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500 episodes
2019 to present
Average episode: 4 minutes
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Podcaster's summary: Leading science and tech journalists dive into a rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show. To view all of our archived material, go to: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast .
| Episodes |
| 2023-Mar-22 • 13 minutes Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week |
| 2023-Mar-20 • 14 minutes Space Force Humor, Laser Dazzlers, and the Havoc a War in Space Would Actually Wreak Space Force Humor, Laser Dazzlers, and the Havoc a War in Space Would Actually Wreak |
| 2023-Mar-17 • 10 minutes Squeak Squeak, Buzz Buzz: How Researchers Are Using AI to Talk to Animals Squeak Squeak, Buzz Buzz: How Researchers Are Using AI to Talk to Animals |
| 2023-Mar-15 • 9 minutes RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2 RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2 |
| 2023-Mar-14 • 10 minutes If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound Like? If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound Like? |
| 2023-Mar-10 • 8 minutes How To Stop a (Potentially Killer) Asteroid How To Stop a (Potentially Killer) Asteroid |
| 2023-Mar-08 • 5 minutes The Scientific Secret to Soothing Fussy Babies The Scientific Secret to Soothing Fussy Babies |
| 2023-Mar-06 • 6 minutes How Helper Sharks Discovered the World's Largest Seagrass Ecosystem How Helper Sharks Discovered the World's Largest Seagrass Ecosystem |
| 2023-Mar-03 • 6 minutes How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Turns into a Popsicle to Survive the Winter How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Turns into a Popsicle to Survive the Winter |
| 2023-Mar-01 • 11 minutes The Pandemic's Mental Toll, and Does Telehealth Work? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 1 The Pandemic's Mental Toll, and Does Telehealth Work? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 1 |
| 2023-Feb-27 • 6 minutes Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity? Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity? |
| 2023-Feb-24 • 8 minutes Sorry, UFO Hunters--You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon Sorry, UFO Hunters--You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon |
| 2023-Feb-23 • 6 minutes Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change [Sponsored] Successfully mitigating the impacts of climate change will rely heavily on innovation in science and technology. |
| 2023-Feb-22 • 9 minutes How Do We Find Aliens? Maybe Unlearn What We Know About 'Life' First How Do We Find Aliens? Maybe Unlearn What We Know About 'Life' First |
| 2023-Feb-20 • 15 minutes Love and the Brain: Do Partnerships Really Make Us Happy? Here's What the Science Says Love and the Brain: Do Partnerships Really Make Us Happy? Here's What the Science Says |
| 2023-Feb-17 • 11 minutes Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet |
| 2023-Feb-15 • 12 minutes Love and the Brain: How Attached Are We to Attachment Styles? Love and the Brain: How Attached Are We to Attachment Styles? |
| 2023-Feb-13 • 12 minutes Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited Host Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love. |
| 2023-Feb-06 • 4 minutes Coming Soon to Your Podcast Feed: Science, Quickly A new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week. Get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes. |
| 2022-Dec-21 • 3 minutes The 60-Second Podcast Takes a Short Break--But Wait, There's More The 60-Second Podcast Takes a Short Break--But Wait, There's More |
| 2022-Dec-20 • 7 minutes Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain? Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain? |
| 2022-Dec-16 • 4 minutes Why Your Dog Might Think You're a Bonehead The verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence. |
| 2022-Dec-14 • 7 minutes Alaska's Protective Sea Ice Wall Is Crumbling because of the Climate Crisis Alaska's Protective Sea Ice Wall Is Crumbling because of the Climate Crisis |
| 2022-Dec-09 • 5 minutes It's the Bass That Makes Us Boogie Concertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones. |
| 2022-Dec-06 • 8 minutes How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44 Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies. |
| 2022-Dec-02 • 7 minutes 'Chatty Turtles' Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals Recordings of more than 50 species of turtles and other animals help scientists reassess the origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates. |
| 2022-Nov-30 • 6 minutes Tardigrades, an Unlikely Sleeping Beauty Researchers put this ancient critter through a subzero gauntlet to learn more about what happens to their internal clock while surviving the extreme. |
| 2022-Nov-23 • 7 minutes A Burned Redwood Forest Tells a Story of Climate Change, Past, Present and Future From the ashes of the giants of Big Basin Redwoods State Park arise a history of fire suppression and real questions about what happens to the forests in a drought-stricken West Coast going forward. |
| 2022-Nov-22 • 5 minutes Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43 Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43 |
| 2022-Nov-15 • 5 minutes A Honeybee Swarm Has as Much Electric Charge as a Thundercloud A Honeybee Swarm Has as Much Electric Charge as a Thundercloud |
| 2022-Nov-11 • 3 minutes These Punk Rock Penguins Have a Bizarre Breeding Strategy These Punk Rock Penguins Have a Bizarre Breeding Strategy |
| 2022-Nov-08 • 7 minutes The Viral Triple Threat and Why You Need a Booster: COVID, Quickly, Episode 42 The Viral Triple Threat and Why You Need a Booster: COVID, Quickly, Episode 42 |
| 2022-Nov-04 • 6 minutes What You Need to Know about Iran's Surveillance Tech Scientific American technology editor Sophie Bushwick explains how Iran is using surveillance tech against vulnerable citizens. |
