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1380: How much worse was that storm because of climate change?
Episode 1380
We’ve been hearing for years that climate change makes weather more extreme, and extreme weather more frequent. But what’s been more difficult to mea…
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1379: How GPS shaped our world
Episode 1379
GPS is such an essential part of our lives that it’s easy to forget there was once a world without it. But, like many tech advancements of the 20th c…
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1378: The ancient Roman doctrine guiding modern environmental fights
Episode 1378
A controversial pipeline project in Michigan has been stuck in legal limbo for years. But this month, the Michigan Supreme Court sided with environme…
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1374: What are the mysterious ‘little red dots’ in images of space?
Episode 1374
When the James Webb Space Telescope started sending back images in 2022, something mysterious appeared: little red dots, speckled across the sky. The…
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Could we live in a dinosaur world?
In the new movie “The End Of Oak Street,” bits of a suburban Michigan neighborhood get sucked back through time to a prehistoric world of dinosaurs. …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1373: Do microplastics in the body affect pregnancy?
Episode 1373
Microplastics have been documented throughout the human body, including the reproductive system. But the field of microplastics research is very new,…
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1372: Making a case for physicists to join climate research
Episode 1372
When you think of physics, your mind might go to forces—like gravity, friction, and magnetism—or to astrophysics, like galaxies and exoplanets. But m…
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1371: Creating 'world models' for robots + An AI math shakeup
Episode 1371
When you ask an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude a question, the model goes through its massive amount of training data and guesses the answer by mathemati…
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1370: What can moments of lucidity teach us about Alzheimer’s?
Episode 1370
Watching a loved one with Alzheimer's or dementia slowly lose their cognitive abilities can be heartbreaking. While the person you once knew seems to…
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1369: Colorado’s snow drought deals a major blow to recreation
Episode 1369
Winter in Colorado looked very different this year. Many parts of the state experienced record-high temperatures and record-low snowpack, which had d…
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