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The Science Of That Big Stunt From The New ‘Mission: Impossible’
Episode 1036
The “Mission: Impossible” franchise is known for its big stunts, and the newest film is no exception. Producer Kathleen Davis talks to the film’s stu…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Meet A Pioneer Of Modern Weather Prediction
Episode 1035
Climate scientist Jagadish Shukla grew up in a small village in rural India, where people starved if the monsoon season didn’t bring rain. To help hi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Are Physical Buttons And Knobs Making A Comeback?
Episode 1034
In recent years, digital touchscreens have replaced many of the buttons and knobs that control various functions in cars. But when Host Ira Flatow we…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Scientists Identify Genes For Tomato And Eggplant Size
Episode 1033
Tomatoes come in all kinds of colors, sizes, and flavors. But what’s going on at the genetic level? What makes a tomato red or yellow? Tiny or giant?…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer
Episode 1032
As a teenager living in St. Vincent, Richie Robertson saw first-hand what a volcanic eruption did to life on the island. Forty years later, he was th…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status
Episode 1031
The lesser prairie chicken was granted endangered species status in 2023. Now the Department of the Interior is moving to revoke those protections. W…
10 months ago
Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires
Episode 1030
Firefighting is a career with an inherent cancer risk, but a full understanding of what those risks are has been elusive. An important registry desig…
10 months ago
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-…
10 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…
10 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…
10 months ago