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• Did Trump's foreign aid cuts fuel the Ebola outbreak?

  The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is growing – and is likely larger than official numbers show. The deadly disease spreads through bodily fluids, on average killing half the people it infects. And while officially...

  24 jun 2026 641 sec.

• What can a tornado teach us about kindness?

  One evening in May of 2011, tornado sirens went off in a small Missouri city called Joplin. Thousands of homes were destroyed in the tornado, about a third of the town’s 50,000 residents were displaced and around 160 people died. And in...

  23 jun 2026 764 sec.

• Inside the mysterious minds of horses

  Janet Jones has been fascinated by horses since childhood. She’s now a horse trainer and a neuroscientist, which allows her to explore the minds of the animals to which she’s devoted her life. She even recently wrote a book all about...

  22 jun 2026 826 sec.

• Why scientists launched two little robots to the moon

  Two tiny transforming robots landed on the moon! These baseball-sized bots accompanied Japan's first successful lunar lander. They rolled out of SLIM as balls and transformed into a rover. The bots cracked down the middle to reveal a...

  19 jun 2026 651 sec.

• Is sewage the future of green aviation?

  The war in Iran has disrupted the global fuel supply. That has sent airline prices soaring and cancelled scores of flights. This got Short Wave host Emily Kwong wondering: Could another fuel source help take us to the skies? Today on...

  17 jun 2026 757 sec.

• Could air pollution make your memory worse?

  Summer is here, your windows are open and the smell of…car exhaust and the latest wildfire are wafting in. This air pollution is harmful to almost every organ , including the brain. Today on Short Wave, we talk about one way air...

  16 jun 2026 621 sec.

• Inside the lab taste-testing the world's chocolate

  Could standardizing chocolate help small-scale farmers? Chocolate scientist Julien Simonis thinks it could help persuade consumers to pay for higher quality chocolate, in turn helping out these growers. Every cacao bean is different,...

  15 jun 2026 629 sec.

• Why your sunscreen is finally getting a major upgrade

  Until this week, the United States hadn’t approved a new sunscreen ingredient in over 20 years. That changed Tuesday, when the FDA approved a new chemical for U.S. sunscreens. It’s called bemotrizinol, and NPR science correspondent...

  12 jun 2026 570 sec.

• How a single flu shot could protect you for decades

  Every year, tens of millions of people in the U.S. get the flu vaccine. That’s because the virus changes year-to-year and protection only lasts around six months. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre wants to change that. He’s one scientist working on...

  10 jun 2026 686 sec.

• Your DNA is changing all the time. Here’s why

  We tend to think of the DNA strands that contain our genetic code as consistent, stable units. But in reality, the cells that make up our bodies are constantly replicating and changing. Even as you read this sentence, in fact, the genes...

  9 jun 2026 852 sec.

• Inner monologues are still a mystery

  Emily Kwong is pretty sure she lacks an inner monologue, while the inner monologue of producer Rachel Carlson won’t stop chatting. But how well can a person know their inner self? And what does science have to say about it? We dig in...

  8 jun 2026 857 sec.

• Prepare to be baffled by what we don't know about eels

  More than a century ago, all that people knew about European eels was that they lived in the rivers and streams for decades — until they swam out to the ocean and never returned. Eventually, tiny eels would show up and the cycle would...

  5 jun 2026 818 sec.