There are moments when I’m nostalgic for an old-school bowl of cream of mushroom soup. It’s comforting, earthy, loaded with nutrient-packed mushrooms, and simple...
January 29, 20253 min readTrump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts to Earth ASAPDespite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return...
In 2023, Dr. Vinay Prasad had a talk cancelled by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, a private organization, after members reasonably protested that...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in complex relationships. In the ocean,...
Comedian Alice Fraser (@aliterative) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Jesse's mistimed melatonin, Alice's new book A Passion...
A Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1.These...
A former chemical-industry executive who fought against stronger regulations under the first Trump administration is returning to take a critical role at the Environmental...