| 2022-Oct-28 • 6 minutes Delivering Equitable Lung Cancer Care [Sponsored] As recent advances improve the prospects of detecting and catching lung cancer early, a new challenge arises: how to ensure people worldwide, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances, benefit from new clinical tools. |
| 2022-Oct-25 • 8 minutes New Halloween 'Scariant' Variants and Boosting Your Immunity: COVID, Quickly, Episode 41 New Halloween 'Scariant' Variants and Boosting Your Immunity: COVID, Quickly, Episode 41 |
| 2022-Oct-21 • 4 minutes These Hawks Have Figured Out How to See the Bat in the Swarm New research shows that birds of prey attempting to grab a bat from a roiling mass of the flying mammals have developed a way to cope with the confusion. |
| 2022-Oct-14 • 5 minutes Naps Not Needed to Make New Memories Naps Not Needed to Make New Memories |
| 2022-Oct-11 • 8 minutes How the Pandemic Shortened Life Expectancy and New Drugs on the Horizon: COVID, Quickly, Episode 40 How the Pandemic Shortened Life Expectancy and New Drugs on the Horizon: COVID, Quickly, Episode 40 |
| 2022-Oct-07 • 6 minutes Engineering the Treatment of Early-Stage Lung Cancer [SPONSORED] Engineering the Treatment of Early-Stage Lung Cancer [SPONSORED] |
| 2022-Oct-05 • 4 minutes Rediscovered Red Wolf Genes May Help Conserve the Species A surprising new gene discovery in coyotes may help conserve the critically endangered wolf. |
| 2022-Sep-27 • 8 minutes What the Disease Feels Like, and Presidents Can't End Pandemics: COVID, Quickly, Episode 39 What the Disease Feels Like, and Presidents Can't End Pandemics: COVID, Quickly, Episode 39 |
| 2022-Sep-23 • 6 minutes These Spiders Use Their Webs like Huge, Silky Ears These Spiders Use Their Webs like Huge, Silky Ears |
| 2022-Sep-21 • 3 minutes Chewing Consumes a Surprising Amount of Energy Chomping on food takes so much energy that it shaped human evolution. Our ancestors spent many hours a day chewing, which may have shaped our teeth and jaws. |
| 2022-Sep-16 • 4 minutes These Bats Buzz like Bees to Save Their Own Lives These Bats Buzz like Bees to Save Their Own Lives |
| 2022-Sep-13 • 7 minutes Unvaxxed Kids and 8 Days a Week (of Isolation): COVID, Quickly, Episode 38 This is our second back-to-school special episode of COVID. Quickly . Today we talk about two big issues: the low vaccination rates among the littlest kids and how long you should quarantine after being sick (actually). |
| 2022-Sep-09 • 8 minutes Listen to Images from the James Webb Space Telescope Listen to Images from the James Webb Space Telescope |
| 2022-Sep-07 • 2 minutes These Tiny Pollinators Can Travel Surprisingly Huge Distances These Tiny Pollinators Can Travel Surprisingly Huge Distances |
| 2022-Aug-31 • 7 minutes During a Heat Wave, You Can Blast the AC, but What Does a Squirrel Do? During a Heat Wave, You Can Blast the AC, but What Does a Squirrel Do? |
| 2022-Aug-30 • 8 minutes Back-to-School Special: Kids, Tests and Long COVID Reassurance: COVID, Quickly, Episode 37 Back-to-School Special: Kids, Tests and Long COVID Reassurance: COVID, Quickly, Episode 37 |
| 2022-Aug-26 • 3 minutes This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Baby This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Baby |
| 2022-Aug-25 • 10 minutes Understanding the Inner Workings of Stars [Sponsored] Conny Aerts is an astrophysicist and a pioneer of asteroseismology. This year she shared the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her research and leadership that has laid the foundations of solar and stellar structure theory, and revolutionized our understanding of the interiors of stars. |
| 2022-Aug-24 • 3 minutes Dogs Actually Tear Up When Their Owners Come Home Dogs Actually Tear Up When Their Owners Come Home |
| 2022-Aug-23 • 10 minutes A Lifelong Quest to Improve Mental Health among Cancer Patients [Sponsored] A Lifelong Quest to Improve Mental Health among Cancer Patients [Sponsored] |
| 2022-Aug-19 • 10 minutes How Next-Generation Sequencing Can Enable Precision Oncology [Sponsored] How Next-Generation Sequencing Can Enable Precision Oncology [Sponsored] |
| 2022-Aug-19 • 8 minutes Hawking, a Paradox and a Black Hole Mystery, Solved? We do not have a theory to tell us everything about how a black hole works, but new research is shedding a least some light on one of their many mysteries. |
| 2022-Aug-16 • 10 minutes Monkeypox Update and Homing in on Long COVID: COVID, Quickly, Episode 36 Monkeypox Update and Homing in on Long COVID: COVID, Quickly, Episode 36 |
| 2022-Aug-15 • 11 minutes Fueling Patients' Drive to Treatment [Sponsored] Fueling Patients' Drive to Treatment [Sponsored] |
| 2022-Aug-12 • 7 minutes Researchers Created a Potion That Turns Loud Lions into Placid Pussycats Researchers Created a Potion That Turns Loud Lions into Placid Pussycats |
| 2022-Aug-10 • 8 minutes Reaching the Root of Disparities in Cancer Care [Sponsored] Reaching the Root of Disparities in Cancer Care [Sponsored] |
| 2022-Aug-10 • 6 minutes For Some Dolphins, the Key to Mating is Rolling with a Tight, Noisy Crew For Some Dolphins, the Key to Mating is Rolling with a Tight, Noisy Crew |
| 2022-Aug-03 • 11 minutes A Source of Integrative Support for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Patients [Sponsored] A Source of Integrative Support for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Patients [Sponsored] |
| 2022-Aug-02 • 8 minutes How Common Are Reinfections? And How Trust Can Beat the Virus: COVID, Quickly, Episode 35 How Common Are Reinfections? And How Trust Can Beat the Virus: COVID, Quickly, Episode 35 |
| 2022-Jul-29 • 10 minutes The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Molecules [Sponsored] Jacob Sagiv is a chemist who studies properties of self-assembled monolayers. This year, he shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for his research. |
