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A Glass Half Foul
Episode 353
How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment? It isn’t easy, bu…
9 years, 4 months ago
Motivational Freaker
Episode 352
Basketball players that were grimly reminded of their own inevitable demise before playing took more shots and scored more points in a study publishe…
9 years, 4 months ago
We Didn't Fart the Fire
Episode 351
A woman in her 30s was undergoing an operation that involved applying a laser to her cervix, when she passed gas that caught fire causing serious inj…
9 years, 4 months ago
Yawn of the Dread
Episode 350
Contagious yawning has been linked to empathy levels in several studies. However, new research in the journal Personality and Individual Differences …
9 years, 4 months ago
Cult of Personal IT
Episode 349
The mass suicide of members of the UFO cult Heaven’s Gate is one of the most bizarre and enduringly fascinating events of the 90s. But nearly 20 year…
9 years, 4 months ago
Of Mice and Skin
Episode 348
Scientists in Japan have transformed mouse skin cells into eggs in a dish, and used those eggs to birth fertile pups. The report marks the first crea…
9 years, 4 months ago
The Shortest Distance Between Two Pints
Episode 347
A two-year project by an international team of mathematicians has mapped shortest possible journey to visit 25,000 pubs across the UK, and set a new …
9 years, 5 months ago
Make the Snake
Episode 346
A team of researchers led by Axel Visel at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has replaced part of a mouse's DNA—a small sequence known as ZRS…
9 years, 5 months ago
Coffee Bean and Key Leaks
Episode 345
One of the busiest Starbucks in the country is the one located inside the CIA, with a captive caffeine-craving audience of thousands of analysts and …
9 years, 5 months ago
Jurassic Bark
Episode 344
Though we have spent hundreds of years imagining dinosaurs as reptilian roarers, our understanding of what dinos may have actually looked and sounded…
9 years, 5 months ago