A self-styled floor safety crusader’s fight for mandatory standards reveals a much larger friction within the slippery world of slip, trip, and fall experts.
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Dogs turn up evidence, detecting odors where investigators find nothing. But are these unbelievable stories about crime-solving canines leading jurors astray?
A dive to the bottom of Lake Superior to find antibiotic compounds raises another question: It is necessary to physically explore new places to turn up new drugs?
The race to sterilize medical garb reopened shuttered ethylene oxide plants, potentially exposing vulnerable communities to toxic air pollution.
The story of the Daubert standard, the 1993 Supreme Court ruling, and the family that sparked a scientific revolution in the courts. Listen on WNYC Radiolab
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Ray Finucane devised a series of computational algorithms to track the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Now he’s looking for approval.