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What makes us human? How are we different from chimpanzees? Who are our earliest ancestors and how do we know? Origin Stories is The Leakey Foundation’s podcast about how we became human. This award-winning show combines science and narrative to explore our human story and explain why we are the way we are. Listen and explore human evolution one story at a time.
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Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.
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Take a fact-based journey through the cosmos. Tune in to hear weekly discussions on astronomical topics ranging from planets to cosmology. Hosted by Fraser Cain (Universe Today) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (Planetary Science Institute), this show brings the questions of an avid astronomy lover direct to an astronomer. Together Fraser and Pamela explore what is known and being discovered about the universe around us. Astronomy Cast is supported thru patreon.com/AstronomyCast.
Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bruce Betts, and Emily Lakdawalla as they dive deep into the latest space news. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes ...
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Nature Can Save Humanity From Climate Doom—but Not On Its Own
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By restoring ecosystems, conservationists can help the land sequester carbon. But it's still no substitute for drastically cutting emissions.
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Different Strokes with Arshay Cooper and Dr. Kevin Stone
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Neil deGrasse Tyson rowed crew?! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore the physics, physiology, and lessons of rowing, featuring Dr. Kevin Stone and Arshay Cooper, author of A Most Beautiful Thing. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.st…
Scales don’t come planet-sized, so answering a question from David in Ghana may require some ingenuity, after all, calculating the weight of the Earth is a huge task.Using a set of weighing scales and a 400 year-old equation, Marnie Chesterton attempts to find out just how much the Earth weighs and is it getting heavier or lighter over time?But how…
Dan Huot, public affairs officer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares his experiences working on the first episodes of Houston We Have a Podcast, his work at NASA, and broadcasting the first humans to launch from American soil since 2011. HWHAP Episode 200.
Dan Huot, public affairs officer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares his experiences working on the first episodes of Houston We Have a Podcast, his work at NASA, and broadcasting the first humans to launch from American soil since 2011. HWHAP Episode 200.
What’s the difference between climate and weather? How does NASA monitor changing sea levels, melting glaciers, and other effects of climate change? Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s acting senior climate advisor, explains how rising temperatures lead to many complex changes both in the oceans and on land.
What’s the difference between climate and weather? How does NASA monitor changing sea levels, melting glaciers, and other effects of climate change? Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s acting senior climate advisor, explains how rising temperatures lead to many complex changes both in the oceans and on land.
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Regulatory Gene Expression, RNA Molecules, and Molecular Biology Techniques Discussed with Professor Ailong Ke
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How do various CRISPR systems interact with the body in beneficial ways? Using different techniques, specific immunity systems may be targeted and cleaved. Listen up to learn: How molecules are targeted to be cleaved Why RNA helps target specific systems Where the RNA fuses onto the DNA Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics …
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The Drought Is Making the Klamath River’s Baby Salmon Sick
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Dry conditions are worsening a warm-water disease that’s sweeping through juvenile fish. Their deaths will create a future crisis for both fish and human populations.
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Silver Screen Science - Lake Placid (1999)
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This June, by popular demand, we’re doing a Silver Screen Science double feature focusing on our favorite reptiles: crocs and snakes! One croc movie, one snake movie, both quintessential creature features of the 90s. This episode, crocs take center stage: Lake Placid (1999) Next time … Anaconda. The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://z…
What has COVID-19 taught us about preparing for future epidemics? Can we trigger innate immune responses – our first lines of defense - to mitigate novel infections? Can we use live-attenuated vaccines (LAV) meant for other infections to protect us while we develop specific vaccines for new pathogens? On this episode, we talk to virologists Konstan…
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Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
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First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep. Next, Bina Desai, head of programs at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, discusses how to predict the economic impact of human d…
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The Superpower of a Robe — Transforming Post-Op Life with Allison Schickel
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The aftermath can be just as challenging and uncomfortable—the aftermath of major surgery, that is. Tune in to learn about a revolutionary product that’s changing the post-op lives of thousands. You’ll learn: The specifics behind the robe design that enables better movement, greater comfort, and erases the risk of skin irritation from other methods…
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A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
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Jonah Martell lays out a twelve-step program for the Democratic Socialists of America to pursue a path of independent working-class politics. Christian Cail reads the article out loud.