| 2022-Jul-27 • 9 minutes Transforming the Trajectory of Lung Cancer [Sponsored] Lung cancer is the number-one cause of cancer deaths in the world. But how many lives would be saved if doctors could diagnose and treat it before it progresses? |
| 2022-Jul-22 • 3 minutes Polar Bears That Persist A new subpopulation of Greenland polar bears offers insights into how this species might hang on as Arctic ice disappears. |
| 2022-Jul-12 • 7 minutes Omicron's Nasty New Variants and Better Boosters to Battle Them: COVID, Quickly, Episode 34 Omicron's Nasty New Variants and Better Boosters to Battle Them: COVID, Quickly, Episode 34 |
| 2022-Jun-30 • 3 minutes A Remote-Controlled Carnivorous Plant? Researchers design an artificial neuron that can trigger closure of a Venus flytrap. |
| 2022-Jun-27 • 8 minutes Kids' Vaccines at Last and Challenges in Making New Drugs: COVID, Quickly, Episode 33 Kids' Vaccines at Last and Challenges in Making New Drugs: COVID, Quickly, Episode 33 |
| 2022-Jun-24 • 4 minutes How AI Facial Recognition Is Helping Conserve Pumas Researchers tricked out conventional camera traps to snap headshots of Puma concolor, revealing a better way to track the elusive species. |
| 2022-Jun-17 • 9 minutes The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration [Sponsored] The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration [Sponsored] |
| 2022-Jun-16 • 4 minutes Female CEOs Change How Firms Talk about Women Female CEOs Change How Firms Talk about Women |
| 2022-Jun-13 • 8 minutes COVID Death Rates Explained, Dismal Booster Stats and New Vaccines COVID Death Rates Explained, Dismal Booster Stats and New Vaccines |
| 2022-Jun-08 • 4 minutes Hedgehogs Host the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria resistant to methicillin emerged in hedgehogs long before the drug was prescribed to treat infections. |
| 2022-Jun-03 • 3 minutes Meerkats Are Getting Climate Sick For meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, rising temperatures spark deadly outbreaks of tuberculosis. |
| 2022-May-31 • 8 minutes 'Where Are Vaccines for Little Kids?' and the Latest on Long COVID 'Where Are Vaccines for Little Kids?' and the Latest on Long COVID |
| 2022-May-20 • 5 minutes Your Phone Could Be Used to Prosecute for Getting an Abortion: Here's How Technology editor Sophie Bushwick breaks down the precedent for using your phone to monitor personal health data. |
| 2022-May-19 • 5 minutes If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California? A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western U.S. |
| 2022-May-16 • 8 minutes How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30 How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30 |
| 2022-May-12 • 4 minutes How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole |
| 2022-May-10 • 6 minutes Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution |
| 2022-May-06 • 6 minutes The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status. |
| 2022-May-02 • 6 minutes Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29 Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29 |
| 2022-Apr-25 • 4 minutes Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get. |
| 2022-Apr-20 • 6 minutes Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark-Matter-Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath and Survive Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark-Matter-Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath and Survive |
| 2022-Apr-15 • 7 minutes Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28 Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28 |
| 2022-Apr-13 • 4 minutes Science Finally Has a Good Idea about Why We Stutter A glitch in speech initiation gives rise to the repetition that characterizes stuttering. |
| 2022-Apr-12 • 5 minutes Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast |
| 2022-Apr-08 • 6 minutes Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Corals Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Corals |
| 2022-Apr-05 • 2 minutes The History of the Milky Way Comes into Focus The History of the Milky Way Comes into Focus |
| 2022-Apr-01 • 9 minutes Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27 Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27 |
| 2022-Mar-30 • 5 minutes New Research Decodes the Sea Cow's Hidden Language New Research Decodes the Sea Cow's Hidden Language |
| 2022-Mar-25 • 4 minutes Does This Look like a Face to You? Does This Look like a Face to You? |
| 2022-Mar-23 • 2 minutes Some Good News about Corals and Climate Change A nearly two-year-long study of Hawaiian corals suggests some species may be better equipped to handle warmer, more acidic waters than previously believed. |
| 2022-Mar-18 • 9 minutes Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong and Ukraine's Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26 Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong and Ukraine's Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26 |
| 2022-Mar-15 • 12 minutes Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? |
| 2022-Mar-11 • 6 minutes A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Bones in Italy Rewrites the Local Prehistoric Record New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago. |
| 2022-Mar-08 • 2 minutes Chimps Apply Insects to Their Wounds Chimps Apply Insects to Their Wounds |
| 2022-Mar-04 • 7 minutes The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly, Episode 25 The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly, Episode 25 |
| 2022-Mar-03 • 10 minutes Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was DNA: They Found Parallels between Life and Art Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was DNA: They Found Parallels between Life and Art |
| 2022-Feb-25 • 2 minutes How Hong Kong 'Sees' Invisible Tailpipe Emissions and Pulls Polluters Off the Road How Hong Kong 'Sees' Invisible Tailpipe Emissions and Pulls Polluters Off the Road |
