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How Trivia Experts Recall Facts | One Ant Species Sent Ripples Through A Food Web
Episode 714
How can some people recall random facts so easily? It may have to do with what else they remember about the moment they learned the information. Also…
2 years, 2 months ago
OpenAI’s New Product Makes Incredibly Realistic Fake Videos
Episode 716
OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E, unveiled its newest generative AI product last week, called Sora, whic…
2 years, 2 months ago
Private Spacecraft Makes Historic Moon Landing | New Cloud Seeding Technique
Episode 715
Private Spacecraft Makes Historic Moon Landing
Thursday evening, the Odysseus moon lander successfully soft-landed on the moon, becoming the first U.S…
2 years, 2 months ago
Making Chemistry More Accessible To Blind And Low-Vision People
Episode 713
The field of chemistry is filled with visual experiences, from molecular diagrams to color-changing reactions to data displayed as peaks and waves on…
2 years, 2 months ago
Understanding And Curbing Generative AI’s Energy Consumption
Episode 712
The explosion of AI-powered chatbots and image generators, like ChatGPT and DALL-E, over the past two years is changing the way we interact with tech…
2 years, 2 months ago
Which Feathered Dinosaurs Could Fly? | Some French Cheeses At Risk Of Extinction
Episode 711
How Do You Know If A Feathered Dinosaur Could Fly?
Not all birds can fly. Penguins, ostriches, and kiwis are some famous examples.
It’s pretty easy to …
2 years, 2 months ago
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins Defamation Case
Episode 710
Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann won a defamation lawsuit against two conservative writers last week.
The verdict was 12 years in the making. In 201…
2 years, 2 months ago
Odysseus Lander Heads To The Moon | Ohio Chemical Spill, One Year Later
Episode 709
If successful, Odysseus will be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo mission. And, in East Palestine, Ohio, the stream that…
2 years, 2 months ago
One Crisis After Another: Designing Cities For Resiliency
Episode 708
Over the past few years, many cities around the world have changed dramatically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with shifts in office use and c…
2 years, 2 months ago
Using Sound To Unpack The History Of Astronomy
Episode 707
Looking into space can be pretty daunting. How do we make sense of the vast expanse above our heads, the millions of stars we might be able to see, a…
2 years, 2 months ago