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Ground Control to Major Germ
Episode 513
According to a new study in the journal PeerJ, the interior surfaces of the 17-year-old, 250-mile-high, airtight International Space Station harbor a…
8 years, 3 months ago
Shake, Rattle, and Roil
Episode 512
In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters earlier this year, Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado and Rebecca Bendick of the Univers…
8 years, 3 months ago
Die Hardly
Episode 511
Rather than go with realistic methods of death, many films contain unbelievable movie death scenes that viewers accept as possible because they have …
8 years, 3 months ago
Public Dowsing
Episode 510
Ten of the 12 water companies in the UK have admitted they are still using the practice of water dowsing despite the lack of scientific evidence for …
8 years, 3 months ago
Endeavor Young
Episode 509
A small cluster of stem cells in the brain seems to help mice stay young, and injecting extra stem cells helps them live longer. The hypothalamus, wh…
8 years, 4 months ago
Understanding Know
Episode 508
According to new linguistic analysis published in the journal Public Understanding of Science, even scientists who write about public comprehension o…
8 years, 4 months ago
Ants vs Zombies
Episode 507
We’ve known about zombie ants for some time. These are ants infected with the parasitic fungus, O. unilateralis, which takes over their bodies amd m…
8 years, 4 months ago
Dinky is the Brain
Episode 506
Scientists can grow miniature versions of human brains — called organoids — in the lab, but during the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience…
8 years, 4 months ago
Fooly Manmoth
Episode 505
Swallowed by a sinkhole. Washed away by a mudflow. Drowned after falling through thin ice. These are the fates that many unlucky mammoths suffered i…
8 years, 4 months ago
Daylight Salving Time
Episode 504
Nathaniel Hoyle of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and his team have been investigating how the time of day affects wound heali…
8 years, 4 months ago