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**Science Quickly**

Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.

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Animal Kids Listen to Their Parents Even before Birth Jun 16, 2021

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Human children: please take note of the behavior of prebirth zebra finches

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For African Elephants, Pee Could Be a Potent Trail Marker Jun 11, 2021

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Scientists found that elephants often sniff pathways—and seem especially attuned to urine.

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A 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic Jun 09, 2021

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A pan-coronavirus vaccine could be “one vaccine to rule them all,” and so far it has shown strong results in mice, hamsters, monkeys, horses and even sharks.

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic's True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate Jun 04, 2021

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

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Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age, Most Adorable Study of the Year Confirms Jun 03, 2021

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Researchers in the happiest lab in the world tested 375 pups and found they connected with people by eight weeks

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New 3-D-Printed Material Is Tough, Flexible--and Alive Jun 02, 2021

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Made from microalgae and bacteria, the new substance can survive for three days without feeding. It could one day be used to build living garments, self-powered kitchen appliances or even window coverings that sequester carbon.

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Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound May 28, 2021

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A new experiment shows that bats are born with a fixed reference for the speed of sound—and living in lighter air can throw it off.

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The Dirty Secret behind Some of the World's Earliest Microscopes May 26, 2021

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Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made extraordinary observations of blood cells, sperm cells and bacteria with his microscopes. But it turns out the lens technology he used was quite ordinary.

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 7: The Coming Pandemic Grief Wave, and Mask Whiplash May 21, 2021

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Math and Sleuthing Help to Explain Epidemics of the Past May 20, 2021

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One mathematician has spend decades uncovering the deadly calculations of pestilence and plague, sometimes finding data that were hiding in plain sight.

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