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Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters section First on this week’s show, a robot that can predict your smile. Hod Lipson, a roboticist and professor at...
New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests when a conventional and organic farm are neighbors First up on this week’s show, a new treatm...
Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain This week we have two neuroscience stories. First up, freelance science journal...
What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticity First up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk ab...
Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the body First up this week, a new approach to slowing clima...
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Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Ed...
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A remote island may hold clues for the future of El Niño and La Niña under climate change, and how pressure in the blood sends messages to neurons First up, researchers are digging into thou...
On this week’s show: A roundup of stories from our daily newsletter, and the ripple effects of the invasive big-headed ant in Kenya First up on the show, Science Newsletter Editor Christie Wilc...
Investigation shows journal editors getting paid to publish bunk papers, and new techniques for finding tumor DNA in the blood First up on this week’s episode, Frederik Joelving, an editor a...
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Seeking the Majorana fermion particle, and a look at El Salvador’s adoption of cryptocurrency First up on the show this week, freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky and host Sarah Crespi...
Top science from 2023, and a genetic tool for pangolin conservation First up this week, it’s Science’s Breakthrough of the Year with producer Meagan Cantwell and News Editor Greg Miller. B...
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Raising the pH of the ocean to reduce carbon in the air, and robots that can landscape First up on this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall discusses research into making...
A leap in supercomputing is a leap for science, cracking the dolomite problem, and a book on where patriarchy came from First up on this week’s show, bigger supercomputers help make supersci...
What it means that artificial intelligence can now forecast the weather like a supercomputer, and measuring methane emissions from municipal waste First up on this week’s show, Staff Writer ...
First up on this week’s show: the future of science in Russia. We hear about how the country’s scientists are split into two big groups: those that left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine a...
Why scientists are trying to make anemones act like corals, and why it’s so hard to make pharmaceuticals for brain diseases First up on this week’s show, coaxing anemones to make rocks. Ne...
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Restoring land after dam removal, and phonons as a basis for quantum computing First up on this week’s show, planting in the silty soil left behind after a dam is removed and reservoirs re...
The Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought, and managing the effects of wildfires on indoor pollution First up on this week’s show, the Kuiper belt—the circular field of icy bodies, i...
Pushing ancient DNA past the Pleistocene, and linking agriculture to biodiversity and infectious disease First up on this week’s show, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad brings a host of fascinating st...
A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how ancient Amazonians improved the soil First up on this week’s show: the latest in our series of bo...
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A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in our series on science, sex, and gender First up on this week’s show, determining the origin of so...
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Worldwide survey kills the myth of “Man the Hunter,” and tightly constraining the electric dipole moment of the electron First up this week on the show, freelance science writer Bridget Al...
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Statisticians fight bad numbers used in medical murder trials, and the state of allergy science First up on this week’s show, we have a piece on accusations of medical murder. Contributing Corr...
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Data on hazes and clouds may be key to understanding exoplanets, and NextGen letter writers share the upside of failure Hazes and clouds could keep exoplanets’ secrets hidden, unless researcher...
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Keeping an eye on the largest hydroelectric project in the Amazon basin, and helping patients with deletions in their mitochondrial DNA We are starting off the new year with producer Kevin McLean...
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On this week’s show: The impact of war on science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci as he prepares to step down Some scientists in Ukraine have been risking their lives to prote...
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On this week’s show: Getting pregnant people into clinical trials, and tracking when mice aren’t paying attention First up, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to dis...
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On this week’s show: We have highlights from a special COVID-19 retrospective issue on lessons learned after 2 years of the pandemic First up, Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel joins ho...
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On this week’s show: The ins and outs of the first global treaty on plastic pollution, and why the United States has so few Black physicists First up, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sara...
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On this week’s show: Finland puts the finishing touches on the world’s first high-level permanent nuclear repository, and why being good at math might make you both happy and sad First up, fr...
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On this week’s show: A giant study suggests COVID-19 takes a serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery, and figuring out what percentage of ancient art, books, and even tools ha...
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On this week’s show: What we can learn from two supermassive black holes that appear to be on a collision course with each other, and the brave new online world in which social media dominates ...
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On this week’s show: Environmental concerns over Indonesia building a new capital on Borneo, and keeping an eye on pollution as it comes out of the tailpipe First up this week, Contributing Cor...
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On this week’s show: A pill derived from human feces treats recurrent gut infections, and how a squirrel’s microbiome supplies nitrogen during hibernation First up this week, Staff Writer Kel...
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On this week’s show: Ethical concerns rise with an increase in open brain research, and how sharing saliva can be a proxy for the closeness of a relationship Human brains are protected by our h...
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On this week’s show: How cloning can introduce diversity into an endangered species, and ramping up the pressure on iron to see how it might behave in the cores of rocky exoplanets First up thi...
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On this week’s show: Russia announces plans to monitor permafrost, and a conversation about the dangers of self-spreading engineered viruses and vaccines Science journalist Olga Dobrovidova joi...
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On this week’s show: The best of our online stories, what we know about the effects of cannabinoids, and the last in our series of books on race and science First, Online News Editor David Grim...
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Every year Science names its top breakthrough of the year and nine runners up. Online News Editor Catherine Matacic joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss what Science’s editors consider some of th...
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Geoscientists are turning to fiber optic cables as a means of measuring seismic activity. But rather than connecting them to instruments, the cables are the instruments. Joel Goldberg talks with ...
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There has been so much research during the pandemic—an avalanche of preprints, papers, and data—but how much of it is any good? Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah ...
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Have you noticed the trees around you lately—maybe they seem extra nutty? It turns out this is a “masting” year, when trees make more nuts, seeds, and pinecones than usual. Science Staff Wr...
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Could wildfires be depleting the ozone all over again? Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about the evidence from the Polarstern research ship for wildfire smoke lofting itself...
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The James Webb Space Telescope was first conceived in the late 1980s. Now, more than 30 years later, it’s finally set to launch in December. After such a long a road, anticipation over what the...
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Some 80 countries around the world add folic acid to their food supply to prevent birth defects that might happen because of a lack of the B vitamin—even among people too early in their pregnan...
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Simple animals like jellyfish and hydra, even roundworms, sleep. Without brains. Why do they sleep? How can we tell a jellyfish is sleeping? Staff Writer Liz Pennisi joins host Sarah Crespi to ta...
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There are massive telescopes that look far out into the cosmos, giant particle accelerators looking for ever tinier signals, gargantuan gravitational wave detectors that span kilometers of Earth�...
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This week we are covering the Science special issue on mass incarceration. Can a dog find a body? Sometimes. Can a dog indicate a body was in a spot a few months ago, even though it’s not there...
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In 2019, a SpaceX rocket released 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit—the first wave of more than 10,000 planned releases. At the same time, a new field of environmental debate was also la...
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Today, most newborns get some biochemical screens of their blood, but whole-genome sequencing is a much more comprehensive look at an infant—maybe too comprehensive? Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser...
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Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss fossilized footprints left on a lake shore in North America sometime before the end of Last Glacial Maximum—possibly th...
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Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the health and environmental benefits of potty training cows. Next, Peter Teske, a professor in the department of zoology at t...
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Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about plans for NASA’s first visit to the Moon in 50 years—and the quick succession of missions that will likely follow. Next, Eileen R...
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Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the many theories circulating about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and why finding the right one is important. Next, Ed Narevicius, a professo...
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News Intern Rachel Fritts talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new way to think about endometriosis—a painful condition found in one in 10 women in which tissue that normally lines the uterus g...
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Contributing Correspondent Michael Price joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the newest Mars analog to be built on the location of the first attempt at a large-scale sealed habitat, Biosphere 2 in...
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Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that has caused a lot of concern among ethicists. They...
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International News Editor Martin Enserink talks with host Sarah Crespi about a moratorium on prion research after the fatal brain disease infected two lab workers in France, killing one. Next, Ab...
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First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the paradox of metabolically healthy obesity. They chat about the latest research into the relationships b...
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First this week, Associate Editor Kelly Servick joins us to discuss a big push to develop scalable blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease and how this could advance research on the disease and its...
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First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19 may alter the scientific enterprise and they look back at how pandemics have ...
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First this week, Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with author Patrick Radden Keefe about his book Empire of Pain and the role scientists, regulators, and physicians played in the rollout of Ox...
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First this week, Contributing Correspondent Sam Kean talks with producer Joel Goldberg about techniques museum conservators are using to save a range of plastic artifacts—from David Bowie costu...
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First this week, Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady talks with host Sarah Crespi about controversy surrounding the use of Botox injections to alleviate depression by suppressing frowni...
