Podcast: Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children
On this week’s show: a look into the offshore investment accounts of private research funders, and a new grant to study firearm deaths in children
Science Podcasts
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Podcast: the universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution
On this week’s show: a different approach to determining when stars formed, and color-changing lizard and toxin-resistant yeast point to “plastic” form of adaptation -
Podcast: exploding the Cambrian and building a DNA database for forensics
On this week’s show: A fossil excavation site that’s helping crack the Cambrian explosion, and would a universal DNA database for law enforcement be better than what we have now? -
Podcast: the worst year ever and the effects of fasting
On this week’s show: a contender for the darkest year of the darkest age and a review of what we know about fasting, metabolism, and aging -
Podcast: a big increase in monkey research and an overhaul for the metric system
On this week’s show: Record numbers of monkeys are being used in labs, and the metric system is set to be transformed -
Podcast: Materials scientists mimic nature, and how the appendix could hold the seeds of Parkinson’s disease
On this week’s show: how removing the appendix might prevent Parkinson’s, and what material scientists are learning from the natural world -
Podcast: Children sue over climate, and how mice inherit their gut microbes
On this week’s show: Children put climate change on trial in U.S. courts, and the surprising fidelity of gut microbes passed down 10 generations -
Podcast: mutant cells in the esophagus, and protecting farmers from pesticides
On this week’s show: what we can learn from non–cancer-causing mutations in the esophagus, and how to protect farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure -
Podcast: studying a hot spot of intellectual disability, and questioning green lawns
On this week’s show: what we can learn about autism and intellectual disability from a cluster of people with fragile X syndrome, and some greener alternatives to the urban lawn -
Podcast: the odds of odd particles tunneling through Earth, and what makes flu spread
On this week’s show: Strange particles detected by a balloon-based instrument may shake up physicists’ standard model, and how town size affects flu outbreaks
