Science Signaling Podcast

Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene

]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and...

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When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?

Tracing the arrival of rats using bones, isotopes, and a few shipwrecks; and what scientists have...

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• 12 días

Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career

Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters section...

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• 19 días

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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• 26 días

Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes...

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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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The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

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...

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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...

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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...

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A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancie

A remote island may hold clues for the future of El Niño and La Niña under climate change, and...

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A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior

On this week’s show: A roundup of stories from our daily newsletter, and the ripple effects of...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots

Raising the pH of the ocean to reduce carbon in the air, and robots that can landscape   First...

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Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy

A leap in supercomputing is a leap for science, cracking the dolomite problem, and a book on...

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