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First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we ...
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First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes the shifts in ...
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First this week, Lucia Melloni, a group leader in the department of neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, talks with host Sarah Crespi about making the hard problem o...
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Staff Writer Kelly Servick talks with host Sarah Crespi about the pairing of a specific type of psychotherapy with the drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, for treating post-traumatic stress dis...
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News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations—instead of pumping health-harming che...
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Rich Stone, former international news editor at Science and current senior science editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about ...
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Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a company that stores renewable energy by hoisting large objects in massive “gravity batteries.” Also on th...
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Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to...
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Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Adrian Cho about a new measurement of the magnetism of the muon—an unstable cousin of the electron. This latest measurement and an earlier one both dif...
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Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Joshua Sokol about magnetars—highly magnetized neutron stars. A recent intense outburst of gamma rays from a nearby galaxy has given astr...
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Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and the director of the University of Fl...
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Most research on aging has been done on model organisms with limited life spans, such as flies and worms. Host Meagan Cantwell talks to science writer Yao-Hua Law about how long-living social ins...
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Science News Staff Writer Kelly Servick discusses how physicians have sifted through torrents of scientific results to arrive at treatments for SARS-CoV-2. Sarah also talks with Wesley Reinhart o...
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Science Staff Writer Adrian Cho joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about plans for the next generation of gravitational wave detectors—including one with 40-kilometer arms. The proposed detectors ...
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Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a 2000-year-old pet cemetery found in the Egyptian city of Berenice and what it can tell us about the history of h...
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First up, science journalist Julia Rosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about a growing fleet of radar satellites that will soon be able to detect minute rises and drops of Earth’s surface—from...
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Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to take on some of big questions about the COVID-19 vaccines, such as: Do they stop transmission? Will we need boosters? When will life get ...
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Science journalist Rachel Cernansky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall project and the important difference between planting and growing a tree. Sarah a...
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This week we’re dedicating the whole show to the 20th anniversary of the publication of the human genome. Today, about 30 million people have had their genomes sequenced. This remarkable progre...
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On its first day, the new Biden administration announced plans to recalculate the social cost of carbon—a way of estimating the economic toll of greenhouse gases. Staff Writer Paul Voosen and h...
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Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a controversial new paper that estimates how many rodents are used in research in the United States each year. Though there is no...
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Science Senior Correspondent Daniel Clery regales host Sarah Crespi with tales about the most important work to come from 57 years of research at the now-defunct Arecibo Observatory and plans for...
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Freelance journalist Gabriel Popkin and host Sarah Crespi discuss what will happen to ash trees in the United States as federal regulators announce dropping quarantine measures meant to control t...
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We kick off our first episode of 2021 by looking at future trends in policy and research with host Meagan Cantwell and several Science news writers. Ann Gibbons talks about upcoming studies t...
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Our last episode of the year is a celebration of science in 2020. First, host Sarah Crespi talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about some of the top online news stories of the year—from h...
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The field of psychology underwent a replication crisis and saw a sea change in scientific and publishing practices, could ecology be next? News Intern Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah Crespi t...
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Staff Writer Meredith Wadman and host Sarah Crespi discuss what to expect from the two messenger RNA–based vaccines against COVID-19 that have recently released encouraging results from their p...
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Many schools closed in the spring, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Many opened in the fall. Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what was ...
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These days about half of the protein the world’s population eats is from seafood. Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how brand-new biotech and old-fashion breeding...
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This week the whole show focuses on keeping cool in a warming world. First up, host Sarah Crespi talks with Senior News Correspondent Elizabeth Pennisi about the latest research into how to stay ...
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First up, host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Adrian Cho about new gravitational wave detections from the first half of 2019—including 37 new black hole mergers. With so many mergers now ...
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First up, host Sarah Crespi talks to News Intern Cathleen O’Grady about the growing use of citizens’ assemblies, or “minipublics,” to deliberate on tough policy questions like climate cha...
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First up, host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Jon Cohen about some tricky ethical questions that may arise after the first coronavirus vaccine is authorized for use in the United States. Wi...
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First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what i...
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First up, Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to the astero...
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Investigative journalist Charles Piller joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his latest Science exclusive: a deep dive into the Food and Drug Administration’s protection of human subjects in clin...
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Contributing Correspondent Ann Gibbons talks with host Sarah Crespi about a series of 120,000-year-old human footprints found alongside prints from animals like asses, elephants, and camels in a ...
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Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how jail and prison populations in the United States have dropped in the face of coronavirus and what kinds of scientific questions a...
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First up this week, Senior Correspondent Daniel Clery talks with host Sarah Crespi about how Breakthrough Listen—a privately funded initiative that aims to spend $100 million over 10 years to f...
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First up this week, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about rising numbers of coronavirus cases in Europe. Will what we’ve learned this summer about how ...
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Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about how Arctic sea ice is under attack from above and below—not only from warming air, but also dangerous hot blobs of ocean water. Next,...
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First up this week, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how wildlife biologists are taking advantage of humanity’s sudden lull. Scientists are launching studies of ...
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Staff Writer Robert Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about a different approach to COVID-19 testing that might be useful in response to the high numbers of cases in the United States. To brea...
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Staff Writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the risk of the novel coronavirus infection to pregnant women. Early data suggest expectant women are more likely to get severe for...
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Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his editorial on preventing vaccine hesitancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Even before the current crisis, fear of vacc...
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Contributing Correspondent Dennis Normile talks about a long-term study involving the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Seventy-five years after the United States dropped nuclear ...
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Contributing correspondent Gretchen Vogel talks about what can be learned from schools around the world that have reopened during the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, few systematic studies h...
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Contributing correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about the success of a fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments. The UK’s RECOVERY (Randomized Evaluation of CO...
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First up this week, News Intern Rodrigo Pérez-Ortega talks with host Meagan Cantwell about an oasis of biodiversity in the striking blue pools of Cuatro Ciénegas, a basin in northern Mexico. Re...
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Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies how ocean waves disperse virus-laden aerosols, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how she becam...
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Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Mervis joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how universities are dealing with the financial crunch brought on by the coronavirus. Jeff discusses how big research uni...
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Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the ins and outs of coronavirus contact tracing apps—what they do, how they work, and how to calculate whether they are crushing...
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First up this week, staff writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah Crespi about how male sex hormones may play a role in higher levels of severe coronavirus infections in men. New support for...
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First up this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about a rare inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of COVID-19 hot spots. Next, Jul...
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Online news editor David Grimm talks with producer Joel Goldberg about the unique challenges of reopening labs amid the coronavirus pandemic. Though the chance to resume research may instill a se...
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Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade talks with host Sarah Crespi about the role of inequality in past pandemics. Evidence from medical records and cemeteries suggests diseases like the 1918 fl...
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Staff writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about using monoclonal antibodies to treat or prevent infection by SARS-CoV-2. Many companies and researchers are rushing to design and test...
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Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins Sarah to talk about a recent Science paper describing the results of a large study on a blood test for multiple types of cancer. The trial’s results suggest su...
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Coronavirus affects far more than just the lungs, and doctors and researchers in the midst of the pandemic are trying to catalog—and understand—the virus’ impact on our bodies. Staff writer...
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Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about countries planning a comeback from a coronavirus crisis. What can they do once cases have slowed down to go back to...
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On this week’s show, Staff Writer Robert Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new National Academy of Sciences report that suggests the novel coronavirus can go airborne, the evidence f...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/does-coronavirus-spread-through-the-air-and-the-bi
On this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in national lockdowns and other pandem...
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On this week’s show, host Joel Goldberg gets an update on the coronavirus pandemic from Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen. In addition, Cohen gives a rundown of his latest feature, which highlight...
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On this week’s show, host Joel Goldberg talks with science journalist Andrew Curry about recent archaeological finds along the shores of Northern Europe. Curry outlines the rich history of the ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/ancient-artifacts-on-the-beaches-of-northern-europ
On this week’s show, freelance writer Christa Lesté-Lasserre talks with host Sarah Crespi about the scientists working on the restoration of Notre Dame, from testing the changing weight of wet...
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On this week’s show, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how dogs’ cold noses may be able to sense warm bodies. Read the research. International News Editor Mart...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/dog-noses-detect-heat-the-world-faces-coronavirus
This week on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a turning point for one ancient Mesoamerican city: Tikal. On 16 January 378 C.E., the Maya city...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/an-ancient-empire-hiding-in-plain-sight-and-the-bi
On this week’s show, staff writer Robert F. Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about manipulating microbes to make them produce building materials like bricks—and walls that can take toxins...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/brickmaking-bacteria-and-solar-cells-that-turn-was
On this week’s show, senior correspondent Jeffrey Mervis joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant program that aims to encourage diversity at the level...
