Podcast: The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health
On this week’s show: How seabirds can be “barometers” for marine ecosystems during times of environmental stress, and the origins of pointing
Science Podcasts
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Podcast: Converting carbon dioxide into gasoline, and ‘autofocal’ glasses with lenses that change shape on the fly
On this week’s show: Will making gasoline from carbon dioxide soon be cheaper than pulling it out of the ground? And new “autofocal” glasses may soon replace your bifocals -
Podcast: Creating chimeras for organ transplants and how bats switch between their eyes and ears on the wing
On this week’s show: making chimeras by placing stem cells from one species into the embryo of another, and exploring how bats switch between vision and echolocation. Plus, our monthly books segment! -
Podcast: The why of puppy dog eyes, and measuring honesty on a global scale
On this week’s show: what puppy dog eyes and diseased spines mean for our understanding of dog domestication, and a study on honesty that involved placing 17,000 “lost” wallets around the world -
Podcast: Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa
On this week’s show: A swarm of satellites helps measure the speed of hurricane winds, and new data on the surface of Europa reveal more about its subsurface oceans -
Podcast: The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED
On this week’s show: Perovskites have made it big in solar and are now poised to enter the light-emitting diode business, and what we can learn about the limits of human endurance from transcontinental racers -
Podcast: Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag
On this week’s show: why some Ph.D. programs are dropping the General Record Examination requirement for applicants and why DeepMind is teaching artificial agents to play a video game from 1999 -
Podcast: New targets for the world’'s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings
On this week’s show: The Large Hadron Collider could be making particles that physicists haven’t looked for and modified wood that can passively cool buildings -
Podcast: Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones
On this week’s show: Tainted groundwater from nonstick chemicals and using smartphones for ear-infection detection -
Podcast: Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse
On this week’s show: Cats are finally proving their social smarts, and ghost riders help get a gauge on the traffic effects of ride-sharing apps
