Sarah Crespi

6 days 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?

6 days 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,...

1 week ago | science.org | Christie Wilcox |Sarah Crespi |Jocelyn Kaiser

Today’s Deep Dive ponders the calculations made by living organisms. But first, catch up on the latest science news, including insights from an ancient jaw and evidence housecats came from Egypt after all. BREAKING NEWS  |  ScienceInsider Longest human transplant of pig kidney fails Towana Looney, a 53-year-old grandmother from Alabama who received a kidney from a gene-edited pig on 25 November 2024, had it removed last week after the organ suddenly stopped functioning.

1 week ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Jocelyn Kaiser

Share: First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big changes in science funding and government jobs this month, including an order to cut billions in contracts, lawsuits over funding caps and grant funding cancellations, and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. Next on the show, taking sleep loss more seriously. Jennifer Tudor, an associate professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University, talks about how skipping out on...

2 weeks ago | science.org | Christie Wilcox |Sarah Crespi |Rebekah White

Today’s Deep Dive delves into how human conflict intersects with ecology. But first, catch up on the latest science news, including the remarkable thing a microbe does under pressure and an unexpected regulator of pain. Anthropology  |  News from Science ‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos Humans can combine words to create new meanings—an ability that gives language its expressive power and sets it apart from the communication of other animals.