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On this week’s show, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a Science paper that combines two hot areas of research-link—CRISPR gene editing and immunother...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/fighting-cancer-with-crispr-and-dating-ancient-roc
Structural biologists rejoiced when cryo–electron microscopy, a technique to generate highly detailed models of biomolecules, emerged. But years after its release, researchers still face long q...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-cryo-electron-microscope-accessible-to-the-masse
As part of a special issue on chemicals for tomorrow’s Earth, we’ve got two green chemistry stories. First, host Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Warren Cornwell about how a...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/getting-bpa-out-of-food-containers-and-tracing-min
Though a U.S. law requiring clinical trial results reporting has been on the books for decades, many researchers have been slow to comply. Now, 2 years after the law was sharpened with higher pen...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/researchers-flouting-clinical-reporting-rules-and
Getting into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine can be a tight fit for just one person. Now, researchers interested in studying face-to-face interactions are attempting to squeeze a whole...
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We start our first episode of the new year looking at future trends in policy and research with host Joel Goldberg and several Science News writers. Jeffrey Mervis discusses upcoming policy chang...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/areas-to-watch-in-2020-and-how-carnivorous-plants
As the year comes to a close, we review the best science, the best stories, and the best books from 2019. Our end-of-the-year episode kicks off with Host Sarah Crespi and Online News Editor David...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/breakthrough-of-the-year-our-favorite-online-news
About one-third of people with epilepsy are treatment resistant. Up until now, epilepsy treatments have focused on taming seizures rather than the source of the disease and for good reason—so m...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/hunting-for-new-epilepsy-drugs-and-capturing-light
After their life as research subjects, what happens to lab monkeys? Some are euthanized to complete the research, others switch to new research projects, and some retire from lab life. Should the...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/debating-lab-monkey-retirement-and-visiting-a-near
The National Institutes of Health’s largest loan repayment program was conceived to help scientists pay off school debts without relying on industry funding. But a close examination of the prog...
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You may have seen the aftermath of a landslide, driving along a twisty mountain road—a scattering of rocks and scree impinging on the pavement. And up until now, that’s pretty much how scient...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/building-a-landslide-observatory-and-the-universal
The Polarstern research vessel will spend 1 year locked in an Arctic ice floe. Aboard the ship and on the nearby ice, researchers will take measurements of the ice, air, water, and more in an eff...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-to-make-an-arctic-ship-vanish-and-how-fast-mov
Most historical accounts of slavery were written by colonists and planters. Researchers are now using the tools of archaeology to learn more about the day-to-day lives of enslaved Africans—how ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/unearthing-slavery-in-the-caribbean-and-the-cathol
Measles is a dangerous infection that can kill. As many as 100,000 people die from the disease each year. For those who survive infection, the virus leaves a lasting mark—it appears to wipe out...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-measles-wipes-out-immune-memory-and-detecting
Earthworms are easy … to find. But despite their prevalence and importance to ecosystems around the world, there hasn’t been a comprehensive survey of earthworm diversity or population size. ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-worldwide-worm-survey-and-racial-bias-in-a-healt
We don’t know where consciousness comes from. And we don’t know whether animals have it, or whether we can detect it in patients in comas. Do neuroscientists even know where to look? A new co...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/trying-to-find-the-mind-in-the-brain-and-why-adult
Have you ever tried to scrub off the dark, tarlike residue on a grill? That tough stuff is made up of polymers—basically just byproducts of cooking—and it is so persistent that researchers ha...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/fossilized-dinosaur-proteins-and-making-a-fridge-f
Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in the phone’s library for eye disease in kids....
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On this week’s show, Senior News Correspondent Jeffrey Mervis talks with host Sarah Crespi about a stalled Facebook plan to release user data to social scientists who want to study the site’s...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/privacy-concerns-slow-facebook-studies-and-how-hum
On this week’s show, science journalist Josh Sokol talks about a global cooling event sparked by space dust that lead to a huge shift in animal and plant diversity 466 million years ago. (Read...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/cooling-earth-with-asteroid-dust-and-3-billion-mis
In La Rinconada, Peru, a town 5100 meters up in the Peruvian Andes, residents get by breathing air with 50% less oxygen than at sea level. International News Editor Martin Enserink visited the si...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/studying-human-health-at-5100-meters-and-playing-h
This week’s show starts with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade, who spent 12 days with archaeologists searching for a lost Maya city in the Chiapas wilderness in Mexico. She talks with hos...
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Micro-organisms live inside everything from the human gut to coral—but where do they come from? Host Meagan Cantwell talks to Staff Writer Elizabeth Pennisi about the first comprehensive survey...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/where-our-microbiome-came-from-and-how-our-farming
Changing the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline from 1-800-273- 8255 (TALK) to a three-digit number could save lives—especially when coupled with other strategies. Host Meagan Cantwell talks ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/promising-approaches-in-suicide-prevention-and-how
Researchers, regulators, and the chicken industry are all united in their search for a way to make eggs more ethical by stopping culling—the killing of male chicks born to laying hens. Contribu...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/one-million-ways-to-sex-a-chicken-egg-and-how-plas
In recent months, telecommunications companies in the United States have purchased a new part of the spectrum for use in 5G cellphone networks. Weather forecasters are concerned that these powerf...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/next-generation-cellphone-signals-could-interfere
After two mysterious earthquake swarms occurred under the Sea of Galilee, researchers found a relationship between these small quakes and the excessive extraction of groundwater. Science journali...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/earthquakes-caused-by-too-much-water-extraction-an
Imagine having a rat clinging to your back, sucking out your fat stores. That’s similar to what infested bees endure when the Varroa destructor mite comes calling. Some bees fight back, wigglin...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/breeding-better-bees-and-training-artificial-intel
Can we inherit trauma from our ancestors? Studies of behavior and biomarkers have suggested the stress of harsh conditions or family separations can be passed down, even beyond one’s children. ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/can-we-inherit-trauma-from-our-ancestors-and-the-s
You can learn a lot about ocean health from seabirds. For example, breeding failures among certain birds have been linked to the later collapse of some fisheries. Enriqueta Velarde of the Institu...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-point-of-pointing-and-using-seabirds-to-track
Chemists have long known how to convert carbon dioxide into fuels—but up until now, such processes have been too expensive for commercial use. Staff Writer Robert Service talks with host Sarah ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/converting-carbon-dioxide-into-gasoline-and-autofo
Researchers have been making animal embryos from two different species, so-called “chimeras,” for years, by introducing stem cells from one species into a very early embryo of another species...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/creating-chimeras-for-organ-transplants-and-how-ba
How can you resist puppy dog eyes? This sweet, soulful look might very well have been bred into canines by their intended victims—humans. Online News Editor David Grimm talks with host Meagan C...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-why-of-puppy-dog-eyes-and-measuring-honesty-on
We’ve all seen images or animations of hurricanes that color code the wind speeds inside the whirling mass—but it turns out we can do a better job measuring these winds and, as a result, bett...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/better-hurricane-forecasts-and-spotting-salts-on-j
Cheap and easy to make, perovskite minerals have become the wonder material of solar energy. Now, scientists are turning from using perovskites to capture light to using them to emit it. Staff Wr...
