Podcast: Sizing up a baby dino, jolting dead brains, and dirty mice
Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on a possibledebunking of a popular brain stimulation technique, using “dirty” mice in the lab to simulate the human immune system, and how South American...
21 Apr 201626min
Podcast: Tracking Zika, the evolution of sign language, and changing hearts and minds with social science
Online news editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on the evolution of sign language, short conversations than can change minds on social issues, and finding the one-in-a-million people who seem to b...
14 Apr 201623min
Podcast: Spreading cancer, sacrificing humans, and transplanting organs
Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on evidence for the earth being hit by supernovae, record-breaking xenotransplantation, and winning friends and influencing people with human sacrifice. S...
7 Apr 201621min
Podcast: Building a portable drug factory, mapping yeast globally, and watching cliffs crumble
Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on yeasty hitchhikers, sunlight-induced rockfalls, and the tiniest gravity sensor. Andrea Adamo joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a revolutionary way of ...
31 Mar 201622min
Podcast: Battling it out in the Bronze Age, letting go of orcas, and evolving silicon-based life
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on SeaWorld’s plans for killer whales, the first steps toward silicon-based life, and the ripple effect of old dads on multiple generations. Andrew Curry ...
24 Mar 201628min
Podcast: The latest news from Pluto, a rock-eating fungus, and tracking storm damage with Twitter
News intern Nala Rogers shares stories on mineral-mining microbes, mapping hurricane damage using social media, and the big takeaway from the latest human-versus-computer match up. Hal Weaver joins ho...
17 Mar 201625min
Podcast: Nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of lies, and how sliced meat drove human evolution
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the honesty of individuals, what happened when our ancestors cut back on the amount of time spent chewing f...
10 Mar 201627min
Podcast: Glowing robot skin, zombie frogs, and viral fossils in our DNA
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on zombification by a frog-killing fungus, relating the cosmological constant to life in the universe, and ancient viral genes that protect us from illnes...
3 Mar 201626min
