Matter and its weird, opposite antimatter annihilate each other "in a blaze of glory," says Jessica Esquivel, an experimental particle physicist at Fermilab. PeteDraper/Getty Images hide caption

It's Short Wave's 5th birthday! To celebrate, we answer our 5-year-old listeners' science questions. NickS/Getty Images hide caption

Lots of mammals scream. Conservation biologist Dan Blumstein says those screaming sounds happen when an animal overblows their vocal folds, pushing air out much faster than normal. Getty Images | mlorenzphotography hide caption

If you picked up a Honeycrisp apple at a grocery store in New York... and then a Honeycrisp in Texas... and then a Honeycrisp in California... they'd all be the exact same genetically. That's because they're all from the same original plant. Stan Dzugan/Getty Images hide caption

In his book Why We Die, author Venki Ramakrishnan looks at modern biological research to understand why our bodies age — and eventually die. "It's a peculiar situation because we're a collection of cells and when we're alive, millions of our cells are dying. ... When we die, most of our cells are still alive," says Ramakrishnan. "And so what does it mean to say you die?" cooperr007/Getty Images hide caption

Inside his lab, David Sischo and his team care for 40 species of snails. For some snails, it's the only place they live, having been brought into captivity to stave off extinction. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption

Cobenfy, a new drug made by Bristol Myers Squibb and approved by the FDA last week, triggers muscarinic receptors instead of dopamine receptors. It's the first schizophrenia treatment to do so. Bristol Myers Squibb hide caption

Undergrove is a board game about the mycorrhizal relationships between fungi and trees. The co-designer is Elizabeth Hargrave, who also created Wingspan about birds. AEG hide caption