Podcasts

On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we clear up some data misconceptions, get to the bottom of the booster uptake issue and talk Novavax.

Bacteria resistant to methicillin emerged in hedgehogs long before the drug was prescribed to treat infections.

For meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, rising temperatures spark deadly outbreaks of tuberculosis.

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

You can listen to all past episodes here. 

Technology editor Sophie Bushwick breaks down the precedent for using your phone to monitor personal health data.

A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western U.S.

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

You can listen to all past episodes here.

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today.

A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status.

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

You can listen to all past episodes here.

In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.