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Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut
Because of its genetic complexity, the potato didn’t undergo a “green revolution” like other staple crops. It can take more than 15 years to breed a …
7 years, 1 month ago
Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep
Orla Smith, editor of Science Translational Medicine joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what has changed in the past 10 years of microbiome resear…
7 years, 2 months ago
Pollution from pot plants, and how our bodies perceive processed foods
The “dank” smelling terpenes emitted by growing marijuana can combine with chemicals in car emissions to form ozone, a health-damaging compound. This…
7 years, 2 months ago
Peering inside giant planets, and fighting Ebola in the face of fake news
It’s incredibly difficult to get an inkling of what is going on inside gas giants Saturn and Jupiter. But with data deliveries from the Cassini and J…
7 years, 2 months ago
A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide free lectures and assignments, and gained global attention for their potential to increase education acce…
7 years, 2 months ago
Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust
Plan S, an initiative that requires participating research funders to immediately publish research in an open-access journal or repository, was annou…
7 years, 3 months ago
End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories
First, we hear Online News Editor David Grimm and host Sarah Crespi discuss audience favorites and staff picks from this year’s online stories, from …
7 years, 3 months ago
‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull
In 1968, Science published the now-famous paper “The Tragedy of the Commons” by ecologist Garrett Hardin. In it, Hardin questioned society’s ability …
7 years, 3 months ago
Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children
A new Science investigation reveals several major private research funders—including the Wellcome Trust and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—are ma…
7 years, 3 months ago
The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution
In a fast-changing environment, evolution can be slow—sometimes so slow that an organism dies out before the right mutation comes along. Host Sarah C…
7 years, 4 months ago