On 10/8/2016, the StarTalk All-Stars packed NY Comic Con to discuss the real science in science fiction. Now you can get your geek on with All-Stars hosts Charles Liu and Emily Rice, co-host Chuck Nice, and Phillip K. **** Award nominated author PJ Man…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Extended Classic: The Salt of the Earth (Part 1)
Neil Tyson and Eugene Mirman explore how salt has been a critical ingredient in history and the development of civilization. Now extended with 12 minutes of Neil and Bill Nye in the Cosmic Crib talking about evolution, Ivan the Gorilla and how bees fly…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Podcast: Scientists on the night shift, sucking up greenhouse gases with cement, and repetitive stress in tomb builders
This week, we chat about cement’s shrinking carbon footprint, commuting hazards for ancient Egyptian artisans, and a new bipartisan group opposed to government-funded animal research in the United States with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to news writer Sam Kean about the kinds of data that can only be gathered at night as part of the special issue on circadian biology. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: roomauction/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Women in Science, with Summer Ash and Emily Rice – StarTalk All-Stars
New StarTalk All-Stars hosts, astrophysicists Summer Ash and Emily Rice, share their take on “Women Crushing It Wednesday” – reclaiming a sexist hashtag by celebrating women in STEM and examining the challenges women scientists face. Chuck Nice co-host…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Effects of palliative care on patient and caregiver outcomes, ED visits for adverse drug events, colorectal cancer screening review, and more
Editors’ Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the November 22, 2016 issue
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Beauty of Mathematics, with Jeremy Irons
This week, Neil Tyson explores the language of the universe and the life of self-taught math genius Ramanujan. With Jeremy Irons and Matthew Brown from “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” co-host Eugene Mirman, mathematician Ken Ono, Mona Chalabi, and Bill Ny…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi
This week we chat about why it’s hard to get a taxi to nowhere, why bones came onto the scene some 550 million years ago, and how targeting bacteria’s predilection for iron might make better vaccines, with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks with news writer Elizabeth Pennisi about the way hybrids muck up the concept of species and turn the evolutionary tree into a tangled web. Listen to previous podcasts [Image: Raul González Alegría; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hunting for Black Holes, with Janna Levin – StarTalk All-Stars
If light can’t escape from black holes, how can we observe them at all? Find out from astrophysicist Janna Levin, co-host Matt Kirshen, and Shep Doeleman, the MIT astrophysicist leading the Event Horizon Telescope project to study black hole Sgr A* at the center of our galaxy.
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Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Lipid Disorders: Screening and Treatment
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Statin Use for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults
This Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends use of low- to moderate-dose statins for primary prevention in adults aged 40 to 75 years who have 1 or more CVD risk factors and a calculated CVD event risk of 10% or …