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Fat Bear Week's brown bears can lose one-third of their body weight over the course of hibernation, so they really need all the food they can get.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of Short Wave about elusive antimatter, a brightening night sky and a competition among super-sized grizzly bears: Fat Bear Week.
Add these episodes to your listening rotation during the NPR Network's Climate Solutions Week, where we're dedicated to stories and conversations about the search for climate solutions.
As the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland turns 50, we look at four alumni who used what they learned in the program to make an impact on the world.
A tiny worm that regenerates entire organs. A South American snail that can regrow its eyes. A killifish that suspends animation in dry weather and reanimates in water. These are the organisms at the heart of regeneration science. But exactly how they do these things is still a mystery to scientists. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber talks to microbiologist Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado about this mystery. They get into what regeneration looks like, why humans can't do it (yet) and where the science may lead us in the decades to come. Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Go...