Mar 04 Gene therapy was a boy's last chance to stop leukemia. And it worked. By Lesley McClurg, KQED Science At least 50 children are in remission because of a breakthrough treatment that engineers the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. Continue reading
Mar 03 This scientist is testing a marijuana ingredient as a way to prevent relapse. It's a daunting task By Megan Thielking, STAT A neurobiologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York thinks cannabidiol -- one of the two main compounds plucked from the marijuana plant -- might hold the potential to curb cravings for heroin and other opioids. Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch 7:50 The race to develop coffee that can survive climate change By Fred de Sam Lazaro What has driven tens of thousands of Salvadorans to leave home, many for the U.S.? El Salvador's coffee beans suffered a devastating disease five years ago, and now face an even greater existential threat: climate change. Special correspondent Fred de… Continue watching
Mar 01 5 overlooked stories that are worth your time By Hannah Grabenstein These days, it’s hard to stop politics from flooding your news feed. We take a moment every week to bring you important stories beyond the White House and the Capitol. Here’s what we’re reading now… Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch 8:49 To measure the prowess of North Korean missiles, researchers spy with open-source clues By Miles O'Brien As North Korean missiles fly farther and more frequently under Kim Jong-un, the outside world watches warily, using a network of early-warning radar, sensors and satellites that track the test weapons in real time. In the third installment of our… Continue watching
Feb 28 Inside the study showing conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals By Rashmi Shivni Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election. Continue reading
Feb 25 To lose weight, focus on what you eat, not how much: study By Lesley McClurg, KQED Science Counting calories obsessively is not the key to trimming your waistline, according to a new study. Continue reading
Feb 24 CDC requests funds to build new maximum-security laboratory By Helen Branswell, STAT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking Congress for money for a new building to house the laboratories that work on the deadliest pathogens known to humankind. Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch 7:41 The science of measuring North Korea's destructive nuclear power from afar By Miles O'Brien The Trump administration considers North Korea's nuclear and missile programs the top threat to American national security. How much do we really know about their nuclear devices? In the second of a series, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on how… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch 6:43 Morocco turns the Sahara desert into a solar energy oasis By Monica Villamizar Morocco says it wants to be the Saudi Arabia of solar energy. Its flagship project is a first-of-its-kind, $9-billion energy plant called Noor, meaning "light" in Arabic, and the size of the city of Paris. Special correspondent Monica Villamizar reports… Continue watching