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Up until this year, most U.S. graduate programs in the sciences required the General Record Examination from applicants. But concerns about what the test scores actually say about potential stude...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/grad-schools-dropping-the-gre-requirement-and-ais
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built with one big goal in mind: to find the Higgs boson. It did just that in 2012. But the question on many physicists’ minds about the LHC is, “What have...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/new-targets-for-the-world-s-biggest-atom-smasher-a
The groundwater of Rockford, Michigan, is contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, chemicals found in everything from nonstick pans to dental floss to—in the case of Rockford—wate...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/nonstick-chemicals-that-stick-around-and-detecting
Dog cognition and social behavior have hogged the scientific limelight for years—showing in study after study that canines have social skills essential to their relationships with people. Cats,...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/probing-the-secrets-of-the-feline-mind-and-how-ube
Humans have sought new materials to make elusive blue pigments for millennia—with mixed success. Today, scientists are tackling this blue-hued problem from many different angles. Host Sarah Cre...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-age-old-quest-for-the-color-blue-and-why-pollu
Noncancerous tumors of the uterus—also known as fibroids—are extremely common in women. One risk factor, according to the scientific literature, is “black race.” But such simplistic categ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/race-and-disease-risk-and-berlin-s-singing-nightin
This week we have two interviews from the annual meeting of AAAS in Washington D.C.: one on the history of food and one about our own perceptions of food and food waste. First up, host Sarah Cr...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-dental-plaque-reveals-the-history-of-dairy-far
The ancient humans also known as the “hobbit” people (Homo floresiensis) might have company in their small stature with the discovery of another species of hominin in the Philippines. Host Sa...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-new-species-of-ancient-human-and-real-time-evolu
A single factory in Malaysia supplies about 10% of the world’s rare earth oxides, used in everything from cellphones to lasers to missiles. Controversy over the final resting place for the slig...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-radioactive-waste-standoff-and-science-s-debt-to
Southern California’s famous Santa Anita racetrack is struggling to explain a series of recent horse injuries and deaths. Host Meagan Cantwell is joined by freelance journalist Christa Lesté-L...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mysterious-racehorse-injuries-and-reforming-the-u
Pirate’s gold may not be that far off, as there are valuable metals embedded in potato-size nodules thousands of meters down in the depths of the ocean. Host Meagan Cantwell talks with Staff Wr...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/vacuuming-potato-size-nodules-of-valuable-metals-i
Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Daniel Clery about the many, many theories surrounding fast radio bursts—extremely fast, intense radio signals from outside the galaxy—and a new tele...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-and-long-lasting-effe
New archaeological evidence suggests the same black plague that decimated Europe also took its toll on sub-Saharan Africa. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade abou...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/clues-that-the-medieval-plague-swept-into-sub-saha
In the wake of a devastating earthquake, assessing the extent of damage to infrastructure is time consuming—now, a cheap sensor system based on the accelerometers in cellphones could expedite t...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/measuring-earthquake-damage-with-cellphone-sensors
In our first segment from the annual meeting of AAAS (Science’s publisher) in Washington, D.C., host Sarah Crespi talks with Cathy Binger of University of New Mexico in Albuquerque about her se...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/spotting-slavery-from-space-and-using-ipads-for-co
The app on your phone tells you the weather for the next 10 days—that’s the furthest forecasters have ever been able to predict. In fact, every decade for the past hundred years, a day has be...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-far-out-we-can-predict-the-weather-and-an-ocea
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 new kind of potato that farmers can gro...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/possible-potato-improvements-and-a-pill-that-gives
Orla Smith, editor of Science Translational Medicine joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what has changed in the past 10 years of microbiome research, what’s getting close to being useful in...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/treating-the-microbiome-and-a-gene-that-induces-sl
The “dank” smelling terpenes emitted by growing marijuana can combine with chemicals in car emissions to form ozone, a health-damaging compound. This is especially problematic in Denver, wher...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/pollution-from-pot-plants-and-how-our-bodies-perce
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 Juno spacecraft, researchers are starting to ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/peering-inside-giant-planets-and-fighting-ebola-in
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide free lectures and assignments, and gained global attention for their potential to increase education accessibility. Plagued with high attrition rates a...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-mysterious-blue-pigment-in-the-teeth-of-a-mediev
Plan S, an initiative that requires participating research funders to immediately publish research in an open-access journal or repository, was announced in September 2018 by Science Europe with ...
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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 mysterious pelvises to quantum engines. Mega...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/end-of-the-year-podcast-2018-s-breakthroughs-break
In 1968, Science published the now-famous paper “The Tragedy of the Commons” by ecologist Garrett Hardin. In it, Hardin questioned society’s ability to manage shared resources, concluding ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-turns-50-and-how-neande
A new Science investigation reveals several major private research funders—including the Wellcome Trust and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—are making secretive offshore investments at odd...
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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 Crespi speaks with Staff Writer Elizabeth Pen...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-universe-s-star-formation-history-and-a-powerf
First, we hear from science writer Joshua Sokol about his trip to the Cambrian—well not quite. He talks with host Megan Cantwell about his travels to a remote site in the mountains of British C...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/exploding-the-cambrian-and-building-a-dna-database
When was the worst year to be alive? Contributing Correspondent Ann Gibbons talks to host Sarah Crespi about a contender year that features a volcanic eruption, extended darkness, cold summer, an...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-worst-year-ever-and-the-effects-of-fasting
A new report suggests a big increase in the use of monkeys in laboratory experiments in the United States in 2017. Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss which areas of...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-big-increase-in-monkey-research-and-an-overhaul
For a long time, Parkinson’s disease was thought to be merely a disorder of the nervous system. But in the past decade researchers have started to look elsewhere in the body for clues to this d...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-the-appendix-could-hold-the-keys-to-parkinson
A group of children is suing the U.S. government—claiming their rights to life, liberty, and property are under threat from climate change thanks to government policies that have encouraged th...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/children-sue-the-u-s-government-over-climate-chang
As you age, your cells divide over and over again, leading to minute changes in their genomes. New research reveals that in the lining of the esophagus, mutant cells run rampant, fighting for dom...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mutant-cells-in-the-esophagus-and-protecting-farme
A small isolated town in Colombia is home to a large cluster of people with fragile X syndrome—a genetic disorder that leads to intellectual disability, physical abnormalities, and sometimes au...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/what-we-can-learn-from-a-cluster-of-people-with-an
Hoping to spot subatomic particles called neutrinos smashing into Earth, the balloon-borne Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) detector has circled the South Pole four times. ANITA has ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/odd-new-particles-may-be-tunneling-through-the-pla
Science has often treated Indigenous people as resources for research—especially when it comes to genomics. Now, Indigenous people are exploring how this type of study can be conducted in a way...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-future-of-pcb-laden-orca-whales-and-doing-geno
Meta-analyses—structured analyses of many studies on the same topic—were once seen as objective and definitive projects that helped sort out conflicts amongst smaller studies. These days, tho...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/metaresearchers-take-on-meta-analyses-and-hoary-ol
Strawberries had both male and female parts, like most plants, until several million years ago. This may seem like a long time ago, but it actually means strawberries have some of the youngest se...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-youngest-sex-chromosomes-on-the-block-and-how
We are in the middle of what some scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction and not all at-risk species can be saved. That’s causing some conservationists to say we need to start thinkin...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/should-we-prioritize-which-endangered-species-to-s
A new project out of the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia, found that of all the experimental social science papers published in Science and Nature from 2010–15, 62% success...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/i-science-i-and-i-nature-i-get-their-social-scienc
Small satellites—about the size of a briefcase—have been hitching rides on rockets to lower Earth orbit for decades. Now, because of their low cost and ease of launching, governments and priv...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/sending-flocks-of-tiny-satellites-out-past-earth-o
Several thousand years ago the volcano under Santorini in Greece—known as Thera—erupted in a tremendous explosion, dusting the nearby Mediterranean civilizations of Crete and Egypt in a layer...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/ancient-volcanic-eruptions-and-peer-pressure-from
We now live in the Meghalayan age—the last age of the Holocene epoch. Did you get the memo? A July decision by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, which is responsible for naming geol...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/doubts-about-the-drought-that-kicked-off-our-lates
Yes, humans are the only species with language, but how did we acquire it? New research suggests our linguistic prowess might arise from the same process that brought domesticated dogs big eyes a...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-our-brains-may-have-evolved-for-language-and-c
Billions of years ago, Mars probably hosted many water features: streams, rivers, gullies, etc. But until recently, water detected on the Red Planet was either locked up in ice or flitting about ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/liquid-water-on-mars-athletic-performance-in-trans
Suckling mothers milk is a pretty basic feature of being a mammal. Humans do it. Possums do it. But monotremes such as the platypus and echidna—although still mammals—gave up suckling long ag...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/why-the-platypus-gave-up-suckling-and-how-gravity
A detection of a single neutrino at the 1-square-kilometer IceCube detector in Antarctica may signal the beginning of “neutrino astronomy.” The neutral, almost massless particle left its trai...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-south-pole-s-icecube-detector-catches-a-ghostl
Wild polio has been hunted to near extinction in a decades-old global eradication program. Now, a vaccine-derived outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is threatening to seriousl...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-polio-outbreak-threatens-global-eradication-plan
Public opinion on the morality of animal research is on the downswing in the United States. But some researchers think letting the public know more about how animals are used in experiments might...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/increasing-transparency-in-animal-research-to-sway
Since the 2016 reports of a mysterious assault on U.S. embassy staff in Cuba, researchers have struggled to find evidence of injury or weapon. Now, new research has discovered inner-ear damage in...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/new-evidence-in-cuba-s-sonic-attacks-and-finding-a
Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing caseloads of HIV. Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this week�...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-places-where-hiv-shows-no-sign-of-ending-and-t
What book are you taking to the beach or the field this summer? Science’s books editor Valerie Thompson and host Sarah Crespi discuss a selection of science books that will have you catching co...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-books-for-summer-and-a-blood-test-for-pred
Astronomers have been able to detect supermassive black holes and teeny-weeny black holes but the midsize ones have been elusive. Now, researchers have scanned through archives looking for middle...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-first-midsize-black-holes-and-the-environmenta
DNA fingerprinting has been used to link people to crimes for decades, by matching DNA from a crime scene to DNA extracted from a suspect. Now, investigators are using other parts of the genome�...
