Share this on WhatsApp Jeffery DelViscio: [00:00:00] Welcome to a very special episode of Science Talk. I’m Jeff DelViscio, senior multimedia editor at Scientific American. For months Undark magazine has been working on an incredibly ambitious five-part series on chronic kidney disease. It’s called Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis. Scientific American partnered with Undark […]
Share this on WhatsApp I decided to write this essay because I needed something to help process everything that I am seeing and doing as a resident physician working in critical care at a large hospital in Manhattan. I feel that many people don’t have a good sense of what is actually happening in intensive […]
Share this on WhatsApp When astronomers discovered the first worlds orbiting other stars thirty years ago, they also began taking what might be called the galactic planetary census, tallying up the numbers and types of exoplanets in the Milky Way. Although it’s infeasible to thoroughly survey all of our galaxy’s hundreds of billions of stars, […]