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Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms

On this week’s show: Comparing human-dog bonds with human-wolf bonds, and monitoring termite...

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Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’

On this week’s show: NASA’s unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission, and making storage space...

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Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars

On this week’s show: After years of steep declines, researchers are investigating why malaria...

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Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry

On this week’s show: The U.S. government is partnering with academics to speed up the search for...

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Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age

On this week’s show: Monitoring summer cyclones in the Arctic, how eye movements during sleep may...

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Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing

On this week’s show: An analog to the Maunder Minimum, when the Sun’s spots largely disappeared...

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Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose

On this week’s show: Predators may be indirectly protecting Death Valley wetlands, and mapping...

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Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity

On this week’s show: A special issue on grass, and revealing hot spots of ant diversity This...

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Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition

On this week’s show: Plans to push a modern space probe beyond the edge of the Solar System,...

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Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus

On this week’s show: Troubling signs of fraud threaten discoveries key to a reigning theory of...

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The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy

On this week’s show: The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope hint at the science to...

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Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India

On this week’s show: A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank, and...

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Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis

On this week’s show: A boost in research ships from an unlikely source, and how the 2022 Tonga...

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Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation

On this week’s show: Whether biofuels for planes will become a reality, mitigating climate change...

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A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits

On this week’s show: Tracing the roots of Long Covid, and an argument against using the same DNA...

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Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid

Two decades after it disappeared in nature, the stunning blue Spix’s macaw will be reintroduced...

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The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning

On this week’s show: Exploring the historic Maya’s astronomical knowledge and how grasshoppers...

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Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa

What we learned from a seismometer on Mars, why it’s so difficult to understand the relationship...

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Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names

On this week’s show: The shadow of Milky Way’s giant black hole has been seen for the first time,...

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Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic

On this week’s show: Lipid nanoparticles served us well as tiny taxis delivering millions of mRNA...

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