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Two thousand years ago, ancient Romans were pumping lead into the air as they smelted ores to make the silvery coin of the realm. Online News Editor David Grimm talks to Sarah Crespi about how th...
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Who were the first horse tamers? Online News Editor Catherine Matacic talks to Sarah Crespi about a new study that brings genomics to bear on the question. The hunt for the original equine domest...
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To study the biological differences brought on by space travel, NASA sent one twin into space and kept another on Earth in 2015. Now, researchers from that project are trying to replicate that wo...
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Researchers have found new clues to how the “talking drums” of one Amazonian tribe convey their messages. Sarah Crespi talks with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic about the role of tone a...
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Armed with new data, archaeologists are revealing that mind-altering drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies some 5000 years ago in the ancient Middle East. Contributing wri...
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Geneticists and anthropologists studying historical records and modern-day genomes are finding traces of previously unknown migrants to Latin America in the 16th and 17th centuries, when Asians, ...
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A millennium ago, Viking navigators may have used crystals known as “sunstones” to navigate between Norway and Greenland. Sarah Crespi talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about how one ...
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Two of the world’s most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired. Hercules and Leo arrived at a chimp sanctuary in Georgia last week. Sarah Crespi checks in with Online News Editor Dav...
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Researchers are converging on which genes are linked to morning sickness—the nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy—and the more severe form: hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). And once we k...
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When Indonesia’s Mount Toba blew its top some 74,000 years ago, an apocalyptic scenario ensued: Tons of ash and debris entered the atmosphere, coating the planet in ash for 2 weeks straight an...
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Did people domesticate animals? Or did they domesticate themselves? Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about a recent study that looked at self-domesticating mice. If they cou...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/animals-that-don-t-need-people-to-be-domesticated
For some time after the big bang there were no stars. Researchers are now looking at cosmic dawn—the time when stars first popped into being—and are seeing hints of dark matter’s influence ...
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We talk about the techniques of painting sleuths, how to combat alternative facts or “fake news,” and using audio signposts to keep birds from flying into buildings. For this segment, David G...
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Some of our genes come alive after we die. David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about which genes are active after death and what we can learn about time of deat...
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Would happy lab animals—rats, mice, even zebrafish—make for better experiments? David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the potential of treating lab anim...
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David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole rat could die at any one moment. Surprisingly, the probability a naked mole rat will die does ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/following-1000-people-for-decades-to-learn-about-t
Catherine Matacic—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate change, but make them even worse if it were ever...
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Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed deliberations for a coveted mathematics prize: the Fields Medal. Unearthed letters suggest early award commi...
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David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about two underwater finds: the first sharks shown to survive off of seagrass and what fossilized barnacles reveal about anc...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/salad-eating-sharks-and-what-happens-after-quantum
David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a long-term project monitoring raccoon latrines in California. What influence do these wild bathrooms have on the ecos...
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Dave Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a few of this year’s top stories from our online news site, like ones on a major error in the monarch butterfly biolo...
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Whales and dolphins have incredibly sensitive hearing and are known to be harmed by loud underwater noises. David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about new research on captive cetaceans suggesting ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/putting-the-breaks-on-driverless-cars-and-dolphins
This week, three papers came out describing new approaches to folding DNA into large complex shapes—20 times bigger than previous DNA sculptures. Staff Writer Bob Service talks with Sarah Cresp...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/folding-dna-into-teddy-bears-and-getting-creative
The abominable snowman, the yeti, bigfoot, and sasquatch—these long-lived myths of giant, hairy hominids depend on dropping elusive clues to stay in the popular imagination—a blurry photo her...
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About 8000 years ago, people were drawing dogs with leashes, according to a series of newly described stone carvings from Saudi Arabia. Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi abou...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-world-s-first-dog-pictures-and-looking-at-the
How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work influence how scripts look? This week we hear a story on changes in legibility in written texts with Onlin...
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This week we hear stories on what to do with experimental brain implants after a study is over, how gene therapy gave a second skin to a boy with a rare epidermal disease, and how bone markings ...
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This week we hear stories on how the sloshing of Earth’s core may spike major earthquakes, carbon monoxide’s role in keeping deep diving elephant seals oxygenated, and a festival celebrating ...
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This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately 400-million-year-old trees that grew by splitting their guts, and why fighting poverty might also m...
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This week we hear stories about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s latest hit, why wolves are better team players than dogs, and volcanic eruptions that may have triggere...
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This week we hear stories about a new brain imaging technique for newborns, recently uncovered evidence on rice domestication on three continents, and why Canada geese might be migrating into cit...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/evolution-of-skin-color-taming-rice-thrice-and-pee
This week we hear stories about putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico earthquake, why a Scottish village was buried in sand during the Little Ice Age, and efforts by the U.S. military ...
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This week we hear stories on how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving, giant wombatlike creatures that once migrated across Australia, and the downsides of bedbugs’ preference for dirt...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/furiously-beating-bat-hearts-giant-migrating-womba
This week we hear stories on animal hoarding, how different languages have different numbers of colors, and how to tell a wakeful jellyfish from a sleeping one with Online News Editor Catherine M...
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This week we hear stories on the gut microbiome’s involvement in multiple sclerosis, how wildfires start—hint: It’s almost always people—and a new record in quantum computing with Onli...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/cargo-sorting-molecular-robots-humans-as-the-ultim
This week we hear stories on smooth sailing with giant, silolike sails, a midsized black hole that may be hiding out in the Milky Way, and new water-cooling solar panels that could cut air condit...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/taking-climate-science-to-court-sailing-with-cylin
This week we hear stories on involving more AIs in negotiations, tiny algae that might be responsible for killing some (not all) dinosaurs, and a chemical intended to make farm fish grow faster t...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mysteriously-male-crocodiles-the-future-of-negotia
Sarah Crespi talks to Sam Smits about how our microbial passengers differ from one culture to the next—are we losing diversity and the ability to fight chronic disease? For our books segment, J...
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This week we hear stories on a big jump in U.S. rates of knee arthritis, some science hits and misses from past eclipses, and the link between a recently discovered thousand-year-old Viking fortr...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-jump-in-rates-of-knee-arthritis-a-brief-history
This week we hear stories on new satellite measurements that suggest the Amazon makes its own rain for part of the year, puppies raised with less smothering moms do better in guide dog school, an...
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This week we hear stories on diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in chimps, a potential new pathway to diabetes—through prions—and what a database of industrial espionage says about the economic...
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This week we hear stories on turning data sets into symphonies for business and pleasure, why so much of the world is stuck in the poverty trap, and calls for stiffening statistical significance ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/dna-and-proteins-from-ancient-books-music-made-fro
This week we have stories on the genes that may make dogs friendly, why midsized animals are the fastest, and what it would take to destroy all the life on our planet with Online News Editor Davi...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/paying-cash-for-carbon-making-dogs-friendly-and-de
This week, we have stories on how ultraviolet rays may have jump-started the first enzymes on Earth, a new fossil find that helps date how quickly birds diversified after the extinction of all th...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/still-living-dinosaurs-the-world-s-first-enzymes-a
This week we have stories on the twisty tree of human ancestry, why mice shed weight when they can’t smell, and the damaging effects of even a small amount of oil on a bird’s feathers—with ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/odorless-calories-for-weight-loss-building-artific
This week we have stories on what the rogue Parkinson’s protein is doing in the gut, how chimps outmuscle humans, and evidence for an ancient skull cult with Online News Editor David Grimm. Jen...
