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First up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Michael Price discusses the history of the North American bison population, its decline, and resurrection—and links to Indigenous cultures. He’s joined by University of California, Santa Cruz evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapir ...  Show more

First up on the podcast, we catch up with Celina Zhao, a staff reporter for Science’s AI In Science reporting initiative. She talks with host Sarah Crespi about artificial intelligence’s knack for finding legal loopholes and how philosophers are navigating conflicts of interest a ...  Show more

Short Wave's Emily Kwong talks with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey about some of the latest coronavirus news, including the return of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the U.S. and vaccine outreach in harder to reach communities.Have questions about the latest coronavirus ...  Show more

Dr. Francis Collins talks with health correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin about Americans' overall health, how tribalism in American culture has fueled vaccine hesitancy, and advises his successor on how to persevere on research of politically charged topics — like guns and obesi ...  Show more

On the ground in Afghanistan as the country faces a famine; talking with survivors of last week's tornado outbreak; a historic appointment at the NYPD; How Zoom is affecting voices; And hear what it's like for one Michigan healthcare worker as omicron takes hold. Learn more about ...  Show more

Dr. Andy Pekosz, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, provides a coronavirus and vaccine update. Bloomberg News Reporter Thomas Buckley discusses health-care avengers fighting anti-vaxxers one viral ...  Show more