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New Rule Sets Stage For Electric Grid Update | Harnessing Nanoparticles For Vaccines
Episode 773
Upgrades to the power grid under a new rule could help accommodate an increasing renewable energy supply and meet data center demands. Also, extremel…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Climate Change Is Changing Sports
Episode 772
Sports are a critical part of human culture just about everywhere in the world. Maybe you played little league as a kid, or like to go to the park fo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Is Tinnitus So Hard To Understand And Treat?
Episode 771
Tinnitus, a condition commonly described as a persistent ringing in the ears, affects millions of people around the world. In the US, the prevalence …
2 years, 1 month ago
Finding Purpose In A ‘Wild Life’
Episode 770
Wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant has tracked bears through the mountains, lived with lions, been chased by elephants, and trekked after lemurs i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Archeopteryx Specimen Unveiled | Trees And Shrubs Burying Great Plains' Prairies
Episode 769
The Field Museum has unveiled a new specimen of Archaeopteryx, a species that may hold the key to how ancient dinosaurs became modern birds. Also, a …
2 years, 1 month ago
JWST Detects An Atmosphere Around A Rocky Exoplanet | Boeing Plans To Fly Humans To The ISS Next Week
Episode 768
Astronomers have confirmed they found an atmosphere around an Earth-like rocky exoplanet for the first time. Also, Boeing’s Starliner craft was sched…
2 years, 1 month ago
Challenging The Gender Gap In Sports Science
Episode 767
The first Women’s World Cup was in 1991, and the games were only 80 minutes, compared to the 90-minute games played by men. Part of the rationale was…
2 years, 1 month ago
What Martian Geology Can Teach Us About Earth
Episode 766
At first glance, Mars might seem rather different from our own planet. Mars is dry, with little atmosphere, and no liquid water on its surface. It is…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Louisiana Is Coping With Flooding In Cemeteries
Episode 765
Emily Dalfrey lives across the street from Niblett’s Bluff Cemetery, where generations of her family are buried, in Vinton, Louisiana.
In 2016, a peri…
2 years, 1 month ago
Inside Iowa State’s Herbarium | Science-Inspired Art From ‘Universe of Art’ Listeners
Episode 764
The Ada Hayden Herbarium preserves hundreds of thousands of specimens, including some collected by George Washington Carver. And, as the “Universe of…
2 years, 1 month ago