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This week we have stories on the new capabilities of science balloons, connections between deforestation and drug trafficking in Central America, and new insights into the role ancient Egypt had ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/why-eggs-have-such-weird-shapes-doubly-domesticate
This week we have stories on why it’s taking so long for research chimps to retire, boosting melanin for a sun-free tan, and tracking a mouse trail to find liars online with Online News Editor ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/slowly-retiring-chimps-tanning-at-the-cellular-lev
This week we have stories on what body cams reveal about interactions between black drivers and U.S. police officers, the world’s oldest Homo sapiens fossils, and how modern astronomers measure...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-to-weigh-a-star-with-a-little-help-from-einste
This week we have stories on how we taste water, extracting ancient DNA from mummy heads, and the earliest evidence for dog breeding with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Joh...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-new-taste-for-the-tongue-ancient-dna-from-egypti
This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not-so-distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record tells us about how baleen whales got so ginormo...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-whales-got-so-big-sperm-in-space-and-a-first-l
This week we have stories on blocking dangerous or annoying distractions in augmented reality, gene therapy applied with ultrasound to heal bone breaks, and giving robots geckolike gripping power...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/preventing-augmented-reality-overload-fixing-bone
This week we have stories on ancient hominids that may have coexisted with early modern humans, methane seeps in the Arctic that could slow global warming, and understanding color without words w...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/our-newest-human-relative-busting-human-sniff-myth
This week, we discuss the most accurate digital model of a human face to date, stray Wi-Fi signals that can be used to spy on a closed room, and artificial intelligence that can predict Supreme C...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-reading-pain-from-the-brains-of-infants-mo
This week, a new family tree of dog breeds, advances in artificial wombs, and an autonomous robot that can print a building with Online News Editor David Grimm. Viviane Slon joins Sarah Crespi...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-where-dog-breeds-come-from-bots-that-build
This week, meteors’ hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century-old mystery of what turned two lions into pe...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-when-good-lions-go-bad-listening-to-meteor
This week, walk like an elephant—very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini’s mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy moon Enceladus, and how our shoes manage to u...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-watching-shoes-untie-cassini-s-last-dive-t
This week, viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals seven new genes potentially related to high-altitude life, and doubts about dark energy with Onli...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-giant-virus-genetics-human-high-altitude-a
This week, how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells into biocomputers, and a look at how underground labs in China are creating synthetic opioids for st...
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This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor Dav...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-teaching-self-driving-cars-to-read-improvi
This week, what bear-mounted cameras can tell us about their caribou-hunting habits, ants that mix up their own medicine, and feeling alienated by emotional robots with Online News Editor David G...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-the-archaeology-of-democracy-new-additions
This week, how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a good idea to ignore some cyberattacks, and new questions about the existence of human pheromones with Online News Editor ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-human-pheromones-lightly-debunked-ignoring
This week, we chat about the science behind breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA strands, and a dinosaur’s zigzagging backbones with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. A...
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This week, we chat about why people are nice to each other—does it feel good or are we just avoiding feeling bad—approaches to keeping arsenic out of the food supply, and using artificial int...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-cracking-the-smell-code-why-dinosaurs-had
This week, we chat about what it means if a monkey can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, injecting people with live malaria parasites as a vaccine strategy, and insect-inspired wind turbines...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-recognizing-the-monkey-in-the-mirror-givin
This week, we chat about why grizzly bears seem to be dying on Canadian railway tracks, slow-release fertilizers that reduce environmental damage, and cleaning water with the power of the sun on ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-saving-grizzlies-from-trains-cheap-sun-pow
This week, we chat about how the Earth is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for dark matter, and retrieving 80-million year old proteins from dinosaur bones, with Online Ne...
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This week, we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball stats to show how jet lag puts players off their game, and a growing link between pollution and dement...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-bringing-back-tomato-flavor-genes-linking
This week, we chat about a surprising reason why killer whales undergo menopause, flipping a kill switch in mice with lasers, and Fukushima residents who measured their own radiation exposure, wi...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-explaining-menopause-in-killer-whales-trig
This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish’s anatomy, and a cheap paper centrifuge based on a toy, with Onl...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-a-blood-test-for-concussions-how-the-hagfi
This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take—or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and replenishing endangered species with feral pets wi...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-an-ethics-conundrum-from-the-nazi-era-baby
This week, we chat about human evolution in action, 6000-year-old fairy tales, and other top news stories from 2016 with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Ne...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-our-breakthrough-of-the-year-top-online-st
This week, we chat about what talking monkeys would sound like, a surprising virus detected in ancient pottery, and six cloned horses that helped win a big polo match with Online News Editor Davi...
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This week, we chat about cleaning blueberries with purple plasma, how Tibetan dogs adapted to high-altitude living, and who’s checking ocelot message boards with Online News Editor David Grimm....
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-altering-time-perception-purifying-blueber
This week, we chat about kissing communication in ants, building immune strength by climbing the social ladder, and a registry for animal research with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Scien...
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This week, we chat about cement’s shrinking carbon footprint, commuting hazards for ancient Egyptian artisans, and a new bipartisan group opposed to government-funded animal research in the Uni...
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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 bacteria’s predilection for iron might make better ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-the-rise-of-skeletons-species-blurring-hyb
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 farming changed about dogs and us—with Scienc...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-how-farms-made-dogs-love-carbs-the-role-of
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 opioid problem. Plus, Sarah Crespi talks to S...
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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, and how to keep just the good parts of a ho...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-a-close-look-at-a-giant-moon-crater-the-lo
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 altitudes, and the long hunt for an extinct biso...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-science-lessons-for-the-next-u-s-president
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 “bear dogs” to Texas, and when we stop cari...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-when-we-pay-attention-to-plane-crashes-rel
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—including making bees optimistic, comparing yawns across species, and “mind reading” in nonhuman apes—with Science’s Online News Ed...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-bumble-bee-emotions-the-purpose-of-yawning
Daily news stories Should we bring animals back from extinction, three-parent baby announced, and the roots of human violence, with David Grimm. From the magazine Our networked world gives us ...
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A quick change in chickens’ genes as a result of a papal ban on eating four-legged animals, the appeal of tragedy, and genetic defects in the “sixth sense,” with David Grimm. From the m...
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News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm. From the magazine Two years ago, 43 students disappeare...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-a-burning-body-experiment-prehistoric-hunt
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,” with David Grimm. From the magazine How do we...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-double-navigation-in-desert-ants-pollution
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 magazine In early 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-ceres-s-close-up-how-dogs-listen-and-a-new
Sarah Crespi takes a pop quiz on literal life hacking, spotting poverty from outer space, and the size of the average American vocabulary with Catherine Matacic. From the magazine You can alre...
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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 at the right time can keep you off the streets,...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-how-mice-mess-up-reproducibility-new-suppo
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 crows can be, with David Grimm. From the maga...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-400-year-old-sharks-busting-a-famous-scien
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 orgasm, with David Grimm. From the magazine Ri...
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Stories on birds that guide people to honey, genes left over from the last universal common ancestor, and what the nose knows about antibiotics, with Devi Shastri. The Endangered Species Act—...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-saving-wolves-that-aren-t-really-wolves-bi
Stories on a lichen threesome, tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to inspect nuclear warheads without looking too closely at them, with Catherine Matacic. Despite concerns about an...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-an-omnipresent-antimicrobial-a-lichen-m-na
What do we know about humanity-ending catastrophes? Julia Rosen talks with Sarah Crespi about various doomsday scenarios and what science can do to save us. Alex Kacelnik talks about getting duck...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/podcast-the-science-of-the-apocalypse-and-abstract
Listen to stories on how once we lose cartilage it’s gone forever, genetically engineering a supersniffing mouse, and building an artificial animal from silicon and heart cells, with Online New...
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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, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Science n...
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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 two about psychiatric disease, with Online News ...
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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 grafting on lab-built bones, with online news editor Da...
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Listen to stories on lizard stripes that trick predators, what a tiny jaw bone reveals about ancient “hobbit” people, and the risks of psychology’s dependence on online subjects drawn from ...
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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 classic adaptation story, with online news editor ...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on underground rings built by Neandertals, worldwide increases in cephalopods and a controversial hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease. Glen Weyl ...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on finding clues to giraffes’ height in their genomes, evidence that humans are still evolving from massive genome projects, and studies that infec...
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Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories how the Venus flytrap turned to the meat-eating side, a new clingy polymer film that shrinks up eye bags, and survey results on who pirates sci...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on a proposal for an orca sanctuary in the sea, the genes behind conceiving fraternal twins, and why CRISPR won’t be fixing the sick anytime soon. ...
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Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on howearthquakes may trigger volcanic eruptions, growing obesity in China’s children, and turning salty watersweet on the cheap. Lauren Coh...
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on a possibledebunking of a popular brain stimulation technique, using “dirty” mice in the lab to simulate the human immune system, and how South...
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Online news editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on the evolution of sign language, short conversations than can change minds on social issues, and finding the one-in-a-million people who seem...
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on evidence for the earth being hit by supernovae, record-breaking xenotransplantation, and winning friends and influencing people with human sacrifi...
