Short Wave
New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes, every weekday. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join host Maddie Sofia for science on a different wavelength.
- Website
- https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510351/short-wave
- Description
- New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes, every weekday. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join host Maddie Sofia for science on a different wavelength.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-07-26 21:29
- last episode published
- 2024-07-26 07:00
- publication frequency
- 1.59 days
- Contributors
- NPR
- Owner
- NPR
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1105
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- Categories
- News Daily News Life Sciences Science & Medicine Nature Astronomy
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| 2024-07-26 | Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives. But does much of their communication resembles ours? According to a new study published earlier this week in the journal Current Biology, chimpanzees gesture back-and-forth in a similar way to how human... | |
| 2024-07-24 |
Dancing Yeti Crabs, Morphing Cuttlefish, Other Stories From The Deep Sea As a kid, Sabrina Imbler loved the ocean. They'd swim and snorkel, following around parrotfish in the water. Later, they tried to learn everything they could about the brightly-colored tropical fish – how some create a mucus cocoon at night to protect ... |
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| 2024-07-23 |
Outer Space Changes You, Literally. Here's What It Does To The Human Body Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the impact of spaceflight on the human body. Plus, we learn... |
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| 2024-07-22 |
The Brain Makes A Lot Of Waste. Here's How It Cleans Itself Up Scientists have long studied the relationship between sleep and the brain, and why poor sleep is linked to neurological diseases like Alzheimer's. NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton talks to host Regina G. Barber about the brain's washing system an... |
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| 2024-07-19 |
How An Ambitious River Rerouting Plan Could Change India's Weather More than a hundred years ago, a British engineer proposed linking two rivers in India to better irrigate the area and cheaply move goods. The link never happened, but the idea survived. Today, due to extreme flooding in some parts of the country mirro... |
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| 2024-07-17 | Every year for two weeks between mid-May and mid-June, Congaree National Park in South Carolina is home to a fairy-tale-like display of flashing lights. These rhythmic performances happen all because of thousands of fireflies, flashing their belly lant... | |
| 2024-07-16 |
This Mysterious Energy Is Everywhere. Scientists Still Don't Know What It Is The universe — everything in existence — is expanding every second! It's only been about a hundred years that humanity has known this, too — that most galaxies are traveling away from us and the universe is expanding. Just a few decades ago, in the lat... |
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| 2024-07-15 |
The Dubious Consent Question At The Heart Of The Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were told the final project would be a mosaic of DNA. Instead, o... |
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| 2024-07-12 |
Teens Are Following Skincare Trends On TikTok. Some Dermatologists Are Wary TikTok is fuel for many trends, including a skin care craze among teens, pre-teens — okay, and us. The "glass skin" trend calls for a multi-step routine, often involving pricey products. It's all in pursuit of dewy, seemingly poreless, glowing complexi... |
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| 2024-07-10 |
Like Humans, These Ants Can Perform Leg Amputations To Save Lives Some ants herd aphids. Some farm fungi. And now, scientists have realized that when an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy to perform a lifesaving limb amputation. Not only that — some ants have probably been amputating limbs longer ... |