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What a sperm whale’s birth tells us about whale culture
Episode 1276
Scientists recently published the first footage of a sperm whale birth, and it was a crowded ordeal. More than 10 other sperm whales were there for t…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Is the US backing out of the electric vehicle market?
Episode 1273
Last year, Chinese carmaker BYD sold millions of electric vehicles, overtaking Tesla to become the world’s biggest seller of EV cars. And BYD cars we…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Can algae help pull microplastics out of our water supply?
Episode 1272
Microplastics and nanoplastics have been found just about everywhere: in our soil, our bodies, and our water. Recent research involving bioengineered…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Artemis II test flight heads toward the moon
Episode 1271
On Wednesday, NASA’s Artemis II mission launched, kicking off on a roughly 10-day trip that will carry four astronauts around the moon and back to Ea…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Should Pluto be a planet again?
Episode 1270
In 2006, a vote by the International Astronomical Union determined that Pluto was no longer a planet. The decision sparked a heated public debate, an…
1 month ago
How to poop better, according to a gastroenterologist
Episode 1269
For many of us, what happens in the bathroom stays in the bathroom: According to a recent survey, 1 in 3 Americans are too embarrassed to talk about …
1 month ago
Harnessing the superpowers of silk
Episode 1268
A listener recently called in asking how they might get a pair of functioning web shooters so they could operate as a local Spider-Man. While web sho…
1 month ago
CERN finds a new particle + News alerts for the cosmos
Episode 1267
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have announced that they discovered a new subatomic particle. Roughly four times more massive…
1 month ago
Move over, vibe-coding. Vibe-proving is here for math
Episode 1266
When ChatGPT first came onto the scene, it wowed users with its writing abilities, but drew laughs for generating images of seven-fingered hands and …
1 month ago
Is Punch the monkey really just like us?
Episode 1265
When Punch the monkey was abandoned by his mother, zookeepers gave him a surrogate and unexpected source of comfort: a stuffed animal. Videos of Punc…
1 month ago