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Deja View
Episode 553
Most of us know it - that weird, sudden feeling of experiencing something not for the first time. It's called déjà vu - French for "already seen" - a…
8 years ago
Passing the Sniff Test
Episode 552
A dog searching for a lost child is typically given an item of clothing to smell. But what does that scent “look” like? To find out, scientists teste…
8 years ago
Logo Mindstorms
Episode 551
Humans assign value to brands. Brands represent wealth, strength, and yes, sex. We are our brands. And for some rhesus macaques in a lab, one brand, …
8 years ago
Special Aged
Episode 550
It's pretty extraordinary for people in their 80s and 90s to keep the same sharp memory as someone several decades younger, and now scientists are pe…
8 years ago
Black Hole Fun
Episode 549
If you ever fell into a black hole, your body would most likely be ripped into shreds and become 'spaghettified' - At least that's the theory put for…
8 years ago
Nowhere You Are
Episode 548
In a triumph of data collection and analysis, a team of researchers based at Oxford University has built the tools necessary to calculate how far any…
8 years ago
Bio Shock Intimate
Episode 547
When Josiah Zayner watched a biotech CEO drop his pants at a biohacking conference and inject himself with an untested herpes treatment, he realized …
8 years ago
Olympic Meddle
Episode 546
Elizabeth Swaney is a 33-year-old skier from Oakland, California who competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics for Hungary. She is not a good skiier. Swan…
8 years ago
Supple Built Skin
Episode 545
Biomedicine just took another leap forward. University of Colorado Boulder scientists created so-called electronic skin—e-skin for short. The e-skin …
8 years, 1 month ago
Worms and Conditions
Episode 544
After about a week of eye irritation, which she thought might be caused by a stray eyelash, Beckley took a close look in the mirror and found the rea…
8 years, 1 month ago