Podcast: Bionic leaves that make fuel, digging into dog domestication, and wars recorded in coral
Listen to stories on new evidence for double dog domestication, what traces of mercury in coral can tell us about local wars, and an update to a classic adaptation story, with online news editor Dav...
2 Juni 201619min
Podcast: The economics of the Uber era, mysterious Neandertal structures, and an octopus boom
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on underground rings built by Neandertals, worldwide increases in cephalopods and a controversial hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease. Glen Weyl joins...
26 Maj 201623min
Podcast: Tracking rats in a city slum, the giraffe genome, and watching human evolution in action
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on finding clues to giraffes’ height in their genomes, evidence that humans are still evolving from massive genome projects, and studies that infect hu...
19 Maj 201622min
Podcast: Rocky remnants of early Earth, plants turned predator, and a new artificial second skin
Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories how the Venus flytrap turned to the meat-eating side, a new clingy polymer film that shrinks up eye bags, and survey results on who pirates scien...
12 Maj 201622min
Podcast: Why animal personalities matter, killer whale sanctuaries, and the key to making fraternal twins
Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on a proposal for an orca sanctuary in the sea, the genes behind conceiving fraternal twins, and why CRISPR won’t be fixing the sick anytime soon. Eli...
5 Maj 201628min
Podcast: Patent trolls, the earthquake-volcano link, and obesity in China
Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on howearthquakes may trigger volcanic eruptions, growing obesity in China’s children, and turning salty watersweet on the cheap. Lauren Cohen joins...
28 Apr 201630min
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
