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COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities

Published: March 18, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds

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Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills

Published: March 11, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 8 seconds

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The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color

Published: March 4, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds

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Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 18 seconds

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All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

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Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probes

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds

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Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole rat chirps

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds

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Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments change our behavior

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 18 seconds

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The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds

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Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 4 seconds

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Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 53 seconds

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Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 49 seconds

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How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 43 seconds

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Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 32 seconds

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Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 25 seconds

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How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 31 seconds

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What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 53 seconds

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Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds

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Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds

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Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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FDA clinical trial failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 4 seconds

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Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds

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Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds

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Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 21 seconds

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Arctic sea ice under attack, ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change, and Carl Bergstrom's Calling Bullshit

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds

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Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 57 seconds

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A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds

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Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint

Published: July 30, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 49 seconds

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How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution

Published: July 23, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds

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Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation

Published: July 16, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 33 seconds

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A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood

Published: July 9, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 23 seconds

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An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat

Published: July 2, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 43 seconds

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Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs

Published: June 25, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 53 seconds

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Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses

Published: June 18, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 57 seconds

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The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild

Published: June 11, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds

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Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food

Published: June 4, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 27 seconds

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A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor

Published: May 28, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 34 seconds

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How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water

Published: May 21, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds

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How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano

Published: May 14, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 21 seconds

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Making antibodies to treat coronavirus, and why planting trees won’t save the planet

Published: May 7, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 42 seconds

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Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?

Published: April 30, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds

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From nose to toes—how coronavirus affects the body, and a quantum microscope that unlocks the magnetic secrets of very old rocks

Published: April 23, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 35 seconds

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How countries could recover from coronavirus, and lessons from an ancient drought

Published: April 16, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 23 seconds

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Does coronavirus spread through the air, and the biology of anorexia

Published: April 9, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 38 seconds

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How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice

Published: April 2, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds

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Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals

Published: March 26, 2020, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes

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Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music

Published: March 19, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

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Science’s leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame, and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin

Published: March 12, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 40 seconds

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Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life

Published: March 5, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 41 seconds

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An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds

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Brickmaking bacteria and solar cells that turn ‘waste’ heat into electricity

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds

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NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds

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Fighting cancer with CRISPR, and dating ancient rock art with wasp nests

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds

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A cryo–electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds

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Getting bisphenol A out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 30 seconds

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Researchers flouting clinical reporting rules, and linking gut microbes to heart disease and diabetes

Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds

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Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 34 seconds

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Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps

Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds

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Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 35 seconds

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Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds

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Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds

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Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors

Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds

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Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

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How to make an Arctic ship ‘vanish,’ and how fast-moving spikes are heating the Sun’s atmosphere

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds

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Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 22 seconds

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How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds

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A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds

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Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 39 seconds

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Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds

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An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds

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Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 14 seconds

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Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds

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Studying human health at 5100 meters, and playing hide and seek with rats

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Searching for a lost Maya city, and measuring the information density of language

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Where our microbiome came from, and how our farming and hunting ancestors transformed the world

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds

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Promising approaches in suicide prevention, and how to retreat from climate change

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds

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One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 53 seconds

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Next-generation cellphone signals could interfere with weather forecasts, and monitoring smoke from wildfires to model nuclear winter

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds

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Earthquakes caused by too much water extraction, and a dog cancer that has lived for millennia

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 15 seconds

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Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery

Published: July 25, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Can we inherit trauma from our ancestors, and the secret to dark liquid dances

Published: July 18, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 11 seconds

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The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health

Published: July 11, 2019, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds

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Converting carbon dioxide into gasoline, and ‘autofocal’ glasses with lenses that change shape on the fly

Published: July 4, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds

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Creating chimeras for organ transplants and how bats switch between their eyes and ears on the wing

Published: June 27, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds

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The why of puppy dog eyes, and measuring honesty on a global scale

Published: June 20, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa

Published: June 13, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED

Published: June 6, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds

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Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag

Published: May 30, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds

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New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings

Published: May 23, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 7 seconds

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Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones

Published: May 16, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 6 seconds

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Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse

Published: May 9, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 31 seconds

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The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish

Published: May 2, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales

Published: April 25, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds

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How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste

Published: April 18, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds

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A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants

Published: April 11, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 8 seconds

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A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade

Published: April 4, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system

Published: March 28, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 39 seconds

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Vacuuming potato-size nodules of valuable metals in the deep sea, and an expedition to an asteroid 290 million kilometers away

