Podcast: How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—is Bhutan really a quake-free zone, how much of scientific success is due to luck, and what farming changed about dogs and us—with Science’s Onl...
10 Marras 201619min
Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome
This week, news writer Greg Miller chats with us about how the legalization of marijuana in certain U.S. states is having an impact on the nation’s opioid problem. Plus, Sarah Crespi talks to Sascha D...
3 Marras 201622min
Podcast: A close look at a giant moon crater, the long tradition of eating rodents, and building evidence for Planet Nine
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—eating rats in the Neolithic, growing evidence for a gargantuan 9th planet in our solar system, and how to keep just the good parts of a hookwor...
27 Loka 201620min
Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears, long-lasting changes in the human body at high altitudes, and the long hunt for an extinct bison—wi...
20 Loka 201626min
Podcast: When we pay attention to plane crashes, releasing modified mosquitoes, and bacteria that live off radiation
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories -- including a new bacterial model for alien life that feeds on cosmic rays, tracking extinct “bear dogs” to Texas, and when we stop caring abo...
13 Loka 201622min
Podcast: Bumble bee emotions, the purpose of yawning, and new insights into the developing infant brain
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—including making bees optimistic, comparing yawns across species, and “mind reading” in nonhuman apes—with Science’s Online News Editor David G...
6 Loka 201623min
Podcast: Why we murder, resurrecting extinct animals, and the latest on the three-parent baby
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 an ...
29 Syys 201625min
Podcast: An atmospheric pacemaker skips a beat, a religious edict that spawned fat chickens, and knocking out the ‘sixth sense’
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 magazine In...
22 Syys 201626min
