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Podcast: Altering time perception, purifying blueberries with plasma, and checking in on ocelot latrines
This week, we chat about cleaning blueberries with purple plasma, how Tibetan dogs adapted to high-altitude living, and who’s checking ocelot mess…
9 years, 3 months ago
Podcast: What ants communicate when kissing, stars birthed from gas, and linking immune strength and social status
This week, we chat about kissing communication in ants, building immune strength by climbing the social ladder, and a registry for animal research…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: Scientists on the night shift, sucking up greenhouse gases with cement, and repetitive stress in tomb builders
This week, we chat about cement’s shrinking carbon footprint, commuting hazards for ancient Egyptian artisans, and a new bipartisan group opposed …
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi
This week we chat about why it’s hard to get a taxi to nowhere, why bones came onto the scene some 550 million years ago, and how targeting bacter…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—is Bhutan really a quake-free zone, how much of scientific success is due to luck, and what f…
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome
This week, news writer Greg Miller chats with us about how the legalization of marijuana in certain U.S. states is having an impact on the nation’s o…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: A close look at a giant moon crater, the long tradition of eating rodents, and building evidence for Planet Nine
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—eating rats in the Neolithic, growing evidence for a gargantuan 9th planet in our solar system…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears, long-lasting changes in the human body at high al…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: When we pay attention to plane crashes, releasing modified mosquitoes, and bacteria that live off radiation
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories -- including a new bacterial model for alien life that feeds on cosmic rays, tracking extinct…
9 years, 5 months ago
Podcast: Bumble bee emotions, the purpose of yawning, and new insights into the developing infant brain
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—including making bees optimistic, comparing yawns across species, and “mind reading” in nonh…
9 years, 5 months ago