| 2022-Feb-22 • 7 minutes This Maine Farm Is Harvesting the Sun's Power while it Picks the Blueberries This Maine Farm Is Harvesting the Sun's Power while it Picks the Blueberries |
| 2022-Feb-15 • 6 minutes Tracking Outbreaks through Sewers, and Kids' Vaccines on Hold Again: COVID Quickly, Episode 24 Tracking Outbreaks through Sewers, and Kids' Vaccines on Hold Again: COVID Quickly, Episode 24 |
| 2022-Feb-14 • 5 minutes The Romantic Temptation of the Monogamous Prairie Vole The Romantic Temptation of the Monogamous Prairie Vole |
| 2022-Feb-11 • 6 minutes Answering an Age-Old Mystery: How Do Birds Actually Fly? Equally surprising is the fact that we still do not know how birds actually stay airborne. |
| 2022-Feb-04 • 6 minutes More Kids Get COVID, Long Haulers and a Vaccine Milestone: COVID Quickly, Episode 23 More Kids Get COVID, Long Haulers and a Vaccine Milestone: COVID Quickly, Episode 23 |
| 2022-Feb-02 • 6 minutes What Is the Shape of This Word? What Is the Shape of This Word? |
| 2022-Jan-25 • 2 minutes Tiger Sharks, Tracked over Decades, Are Shifting Their Haunts with Ocean Warming Tiger Sharks, Tracked over Decades, Are Shifting Their Haunts with Ocean Warming |
| 2022-Jan-20 • 6 minutes How Marine Wildlife Can Coexist with Offshore Wind [Sponsored] Harnessing the wind to blow back emissions is not without its own impacts, so researchers are developing technologies to coexist with whales and other ocean-dwelling species. |
| 2022-Jan-19 • 7 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 22: Colds Build COVID Immunity and the Omicron Vaccine Delay COVID Quickly, Episode 22: Colds Build COVID Immunity and the Omicron Vaccine Delay |
| 2022-Jan-10 • 5 minutes The Surprising Physics of Finger Snapping You might not think that you can generate more body acceleration than a big-league baseball pitcher, but new research shows you can. |
| 2022-Jan-03 • 4 minutes Salvador Dali's Creative Secret Is Backed by Science The painter described falling into the briefest of slumbers to refresh his mind. Now scientists have shown the method is effective at inducing creativity. |
| 2021-Dec-27 • 10 minutes A Growing Force of Fiery Zombies Threatens Cold Northern Forests A Growing Force of Fiery Zombies Threatens Cold Northern Forests |
| 2021-Dec-21 • 5 minutes Listen to This New Podcast: Lost Women of Science Listen to This New Podcast: Lost Women of Science |
| 2021-Dec-20 • 3 minutes Canary Islands Eruption Resets Volcano Forecasts Canary Islands Eruption Resets Volcano Forecasts |
| 2021-Dec-17 • 5 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 21: Vaccines against Omicron and Pandemic Progress COVID Quickly, Episode 21: Vaccines against Omicron and Pandemic Progress |
| 2021-Dec-14 • 9 minutes As Forests Burn, a Climate Puzzle Materializes in the Far North A 15-year study of where carbon lies in boreal forests has unearthed a surprising finding. |
| 2021-Dec-08 • 2 minutes Astronomers Spot Two Dust Bunnies Hiding in the Early Universe Astronomers Spot Two Dust Bunnies Hiding in the Early Universe |
| 2021-Dec-03 • 7 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 20: The Omicron Scare, and Anti-COVID Pills Are Coming COVID Quickly, Episode 20: The Omicron Scare, and Anti-COVID Pills Are Coming |
| 2021-Dec-01 • 12 minutes To Better Persuade a Human, a Robot Should Use This Trick A new study finds that, for robots, overlords are less persuasive than peers. |
| 2021-Nov-26 • 6 minutes Redo of a Famous Experiment on the Origins of Life Reveals Critical Detail Missed for Decades Redo of a Famous Experiment on the Origins of Life Reveals Critical Detail Missed for Decades |
| 2021-Nov-19 • 9 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 19: Mandate Roadblocks, Boosters for All and Sickness in the Zoo COVID Quickly, Episode 19: Mandate Roadblocks, Boosters for All and Sickness in the Zoo |
| 2021-Nov-12 • 3 minutes Flocking Together May Have Helped Dinosaurs Dominate the Earth Flocking Together May Have Helped Dinosaurs Dominate the Earth |
| 2021-Nov-10 • 8 minutes Engineered Bacteria Use Air Bubbles as Acoustically Detonated Tumor TNT Ultrasound triggered cells home in on tumors and then self destruct to deliver damage or therapeutics from inside. |
| 2021-Nov-05 • 7 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 18: Vaccines for Kids and the Limits of Natural Immunity COVID Quickly, Episode 18: Vaccines for Kids and the Limits of Natural Immunity |
| 2021-Oct-31 • 7 minutes These Bugs Produce Smelly Defenses That Need to Be Heard to Be Believed You read that right. Researchers have taken the chemical defenses of some insects and turned them into sounds , which, it turns out, repel people just as well. |
| 2021-Oct-28 • 7 minutes For Some Parents, Hiding a Dead Body Shows How Much You Care For Some Parents, Hiding a Dead Body Shows How Much You Care |
| 2021-Oct-25 • 3 minutes Date of the Vikings' First Atlantic Crossing Revealed by Rays from Space By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021. |
| 2021-Oct-22 • 7 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People |
| 2021-Oct-20 • 5 minutes How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse? How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse? |
| 2021-Oct-15 • 7 minutes Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 6 minutes The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Universe [Sponsored] Ewine van Dishoeck received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in 2018 for elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets. What other mysteries of space are left to be uncovered? |
| 2021-Oct-13 • 8 minutes A Canary in an Ice-Rich, Slumping Rock Glacier in Alaska A Canary in an Ice-Rich, Slumping Rock Glacier in Alaska |
| 2021-Oct-08 • 5 minutes COVID Quickly, Episode 16: Vaccines Protect Pregnancies and a New Antiviral Pill COVID Quickly, Episode 16: Vaccines Protect Pregnancies and a New Antiviral Pill |
