Podcast: Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid
On this week’s show: A close look at retiring research monkeys, and observations of ejected material from a near-Earth asteroid
Science Podcasts
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Podcast: Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors
On this week’s show: An investigation into the National Institutes of Health’s largest school debt repayment program and turning telecommunication cables into earthquake detectors -
Podcast: Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music
On this week’s show: A landslide laboratory in a national park in Taiwan, and a database of songs from around the world -
Podcast: How to make an Arctic ship ‘vanish,’ and how fast-moving spikes are heating the Sun’s atmosphere
On this week’s show: How researchers studying the Arctic contend with contamination from their noisy, smoky, and bright research ship, and how fast-moving spikes on the Sun’s surface may be powering the tremendous heat of the solar atmosphere -
Podcast: Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology
On this week’s show: Archaeologists are digging up buttons and beads in the Caribbean to better understand the lives of enslaved Africans, and economists are unraveling how the early Roman Catholic Church has influenced psychology today -
Podcast: How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes
On this week’s show: How the measles virus induces immune amnesia, making later infections with other diseases more likely, and detecting a small black hole in a binary pair with a red giant star -
Podcast: A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm
On this week’s show: Digging into global earthworm populations, detecting bias in an algorithm used to make health care decisions, and a plea for space archaeology -
Podcast: Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always badmouthing the next generation
On this week’s show: Uncovering the biological basis of consciousness, and understanding why adults think their generation was always “better” -
Podcast: Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands
On this week’s show: New insights into dinosaurs from 300-million-year-old molecules, and stretching rubber bands and twisting memory metals to cool things down -
On this week’s show: Detecting childhood eye disease in old photos, and inserting memories into zebra finches
On this week’s show: Detecting childhood eye disease in old photos, and inserting memories into zebra finches