Published: March 21, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds

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Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments

Published: March 14, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds

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Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago

Published: March 7, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds

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Measuring earthquake damage with cellphone sensors and determining the height of the ancient Tibetan Plateau

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds

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Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 43 seconds

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How far out we can predict the weather, and an ocean robot that monitors food webs

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds

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Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds

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Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 2 seconds

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Pollution from pot plants, and how our bodies perceive processed foods

Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 8 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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Peering inside giant planets, and fighting Ebola in the face of fake news

Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 9 seconds

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Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds

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End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 24 seconds

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‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds

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Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 17 seconds

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The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 37 seconds

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Exploding the Cambrian and building a DNA database for forensics

Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds

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The worst year ever and the effects of fasting

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds

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A big increase in monkey research and an overhaul for the metric system

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes

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How the appendix could hold the keys to Parkinson’s disease, and materials scientists mimic nature

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds

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Children sue the U.S. government over climate change, and how mice inherit their gut microbes

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Mutant cells in the esophagus, and protecting farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure

Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds

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What we can learn from a cluster of people with an inherited intellectual disability, and questioning how sustainable green lawns are in dry places

Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds

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Odd new particles may be tunneling through the planet, and how the flu operates differently in big and small towns

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 43 seconds

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The future of PCB-laden orca whales, and doing genomics work with Indigenous people

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 57 seconds

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Metaresearchers take on meta-analyses, and hoary old myths about science

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 14 seconds

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The youngest sex chromosomes on the block, and how to test a Zika vaccine without Zika cases

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds

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Should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and why were chemists baffled by soot for so long?

Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 57 seconds

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Science and Nature get their social science studies replicated—or not, the mechanisms behind human-induced earthquakes, and the taboo of claiming causality in science

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Sending flocks of tiny satellites out past Earth orbit and solving the irrigation efficiency paradox

Published: Aug. 23, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds

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Ancient volcanic eruptions, and peer pressure—from robots

Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds

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Doubts about the drought that kicked off our latest geological age, and a faceoff between stink bugs with samurai wasps

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds

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How our brains may have evolved for language, and clues to what makes us leaders—or followers

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds

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Liquid water on Mars, athletic performance in transgender women, and the lost colony of Roanoke

Published: July 26, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 40 seconds

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Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds

Published: July 19, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds

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The South Pole’s IceCube detector catches a ghostly particle from deep space, and how rice knows to grow when submerged

Published: July 12, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 55 seconds

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A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America’s first dogs

Published: July 5, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds

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Increasing transparency in animal research to sway public opinion, and a reaching a plateau in human mortality

Published: June 28, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 21 seconds

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New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb

Published: June 21, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds

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The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains

Published: June 14, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds

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Science books for summer, and a blood test for predicting preterm birth

Published: June 7, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds

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The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production

Published: May 31, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds

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Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes

Published: May 24, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Tracking ancient Rome’s rise using Greenland’s ice, and fighting fungicide resistance

Published: May 17, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 6 seconds

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Ancient DNA is helping find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conservation

Published: May 10, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds

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The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone

Published: May 3, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 2 seconds

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Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels

Published: April 26, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 11 seconds

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Drug use in the ancient world, and what will happen to plants as carbon dioxide levels increase

Published: April 19, 2018, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 30 seconds

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How DNA is revealing Latin America’s lost histories, and how to make a molecule from just two atoms

Published: April 12, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds

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Legendary Viking crystals, and how to put an octopus to sleep

Published: April 5, 2018, 6 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds

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A possible cause for severe morning sickness, and linking mouse moms’ caretaking to brain changes in baby mice

Published: March 22, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds

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How humans survived an ancient volcanic winter and how disgust shapes ecosystems

Published: March 15, 2018, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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Animals that don’t need people to be domesticated; the astonishing spread of false news; and links between gender, sexual orientation, and speech

Published: March 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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A new dark matter signal from the early universe, massive family trees, and how we might respond to alien contact

Published: March 1, 2018, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds

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Neandertals that made art, live news from the AAAS Annual Meeting, and the emotional experience of being a scientist

Published: Feb. 22, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds

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Genes that turn off after death, and debunking the sugar conspiracy

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds

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Happy lab animals may make better research subjects, and understanding the chemistry of the indoor environment

Published: Feb. 8, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 1 second

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Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investigating why naked mole rats don’t seem to age

Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds

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The dangers of dismantling a geoengineered sun shield and the importance of genes we don’t inherit

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 9 seconds

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