Hawaii Eruption, Antibiotic Resistance, Florida Sea Rise. May 11, 2018, Part 1
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano—located on the Big Island—has been continuously erupting for the past 30...
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DNA Privacy, Dog Cognition. May 4, 2018, Part 2
Genetic testing sites are nothing new. They’ve grown enough in popularity over the past decade...
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Chasing Pluto, Space Warps. May 4, 2018, Part 1
In July of 2015, the world was stunned to learn that Pluto, a tiny, distant dot that some didn’t...
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Does Time Exist, Elephant Seismology, Produce Safety. May 11, 2018, Part 2
How do you think about time? Most people experience it as Newton described it—as something that...
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Consciousness In 'Westworld,' Heart Cells On Graphene, Bike Safety App. May 18, 2018, Part 1
In HBO’s series Westworld, human-like robots populate a theme park where human guests can have...
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Psychedelics With Michael Pollan And Intel Student Science Fair. May 18, 2018, Part 2
In his latest book, How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan writes of his own...
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Sleep Questions, Portable Museums, Digital Health Records. May 25, 2018, Part 1
What’s the difference between being fatigued and sleepy? Do melatonin and other sleeping aids...
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AI Conversation, Robot Trust, AI Music. May 18, 2018, Part 2
Should autonomy be the holy grail of artificial intelligence? Computer scientist Justine Cassell...
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Scientist Politicians, Microbiome, Wildlife Car Accidents. June 1, 2018, Part 1
This year’s midterm elections have seen an upswing in the number of scientists running for...
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Sea Floor Mapping, Hurricane Season Forecast. June 1, 2018, Part 2
The deep sea is the largest habitat on Earth, but it’s also one of the least understood. As...
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Ant Socialization, Smoky Skies, Dust Storm, Mars Lake. July 27, 2018, Part 2
Many ant species have a queen, the member of the colony that lays eggs. The rest of the ants are...
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PFAS, Urban Evolution, Science Diction. July 27, 2018, Part 1
If you thought city life was stressful, imagine being a wild animal trying to outlive speeding...
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Prodigy is supposed to fly back home right after a show in Vegas, but he never gets on the plane....
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"Lost in Math," Alan Alda, A Radical Brain Surgery, New Jersey Floods. August 3, 2018. Part 1
For decades, physicists trying to uncover the large and small structures of the universe have...
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Bacteria Extinction, Facial Recognition, Solar Probe. August 3, 2018, Part 2
Long before we walked the Earth, bacteria took it over. They’re in every ecosystem on the Earth,...
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SciFri Special Edition: A Time Traveler Cocktail Party. Aug 28, 2018.
In 2009, Stephen Hawking decided to throw a party for time travelers, famously sending the...
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Water Wars, Air Pollution And Fetuses, Electric Blue Clouds. Sept. 28, 2018, Part 2
Yemen is gripped by civil war—and some experts say it could be the first of many “water wars” to...
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Dung Beetles, Exomoon, Poison Squad. Oct 5, 2018, Part 2
Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was formed in 1906, you might have been more weary...
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Nobels, Argument Logic. Oct 5, 2018, Part 1
This week the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine awarded its top scientists...
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Blood, Spatial Memory, Gerrymandering. Oct 26, 2018, Part 1
Blood is essential to human life—it runs through all of our bodies, keeping us alive—but the...
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