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Extra Hasty Crispr
Episode 443
For the past few years, a new scientific tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 has been hailed as the future of medicine. But a new study, published in Nature M…
8 years, 9 months ago
Blood Money
Episode 442
A start-up called Ambrosia is charging $8,000 for blood transfusions from young people. About 100 people have signed up to receive an infusion, foun…
8 years, 9 months ago
Go Pharm Go Fowl
Episode 441
Authorities in Kuwait had been tracking a homing pigeon that was coming from Iraq. According to local newspaper Al-Rai, there were 178 ecstasy pills …
8 years, 9 months ago
New Wrongs Make a Right
Episode 440
When humans work together with not-very-smart robots, they’re better at solving problems than when they work only with other people, new research say…
8 years, 9 months ago
Bubble Hobble
Episode 439
Scientists have healed severe bone fractures in pigs by blasting tiny bubbles with ultrasound in the animals’ bones. The technique encourages the pig…
8 years, 9 months ago
Bugged Bunny
Episode 438
Virtual rabbits across Second Life will fall asleep and never wake up, now that the their digital food supply has been shut down by a legal battle. T…
8 years, 10 months ago
Irrational Rational Rationale
Episode 437
Researchers at Tilburg University in the Netherlands surveyed both scientists and highly educated nonscientists and asked them to rate the two catego…
8 years, 10 months ago
Gut and Run
Episode 436
Fear, for the most part, is controlled by the brain’s amygdalae, but a team of researchers at University College Cork have discovered that the gut m…
8 years, 10 months ago
Race Boast Coast to Coast
Episode 435
On October 30, 1919, Tony Pizzo arrived in New York City chained to his bicycle. He had pedaled 3,000 miles in five-and-a-half months, attached to hi…
8 years, 10 months ago
Preserved and Perfect
Episode 434
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada recently unveiled what is perhaps the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever unearthed. T…
8 years, 10 months ago