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Episode 228: Giraffe w/Mike Bona Global Conservation Force
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In honor of Giraffe Day, June 21, we welcome Global Conservation Force Giraffe Project Coordinator Mike Bona. Giraffe are suffering what many are calling a "silent extinction." They have suffered a 40% reduction in their population in just the last 15 years. Mike is a long time hoof stock keeper at the LA Zoo and has been involved in many conservat…
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You Need to Weigh Some Water. All You’ve Got Is a Paper Clip
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OK, so you might need a couple other supplies, but your best option is to do what MacGyver would do: Turn it into a scale.
Sagittarius, a sausage, a sequoia, and a Kraken appear to have something in common: All of them may be large galaxies that were absorbed by the Milky Way billions of years ago. The Milky Way is a giant galaxy. It got that way by gobbling up other galaxies. Today, astronomers are tracking down the remnants of many of those galaxies — an endeavor kno…
On this episode of TWiV, Novavax COVID-19 vaccine demonstrates 90% overall efficacy, preventing an antigenically disruptive change during growth of influenza virus vaccine in chicken eggs, and MIS-C is driven by loss of the gut mucosal barrier. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Click arrow to play Download TWiV 769 (68 M…
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Aboriginal And Indigenous Memory Techniques with Tyson Yunkaporta
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Are you curious about the memory techniques used in the ancient world? I’m talking about aboriginal memory techniques in Australia. But also a lot more. For example, it’s possible to learn about all sorts of indigenous tools for learning and retaining information used by people around the world. If this sounds interesting to you, you’re in luck. In…
This week, these squirrels are NUTS! with Adam Ganser! Giant flying squirrels, rainbow squirrels, and goth squirrels! Dissquirrelver this and more as we answer the age-old question: is that dried squirrel pee you’re using as an aphrodisiac, or are you just happy to see me? Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kh0Q0Wi_dyvRwnbJN7Nlr1urhJr9G…
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Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
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The Planetary Society has awarded more than 60 Shoemaker near-Earth object grants to astronomers around the world, enabling them to discover, track, and characterize thousands of asteroids. We’ll hear from two of these dedicated observers. The Society’s Rae Paoletta takes us to Venus where three new spacecraft will help answer big questions. Senior…
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Neurodegenerative Diseases and Optic Neuropathy Treatments for Blinding Conditions Explained By Dr. Bernard Gilly
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How can historically misunderstood retinal neurodegenerative diseases be researched and treated? New discoveries may lead to continuing advancements in treatment for previously thought to be untreatable ailments. Listen in to learn: How treatment is targeted at specific cells How functions in the eye can be swapped between parts How the optogenetic…
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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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The largest dinosaur ever found in Australia
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Sauroniops, links from Dean Lomax, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Sauroniops-Episode-342/ To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino Dinosaur of the day Sauroniops, a large carcharodontosaurid with a dome on its head. In…
In this episode, we talk to our very own Dr Elsa Panciroli about her new book Beasts Before Us. In it, she tells the untold story of mammalian evolution, tracing the origin of synapsids back to the Carboniferous. You’ll be taken to fossil sites around the world to meet some of these pioneering animals and some of the palaeontologists that discovere…
NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator Dave Israel discusses the dynamic power of laser communications technologies.
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The Sneaky, Lying Flower That Pretends to Be a Rotting Beetle
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Aristolochia microstoma finds love by smelling like death. Coffin flies can’t resist.
A faint star in the serpent is getting closer — in more ways than one. For one thing, it’s moving toward us at about a third of a million miles per hour. And for another, every time astronomers recalculate how close the star will pass from the Sun, the distance goes down. Today, Gliese 710 is about 64 light-years away. It’s in the constellation Ser…
Just how reliable are research papers and what goes on to get them published and accepted in the scientific literature and, critically, are they reliable? We have talked many times on the pod about scientific papers but without ever discussing what these actually are and how they get published. It’s an important aspect of science and especially wit…
The Gerenuk like a giraffe is a long-necked herbivore. While not closely related to giraffes, the Gerenuk has evolved to grow long necks to reach foliage that many other herbivores cant. They are a very unique antelope species from Africa. In this week's podcast we talk about this species and all its interesting adaptations to survive in the Horn o…
A seat on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard flight went for $28 million at auction. The trip promises a launch to the edge of space with breathtaking views and moments of weightlessness and Blue’s founder Jeff Bezos will be there, too. It marks the start of a new chapter of space tourism. Leaders in this industry touted the development of spac…
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Ologies with Alie Ward
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Quarantinology (UM, WHAT HAPPENS NOW?) with Various Ologists
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Lifted restrictions! Discarded masks! Vaxxing & relaxing! Parties. Variant confusion. FOMO while also dreading events. Worry about strangers. Grief for a cancelled year. WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE? We’ve got you covered. As infection rates go down and restrictions lift in the U.S., you may feel: relieved, overjoyed, nude without a mask, guilty about sur…
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Breakdown of Cancer Cells, Their Behavior, and the Multicellular Structure of Tumors with Luis Cisneros
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How can new cancer therapies and treatments emerge along with the understanding of cancer cell's behavior? By learning how cells communicate and proliferate, researchers may be able to find new solutions. Press play to learn: The point at which a group of cells becomes cancerous When treatments can be too aggressive How the behavior of cancer cells…
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Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe
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Restaurants are struggling to hire people, so one Jersey Shore grill employed a machine. It confirms that humans remain indispensable.
