Vaccine Shakeups, Brain Injury Warnings and Boozy Chimps

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World Cup health monitoring ramps up as Mars mission ends and AI rules shift

In this episode of Science Quickly, we look at how World Cup host cities are tracking potential disease outbreaks with wastewater surveillance, discuss the loss of NASA’s long-running MAVEN orbiter at Mars, unpack a new order pushing AI companies to share models with the governme ...  Show more

What’s in a name? When it comes to PCOS, a lot

In this episode of Science Quickly, host Rachel Feltman interviews physician Anuja Dokras about the long road to changing the name of the condition PCOS, or polycystic ovary syndrome, to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS. The conversation covers why “PCOS” was mis ...  Show more

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