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Podcast: Sizing up a baby dino, jolting dead brains, and dirty mice Apr 21, 2016

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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on a possibledebunking of a popular brain stimulation technique, using “dirty” mice in the lab to simulate the human immune system, and how South American monkeys’ earliest ancestors used rafts to get to Central America.
Kristi Curry Rogers joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss insights into dinosaur growth patterns from the bones of a baby titanosaur found in Madagascar. Read the research.
[Image: K. Curry Rogers et al./Science]

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Podcast: Tracking Zika, the evolution of sign language, and changing hearts and minds with social science Apr 14, 2016

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Online news editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on the evolution of sign language, short conversations than can change minds on social issues, and finding the one-in-a-million people who seem to be resistant to certain genetic diseases—even if they carry genes for them.
Nuno Faria joins host Sarah Crespi to explain how genomic analysis can track Zika’s entry date into Brazil and follow its spread.
[Image: r.a. olea/Flickr]

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Podcast: Spreading cancer, sacrificing humans, and transplanting organs Apr 07, 2016

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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on evidence for the earth being hit by supernovae, record-breaking xenotransplantation, and winning friends and influencing people with human sacrifice.
Staff news writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how small membrane-bound packets called “exosomes” might pave the way for cancer cells to move into new territory in the body.
[Image: Val Altounian/Science]

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Podcast: Building a portable drug factory, mapping yeast globally, and watching cliffs crumble Mar 31, 2016

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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on yeasty hitchhikers, sunlight-induced rockfalls, and the tiniest gravity sensor.
Andrea Adamo joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a revolutionary way of making drugs using a portable, on-demand, and reconfigurable drug factory.
[Image: Tom Evans]

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Podcast: Battling it out in the Bronze Age, letting go of orcas, and evolving silicon-based life Mar 24, 2016

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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on SeaWorld’s plans for killer whales, the first steps toward silicon-based life, and the ripple effect of old dads on multiple generations.
Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a grisly find in Northern Germany that suggests Bronze Age northern Europe was more organized and more violent than thought.
[Image: ANDESAMT FÜR KULTUR UND DENKMALPFLEGE MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN/LANDESARCHÄOLOGIE/S. SUHR ]

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Podcast: The latest news from Pluto, a rock-eating fungus, and tracking storm damage with Twitter Mar 17, 2016

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News intern Nala Rogers shares stories on mineral-mining microbes, mapping hurricane damage using social media, and the big takeaway from the latest human-versus-computer match up.
Hal Weaver joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss five papers from New Horizons Pluto flyby, including a special focus on Pluto’s smaller moons.
[Image: Saran_Poroong/iStockphoto]

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Podcast: Nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of lies, and how sliced meat drove human evolution Mar 10, 2016

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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the honesty of individuals, what happened when our ancestors cut back on the amount of time spent chewing food, and how plants use sand to grind herbivores‘ gears.
Science’s International News Editor Rich Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his forensics story on how to track down the culprits after a nuclear detonation.
[Image: Miroslav Boskov]

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Podcast: Glowing robot skin, zombie frogs, and viral fossils in our DNA Mar 03, 2016

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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on zombification by a frog-killing fungus, relating the cosmological constant to life in the universe, and ancient viral genes that protect us from illness.
Chris Larson joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new type of robot skin that can stretch and glow.
[Image: Jungbae Park]

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Podcast: A recipe for clean and tasty drinking water, a gauge on rapidly rising seas, and fake flowers that can fool the most discerning insects Feb 25, 2016

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Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on what we can learn from 6million years of climate data, how to make lifelike orchids with 3D printing, and crowdsourced gender bias on eBay.
Fernando Rosario-Ortiz joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how approaches to water purification differ between countries.
[Image: Eric Hunt/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0]
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Podcast: Combatting malnutrition with gut microbes, fighting art forgers with science, and killing cancer with gold Feb 18, 2016

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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on how our abilities shape our minds, killing cancer cells with gold nanoparticles, and catching art forgery with cat hair.
Laura Blanton joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how nourishing our gut microbes may prevent malnutrition. Read the related research in Science.
[Image: D. S. Wagner et al., Biomaterials, 31 (2010)]
Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm

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