This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears,...
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This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears,...
25:22
This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—eating rats in the Neolithic, growing...
18:47
Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome
This week, news writer Greg Miller chats with us about how the legalization of marijuana in...
20:31
Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi
This week we chat about why it’s hard to get a taxi to nowhere, why bones came onto the scene...
20:28
This week, we chat about kissing communication in ants, building immune strength by climbing the...
21:27
Podcast: Our Breakthrough of the Year, top online stories, and the year in science books
This week, we chat about human evolution in action, 6000-year-old fairy tales, and other top news...
28:17
This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take—or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms...
30:50
This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new...
21:02
This week, we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball...
30:07
This week, we chat about why grizzly bears seem to be dying on Canadian railway tracks,...
24:54
This week, how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells...
31:12
This week, meteors’ hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that...
26:59
This week, a new family tree of dog breeds, advances in artificial wombs, and an autonomous robot...
24:58
Still-living dinosaurs, the world’s first enzymes, and thwarting early adopters in tech
This week, we have stories on how ultraviolet rays may have jump-started the first enzymes on...
25:42
Paying cash for carbon, making dogs friendly, and destroying all life on Earth
This week we have stories on the genes that may make dogs friendly, why midsized animals are the...
28:31
The biology of color, a database of industrial espionage, and a link between prions and diabetes
This week we hear stories on diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in chimps, a potential new pathway to...
27:14
Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors
This week we hear stories on animal hoarding, how different languages have different numbers of...
23:29
Furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating wombats, and puzzling out preprint publishing
This week we hear stories on how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving, giant wombatlike...
26:24
This week we hear stories about putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico earthquake, why...
18:14
This week we hear stories about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s latest...
26:58