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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, 8 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, 8 months ago
Podcast: An exoplanet with three suns, no relief for aching knees, and building better noses
Listen to stories on how once we lose cartilage it’s gone forever, genetically engineering a supersniffing mouse, and building an artificial animal …
9 years, 8 months ago
Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, …
9 years, 9 months ago
Podcast: A farewell to <i>Science</i>’s editor-in-chief, how mosquito spit makes us sick, and bears that use human shields
Listen to how mosquito spit helps make us sick, mother bears protect their young with human shields, and blind cave fish could teach us a thing or tw…
9 years, 9 months ago
Podcast: Treating cocaine addiction, mirror molecules in space, and new insight into autism
Listen to stories on the first mirror image molecule spotted in outer space, looking at the role of touch in the development of autism, and graftin…
9 years, 9 months ago
Podcast: Scoliosis development, antiracing stripes, and the dawn of the hobbits
Listen to stories on lizard stripes that trick predators, what a tiny jaw bone reveals about ancient “hobbit” people, and the risks of psychology’…
9 years, 9 months ago
Podcast: Bionic leaves that make fuel, digging into dog domestication, and wars recorded in coral
Listen to stories on new evidence for double dog domestication, what traces of mercury in coral can tell us about local wars, and an update to a cl…
9 years, 10 months ago
Podcast: The economics of the Uber era, mysterious Neandertal structures, and an octopus boom
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on underground rings built by Neandertals, worldwide increases in cephalopods and a controversial hy…
9 years, 10 months ago
Podcast: Tracking rats in a city slum, the giraffe genome, and watching human evolution in action
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on finding clues to giraffes’ height in their genomes, evidence that humans are still evolving from m…
9 years, 10 months ago