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**A Moment of Science**

A Moment of Science is a daily audio podcast, public radio program and video series providing the scientific story behind some of life’s most perplexing mysteries.

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Different rates of sea level rise Mar 29, 2024

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Mid-Atlantic states such as North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland have been hit particularly hard by rising sea levels

Ant doctors Mar 29, 2024

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Do other species have healthcare?

How your attitude affects your body Mar 29, 2024

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Our attitudes might affect us more than our genes do.

Can animals tell time? Mar 22, 2024

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Does your pet give you the evil eye when they get fed a few minutes late? Its like they know...but do they?

Could The Gulf Stream collapse? Mar 21, 2024

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The Gulf Stream is a current of warm water in the North Atlantic Ocean that travels up the Eastern coast of North America. Media reports have raised concerns that it may collapse as the climate warms due to human activities like burning fossil fuels.

Ice age plant survived the big chill Mar 20, 2024

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Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over 31,000 years old, was resurrected after a long frozen sleep.

Every time you eat a fig, remember a fig wasp lost its wings Mar 19, 2024

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Figs have their thousands of individual flowers folded up inside them, so they can't rely on bees or wind to pollinate them with a male fig's pollen. That's where the fig wasp comes in.

Study links air pollution and a decline in cognitive function Mar 18, 2024

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Has your brain been feeling foggy lately? Or maybe, smoggy? If you live somewhere affected by air pollution, there might be a connection.

The jellyfish that never grows old Mar 15, 2024

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Scientists once thought that aging and death were the inevitable fate of all complex living things. But then, by accident, they discovered they were wrong.

The great cilantro debate Mar 14, 2024

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On today's Moment of Science, we'll be sniffing our way through a controversial culinary conundrum: the great cilantro debate.