| 2021-Oct-05 • 6 minutes The Mystery of Water Drops That Skate Across Oil at Impossible Speeds The speed of these self-propelling droplets on a hot-oil surface seemed to defy physics until researchers broke out the super-slow-motion camera. |
| 2021-Oct-01 • 4 minutes Night Flights Are No Sweat for Tropical Bees New research uses night vision to see how nocturnal bees navigate the dark. |
| 2021-Sep-28 • 3 minutes These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change |
| 2021-Sep-24 • 8 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 15: Booster Shot Approvals--plus Vaccines for Kids? COVID, Quickly, Episode 15: Booster Shot Approvals--plus Vaccines for Kids? |
| 2021-Sep-21 • 4 minutes Dinosaurs Lived--and Made Little Dinos--in the Arctic Dinosaurs Lived--and Made Little Dinos--in the Arctic |
| 2021-Sep-17 • 5 minutes During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities |
| 2021-Sep-15 • 4 minutes A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 8 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan |
| 2021-Sep-09 • 7 minutes The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Atoms [Sponsored] Gerd Binnig shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention had on nanoscience? |
| 2021-Sep-08 • 3 minutes In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects |
| 2021-Sep-03 • 5 minutes These Baby Bats, like Us, Were Born to Babble The greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do. |
| 2021-Aug-31 • 6 minutes Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida |
| 2021-Aug-27 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters |
| 2021-Aug-24 • 4 minutes Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything' Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything' |
| 2021-Aug-20 • 6 minutes Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic |
| 2021-Aug-17 • 6 minutes The Incredible, Reanimated 24,000-Year-Old Rotifer The Incredible, Reanimated 24,000-Year-Old Rotifer |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 3 minutes Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes. |
| 2021-Aug-10 • 7 minutes Inside Millions of Invisible Droplets, Potential Superbug Killers Grow New research has created microscopic antibiotic factories in droplets that measure a trillionth of liter in volume. |
| 2021-Aug-04 • 3 minutes The Secret behind Songbirds' Magnetic Migratory Sense A molecule found in the retinas of European robins seems to be able to sense weak magnetic fields, such as that of Earth, after it is exposed to light. |
| 2021-Jul-30 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots |
| 2021-Jul-22 • 6 minutes The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Touch [Sponsored] The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Touch [Sponsored] |
| 2021-Jul-21 • 3 minutes Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats' Radar Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats' Radar |
| 2021-Jul-16 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 11: Vaccine Booster Shots, and Reopening Offices Safely COVID, Quickly, Episode 11: Vaccine Booster Shots, and Reopening Offices Safely |
| 2021-Jul-07 • 4 minutes Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning |
| 2021-Jul-01 • 7 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 10: Long Haulers, Delta Woes and Barbershop Shots COVID, Quickly, Episode 10: Long Haulers, Delta Woes and Barbershop Shots |
| 2021-Jun-23 • 5 minutes This Newly Discovered Species of Tree Hyrax Goes Bark in the Night This Newly Discovered Species of Tree Hyrax Goes Bark in the Night |
| 2021-Jun-18 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots |
| 2021-Jun-16 • 5 minutes Animal Kids Listen to Their Parents Even before Birth Animal Kids Listen to Their Parents Even before Birth |
| 2021-Jun-11 • 2 minutes For African Elephants, Pee Could Be a Potent Trail Marker For African Elephants, Pee Could Be a Potent Trail Marker |
| 2021-Jun-09 • 5 minutes A 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic A 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic |
| 2021-Jun-04 • 5 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic's True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic's True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate |
| 2021-Jun-03 • 4 minutes Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age, Most Adorable Study of the Year Confirms Researchers in the happiest lab in the world tested 375 pups and found they connected with people by eight weeks |
| 2021-Jun-02 • 5 minutes New 3-D-Printed Material Is Tough, Flexible--and Alive New 3-D-Printed Material Is Tough, Flexible--and Alive |
| 2021-May-28 • 4 minutes Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound |
| 2021-May-26 • 3 minutes The Dirty Secret behind Some of the World's Earliest Microscopes The Dirty Secret behind Some of the World's Earliest Microscopes |
| 2021-May-21 • 7 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 7: The Coming Pandemic Grief Wave, and Mask Whiplash COVID, Quickly, Episode 7: The Coming Pandemic Grief Wave, and Mask Whiplash |
| 2021-May-20 • 8 minutes Math and Sleuthing Help to Explain Epidemics of the Past One mathematician has spend decades uncovering the deadly calculations of pestilence and plague, sometimes finding data that were hiding in plain sight. |
| 2021-May-14 • 2 minutes Who Laps Whom on the Walking Track--Tyrannosaurus rex or You? Science Has a New Answer Who Laps Whom on the Walking Track--Tyrannosaurus rex or You? Science Has a New Answer |
| 2021-May-11 • 4 minutes Artificial Light Keeps Mosquitoes Biting Late into the Night Artificial Light Keeps Mosquitoes Biting Late into the Night |
| 2021-May-07 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 6: The Real Reason for India's Surge and Mask Liftoff COVID, Quickly, Episode 6: The Real Reason for India's Surge and Mask Liftoff |
