Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
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 disappeared fr...
15 Sep 201627min
Podcast: Double navigation in desert ants, pollution in the brain, and dating deal breakers
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 track ...
8 Sep 201621min
Podcast: Ceres’s close-up, how dogs listen, and a new RNA therapy
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 enter...
1 Sep 201625min
Podcast: Quantum dots in consumer electronics and a faceoff with the quiz master
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 already bu...
25 Aug 201621min
Podcast: How mice mess up reproducibility, new support for an RNA world, and giving cash away wisely
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, wi...
18 Aug 201626min
Podcast: 400-year-old sharks, busting a famous scientific hoax, and clinical trials in pets
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 magazin...
11 Aug 201630min
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 Aug 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 Jul 201623min
