A weekly conversation on the latest science news, opinion, and the A$$#*(! of the Week". Your hosts are J.D. Goodwin, Kellie Vinal, Sophie McManus, and Ivy Shih.
The Zika virus has been quietly moving across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific for decades. But what if we could turn the worst aspects of this virus and direct them toward killing cancer cells? In a paper published earlier this month in the Journal of Experimental Medicine it seems researchers have done just that. Here to talk with us about this exciting research is one of the senior co-authors of that paper, Dr. Milan Chheda, from the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis.
A very full episode today. We bid farewell to Cassini. We hardly knew ye. A silly war of tweets between the Science Museum and The Natural History Museum gave us an excuse to hurl some oneupmanship at one another. Environmental justice was the topic of the week in the Climate Lounge. The competition is fierce…
Long time, no see! After a long hiatus the Blue Streak Science Podcast has returned with the most dangerous team in podcasting; Sophie McManus, Tom Di Liberto, Nevena Hristozova, and JD Goodwin. We look forward to reconnecting with you, too. We are certainly a little rusty, but still this episode hits all the marks. Gene…
We somehow survived the time change in North America. Seriously, why won’t everybody just get on the same page and change time in every country at the same time. Or, perhaps everybody not change the time at all. Either way, in the spirit of international cooperation I propose that we all do it at the…
Today’s episode marks the beginning of a new format. Sophie McManus, Ivy Shih, and Nevena Hristozova will bring us up to speed with the latest science news in our Science News Roundup segment. The single most important science issue of our time is climate change. In our Climate Lounge segment Tom Di Liberto of NOAA…
What The Hell Was That? Loyal listener Sam Danby, an Englishman living in Norway, was the first listener to get the answer correct when he answered with: (insert answer here). What? You thought we’d reveal the answer here in the show notes? As if! Blue Streak Science News Roundup These are summaries of our discussions…
