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America Smirks
Episode 433
When residents of other countries are asked “What’s a dead giveaway that someone is American?” one trait comes up over and over again: big, toothy gr…
8 years, 10 months ago
Tat the Scales
Episode 432
A huge fish covered in ‘tattoos’ has been caught in the Philippines. Where you would expect plain scales, the fish has intricate blue designs of a c…
8 years, 10 months ago
Modern Stone Age Calamity
Episode 431
An exhaustive comparison of Neandertals’ injuries to those of people today finds that water tubing and mishaps involving tables, result in top-heavy …
8 years, 10 months ago
Info Dump
Episode 430
All mammals poop in 12 seconds and there’s an equation for the ‘duration of diarrheal defecation'. All this and more revealed in a new paper from No…
8 years, 10 months ago
Worry Some
Episode 429
A new paper by Kate Sweeny, psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside, argues there's an upside to worrying. Anthony, a profes…
8 years, 10 months ago
Mouseplant
Episode 428
Researchers have discovered that mole rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen. What is even more astonishing is how they manage it. The mole r…
8 years, 10 months ago
Worm Your Way Out
Episode 427
Scientist Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria in Spain discovered a worm that eats plastic bags and l…
8 years, 10 months ago
Womb with a View
Episode 426
For a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from Philadelphia suspended premature lambs, a close animal model for human f…
8 years, 10 months ago
On Mass
Episode 425
Researchers in the US say they've created a fluid with negative mass in the lab. What it means is that, unlike pretty much every other known physical…
8 years, 11 months ago
Fighter Starter
Episode 424
We don't always have a good sense of why we fight. What pushes us to the point of conflict, when we know it will make us unhappy? And why does it lea…
8 years, 11 months ago