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on yeasty hitchhikers, sunlight-induced rockfalls, and the tiniest gravity sensor. Andrea Adamo joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a revolutionary w...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on SeaWorld’s plans for killer whales, the first steps toward silicon-based life, and the ripple effect of old dads on multiple generations. Andre...
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News intern Nala Rogers shares stories on mineral-mining microbes, mapping hurricane damage using social media, and the big takeaway from the latest human-versus-computer match up. Hal Weaver jo...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the honesty of individuals, what happened when our ancestors cut back on the amount of time spent chew...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on zombification by a frog-killing fungus, relating the cosmological constant to life in the universe, and ancient viral genes that protect us from i...
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Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on what we can learn from 6million years of climate data, how to make lifelike orchids with 3D printing, and crowdsourced gender bias on eBay.�...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on how our abilities shape our minds, killing cancer cells with gold nanoparticles, and catching art forgery with cat hair. Laura Blanton joins host...
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on confessions extracted from sleepy people, malaria hiding out in deer, and making squishable bots based on cockroaches. Corinne Simonti joins host...
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on killing cells to lengthen life, getting mom’s microbes after a C-section, and an advanced fitness tracker that sits on the wrist and sips sweat....
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex tracks, a signature of human consciousness, and a second try at domesticating cats. Mathieu Ossendrijver joi...
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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on studying marijuana use in teenage twins, building a better maze for psychological experiments, and a close inspection of the bugs in our homes. Sc...
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In this week’s podcast, David Grimm talks about brave birds, building a brighter light bulb, and changing our voice to influence our emotions. Plus, Ann Gibbons discusses the implications of a ...
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What stripped an unusual black hole of its stars? Can a bipolar drug change ant behavior? And did dinosaurs dance to woo mates? Science's Online News Editor David Grimm chats about these st...
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Robert Coontz discusses Science's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year and runners-up, from visions of Pluto to the discovery of a previously unknown human species. Online news editor David Grimm review...
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Brenden Lake discusses a new computational model that rivals the human ability to learn new concepts based on just a single example; David Grimm talks about attracting cockroaches, searching for ...
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Paul O'Toole discusses what happens to our gut microbes as we age; David Grimm talks about competent grandmas, our tilted moon, and gender in the brain. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more about ...
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Joshua Blumenstock discusses patterns of mobile phone use as a source of "big data" about wealth and poverty in developing countries; David Grimm talks about gene drives, helpful parasites, and e...
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Jennifer Long explains how scientists have engineered human vocal cords; Catherine Matacic talks about vanquishing a deadly amphibian fungus, pigeons that spot cancer, and more. Hosted by Susanne...
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Lauren Sallan discusses the consequences of a mass extinction event 359 million years ago on vertebrate body size; David Grimm talks about grandma's immune system, gambling on studies, and killer...
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Bruce Jakosky discusses where Mars' once-thick, CO2-ish atmosphere went and the first data from the MAVEN mission to study the Red Planet; David Grimm talks about worm allergies, fake fingerprint...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-evolution-of-mars-atmosphere-and-a-daily-news
Lizzie Wade discusses whether the amazing biodiversity of the Amazon Basin was the result of massive flooding, or the uplift of the Andes mountain range. David Grimm talks about microbes aboard t...
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Rhitu Chatterjee discusses Project Prakash and the neuroscience behind reversing blindness in children, teenagers, and adults in rural India; David Grimm talks about where dogs came from, when li...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-neuroscience-of-reversing-blindness-and-a-dail
Alan Stern discusses the first scientific results from the New Horizons July 14 flyby of Pluto, which revealed details about the dwarf planet's geology, surface composition, and atmosphere; Cathe...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/plutos-mysteries-revealed-and-a-daily-news-roundup
Talia Berkowitz discusses the use of a math app at home to boost math achievement at school, Catherine Matacic talks about the fate of animals near Chernobyl, a potential kitty contraceptive, and...
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Julia Kornfield discusses the design of safer jet fuel additives using polymer theory to control misting and prevent fires, David Grimm talks about building a better sunscreen, cultures that don'...
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Kimberly Dunham-Snary discusses the long-term health considerations of gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases and David Grimm talks about the smell of death, Mercury crashing, and animal IQ. Hos...
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Daniel Markovits discusses the preferences for fairness and equiality among potential future US leaders and David Grimm talks about finding fluorine's origins, persistant lone wolves, and the dom...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-future-elites-view-self-interest-and-equality
Seth Bordenstein discusses how our genes affect the composition of our microbiome, influencing our health, and David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about the origins of the Basque language, the be...
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Rich Stone discusses science in Iran in the face of economic sanctions. David Grimm brings stories on sleep deprivation and the common cold, plastic in birds, and counting trees. Hosted by Sarah ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-state-of-science-in-iran-and-a-news-roundup
Brian Nosek discusses the reproducibility of science, Lizzie Wade delves into the origin of religions with moralizing gods. David Grimm talks about debunking the young Earth, a universal flu vacc...
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Chris Darimont discusses the impact of humans' unique predatory behavior on the planet and Catherine Matacic talks with Sarah Crespi about whistled languages, Neolithic massacres, and too many ga...
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Asif Ghazanfar discusses how marmoset parents influence their babies' vocal development and Hanae Armitage talks with Sarah Crespi about the influence of livestock on biodiversity hotspots, trust...
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Andrea Marzi discusses a vaccine that is effective against Ebola in monkeys and David Grimm talks about weigh-loss surgery, carbon suckers, and sexist HVAC. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. Learn more ab...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/effective-ebola-vaccines-and-a-daily-news-roundup
Fred Goesmann discusses Philae's bumpy landing on Comet 67P, and the organic compounds it detected there, and Hanae Armitage talks with Sarah Crespi about this week’s online news stories. Hoste...
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Elizabeth Culotta discusses the ancient DNA revolution and David Grimm brings online news stories about rising autism numbers, shark safety, and tiny cloudmakers. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. Learn m...
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John Bohannon discusses using artificial intelligence in the psychologist's chair and David Grimm brings online news stories about the age of human hands, deadly weather, and biological GPS. Host...
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Nick Bartlett discusses the challenges of building a jumping soft robot and David Grimm brings online news stories about drug violence in Mexico, pollution's effect on weather, and drugging away ...
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Silvie Baudino discusses the biosynthesis of the compounds responsible for the scents of roses and David Grimm brings online news stories about hearing fractals, muon detectors, and bobcat burial...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-scent-of-a-rose-and-a-news-roundup
Marcus Knudson discusses making metallic hydrogen and how it can better our understanding of gas giant planets and David Grimm brings online news stories about kid justice, part-time dieting, and...
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Samuel Wasser discusses using genetics to track down sources of elephant ivory, Suzanne Boyce talks with Susanne Bard about why it's so hard to say the letter R, and David Grimm brings online new...
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Sara Iverson discusses how telemetry has transformed the study of animal behavior in aquatic ecosystems, and Monita Chatterjee discusses the impact of cochlear implants on the ability to recogniz...
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Alexei Bylinskii discusses friction at the atomic level and Braxton Boren talks about the acoustics of historical spaces, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories with Sarah Crespi. Hosted by...
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Christina Larson discusses the impact of climate change on China's tea and other globally sensitive crops, and Emily Conover discusses daily news stories with Sarah Crespi. Hosted by Susanne Bard...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/climate-change-and-chinas-tea-crop-and-a-news-roun
Katrina Karkazis discusses the controversial use of testosterone testing by elite sports organizations to determine who can compete as a woman, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hoste...
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Richard Stone discusses science in Cuba: isolation, innovation, and future partnerships, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
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Michael Mina discusses how measles destroys immunity to other infectious diseases and why the measles vaccine has led to disproportionate reductions in childhood mortality since its introduction ...
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James Sanchirico discusses the challenges of creating sustainable fisheries in developing countries, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more about your a...
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Hubble at 25: Daniel Clery discusses the contributions of the Hubble Space Telescope to our understanding of the universe, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. L...
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Evan MacLean discusses the role of oxytocin in mediating the relationship between dogs and people, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more about your ad ...
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Chris Tyler-Smith discusses what whole genome sequencing reveals about the genetic diversity and evolutionary history of endangered mountain gorillas, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories...
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5th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster: Marcia McNutt discusses the role of science in responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Warren Cornwall examines the...
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Cathy Spatz Widom discusses whether child abuse is transmitted across generations. Angela Colmone has a round-up of advances in immunotherapy from Science Translational Medicine, and David Grimm ...
