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Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains
Nov 14, 2024First up this week, a ship that flips for science. Sean Cummings, a freelance science journalist, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the resurrection of the Floating Instrument Platform (R/V FLIP),...
Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers
Nov 07, 2024First up this week, Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about his travel to meet up with a lead researcher in the field, Folarin Kolawole, and the subtle signs of rifting on the Afri...
The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity
Oct 31, 2024First up this week, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the difficulties of studying misinformation. Although misinformation seems like it’s everywhere, res...
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
Oct 24, 2024Using robots to study evolution, the last installment of our series of books on a future to look forward to, and did reintroducing wolves really restore an ecosystem? First up this week, a new study o...
How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete
Oct 17, 2024First up this week, host Sarah Crespi talks to Jon Chu, a presidential young professor in international affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, abo...
Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water
Oct 10, 2024First up this week, we celebrate 20 years of graphene—from discovery, to hype, and now reality as it finally finds its place in technology and science. Science journalist Mark Peplow joins host Sarah ...
Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms
Oct 03, 2024First up this week, online editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how cats think about their own bodies. Do cats think of themselves as a liquid, as much the internet appears to beli...
Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins
Sep 26, 2024The gene variant APOE4 is finally giving up some of its secrets, how putting dead trees underground could make carbon sequestration cheap and scalable, and the latest in our series of books on an opti...
Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat
Sep 19, 2024First up this week, a preview of a NASA mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Science journalist Robin Andrews joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the Clipper mission and what it could reveal about ...
Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound
Sep 12, 2024Why don’t we know what is happening with hail? It’s extremely destructive and costs billions of dollars in property damage every year. We aren’t great at predicting hailstorms and don’t know much abou...