The Leap” is a new podcast series profiling scientists willing to take big risks—personal and professional—to push the ...

The Department of the Interior seeks to remove the lesser prairie chicken’s endangered species designation. What would that mean?

How well do we understand the long-term health risks to firefighters? Plus, researchers across the country are breeding ...

Scientists at the Missouri Botanical Garden are preserving diverse plant species. And, how micronutrients could help address world hunger.

Pests are ravaging keystone species like ash, elm, and beech. But researchers are breeding the survivors into more resilient ...

Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical ...

Damon has a passion for creating ultra-realistic interactive training devices. With a background in medicine, anatomical sculpture, product development, and industrial design, Damon uses his skills ...

Katalin Karikó is a biochemist and professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is most known for ...