Podcasts de SciCafe

SciCafe: Flipping the Genetic Switch

How and why do the same genes work differently in different people? What causes a gene to be...

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SciCafe: Mollusks to Medicine

Normally, when you think of venomous things, you imagine snakes, spiders, or scorpions - not...

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SciCafe: Why Walk on Two Legs? The Pros and Cons of Bipedalism

In the fall of 2014, a team of vertebrate specialists from the Museum headed to one of the most...

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SciCafe: Explore21 - Papua New Guinea

In the fall of 2014, a team of vertebrate specialists from the Museum headed to one of the most...

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SciCafe: Mapping the Urban Microbiome, Genome, and Metagenome

Every year, scientists are learning more and more about the human microbiome, the collection of...

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SciCafe: The Science Behind Football

America's most popular spectator sport, football, has never been more under "the microscope." In...

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SciCafe: Imaging Space Rocks

As technologies improve, scientists are able to glean more and more information from...

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SciCafe: Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies and Beyond

An ant colony is a classic example of a colony where many individuals work together for the good...

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SciCafe: The Evolution of Irrationality - Insights from Primates

The ancestral history of humans and primates is extensive, but can it explain even our financial...

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SciCafe: How Plants Domesticated People with Fatimah Jackson

Humans have domesticated plants and animals for agriculture for thousands of years. What is less...

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SciCafe: Reviving the Mammoth

Current conservation efforts strive to prevent our world’s endangered species from going extinct....

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SciCafe: The Neuroscience of Creativity

Jazz is very different from rock music- but does the brain of a jazz musician act differently...

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SciCafe: How the Brain Shows its Feminine Side

Typically the first question asked of new parents is, "Is it a boy or a girl?" But what is the...

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SciCafe: Microbes in the House with Jack Gilbert

Americans spend an estimated 92% of their time indoors, yet we know little about the diversity of...

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