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Health & Safety

This week in science: running and the brain, fermented space food and bat navigation

5:51pm April 03, 2025

by Rachel Carlson

NPR's Short Wave brings us the stories of how running a marathon could change your brain, fermenting food in space, and the mystery of how bats in flight avoid colliding with each other.

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Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response

6:00am April 03, 2025

Fentanyl overdoses occur from ingesting the synthetic opioid. But popular culture has misrepresented the risks to first responders.

How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education

5:00am April 03, 2025

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two.

What does the shark say? Click, click, click

5:00am April 03, 2025

Scientists in New Zealand believe they may have the first-ever recording of a shark making noise.

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Parents sue Bucknell alleging hazing led to freshman football player's death

6:30pm April 02, 2025

Freshman Calvin "CJ" Dickey Jr., died after his first practice at the university. His parents are suing the school, also alleging staff neglected to account for his sickle cell trait during training.

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The richest Americans live about as long as the poorest Europeans, study says

4:44pm April 02, 2025

by Rob Stein

Everyone knows that Europeans tend to live longer than Americans. But a new study has a surprising twist: Even the richest Americans only live about as long as the poorest western Europeans. Embargoed until 5 pm April 2.

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Will restricting SNAP benefits stop people from drinking soda?

4:41pm April 02, 2025

by Katia Riddle

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to stop people using SNAP benefits to buy soda. But critics say making healthy food more affordable is a better way to improve people's health.

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Salt-less Jamaican soup a 'transformational' experience

4:38pm April 02, 2025

by Marc Silver

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Genevieve Villamora about adapting healing soup recipes from around the world with ingredients commonly available in the U.S.

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How do 'torpedo bats' work? We asked baseball physicists to explain

8:28am April 02, 2025

They look like baseball bats morphing into bowling pins, their ends flaring into an aggressive bulge that suddenly tapers. So how do they work?

United Kingdom, High Wycombe, Alzheimer's and Dementia Research, Scientist holding a blood sample during a clinical trial with a MRI on screen

Latest Alzheimer's lab tests focus on memory loss, not brain plaques

6:00am April 02, 2025

New tests of blood and spinal fluid can identify people experiencing memory loss from Alzheimer's disease.

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