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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?…
11 months, 2 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…
11 months, 2 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…
11 months, 2 weeks 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…
11 months, 2 weeks 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-…
11 months, 2 weeks 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…
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
11 months, 3 weeks 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, …
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
11 months, 3 weeks ago