Browsing: science

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR’s Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in…

Every few years, the concept of fasted exercise training pops up all over social media. Fasted training refers to exercising…

An acronym that stayed… Late in the 1940s, following the end of World War II, a small number of visionary…

World Environmental Health Day fell on September 26. The World Health Organization good health depends on clean air, a stable…

United States President Donald Trump has urged pregnant women to avoid paracetamol except in cases of extremely high fever, because…

There’s no causal link between taking acetaminophen and autism in an offspring, yet some studies point to a correlation. What…

President Trump takes questions the White House, following an announcement that federal health officials are updating drug labelling to discourage…

The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study…

Mary Roach’s previous books include Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Jen…

From the invention of zero to the insights of Ramanujan, India’s contribution to mathematics has never been an academic ornament.…