Postpartum brain fog is familiar for many mothers — sometimes dismissively called “mommy brain.” New research suggests it's actually a time when women's brains are rewiring themselves to learn new skills, multi-task and even have better memory later in life. We talk to Clare McCormack, an assistant professor in child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine; and Liisa Galea, the Treliving Family Chair in Women's Mental Health and senior scientist at CAMH.

The push to electrify our vehicles is driving a scramble for cobalt, which is almost exclusively mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We talk to Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives.

Ontario trauma surgeon Dr. Anas Al-Kassem travelled to Syria after last month’s devastating earthquakes. He tells Matt Galloway what he saw and what Canada can do to help the survivors.

Our national affairs panel discusses allegations of Chinese government interference in Canadian elections. Matt Galloway talks to Catherine Cullen, host of CBC Radio’s The House; Emilie Nicolas, a columnist with Le Devoir; and Joanna Chiu, a reporter with the Toronto Star and author of China Unbound: A New World Disorder.

With his new book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind, Canadian psychologist Paul Bloom probes the difference between the brain and the mind, the mystery of consciousness, and whether artificial intelligence will ever match human thought.

The European Space Agency wants the moon to have its own time zone. We talk to Nisha Gaind, the European bureau chief for the journal Nature.

Investigative reporter Hannah Dreier takes us inside a shocking New York Times exposé into migrant children arriving unaccompanied in the U.S. and getting exploited for cheap labour.

Sandra Demontigny is 43 years old and has early onset Alzheimer’s. She watched her father and grandmother suffer with the same disease, and wants to one day access medical assistance in dying. To do that, she has been pushing the Quebec government to allow advanced consent for people with forms of neurocognitive impairment. Matt Galloway talks to Demontigny about her fight for a good death; and also speaks with Dr. Judes Poirier, deputy director of the Centre for the Studies on the Prevention of Alzheimer’s at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal.

Every year, thousands of international students come to Canada to study, forking over big money in tuition fees. In his documentary The Dreams of My Father, Kiran Singh explores why many of those students don’t get what they pay for.

Thousands of asylum seekers enter Canada through Roxham Road in Quebec each year, but calls to close the unofficial border crossing are growing. Matt Galloway talks to Lovejoyce Amavi, a refugee and author who crossed at Roxham Road in 2017; Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, immigration critic for the Bloc Québécois; and Warda Shazadi Meighen, an immigration and refugee lawyer.