| 2021-May-04 • 5 minutes Male Lyrebirds Lie to Get Sex It seems like the males will do anything, even fake nearby danger, to get females to stick around to mate. |
| 2021-Apr-27 • 4 minutes Lovebirds Adore Our Inefficient Air-Conditioning Lovebirds Adore Our Inefficient Air-Conditioning |
| 2021-Apr-23 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 5: Vaccine Safety in Pregnancy, Blood Clots and Long-Haul Realities COVID, Quickly, Episode 5: Vaccine Safety in Pregnancy, Blood Clots and Long-Haul Realities |
| 2021-Apr-20 • 3 minutes Beehives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes Beehives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes |
| 2021-Apr-16 • 2 minutes These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs |
| 2021-Apr-12 • 5 minutes To Fight Climate Change: Grow a Floating Forest, Then Sink It To Fight Climate Change: Grow a Floating Forest, Then Sink It |
| 2021-Apr-09 • 5 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 4: The Virtual Vaccine Line and Shots for Kids COVID, Quickly, Episode 4: The Virtual Vaccine Line and Shots for Kids |
| 2021-Apr-07 • 8 minutes Big Physics News: The Muon g-2 Experiment Explained Particles called muons are behaving weirdly, and that could mean a huge discovery. |
| 2021-Apr-05 • 4 minutes Boston's Pigeons Coo, 'Wicked'; New York's Birds Coo, 'Fuhgeddaboudit' Boston's Pigeons Coo, 'Wicked'; New York's Birds Coo, 'Fuhgeddaboudit' |
| 2021-Mar-31 • 5 minutes Imperiled Freshwater Turtles Are Eating Plastics--Science Is Just Revealing the Threat We know a lot about how sea turtles are threatened by our trash, but new research has just uncovered an underreported threat hiding inside lakes and rivers. |
| 2021-Mar-26 • 5 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 3: Vaccine Inequality--plus Your Body the Variant Fighter COVID, Quickly, Episode 3: Vaccine Inequality--plus Your Body the Variant Fighter |
| 2021-Mar-24 • 3 minutes Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors |
| 2021-Mar-18 • 4 minutes Smartphones Can Hear the Shape of Your Door Keys Can you pick a lock with just a smartphone? New research shows that doing so is possible. |
| 2021-Mar-16 • 5 minutes Chimpanzees Show Altruism while Gathering around the Juice Fountain New research tries to tease out whether our closest animal relatives can be selfless |
| 2021-Mar-11 • 6 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 2: Lessons from a Pandemic Year COVID, Quickly, Episode 2: Lessons from a Pandemic Year |
| 2021-Mar-09 • 2 minutes That Mouse in Your House--It's Smarter, Thanks to You That Mouse in Your House--It's Smarter, Thanks to You |
| 2021-Mar-04 • 4 minutes Kangaroos with Puppy Dog Eyes Kangaroos with Puppy Dog Eyes |
| 2021-Feb-26 • 4 minutes COVID, Quickly, Episode 1: Vaccines, Variants and Diabetes COVID, Quickly, Episode 1: Vaccines, Variants and Diabetes |
| 2021-Feb-25 • 8 minutes Machine Learning Pwns Old-School Atari Games Machine Learning Pwns Old-School Atari Games |
| 2021-Feb-22 • 4 minutes E-Eggs Track Turtle Traffickers Decoy sea turtle eggs containing tracking tech are new weapons against beach poachers and traffickers. |
| 2021-Feb-10 • 3 minutes Bromances Could Lead to More Romances for Male Hyenas Bromances Could Lead to More Romances for Male Hyenas |
| 2021-Feb-05 • 4 minutes A Heroic Effort to Measure Helium After an intense game of cat and mouse with different particles, atomic physicists have measured the radius of the helium nucleus five times more precisely than before. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2021-Feb-01 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the World Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Costa Rica about decoy sea turtle eggs with the potential to catch poachers. |
| 2021-Jan-28 • 2 minutes Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India |
| 2021-Jan-21 • 3 minutes Ancient Dogs Had Complex Genetic Histories Ancient Dogs Had Complex Genetic Histories |
| 2021-Jan-11 • 5 minutes Bees Use 'Bullshit' Defense to Keep Giant Hornets at Bay The prospect of death by giant hornet has pushed some Asian honeybees to resort to a poop-based defense system |
| 2021-Jan-07 • 2 minutes Humans May Have Befriended Wolves with Meat Humans May Have Befriended Wolves with Meat |
| 2021-Jan-06 • 5 minutes How to Avoid Becoming a Meal for a Cheetah Researchers help farmers in Namibia avoid costly cattle losses by tracking big cat hangouts |
| 2021-Jan-01 • 2 minutes How the Coronavirus Pandemic Shaped Our Language in 2020 How the Coronavirus Pandemic Shaped Our Language in 2020 |
| 2020-Dec-28 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the Planet Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Panama about the toll lightning takes on tropical trees. |
| 2020-Dec-22 • 3 minutes Ravens Measure Up to Great Apes on Intelligence Ravens Measure Up to Great Apes on Intelligence |
| 2020-Dec-21 • 3 minutes Baby Bees Deprive Caregivers of Sleep Bee larvae and pupae appear to secrete a chemical that does the work of a late-night cup of coffee for their nurses. |
| 2020-Dec-17 • 5 minutes How the Wolves Change the Forest How the Wolves Change the Forest |
| 2020-Dec-16 • 3 minutes Brain Sides Are Both Busy in New Language Learning A study of adults learning a new language found that speaking primarily activated regions in the left side of the brain, but reading and listening comprehension were much more variable |
| 2020-Dec-12 • 4 minutes Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum Nanoparticles that attach to photoreceptors allowed mice to see infrared and near-infrared light for up to two months. |
| 2020-Dec-11 • 4 minutes This Bat Wears a Face Mask The wrinkle-faced bat covers its face with a flap of skin, seemingly as part of its courtship rituals. |
| 2020-Dec-02 • 2 minutes The Denisovans Expand Their Range into China The Denisovans Expand Their Range into China |
