstein.

1 week ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Zakiya Whatley |Andrew Curry

First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry talks with host Sarah Crespi about his visit to 17th century crypts under an old hospital in Italy. Researchers are examining tooth plaque, bone lesions, and mummified brains to learn more about the health, diet, and drug habits of Milan’s working poor 400 years ago. Next on the show, a mechanism for driving growth in fat stores with age. Or, the source of the “dad bod” trope.

2 weeks ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Erik Stokstad |Kevin McLean |Valerie Thompson

University of Hawaii Insect Systematics and Biodiversity lab First up on the podcast, bringing Gregor Mendel’s peas into the 21st century. Back in the 19th century Mendel, a friar and naturalist, tracked traits in peas such as flower color and shape over many generations. He used these observations to identify basic concepts about inheritance such as recessive and dominant traits. Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about the difficulty of identifying genes for these...

3 weeks ago | science.org | Christie Wilcox |Sarah Crespi |David Grimm

Today’s Not So Fast examines this week’s big headlines about signs of life on a distant planet. But first, catch up on the latest science news, including a map of toxic soil and how wandering aurorae may have inspired our ancestors to wear sunscreen. Immunology  |  Science Immunology How stress gets under your skin Have you ever been so overwhelmed and anxious that you broke out in a rash?

3 weeks ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |David Grimm

Natural History Museum, London/Bridgeman Images First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how an Egyptian cult that killed cats may have also tamed them. Next on the show, we hear about when the aurorae wandered. About 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic poles took an excursion. They began to move equatorward and decreased in strength to one-tenth their modern levels. Agnit Mukhopadhyay, a research affiliate at the University of Michigan,...