Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees
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 Online New...
12 Jan 201722min
Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease
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 with Onlin...
5 Jan 201731min
Podcast: Our Breakthrough of the Year, top online stories, and the year in science books
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 News Ed...
22 Des 201628min
The sound of a monkey talking, cloning horses for sport, and forensic anthropologists help the search for Mexico’s disappeared
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 David ...
15 Des 201624min
Podcast: Altering time perception, purifying blueberries with plasma, and checking in on ocelot latrines
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. Plu...
8 Des 201620min
Podcast: What ants communicate when kissing, stars birthed from gas, and linking immune strength and social status
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, Science...
1 Des 201622min
Podcast: Scientists on the night shift, sucking up greenhouse gases with cement, and repetitive stress in tomb builders
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 United ...
24 Nov 201624min
Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi
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 vaccin...
17 Nov 201621min