| 2020-Nov-30 • 3 minutes Undersea Earthquakes Reveal Sound Warming Info Travel time differences for sound waves produced by undersea earthquakes in the same place at different times can provide details about ocean warming. |
| 2020-Nov-24 • 3 minutes Duckbill Dino Odyssey Ended in Africa Duckbill Dino Odyssey Ended in Africa |
| 2020-Nov-18 • 2 minutes Early Mammals Had Social Lives, Too Chipmunklike animals that lived among the dinosaurs appear to have been social creatures, which suggests that sociality arose in mammals earlier than scientists thought. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Nov-17 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from All Over Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one, from the dormant volcano Llullaillaco in Chile, about a mouse that is the highest-dwelling mammal ever documented. |
| 2020-Nov-12 • 3 minutes Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy |
| 2020-Nov-10 • 4 minutes Zebra Coloration Messes With Fly Eyes Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern. |
| 2020-Nov-06 • 10 minutes Science Sound(E)scapes: Head Banging and Howling in the Amazon Science Sound(E)scapes: Head Banging and Howling in the Amazon |
| 2020-Nov-05 • 7 minutes Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Frog Choruses at Night Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Frog Choruses at Night |
| 2020-Nov-04 • 10 minutes Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Pink River Dolphins Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Pink River Dolphins |
| 2020-Nov-03 • 4 minutes Frog Vocals Lead to Small Preference The concave-eared torrent frog's unusual ear anatomy lets it hear high-frequency calls, which gives a mating advantage to the littler males that sing soprano. |
| 2020-Nov-02 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the Globe Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from the United Arab Emirates about the the first interplanetary mission by an Arab country. |
| 2020-Nov-01 • 4 minutes Election Science Stakes: Technology Election Science Stakes: Technology |
| 2020-Oct-30 • 4 minutes Election Science Stakes: Energy Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti and associate editor Andrea Thompson talk about this election and the future of U.S. energy research and policy. |
| 2020-Oct-29 • 3 minutes Election Science Stakes: Environment Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti talks about how this election will affect environmental science and policy. |
| 2020-Oct-28 • 4 minutes Election Science Stakes: Climate Election Science Stakes: Climate |
| 2020-Oct-27 • 4 minutes Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health |
| 2020-Oct-26 • 2 minutes Election 2020: The Stakes for Science Election 2020: The Stakes for Science |
| 2020-Oct-25 • 3 minutes Why Some Easter Island Statues Are Where They Are Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there. |
| 2020-Oct-23 • 4 minutes Acorn Woodpeckers Fight Long, Bloody Territorial Wars More than 40 of the birds, in coalitions of three or four, may fight for days over oak trees in which to store their acorns. |
| 2020-Oct-22 • 2 minutes Funky Cheese Rinds Release an Influential Stench Funky Cheese Rinds Release an Influential Stench |
| 2020-Oct-21 • 3 minutes Dinosaur Asteroid Hit Worst-Case Place Dinosaur Asteroid Hit Worst-Case Place |
| 2020-Oct-20 • 3 minutes River Ecosystem Restoration Can Mean Just Add Water River Ecosystem Restoration Can Mean Just Add Water |
| 2020-Oct-18 • 2 minutes 3,000-Year-Old Orbs Provide a Glimpse of Ancient Sport Researchers say three ancient leather balls, dug up from the tombs of horsemen in northwestern China, are the oldest such specimens from Europe or Asia. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Oct-16 • 3 minutes Humans Make Wild Animals Less Wary From mammals to mollusks, animals living among humans lose their antipredator behaviors. |
| 2020-Oct-13 • 3 minutes Play Helped Dogs Be Our Best Friends Play Helped Dogs Be Our Best Friends |
| 2020-Oct-10 • 2 minutes Neandertal DNA May Be COVID Risk Neandertal DNA May Be COVID Risk |
| 2020-Oct-08 • 3 minutes Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses |
| 2020-Oct-07 • 3 minutes Blue Whale Song Timing Reveals Time to Go Blue Whale Song Timing Reveals Time to Go |
| 2020-Oct-05 • 3 minutes New Nobel Laureate Talks Today's Virology Charles Rice, who today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, talked about how rapidly research now occurs, compared with his early work. |
| 2020-Oct-03 • 2 minutes Greenland Is Melting Faster Than Any Time in Past 12,000 Years Researchers determined that Greenland is on track to lose more ice this century than during any of the previous 120 centuries. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Oct-02 • 4 minutes Sloths Slowly Cavort by Day Now The disappearance of their predators in a disturbed ecosystem has turned Atlantic forest sloths from night creatures to day adventurers. |
| 2020-Sep-28 • 3 minutes Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too |
| 2020-Sep-24 • 2 minutes Fluttering Feathers Could Spawn New Species Fluttering Feathers Could Spawn New Species |
| 2020-Sep-22 • 2 minutes Science News from around the World Science News from around the World |
| 2020-Sep-17 • 4 minutes These Small Mammals Snort to a Different Tune These Small Mammals Snort to a Different Tune |
| 2020-Sep-16 • 3 minutes Ice Age Temperatures Help Predict Future Warming Ice Age Temperatures Help Predict Future Warming |
| 2020-Sep-15 • 2 minutes High-Elevation Hummingbirds Evolved a Temperature Trick High-Elevation Hummingbirds Evolved a Temperature Trick |
| 2020-Sep-14 • 4 minutes Why Pet Pigs Are More like Wolves Than Dogs Why Pet Pigs Are More like Wolves Than Dogs |
