Recent Episodes
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Reasons to Let Your Hair Go Natural
As research has sought to answer why Black women suffer more maternal health complications, one link has now become clear: the regular use of hair straighteners used by 90 percent of Black women, over generations, often starting at young ages.
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Space, It Changes You
We're used to having our NASA astronauts be highly trained, but what about people like you and me? With commercial space travel now available, that's a reality. It raises the question of space travel's impact on human health. New studies reveal even short space trips take a toll on the body.
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Cleaning Up Plastics with Microbial Help
Microplastics and nanoplastics are literally everywhere and yet, we continue to produce 300 million tons of plastic every year and by 2060, that number will triple.
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A Promising Male Contraceptive
After decades of research, men could have their own version of birth control pills if this potential drug makes it to the market.
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Another Cause of Alzheimers
In 1906, a psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer described to a group of German physicians a peculiar patient he had been treating. The woman developed paranoia that progressed quickly, and that was the first description of what we now call Alzheimer's disease or AD, aptly named after him. After she died, Alzheimer did an autopsy and found abnormal patterns we now know as plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that may contribute to AD.
