Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew
This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately...
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Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew
This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately...
27:13
Preventing psychosis and the evolution—or not—of written language
How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work...
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Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research
This week, three papers came out describing new approaches to folding DNA into large complex...
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Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed...
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David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole...
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Genes that turn off after death, and debunking the sugar conspiracy
Some of our genes come alive after we die. David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with...
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For some time after the big bang there were no stars. Researchers are now looking at cosmic...
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Did people domesticate animals? Or did they domesticate themselves? Online News Editor David...
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Researchers are converging on which genes are linked to morning sickness—the nausea and vomiting...
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How DNA is revealing Latin America’s lost histories, and how to make a molecule from just two atoms
Geneticists and anthropologists studying historical records and modern-day genomes are finding...
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Drug use in the ancient world, and what will happen to plants as carbon dioxide levels increase
Armed with new data, archaeologists are revealing that mind-altering drugs were present at the...
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Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels
Researchers have found new clues to how the “talking drums” of one Amazonian tribe convey their...
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The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone
To study the biological differences brought on by space travel, NASA sent one twin into space and...
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Who were the first horse tamers? Online news editor Catherine Matacic talks to Sarah Crespi about...
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Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes
DNA fingerprinting has been used to link people to crimes for decades, by matching DNA from a...
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The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production
Astronomers have been able to detect supermassive black holes and teeny-weeny black holes but the...
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Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing...
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New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb
Since the 2016 reports of a mysterious assault on U.S. embassy staff in Cuba, researchers have...
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A detection of a single neutrino at the 1-square-kilometer IceCube detector in Antarctica may...
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Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds
Suckling mothers milk is a pretty basic feature of being a mammal. Humans do it. Possums do it....
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