Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars?
If a machine can print the building blocks of skin, will the body forget how to scar?
0:00 / 10:45 · Narrator Charon
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2026-06-25
Today's Crosscut
Technically Sweet Science
Physicists spent decades in deep mines hunting for a ghost particle, but that same hunger for a clever piece of engineering now drives tech companies to gamble with artificial intelligence without asking the public for permission.
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino × Who Gave AI Companies the Right to Build the Future?
0:00 / 13:50 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
What the Iran War Taught the World About Food Security
by Maximo Torero
Can a precise understanding of the soil protect farmers from a conflict thousands of miles away?
0:00 / 7:41 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Behind the news →
The Woman Who Turned Cooking Oil Into Soap in Gaza
by Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha
How do a person’s lifelong skills survive when the only tools left are in the rubble?
0:00 / 8:22 · Narrator Algieba
Opinion: How I Used Public Radio to Recruit 20,000 Participants for a Peer-reviewed Study on Walking Breaks
by Manoush Zomorodi
What happens when twenty thousand people decide to turn their daily lives into a scientific experiment?
0:00 / 9:20 · Narrator Sulafat
Why Beijing Still Fears the Tiananmen Mothers
by Rowena He
Why would a state with so much power still be afraid of a mother’s quiet memory?
0:00 / 11:26 · Narrator Gacrux
For the curious →
‘Maryam & Son’: a Space for Small Lives and Big Grief That Larger Waves of Global Politics Disallow
by Saloni Sharma
How does a woman keep her own name when the world turns her son into a headline?
0:00 / 9:06 · Narrator Charon
Smart escape →
A Diary From the Psychic Capital of the World
by Greta Rainbow
Can a stranger’s mistaken version of the dead help a family see who they really lost?
0:00 / 15:52 · Narrator Sulafat