17:36
These Black Women Helped Send Us To The Moon
Remembering the African American women mathematicians and engineers whose calculations got us into space.
Hr2: DTC Blood Tests, Hornless Cow, Digital Assistants
As tech companies battle to develop the best digital assistant, we ask how they measure up, and why we so often fail to connect. Plus, researchers used gene editing to develop a dairy cow that has no horns. And what happens when direct-to-consumer lab tests take physicians out of the equation?
Hr1: News Roundup, Carbon and Reservoirs, Science Subpoenas
How Congress, lawsuits, and other challenges are shaping scientific debate over climate science, fetal tissue research, and more. Plus, reservoirs are both sources of renewable energy and one of the worlds biggest producers of greenhouse gases.
7:44
Footprints in Time, a Stolen Gene, and a Mark on the Moon
Science writer Nadia Drake describes some of the week’s stories in science, including the discovery of more than 400 ancient footprints frozen in time in Tanzania.
4:11
A Carbon Contradiction
Reservoirs are both sources of renewable energy and one of the world’s biggest producers of greenhouse gases.
11:40
That’s Not What the Doctor Ordered
What happens when direct-to-consumer lab tests take physicians out of the equation?
17:26
Scientists Develop a Hornless Cow Through Gene Editing
Researchers used gene editing to develop a dairy cow that doesn’t grow horns.
17:10
Are Digital Assistants Smart Enough to Do Their Jobs?
As tech companies battle to develop the best digital assistant, we ask how they measure up, and why we so often fail to connect.
35:09
Science in the Crosshairs
How Congress, lawsuits, and other challenges are shaping scientific debate over climate science, fetal tissue research, and more.
Grabbing the Horns From the Bull
Alison Van Eenennaam and colleagues at UC Davis, along with researchers at the biotech company Recombinetics, aim to develop a genetically hornless cattle that might one day replace cows whose horns must be physical removed through expensive and painful methods.