How to Trick-or-Treat Your Gut

In this episode of Science Quickly, Scientific American’s books and culture lead Bri Kane talks with historian Craig Fehrman about This Vast Enterprise, his fresh take on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rather than focusing solely on the famous explorers, Fehrman highlights the o ...  Show more

Almost all of us know someone who suffers from an autoimmune disease. Or maybe you do yourself. Autoimmune diseases are common: only cancer and cardiovascular diseases are more prevalent. So how do you fight a body that is fighting against itself? argenx, an immunology innovation ...  Show more

Happy Halloween! We’re headed to Candy Land, a sugary laboratory where mathematicians found a mysterious candy dagger appear - over and over again. So gather up your candy box, and let’s discover out why mathematicians are studying candy to understand the real-life landscapes aro ...  Show more

Halloween is Thursday October 31 and the crew talk about the best selling candy in the United States. Take a guess!

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Halloween candy, for many people, is the beginning of the sugar season.  Bags of Halloween candy carry us into Thanksgiving pies, then on to the Holiday treats.  In the aftermath are a few more pounds and the Holiday Blues.  This week Licensed Nutritionists Kara Carper and Anna D ...  Show more

How we feel emotionally may be influenced by unseen troves of microbial life that live inside us. Is it possible to harness this gut power? (First published in 2022) Guests: Michael Gershon, professor of pathology at Columbia University; and Katerina Johnson, microbiome researche ...  Show more