Salad-eating sharks, and what happens after quantum computing achieves quantum supremacy
David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about two underwater finds: the first sharks shown to survive off of seagrass and what fossilized barnacles reveal about ancient whal...
11 Jan 201819min
Who visits raccoon latrines, and boosting cancer therapy with gut microbes
David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a long-term project monitoring raccoon latrines in California. What influence do these wild bathrooms have on the ecosystem? S...
4 Jan 201818min
<i>Science</i>’s Breakthrough of the Year, our best online news, and science books for your shopping list
Dave Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a few of this year’s top stories from our online news site, like ones on a major error in the monarch butterfly biological recor...
21 Dec 201732min
Putting the breaks on driverless cars, and dolphins that can muffle their ears
Whales and dolphins have incredibly sensitive hearing and are known to be harmed by loud underwater noises. David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about new research on captive cetaceans suggesting that ...
14 Dec 201721min
Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research
This week, three papers came out describing new approaches to folding DNA into large complex shapes—20 times bigger than previous DNA sculptures. Staff Writer Bob Service talks with Sarah Crespi about...
7 Dec 201720min
Debunking yeti DNA, and the incredibly strong arms of prehistoric female farmers
The abominable snowman, the yeti, bigfoot, and sasquatch—these long-lived myths of giant, hairy hominids depend on dropping elusive clues to stay in the popular imagination—a blurry photo here, a big ...
30 Nov 201722min
The world’s first dog pictures, and looking at the planet from a quantum perspective
About 8000 years ago, people were drawing dogs with leashes, according to a series of newly described stone carvings from Saudi Arabia. Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about rep...
22 Nov 201728min
Preventing psychosis and the evolution—or not—of written language
How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work influence how scripts look? This week we hear a story on changes in legibility in written texts with Online New...
16 Nov 201725min
