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Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods
Episode 1029
What does it take to create and maintain one of the largest repositories of botanical information in the world? For starters, it can mean helicopter-…
8 months ago
Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas
Episode 1028
Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates h…
8 months ago
The Leap: I Was Considered A Nobody
Episode 1026
Biochemist Kati Karikó spent decades experimenting with mRNA, convinced that she could solve the problems that had kept it from being used as a thera…
8 months ago
Cuts To NASA And A Fast-Track For Deep Sea Mining
Episode 1027
Proposed budget cuts for NASA would jeopardize space research. And an executive order could change the political tides for deep sea mining.
On May 2, …
8 months ago
How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other?
Episode 1025
Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have th…
8 months, 1 week ago
Functional Fashion From An Artist And A Caterpillar
Episode 1024
A passion for fashion among the “bone collector caterpillar,” who wears a coat of body parts, and an artist who makes fabrics that remember.
We inch i…
8 months, 1 week ago
Ancient Iguanas Floated 5,000 Miles Across The Pacific | A Pregnant Ichthyosaur Fossil
Episode 1023
Millions of years ago, iguanas somehow got from North America to Fiji. Scientists think they made the trip on a raft of fallen vegetation. Also, the …
8 months, 1 week ago
Are There Things That We Know We Can’t Know?
Episode 1022
In “Into the Unknown,” an astronomer explores the mysteries of the cosmos and the limits of what science can test.
What is time? If the universe is ex…
8 months, 1 week ago
Two Steps Forward For Meat Alternatives
Episode 1021
Scientists bring us a lab-grown chicken nugget and texturally accurate, plant-based calamari. We’ll bite.
There’s a movement in the world of science t…
8 months, 1 week ago
How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations | Regional Allergies
Episode 1020
Being able to belt out a tune like Adele or Pavarotti is not just about raw talent. The best singers in the world have to work on their technique—lik…
8 months, 2 weeks ago