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Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science

How can we help forests recover from intense wildfires with climate change in the mix, and what does it look like to incorporate philosophy into research?

39 MIN

Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education

How to implement the results of education research at a global scale, and whether mind-altering rituals drove pre-Inca societies to new heights

33 MIN

Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease

On this week’s show, we look at unexpected effects of climate change on two very different animals: a tick that transmits Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and a frog that changes sex at elevated temperatures

27 MIN

Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas

The unique benefits of making pharmaceuticals in zero gravity, narwhals point to warming of East Greenland fjords, and the latest in our series of biographies

49 MIN

Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome

Stories from our summer news interns, and a probe that sends signals about the gut via the breath

28 MIN