Life Science

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Who Were the Blackwell Sisters?

Author Janice Nimura details the lives of Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell, who paved the way for women to study and practice medicine in 1800s America.
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Does Astronaut Food Taste Good?

We chat with Food Technologist Michelle Richardson about engineering healthy and appetizing meals for astronauts bound for Mars.
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Meet a Polio Pioneer

Listen in on a conversation with Heather and her mother Kathy, who was just 8 years old during the polio epidemic in the 1950s. Kathy became part of the ground-breaking study to find a polio vaccine, a first step in leading to the near-eradication in the...