How do you calculate the number of chimpanzees living in the forests of Nigeria? If you’re National Geographic Explorer Rachel Ashegbofe, you listen carefully. After discovering that Nigerian chimpanzees are a genetically distinct population, Rachel began searching for their nests to study them more closely. Now she’s teaching her community how to …
When you're trying to narrate the history of the entire Universe, where do you begin? I decided to start in a radio studio in London in March 1949, when the term "Big Bang" was first coined, in the first on our series on cosmology.
The Moon rattles a bit. The way it rattles can reveal details about how it’s put together, how it was born, and more. And scientists are pondering a network of instruments to listen in. The Lunar Geophysical Network would consist of four robotic landers. Three of them would be on the hemisphere that always faces Earth, while the fourth would be on …
How do you beat the odds and become an astrophysicist? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice sit down with astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi to discuss his path to becoming an astrophysicist and his new book A Quantum Life. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.s…
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Astronomy Cast
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Ep. 609: Volcanos With Benefits: Lava Tubes, Hydro Thermal Vents & More
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 609: Volcanos With Benefits: Lava Tubes, Hydro Thermal Vents & More by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Volcanos can be some of the worst natural disasters that we can experience here on Earth. But life wouldn't even exist without them. So, what are volcanos good for anyway?
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Interview: solar weather expert, Mathew Owens
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As the Sun's activity increases, we take a look at whether space weather could be hazardous to the Artemis moon-landing mission, and to satellites in orbit. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Vaccines: The What, How, and Why with Maria Elena Bottazzi
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Many of us will take a vaccine without thinking twice about it. But how are they developed, how do they even work, and how are they tested for safety? Press play to learn: What happens when proteins and aluminum-containing adjuvants are combined in the development of vaccines Why most vaccines are injected rather than inhaled or consumed orally, an…
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Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende's Chile with Raúl Espejo
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Amelia and Rudy join Raul Espejo, one of the top members of the Cybersyn project in Allende's Chile, the founder of Syncho Research and the president of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics for a conversation. We discuss Raul's experiences, his current projects, and what he thinks socialists should learn about Cybernetics in today's wo…
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How Many People Die When Polluters Exceed Their Limits?
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A new report tallies the death toll from excess emissions by looking at air pollution and spikes in local ozone levels.
Two astronauts, one space hipster, a writer and a musician all feature in this month's Space Boffins. Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by podcaster and founder of the Space Hipsters, Emily Carney. They also hear from pioneering astronaut Anna Fisher in conversation with astronaut Nicole Stott. And David Brown, author of The Mission, tal…
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Episode 228: Monkey Lizards and Weird Turtle…Things
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Sign up for our mailing list! We have a merch store now too! Thanks to Ethan for this week’s topic, two weird animals that developed after the Great Dying we talked about last week! Further reading: Monkey Lizards of the Triassic Placodonts: The Bizarre ‘Walrus-Turtles’ of the Triassic Drepanosaurus (without a head since we haven’t found a skull ye…
JFK: I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. John F. Kennedy set that goal in a speech to Congress in May 1961. It led to the first lunar landing eight years later. Kennedy also asked Congress to support an even “spacier” go…
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#241 - Venus - Davinci+ - Michael Sekerak
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Chris and Matt Discuss Venus and the missions that have been there so far, and Matt has the honour of interviewing Mike Sekerak Lead engineer of the Davinci+ Mission, recently chosen as the next discovery Mission by NASAIf you enjoy the show please go over to www.Patreon.com/Interplanetary and become a Patron or even a producer of the show. If you …
