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Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions
Sep 14, 2023Receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat, and using combustion to propel insect-size robots First up on this week’s episode, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi...
Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid
Sep 07, 2023How the Tonga eruption caused some of the fastest underwater flows in history, and why many U.S. renewable energy projects are on hold First up on this week’s show, we hear about extremely fast...
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell
Aug 31, 2023How active learning improves calculus teaching, and using machine learning to map odors in the smell space First up on this week’s show, Laird Kramer, a professor of physics and faculty in the STE...
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender
Aug 24, 2023A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in our series on science, sex, and gender First up on this week’s show, determining the origin of solar wi...
What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated
Aug 17, 2023Ancient wildfires may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals, and do insular societies have more complex languages? First up on this week’s show, what killed off North America’s megafauna, ...
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh
Aug 10, 2023First up on this week’s show, we hear about the skewed perception of our own hands, extremely weird giant viruses, champion regenerating flatworms, and more from Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox. Chr...
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
Aug 03, 2023Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in African American ancestry, and a reckoning for Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum First ...
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa
Jul 27, 2023On this week’s show: evaluating scientific collaborations between independent scholars and industry, farming in ancient Europe, and a book from our series on sex, gender, and science. First up on ...
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones
Jul 20, 2023A massive effort by African volunteers is ensuring artificial intelligence understands their native languages, and measuring 40,000 skeletons Our AI summer continues with a look at how to get artific...
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo
Jul 13, 2023Science’s NextGen voices share their thoughts on artificial intelligence, how to avoid creating sociopathic robots, and a visit to a historic observatory as researchers pack their bags As part of ...