Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.
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A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...
The hormone estrogen—which female animals typically have more of than males—triggers a molecular cascade in the gut that ...
A Stanford-led study probes why a very small number of people develop heart inflammation shortly after mRNA COVID-19 ...
From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...
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The new research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the explanation may not lie in ...
Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...
This APS Rising Star and social psychologist researches the political psychology of ideological attitudes and integrating ...