The science and shared history behind the Gregorian and Chinese calendars
Happy Lunar New Year! According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the new year began Saturday. For many, like our host Regina G. Barber, this calendar and its cultural holidays can feel completely detached from the Gregorian calendar. Growing up, she associated the former with the Spring Festival and getting money in red envelopes from relatives, and the other with more American traditions. But the Chinese calendar has a deep, centuries-long shared history with the Gregorian calendar. To learn more about this shared history, Gina talks to scientists and historians, who spill the tea about the science behind calendars, and...
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Regina G. Barber Source Type: news
A tiny robot on the space station will simulate remote-controlled surgery up there
A robotic assistant recently arrived at the International Space Station to perform a simulated surgery that will be controlled by a surgeon 250 miles away on Earth.(Image credit: Craig Chandler) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Juliana Kim Source Type: news
A tiny robot on the space station will simulate remote-controlled surgery up there
A robotic assistant recently arrived at the International Space Station to perform a simulated surgery that will be controlled by a surgeon 250 miles away on Earth.(Image credit: Craig Chandler/University of Nebraska Office of University Communication and Marketing) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Juliana Kim Source Type: news
Cheap, plentiful and devastating: The synthetic drug kush is walloping Sierra Leone
Kush, a synthetic cannabinoid, is spreading quickly for the promise of a stress-relieving high. But what's the impact on users — and Sierra Leonean society? And how are the authorities responding? (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tommy Trenchard Source Type: news
Cheap, plentiful and devastating: The synthetic drug kush is walloping Sierra Leone
Kush, a synthetic cannabinoid, is spreading quickly for the promise of a stress-relieving high. But what's the impact on users — and Sierra Leonean society? And how are the authorities responding?(Image credit: Tommy Trenchard for NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tommy Trenchard Source Type: news
Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards
The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kirk Siegler Source Type: news
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted
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Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Selena Simmons-Duffin Source Type: news
Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards
The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air.(Image credit: Kirk Siegler/NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kirk Siegler Source Type: news
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted
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Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Selena Simmons-Duffin Source Type: news
Have a story about your sibling? Share it with us!
Siblings can have a profound effect on us in childhood and over the course of our lives. How have these bonds affected you? Share your story with us.(Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Davis Source Type: news
Have a story about your sibling? Share it with us!
Siblings can have a profound effect on us in childhood and over the course of our lives. How have these bonds affected you? Share your story with us. (Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Davis Source Type: news
Clownfish might be counting their potential enemies' stripes
At least, that's what a group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University thinks. The team recently published a study in the journal Experimental Biology suggesting that Amphiphrion ocellaris, or clown anemonefish, may be counting. Specifically, the authors think the fish may be looking at the number of vertical white stripes on each other as well as other anemonefish as a way to identify their own species. Not only that — the researchers think that the fish are noticing the minutiae of other anemonefish's looks because of some fishy marine geopolitics. Questions, comments or tho...
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Regina G. Barber Source Type: news
This week in science: moths' anti-bat signal, fish who count and GMO crops at home
Short Wave ' s Regina Barber and Margaret Cirino talk through how moths produce an anti-bat signal, why clownfish could be counting to 3 and the first GMO food crop sold directly to home gardeners. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This week in science: moths' anti-bat signal, fish who count and GMO crops at home
Short Wave's Regina Barber and Margaret Cirino talk through how moths produce an anti-bat signal, why clownfish could be counting to 3 and the first GMO food crop sold directly to home gardeners. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Regina G. Barber Source Type: news
California sea otters nearly went extinct. Now they're rescuing their coastal habitat
California sea otter populations have rebounded in recent decades. New research finds that by feasting on shore crabs, these otters are helping to protect their coastal marsh habitat against erosion. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ari Daniel Source Type: news
