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Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm. From the…
9 years, 3 months ago
Podcast: Double navigation in desert ants, pollution in the brain, and dating deal breakers
News stories on magnetic waste in the brain, the top deal breakers in online dating, and wolves that are willing to “risk it for the biscuit,” wit…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: Ceres’s close-up, how dogs listen, and a new RNA therapy
News stories on what words dogs know, an RNA therapy for psoriasis, and how Lucy may have fallen from the sky, with Catherine Matacic. From the m…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: Quantum dots in consumer electronics and a faceoff with the quiz master
Sarah Crespi takes a pop quiz on literal life hacking, spotting poverty from outer space, and the size of the average American vocabulary with Cather…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: How mice mess up reproducibility, new support for an RNA world, and giving cash away wisely
News stories on a humanmade RNA copier that bolsters ideas about early life on Earth, the downfall of a pre-Columbian empire, and how a bit of cash …
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: 400-year-old sharks, busting a famous scientific hoax, and clinical trials in pets
News stories on using pets in clinical trials to test veterinarian drugs, debunking the Piltdown Man once and for all, and deciding just how smart…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: Pollution hot spots in coastal waters, extreme bees, and diseased dinos
News stories on bees that live perilously close to the mouth of a volcano, diagnosing arthritis in dinosaur bones, and the evolution of the female…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor
Stories on birds that guide people to honey, genes left over from the last universal common ancestor, and what the nose knows about antibiotics, w…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors
Stories on a lichen threesome, tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to inspect nuclear warheads without looking too closely at them, with…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: The science of the apocalypse, and abstract thinking in ducklings
What do we know about humanity-ending catastrophes? Julia Rosen talks with Sarah Crespi about various doomsday scenarios and what science can do to s…
9 years, 5 months ago