Regina G. Barber

Every year, lightning is estimated to cause up to 24,000 deaths globally. It starts forest fires, bu...

Human beings are hardwired for social connection – so much so that we think of even the most basic o...

2023 was filled with scientific innovation, exploration and new discoveries. A few of the biggest th...

A team of conservation biologists from Italy recently found that current emoji options are sorely la...

How much salt is too much salt? Unfortunately, it's most likely the amount you're consuming. A new s...

This weekend, Iceland experienced nearly 2,000 earthquakes within 48 hours. And they've kept coming ...

What is the boundary of the universe? What is the beginning of time? These are the questions that ca...

One experience that I hope never fades from my memory is the day I found myself on the bridge of the...

The world's oldest mummies are buried in modern-day northern Chile. They've endured the last 7,000 y...

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Want to pee all the time, or been told to drink cranberry juice because it burns when you pee? If so...

Smallpox is a deadly virus. It's been around at least since the third century BCE in the Egyptian em...

The British Industrial Revolution is marked by economic and societal shifts toward manufacturing — a...

All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly joins Regina G. Barber and Aaron Scott to nerd-out on s...

All Things Considered host Adrian Florido joins Regina G. Barber and Geoff Brumfiel to nerd-out on s...

All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro returns to nerd-out with Regina G. Barber and Geoff Brumfiel ...

Season 2 of the critically acclaimed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered June 15 (streaming on P...

Teppei Katori was always amazed by the natural world—the birds, the flowers—right down to the invisi...

In the year 2000, the Human Genome Project completed their first draft of the very first sequenced h...

Monday another earthquake struck southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border. This time, the quake r...

Lightning is estimated to cause up to 24,000 deaths globally each year. It starts forest fires, burn...

Editor's note: This episode contains frequent and mildly graphic mentions of poop. It may cause gigg...

Condoms have been used to prevent pregnancy since the Middle Ages, with the rubber version arriving ...

Contraceptive research has historically prioritized women because they bear the burden of pregnancy ...

In addition to flying, landing, and returning from the moon in 1969 — NASA's Apollo 11 crew helped w...