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How do astronomers photograph a black hole? How often do planes get hit by lightning? What does the EPA actually do? Science is all around us and transforming our world at a rapid pace. Extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt is here to guide you through it. She’ll help you make sense of the everyday and the once-in-a-lifetime. Rights of Albert Einstein are used with permission of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Represented exclusively by Greenlight.

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289 - Could Zombies (or a Zombie Virus) Become a Reality? Jun 11, 2018

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the main national public health institute in the United States, has a zombie preparedness guide. Could a zombie apocalypse really happen?
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288 - What Is Antimatter? Jun 04, 2018

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Antimatter may sound like science fiction, but it actually surrounds us every day. Antimatter is used commonly in modern medicine and even gets produced by the bananas sitting in your kitchen. It also poses one of the biggest outstanding mysteries in modern physics.
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287 - Who Was Henrietta Lacks and What Are HeLa Cells? May 28, 2018

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285 - Why Is Hawai’i Banning Sunscreen? May 14, 2018

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284 - What Is the Speed of Sound? May 07, 2018

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283 - What's It Take to Get to Pluto? A Q&A with David Grinspoon Apr 29, 2018

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Author and astrobiologist David Grinspoon describes some of the stories that make up his new book on NASA's epic first mission to Pluto.
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282 - Can Our Sense of Smell Predict Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s? Apr 23, 2018

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New studies are beginning to take advantage of a common symptom that may serve as a potential earlier indicator for both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: the deterioration of the sense of smell.
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281 - Do Microwaves Cause Cancer? (And 3 Other Microwave Myths) Apr 16, 2018

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In the United States, 97% of households have a microwave. But what misconceptions about our microwave use persist? Let’s take a look at 4 microwave myths that science has proven false.
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279 - How and When Did the Grand Canyon Form? Apr 02, 2018

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Scientists agree that the great crevice in the Earth’s surface was cut away by the flow of the Colorado River. However one question is still debated: when exactly did this erosion happen to form the Grand Canyon?
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278 - Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite, and Comet: What's the Difference? Mar 26, 2018

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The terms asteroid, meteor, meteorite, and even comet are often used interchangeably...but what is the difference?

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