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Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition
On this week’s show: Plans to push a modern space probe beyond the edge of the Solar System, crustaceans that pollinate seaweed, and the latest in ou…
3 years, 5 months ago
Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus
On this week’s show: Troubling signs of fraud threaten discoveries key to a reigning theory of Alzheimer’s disease, and calculating the saltiness of …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy
On this week’s show: The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope hint at the science to come, and disentangling the itch-scratch cycle
After…
3 years, 5 months ago
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
On this week’s show: A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank, and an attempt to improve police responsiveness to violen…
3 years, 6 months ago
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis
On this week’s show: A boost in research ships from an unlikely source, and how the 2022 Tonga eruption shook earth, water, and air around the world
…3 years, 6 months ago
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation
On this week’s show: Whether biofuels for planes will become a reality, mitigating climate change by working with nature, and the second installment …
3 years, 6 months ago
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits
On this week’s show: Tracing the roots of Long Covid, and an argument against using the same DNA markers for suspects in law enforcement and in resea…
3 years, 6 months ago
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid
Two decades after it disappeared in nature, the stunning blue Spix’s macaw will be reintroduced to its forest home, and lessons learned from Texas’s …
3 years, 7 months ago
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning
On this week’s show: Exploring the historic Maya’s astronomical knowledge and how grasshoppers clone themselves without decreasing their fitness
Firs…
3 years, 7 months ago
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa
What we learned from a seismometer on Mars, why it’s so difficult to understand the relationship between our microbes and our brains, and the first i…
3 years, 7 months ago