Science Podcast, 20 November 2009
Duration: 00:44:32
The demise of mammoths, mastodons, and other megafauna; strengthening memories during sleep; cleaning up after oil production from Canada's tar sands; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 13 November 2009
Duration: 00:44:09
Climate change predictions; the function of telomeres; creating hermaphroditic worms; overcoming the challenges to become a scientist; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 6 November 2009
Duration: 00:46:21
Stem cell gene therapy; the origins of religion; an unusually fast-evolving supernova; your Letters to Science; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 30 October 2009
Duration: 00:46:34
Pandemic H1N1 and the 2009 Hajj pilgrimage; the contribution of inherited wealth to economic inequality; the experiences of four Nobel laureates as women in the sciences; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 16 October 2009
Duration: 00:41:18
The galactic imprint on the Sun's heliosphere; Saudi Arabia's new graduate university; the taste of carbonation; plus new insights on how proteins are made. |
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Science Podcast, 9 October 2009
Duration: 00:41:56
The organized way your DNA gets folded up in your cells’ nuclei; electrical currents flowing forever even in non-superconducting metals; personalized treatments for cancer; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 2 October 2009
Duration: 00:40:44
The most detailed snapshot of early hominid life; the origins of community structure; your Letters to Science magazine; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 25 September 2009
Duration: 00:36:59
Challenges for carbon capture and storage; the universality of human correspondence patterns; establishing the link between nutrition and violence; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 18 September 2009
Duration: 00:39:11
Public disapproval as an indicator for incidences of international terrorism; modeling insect-wing deformation and the engineering challenges of copying nature; developing non-surgical methods of sterilizing cats and dogs; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 11 September 2009
Duration: 00:33:07
Starting vaccinations now in the northern hemisphere is optimal to control influenza A (H1N1); understanding the genetic complexity of beach mouse adaptations; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 28 August 2009
Duration: 00:30:45
Global ozone depletion by nitrous oxide; using dogs to better understand how social cognition evolved; we read from your Letters to Science magazine; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 21 August 2009
Duration: 00:38:12
How best to distribute the flu vaccine; the rise of civiliation in China; and new species of sea worms that drop glowing green "bombs"; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 14 August 2009
Duration: 00:42:20
Monkeys prefer to be around people who imitate them; the timing of when humans first used fire as an engineering tool; and improving energy efficiency; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 7 August 2009
Duration: 00:41:07
Making twisted and curved shapes from DNA; new technologies for testing the toxicity of chemicals; on the origin of eukaryotes; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 31 July 2009
Duration: 00:37:27
Assessing ecological restoration; rethinking graduate student funding; science in Venezuela; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 24 July 2009
Duration: 00:42:58
Positive feedback on the climate from low-level clouds; detecting nuclear blasts anywhere on Earth; mathematical models of society; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 17 July 2009
Duration: 00:33:01
The dynamics of rotavirus epidemics; how tiger moths jam bat sonar; a look at NIH's new director; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 10 July 2009
Duration: 00:40:22
The discovery of swine as a host for Reston ebolavirus; the art and science of hominin reconstructions; nuclear waste management after the Yucca Mountain decision; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 3 July 2009
Duration: 00:40:38
Evidence for liquid water in the geologically recent past in Mars's polar regions; how birds help forests in the Serengeti; the evolutionary origins of nervous systems; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 26 June 2009
Duration: 00:34:52
New draft NIH guidelines for human stem cell research; investigating the neural basis of memory and creation of a digital brain library; your Letters to Science; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 19 June 2009
Duration: 00:38:25
The role of Merkel cells in your sense of touch; narrowing in on the contribution of aerosols to climate change; the prospects for a cure for cystic fibrosis; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 12 June 2009
Duration: 00:37:45
Deforestation in the Amazon leads to a "boom and bust" cycle; China's efforts to stamp out Kashin-Beck disease; measuring the charge states of individual atoms; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 5 June 2009
Duration: 00:41:13
On the origin of sex; how war and trade affected human social evolution; the challenges of calculating the returns on science investments; and more. |
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Science Podcast, 29 May 2009
Duration: 00:34:16
Assessing oil and gas reserves in the Arctic; new clues as to what's killing bats by the tens of thousands; your Letters to Science; and more. |
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