Podcast: Pollution hot spots in coastal waters, extreme bees, and diseased dinos
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 River...
4 Elo 201622min
Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor
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—a 197...
28 Heinä 201623min
Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors
Stories on a lichen threesome, tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to inspect nuclear warheads without looking too closely at them, with Catherine Matacic. Despite concerns about antibi...
21 Heinä 201630min
Podcast: The science of the apocalypse, and abstract thinking in ducklings
What do we know about humanity-ending catastrophes? Julia Rosen talks with Sarah Crespi about various doomsday scenarios and what science can do to save us. Alex Kacelnik talks about getting ducklings...
14 Heinä 201626min
Podcast: An exoplanet with three suns, no relief for aching knees, and building better noses
Listen to stories on how once we lose cartilage it’s gone forever, genetically engineering a supersniffing mouse, and building an artificial animal from silicon and heart cells, with Online News Edit...
7 Heinä 201619min
Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Science news...
30 Kesä 201628min
Podcast: A farewell to <i>Science</i>’s editor-in-chief, how mosquito spit makes us sick, and bears that use human shields
Listen to how mosquito spit helps make us sick, mother bears protect their young with human shields, and blind cave fish could teach us a thing or two about psychiatric disease, with Online News Edito...
23 Kesä 201631min
Podcast: Treating cocaine addiction, mirror molecules in space, and new insight into autism
Listen to stories on the first mirror image molecule spotted in outer space, looking at the role of touch in the development of autism, and grafting on lab-built bones, with online news editor Davi...
16 Kesä 201629min
