Meet A Pioneer Of Modern Weather Prediction
Climate scientist Jagadish Shukla grew up in a small village in rural India, where people starved if the monsoon season didn’t bring rain. To help his village, he set out to become a scientist and dis...
22 Touko 202518min
Are Physical Buttons And Knobs Making A Comeback?
In recent years, digital touchscreens have replaced many of the buttons and knobs that control various functions in cars. But when Host Ira Flatow went shopping for a new car, he noticed that physical...
21 Touko 202520min
Scientists Identify Genes For Tomato And Eggplant Size
Tomatoes come in all kinds of colors, sizes, and flavors. But what’s going on at the genetic level? What makes a tomato red or yellow? Tiny or giant?Researchers are mapping the genomes of 22 varieties...
20 Touko 202518min
The Leap: The Volcano Whisperer
As a teenager living in St. Vincent, Richie Robertson saw first-hand what a volcanic eruption did to life on the island. Forty years later, he was the scientist the community turned to when the same v...
19 Touko 202528min
Lesser Prairie Chicken May Lose Endangered Species Status
The lesser prairie chicken was granted endangered species status in 2023. Now the Department of the Interior is moving to revoke those protections. What can this bird known for its flamboyant courtshi...
16 Touko 202518min
Tracking The Hidden Dangers Of Fighting Fires
Firefighting is a career with an inherent cancer risk, but a full understanding of what those risks are has been elusive. An important registry designed to help understand the link between firefighter...
15 Touko 202518min
Identifying New Plants, And The Scientific Secrets Of Superfoods
What does it take to create and maintain one of the largest repositories of botanical information in the world? For starters, it can mean helicopter-ing into remote nooks of the Amazon, hiking through...
14 Touko 202529min
Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas
Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical p...
13 Touko 202517min
