Could air pollution make your memory worse?
This episode of NPR's Shortwave explores three distinct scientific stories: how air pollution may accelerate memory decline, the discovery of the world’s deepest whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, and how ancient squirrel droppings are revealing lost ecosystems from the Pleistocene. Eac
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