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Nikolaus Correll discusses the future of robotic materials inspired by nature. Emily Conover discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
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Sean Wojcik discusses the relationship between happiness and political ideology. Emily Conover discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...
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Stephen Baker discusses the challenges faced by lower-income countries when fighting antimicrobial resistant infections. Emily Conover discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn...
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Sara Mitchell discusses the co-evolution of sexual traits in mosquitoes and their influence on malaria transmission. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Learn more ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/sexual-trait-evolution-in-mosquitoes-and-a-news-ro
Renée Duckworth discusses the role of maternal effects on species replacement in ecological communities shaped by forest fires. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. ...
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Will Steffen discusses the processes that define the planetary boundaries framework: a safe operating space within which humanity can still thrive on earth. Jenna Jambeck examines the factors inf...
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Gyorgy Buzsáki discusses how two types of neurons in the brain's hippocampus work together to map an animal's environment. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. Lear...
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John Bohannon discusses the growing rift between mathematicians and the National Security Agency following Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations of massive eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. David Grimm...
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Myrtha Hässig discusses variability and heterogeneity of the coma of comet 67P as part of Science's special issue on the Rosetta spacecraft. Meghna Sachdev discusses daily news stories. Hosted b...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-comets-change-seasonally-and-a-news-roundup
Charles Bishop discusses the "roller-coaster" flight strategy of bar-headed geese as they migrate across the Himalayas between their breeding and wintering grounds. Online news editor David Grimm...
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Vanessa Ezenwa discusses the complex relationship between parasitic infections and tuberculosis in African buffalo and what it can tell us about human health. Online news editor David Grimm dicus...
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Justin Reich discusses the brief history of MOOCs and their impact on teaching online and offline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Robert Coontz discusses this year's Breakthrough and letting readers have their say. Online news editor David Grimm brings the top news stories of 2014 and takes an audio news quiz. Hosted by Sar...
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Tsetse fly genetics; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-lessons-from-the-tsetse-fly-genome
Eric Hand discusses the winding history of the Black Beauty meteorite--a 4.4 billion-year-old piece of Mars. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on bacteria's role in the blood-brain ba...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-oldest-piece-of-mars-on-earth-and-a-news-round
Erich Jarvis sums up the findings from sequencing 40+ bird genomes. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories capturing comet dust, the origins of life, and losing the Y chromosome. Hosted by...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-flock-of-genomes-and-a-news-roundup-12-december
Kenneth Catania takes a close look at how exactly electric eels stun their prey. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on pushing back the earliest abstract art by a few millennia, how ou...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-shocking-predatory-strike-of-the-electric-eel
Cordelia Fine discusses the prevalence of "neurosexism" in the study of the human brain. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on climbing walls like a gecko, human hand transplants, and ...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/gendered-brains-and-a-news-roundup-21-november-201
David Grimm and Meghna Sachdev discuss robots that can induce ghostly feelings, the domestication of cats, and training humans to echolocate. Elizabeth Pennisi discusses overcoming hippos' danger...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/how-hippos-help-and-a-news-roundup-14-november-201
Stephanie Karst discusses her team's successful efforts to culture norovirus in the lab and what this new system means for treatment and prevention. David Grimm brings daily news stories on count...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/a-new-way-to-study-norovirus-and-a-news-roundup-7
Ayelet Gneezy discusses trends in charitable giving and how to maximize donations. David Grimm brings stories on an algal virus found in humans, how to stop zooming human population growth, and ...
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Kurt Rademaker discusses his work exploring the Andean plateau for artifacts of the earliest high-altitude humans, Paleoindians that lived at 4500 meters more than 11,000 years ago. Hosted by Sar...
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Adam Ford discusses linking plants, their herbivores, and their predators on the East African savannah. Science daily news editor David Grimm brings stories on storing CO2 underground for millio...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/plants-and-predators-and-a-daily-news-roundup-17-o
The rights and responsibilities of robots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/robot-relations-and-a-daily-news-roundup-10-octobe
Satellite data helps map the last unexplored terrain on planet Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mapping-the-sea-floor-and-a-daily-news-roundup-3-o
New evidence reveals the complicated history of stone tool use 400,000 - 200,000 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-spread-of-an-ancient-technology-and-a-daily-ne
Hindcasting weather over the ocean near the California coast for 600 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Frugal engineering for global health; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/engineering-global-health-and-a-news-roundup-12-se
Bringing cellulosic ethanol to market; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/scaling-up-a-biofuel-and-a-news-roundup-5-sep-2014
Sharing microbes around the house; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/the-home-microbiome-and-a-news-roundup-29-august-2
Investigating web censorship practices in China; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/censorship-in-china-and-a-news-roundup-22-august-2
Parenting from before conception; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/preconception-parenting-and-a-news-roundup-15-aug
A new class of gamma ray sources; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/building-brain-like-computers-8-aug-2014
A new class of gamma ray sources; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/galactic-gamma-rays-and-a-news-roundup-1-aug-2014
NIH opts to back researchers rather than research; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-funding-for-people-not-projects-and-a-news
Controlling populations in the wild through genetic manipulation; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/altering-genes-in-the-wild-and-a-news-roundup-18-j
The fate of plastic that ends up at sea; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/oceans-of-plastic-and-a-news-roundup-11-jul-2014
Psychedelic research resurgence; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/psychedelic-research-resurgence-and-a-news-roundup
Moths chasing odors; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/pollen-paths-and-a-news-roundup-27-jun-2014
Learning to read minds; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mind-reading-and-a-news-roundup-20-jun-2014
Mapping Mexico's genetically diverse population; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/mapping-mexicos-genetics-and-a-news-roundup-13-jun
Taming the unwieldy web of global supply chains; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/rethinking-global-supply-chains-and-a-news-roundup
The impact of Tiananmen Square on science in China; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/25-years-after-tiananmen-and-a-news-roundup-30-may
Inequality and health; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-inequality-and-health-and-a-news-r
Measuring minute motions; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-evading-back-action-in-a-quantum-s
Marine archaeology on the Silk Road; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-chine-marine-archaeology-and-a-new
Climate and crops; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-climate-and-corn-and-a-news-roundu
A distinctive binary star system; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Fruitflies take evasive action; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-biomechanics-of-fruitflies-on-the
Money battles; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-life-under-funding-change-and-a-ne
BRCA1 turns 20; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-a-brca1-and-breast-cancer-retrospe
Human odor discrimination; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-human-odor-discrimination-and-a-ne
What Google's Flu Trends can teach us about the pitfalls of big data; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-checking-the-hubris-of-big-data-ha
Celebrating crystallography's centennial; how climate pushes malaria uphill; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-100-years-of-crystallography-linki
Treatment trials for Down Syndrome; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-treating-down-syndrome-and-a-news
Eavesdropping on ecosystems; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Termite-inspired builder robots; why some mammalian cells have so many copies of their chromosomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-termite-inspired-robots-and-cells
Tackling the role of early fetal brain development in autism; daily news stories with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-tracing-autisms-roots-in-develople
Should we worry more about quantum decryption in the future or the past, how salt's role as a micronutrient may effect the global carbon cycle, and a daily news roundup. Learn more about your ad ...
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The genome from a cancerous cell line that's been living for millenia, Opportinty's first 10 years on Mars, and a daily news roundup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-the-genome-of-a-transmissible-dog
Hunter-gatherer gut microbes, fast moving mountains, and a daily news roundup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-the-modern-hunter-gatherer-gut-fas
Ocean-going vesicles; stories from our daily news site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-abundant-bacterial-vesicles-in-the
Britain's prehistoric stone monuments; stories from our daily news site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Notable highlights from the year in science; Science's breakthrough of the year and runners up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-sciences-breakthrough-of-the-year
Fear-enhanced odor detection with John McGann; the latest from Curiosity’s hunt for traces of ancient life on Mars with Richard Kerr; and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
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Discussing the origin of transcriptional noise with Alvaro Sanchez; examining results from a drilling expedition at the Tohoku-oki fault; and looking at the potential benefits of snake venom with...
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Talking kids' science books with Maria Sosa; predicting happiness in marriage with James McNulty; investigating questionable scholarly publishing practices in China with Mara Hvistendahl. Learn m...
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The minimum requirements for a Y chromosome with Monika Ward; Eliot Marshall checks in on U.S.'s missile interception program 30 years later; Sylvia Zhu breaks down observations from the brightes...
https://omny.fm/shows/science-magazine-podcast/science-podcast-replacing-the-y-chromosome-the-fut
The origin of dog domestication in Europe with Robert Wayne; Richard Lenski tracks the adaptation of bacteria over 50,000 generations; Robert Services describes the prospects of a new contender i...
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