Science, Spoken

Many are celebrating Australia’s decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cement—which could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Biological amino acids could have celestial or terrestrial roots. An experiment simulated their formation in deep space—but the mystery isn’t solved yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A simultaneous solution to California’s extreme drought and flooding is to bank more water underground. Send in the choppers (and a few ATVs). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a warm band of water develops in the Pacific, drought grips the rainforest. The Amazon, devastated by deforestation and fires, is especially vulnerable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

These tiny organoids with working immune systems mimic the function of the GI tract and could be used to study intestinal diseases and drugs to treat them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Half of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The space agency gave money to researchers working on liquid telescope mirrors, a lunar oxygen pipeline, and Martian building blocks made of fungi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fakery spans “beautified” data, photoshopped images, and “paper mills.” Experts and institutions are employing tools to spot deceptive research and mitigate its reach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Digitized archaeology is making souterrains—subterranean passages in the Highlands—accessible in a way Indiana Jones could only dream of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One year later, researchers are still marveling at the power of the Hunga Tonga explosion—and wondering how to monitor hundreds of other undersea volcanoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Climate change is straining the world’s two favorite coffee species. Could a resilient 19th-century alternative solve the brew’s existential crisis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Need to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models or "organs on chips" instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hottest West Coast tech 16,000 years ago was a “projectile point” for hunting game. Though tiny, the artifact tells an outsize tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ClientEarth helps shape new laws and enforce old ones to protect the planet and its most vulnerable inhabitants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new study shows that as temperatures drop, nasal cells release fewer of the tiny protectors that bind and neutralize invading germs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Flu meds and prescription drugs have been in short supply all winter—but the problem goes back over a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Data from Sweden and the US suggests cash incentives increase uptake without denting people’s trust in vaccines or future willingness to get them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices