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Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the world of science. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American . To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast

Episodios

  • Road Runoff a No-No for Coho

    26/10/2015 Duración: 03min

    Researchers have found the first direct evidence that coho salmon near U.S. Northwest cities are being killed by chemical runoff from roads and parking lots that reach streams   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Political and Industry Leaders Make a Case for Basic Research

    24/10/2015 Duración: 01min

    At the “Innovation: An American Imperative” symposium October 20 on Capitol Hill, industry leaders and members of Congress talked about shoring up federal support for basic research and development  

  • TV Crime Shows Influence Sex Consent Views

    22/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    College students who watched episodes of the various Law & Order episodes had a better understanding of sexual consent issues than those who watched two other crime procedural franchises  

  • Beet Juice Could Help Body Beat Altitude

    21/10/2015 Duración: 03min

    Beet juice contains nitrates, which the body can convert to nitric oxide, a chemical that relaxes blood vessels and makes it easier to function in conditions of low oxygen. Christopher Intagliata reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Fall Foliage Timing Comes into Clearer Focus

    20/10/2015 Duración: 01min

    Researchers picked apart satellite imagery from two New England forest ecosystems to get a better handle on exactly what factors influence the timing of the color changes of the autumn leaves

  • Apple Thins iPhone Cloud Connections

    19/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    The company’s moves to have iPhones be less dependent on the cloud and to be more encrypted could mean more user privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Dino's Tail Might Have Whipped It Good

    16/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    Researchers built a physical model of the tail of the late Jurassic dinosaur Apatosaurus and found that its tail tip could have moved at supersonic speed to produce a whip-crack sound   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Babies Move Tongue to Learn New Tongues

    15/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    Infants seemed to be able to differentiate between two different "D" sounds in Hindi—but only when their tongue movements weren't blocked by a teething device. Christopher Intagliata reports

  • Pluto Mission Targets Next Kuiper Belt Object

    14/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons Mission, explains that with Pluto in the rearview mirror, the spacecraft will continue on to a smaller Kuiper Belt body  

  • Magnetic Field May Be a Map for Migratory Birds

    13/10/2015 Duración: 03min

    It's well known birds can use Earth's magnetic field as their compass, but they may also use magnetism as their map. Christopher Intagliata reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wildlife Tourism Could Be "Domesticating" Wild Animals

    09/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    Human tourism—no matter how well-intentioned—might desensitize wild animals to poachers and predators, affecting their odds of survival. Christopher Intagliata reports

  • Babies Just Want to Be Smiled at

    08/10/2015 Duración: 01min

    By studying the interactions of babies and their mothers, researchers determined that babies smile in hopes others will smile at them. Erika Beras reports

  • 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    07/10/2015 Duración: 03min

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

    06/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery that one kind of neutrino can change into another, which shows that neutrinos have mass  

  • 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    05/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their studies leading to novel therapies against infections caused by roundworm parasites and to Youyou Tu for her work developing a novel therapy against malaria  

  • Cheap Goods from China Have a High Carbon Cost

    02/10/2015 Duración: 03min

    Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere. Christopher Intagliata reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • MacArthur Genius Grant Winner Probes the Pruning Brain

    01/10/2015 Duración: 02min

    Harvard neuroscientist Beth Stevens wins a MacArthur Fellowship for studies of how microglia cells prune away excess neuronal synapses during brain development and how that necessary function might go awry in neurodegenerative diseases  

  • MacArthur Genius Grant Winner Makes Waste a Resource

    29/09/2015 Duración: 02min

    Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran of Columbia University won a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on extracting nutrients and energy from wastewater and sewage  

  • Ancient Human Ancestors Heard Differently

    25/09/2015 Duración: 02min

    Early human species may have had sharper hearing in certain frequencies than we enjoy, to facilitate short-range communication in an open environment. Cynthia Graber reports

  • Sitting Not the New Smoking for Fidgeters

    24/09/2015 Duración: 02min

    Sitting for more than seven hours a day is linked to a 30 percent higher risk of death, but that association disappears among the in-place movers and shakers. Christopher Intagliata reports

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