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From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

Is SARS-CoV-2 Here to Stay?

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

The end of the pandemic might not mean the end of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many scientists think COVID is here to stay, even with vaccines. In this seg...

Altruistic Toddlers

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

The most helpful toddlers show empathy when they’re infants.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTIP, and KENW

Social Robots & Autism

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Robots help children with autism develop social skills at home.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW

Robot Peer Pressure

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Can robots exert peer pressure, influencing people’s decisions?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW

Hidden in Plain Sight: Sensory Processing Disorder

From: Benedict Carrizzo

Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

Infant Logic

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Infants use an early form of deductive reasoning.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WLPR , WTIP, and KENW

Right Ear Advantage

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

The right ear listens and comprehends slightly better than the left.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW

Children’s Formation of Social Categories - Marjorie Rhodes - PHM

From: Public Health Minute

Adults can guide whether children categorize based on race or ethnicity through subtle changes in the way they use language. Bill Latimer finds out...

School Nurses Get Equipped To Reverse Overdoses

From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News

Caption: Katie Serio, director of treatment and prevention at the Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse of Livingston County, N.Y., trains a group of school nurses to use the overdose antidote naloxone at Dansville High School., Credit: Michelle Faust

At the start of the year, some school districts are considering whether, they will stock a medication that can reverse an overdose. Since 2001, ove...

Marmoset Baby Talk

From: Susanne Bard

A new study suggests baby marmosets’ calls change as they grow up, overturning more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about primate vocalizations.

Bought by KENW and WLPR

Predator & Prey Pupils

From: Susanne Bard

Differences in animals’ pupil shapes distinguish predators from prey.

Bought by KENW and WLPR

The Trouble with R

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Ricture Alphabet of Birds, 1874, Credit: Public Domain, via flickr

The letter “R” is one of the hardest sounds we learn to pronounce; now scientists think they’ve identified what makes it so tricky.

Bought by KENW and WLPR

Measles vs. the Immune System

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: Measles vaccination in Ethiopia., Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0, via flickr

The measles vaccine protects the immune system from other infectious diseases.

Bought by KENW, KMXT, and WLPR

Frugal Science: How one lab is using toys to make chemistry accessible to the world

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: A pile of foldscopes, Credit: Prakash Lab

I am in a lab tucked away in the basement of a Stanford University engineering building. Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash is showing me a tiny...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix

Lost Languages in the Brain

From: Susanne Bard

When children are adopted internationally, the first language they hear as babies may not be entirely lost.

Bought by KMXT

Playful Fish

From: Susanne Bard

Caption: A cichlid fish strikes a bottom-weighted thermometer that would immediately right itself. , Credit: (Ann Hawthorne)

Some fish appear to play with objects in their tanks.

Bought by KMXT

At children's hospital, kids find comfort in music therapy

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Oliver Jacobson is a music therapist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Here, he plays a session with one of his patients, Maia Mead, Credit: Liz Mak

Oliver Jacobson started playing violin when he was six years old. At 18, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music, one of the top music schools in t...

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