Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa
We’ve all seen images or animations of hurricanes that color code the wind speeds inside the...
22:30
Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa
We’ve all seen images or animations of hurricanes that color code the wind speeds inside the...
22:30
The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED
Cheap and easy to make, perovskite minerals have become the wonder material of solar energy. Now,...
20:27
Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag
Up until this year, most U.S. graduate programs in the sciences required the General Record...
39:36
New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built with one big goal in mind: to find the Higgs boson. It...
23:06
Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones
The groundwater of Rockford, Michigan, is contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,...
22:05
Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse
Dog cognition and social behavior have hogged the scientific limelight for years—showing in study...
23:30
The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish
Humans have sought new materials to make elusive blue pigments for millennia—with mixed success....
28:07
Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales
Noncancerous tumors of the uterus—also known as fibroids—are extremely common in women. One risk...
28:14
How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste
This week we have two interviews from the annual meeting of AAAS in Washington D.C.: one on the...
24:38
A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants
The ancient humans also known as the “hobbit” people (Homo floresiensis) might have company in...
21:07
A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade
A single factory in Malaysia supplies about 10% of the world’s rare earth oxides, used in...
23:31
Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system
Southern California’s famous Santa Anita racetrack is struggling to explain a series of recent...
36:38
Pirate’s gold may not be that far off, as there are valuable metals embedded in potato-size...
19:09
Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments
Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Daniel Clery about the many, many theories surrounding...
23:49
New archaeological evidence suggests the same black plague that decimated Europe also took its...
22:42
In the wake of a devastating earthquake, assessing the extent of damage to infrastructure is time...
20:56
Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders
In our first segment from the annual meeting of AAAS (Science’s publisher) in Washington, D.C.,...
31:42
How far out we can predict the weather, and an ocean robot that monitors food webs
The app on your phone tells you the weather for the next 10 days—that’s the furthest forecasters...
16:52
Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut
Because of its genetic complexity, the potato didn’t undergo a “green revolution” like other...
26:17
Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep
Orla Smith, editor of Science Translational Medicine joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what...
20:01
El Cerebro meditador y el bienestar
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Cool Science Radio | March 28, 2024
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