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2024-04-26

  10 Years After Flint, The Fight To Replace Lead Pipes Continues

Ten years ago, Flint, Mich. switched water sources to the Flint River. The lack of corrosion control in the pipes caused lead to leach into the water supply of tens of thousands of residents. Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha recognized a public health c...
2024-04-24

  Beavers Can Help With Climate Change. So How Do We Get Along?

NPR's Tom Dreisbach is back in the host chair for a day. This time, he reports on a story very close to home: The years-long battle his parents have been locked in with the local wild beaver population. Each night, the beavers would dam the culverts al...
2024-04-22

  Sustainable Seafood Is All Around You — If You Know Where To Look

Roughly 196 million tons of fish were harvested in 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The organization also notes that the number of overfished stocks worldwide has tripled in the last century. All of this ...
2024-04-19

  An 11-Year-old Unearthed Fossils Of The Largest Known Marine Reptile

When the dinosaurs walked the Earth, massive marine reptiles swam. Among them, a species of Ichthyosaur that measured over 80 feet long. Today, we look into how a chance discovery by a father-daughter duo of fossil hunters furthered paleontologist's un...
2024-04-17

  The Nightmarish Worm That Lived 25 Million Years Longer Than Researchers Thought

500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. During this period of time, known as the Cambrian period, basically all life was in the water. The ocean was brimming with animals that looked pretty different from the ones we recognize toda...
2024-04-15

  How The Brain Experiences Pleasure — Even The Kind That Makes Us Feel Guilty

We've all been there: You sit down for one episode of a reality TV show, and six hours later you're sitting guiltily on the couch, blinking the screen-induced crust off your eyeballs. Okay. Maybe you haven't been there like our team has. But it's likel...
2024-04-12

  What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency announced new drinking water standards to limit people's exposure to some PFAS chemicals. For decades, PFAS have been used to waterproof and stain-proof a variety of consumer products. These "forever chemic...
2024-04-10

  The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality

It's National Siblings Day! To mark the occasion, guest host Selena Simmons-Duffin is exploring a detail very personal to her: How the number of older brothers a person has can influence their sexuality. Scientific research on sexuality has a dark hist...
2024-04-07

  How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

It's baseball season! And when we here at Short Wave think of baseball, we naturally think of physics. To get the inside scoop on the physics of baseball, like how to hit a home run, we talk to Frederic Bertley, CEO and President of the Center of Scien...
2024-04-05

  The "Barcodes" Powering These Tiny Songbirds' Memories May Also Help Human Memory

Tiny, black-capped chickadees have big memories. They stash food in hundreds to thousands of locations in the wild – and then come back to these stashes when other food sources are low. Now, researchers at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute thin...