Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests...
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Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests...
36:58
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain
Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes...
28:54
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem...
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Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using...
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What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and...
47:34
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication
Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk...
47:01
A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators
More than 200 materials could be “altermagnets,” and the impact of odiferous pollutants on...
31:05
A remote island may hold clues for the future of El Niño and La Niña under climate change, and...
29:58
On this week’s show: A roundup of stories from our daily newsletter, and the ripple effects of...
25:38
Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw
Investigation shows journal editors getting paid to publish bunk papers, and new techniques for...
36:13
The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth
Assessing environmental damage during wartime, and tracking signaling between fetus and mother...
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The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease
Best of online news, and screening for tuberculosis using sound This week’s episode starts...
33:25
The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender
Seeking the Majorana fermion particle, and a look at El Salvador’s adoption of cryptocurrency...
38:39
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins
Top science from 2023, and a genetic tool for pangolin conservation First up this week, it’s...
31:09
Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives
A look at cognition in livestock, and the coevolution of wild bird–human cooperation This...
37:03
Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots
Raising the pH of the ocean to reduce carbon in the air, and robots that can landscape First...
33:34
A leap in supercomputing is a leap for science, cracking the dolomite problem, and a book on...
53:46
AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills
What it means that artificial intelligence can now forecast the weather like a supercomputer, and...
21:35
The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics
First up on this week’s show: the future of science in Russia. We hear about how the country’s...
32:09
Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs
Why scientists are trying to make anemones act like corals, and why it’s so hard to make...
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