Jul 10, 2026
Every player at this year’s World Cup is wearing the end result of 500 years of iteration on a single piece of equipment. It started with factory workers hammering hardware store nails into their boots for traction on wet British turf.
Ten solutions this week with Arielle and Karissa: the world’s first exome therapy...
Jul 2, 2026
Stanford researchers took cartilage from patients already getting knee replacements (about as degraded as joint tissue gets) and discovered how it could regenerate itself. The cells weren’t replaced or reprogrammed; they just shifted back toward a younger pattern of behavior, which is the part that feels almost too...
Jun 26, 2026
A study of more than 100,000 people across 125 countries found that people cooperate far more than they assume other people will. Hopeful news to receive in a world that feels so divided.
This week Arielle and Karissa also cover gig worker rights getting their first-ever international vote, Pakistan scrapping its period...
Jun 19, 2026
Tala and Farah Mousa received thousands of messages after they won the Earth Prize. “You gave us hope we had completely lost,” people wrote. “You showed us we can be seen.” They were sheltering in a tent when those messages came in.
This episode is about what it takes to build something: a real, physical method...
Jun 12, 2026
A high-risk breast cancer diagnosis used to mean one thing: chemotherapy. A large UK trial just found that 68 percent of those patients could skip it safely, based on a genomic test that already exists and is already in use.
Arielle and Karissa also get into the pigeon liver finding that stumped scientists for over a...