| 2020-Sep-10 • 2 minutes Bricks Can Be Turned into Batteries Pumping cheap iron-oxide-rich red bricks with specific vapors that form polymers enables the bricks to become electrical-charge-storage devices. |
| 2020-Sep-09 • 2 minutes Leftovers Are a Food-Waste Problem Researchers found that leftovers are likely to end up in the trash, so they advise cooking smaller meals in the first place to avoid food waste. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Sep-08 • 3 minutes Some Dinosaurs Probably Nested in Arctic The finding of a baby dinosaur fossil in the Arctic implies that some dinos nested in the region, which was milder than today but not toasty. |
| 2020-Sep-03 • 2 minutes Star Systems Can Be Born Topsy-Turvy Astronomers observed an odd triple-star system that offers clues about misaligned planetary orbits. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Sep-02 • 2 minutes Death by Lightning Is Common for Tropical Trees A study estimates that 200 million trees in the tropics are mowed down by lightning annually. |
| 2020-Aug-31 • 2 minutes Science Briefs from around the World Science Briefs from around the World |
| 2020-Aug-28 • 3 minutes Alaska's Salmon Are Shrinking Alaska's Salmon Are Shrinking |
| 2020-Aug-27 • 3 minutes End of 'Green Sahara' May Have Spurred a Megadrought in Southeast Asia That drought may have brought about societal shifts in the region 5,000 years ago. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Aug-26 • 3 minutes White Rhinos Eavesdrop to Know Who's Who White Rhinos Eavesdrop to Know Who's Who |
| 2020-Aug-21 • 2 minutes Prehistoric Marine Reptile Died after a Giant Meal Prehistoric Marine Reptile Died after a Giant Meal |
| 2020-Aug-19 • 3 minutes Cows with Eye Images Keep Predators in Arrears Butterflies, fish and frogs sport rear-end eyespots that reduce predation. Painting eye markings on cows similarly seems to ward off predators. |
| 2020-Aug-18 • 3 minutes Warbler Species Fires Up Song Diversity Hermit warblers in California have developed 35 different song dialects, apparently as a result of wildfires temporarily driving them out of certain areas. |
| 2020-Aug-12 • 2 minutes Why Lava Worlds Shine Brightly (It's Not the Lava) Why Lava Worlds Shine Brightly (It's Not the Lava) |
| 2020-Aug-11 • 3 minutes Aardvarks Are Ailing amid Heat and Drought Aardvarks Are Ailing amid Heat and Drought |
| 2020-Aug-07 • 3 minutes The World's Highest-Dwelling Mammal Lives atop a Volcano Scientists spotted a mouse at the summit of Llullaillaco, a 22,000-foot-tall volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Julia Rosen reports. |
| 2020-Aug-05 • 1 minutes Dampening of the Senses Is Linked to Dementia Risk A decline in smell was the sense loss most strongly associated with such risk in a recent study. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Aug-04 • 3 minutes Translucent Frog Optics Create Camo Color Translucent Frog Optics Create Camo Color |
| 2020-Aug-03 • 3 minutes Paired Comparisons Could Mean Better Witness Identifications Compared with traditional lineup techniques, a series of two-faces-at-a-time choices led to more accurate identification by study witnesses. |
| 2020-Aug-02 • 3 minutes Foxes Have Dined on Our Leftovers for 30,000 Years Foxes Have Dined on Our Leftovers for 30,000 Years |
| 2020-Jul-31 • 3 minutes Mexico Caves Reveal Ancient Ocher Mining Mexico Caves Reveal Ancient Ocher Mining |
| 2020-Jul-27 • 2 minutes In Bee Shortage, Bubbles Could Help Pollinate Soap bubbles are sticky enough to carry a pollen payload and delicate enough to land on flowers without harm. |
| 2020-Jul-26 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the Planet Science News Briefs from around the Planet |
| 2020-Jul-25 • 2 minutes Seismologists Find the World Quieted Down during Pandemic Lockdowns Seismologists Find the World Quieted Down during Pandemic Lockdowns |
| 2020-Jul-24 • 3 minutes Old Art Offers Agriculture Info Art museums are filled with centuries-old paintings with details of plants that today give us clues about evolution and breeding practices. |
| 2020-Jul-23 • 3 minutes How COVID-19 Decreases Weather Forecast Accuracy How COVID-19 Decreases Weather Forecast Accuracy |
| 2020-Jul-22 • 3 minutes Cricket Avoids Being Bat Food by Doing Nothing Cricket Avoids Being Bat Food by Doing Nothing |
| 2020-Jul-21 • 2 minutes Speaker System Blocks City Noise Speaker System Blocks City Noise |
| 2020-Jul-20 • 3 minutes Civil War Vaccine May Have Lessons for COVID-19 Vaccination used against smallpox during the Civil War reveals the identity of the distantly related virus used to keep troops disease-free. |
| 2020-Jul-16 • 3 minutes Can People ID Infectious Disease by Cough and Sneeze Sounds? Can People ID Infectious Disease by Cough and Sneeze Sounds? |
| 2020-Jul-13 • 2 minutes Why Some Birds Are Likely To Hit Buildings Those that eat insects, migrate or usually live in the woods are most likely to fly into buildings that feature a lot of glass. |
| 2020-Jul-11 • 3 minutes Sparrow Song Undergoes Key Change White-throated sparrows made a change to their familiar call that quickly spread across Canada. |
| 2020-Jul-09 • 4 minutes Polynesians and Native South Americans Made 12th-Century Contact Scientists have found snippets of Native South American DNA in the genomes of present-day Polynesians, and they trace the contact to the year 1150. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Jul-08 • 3 minutes Animals Appreciate Recent Traffic Lull Researchers saw a third fewer vehicle collisions with deer, elk, moose and other large mammals in the four weeks following COVID-19 shutdowns in three states they tracked. |
| 2020-Jul-07 • 3 minutes Bat Says Hi as It Hunts Bat Says Hi as It Hunts |
| 2020-Jul-06 • 2 minutes Forests Getting Younger and Shorter Old, big trees are dying faster than in the past, leaving younger, less biodiverse forests that store less carbon worldwide. |
| 2020-Jul-02 • 2 minutes Young Great White Sharks Eat off the Floor Young Great White Sharks Eat off the Floor |
| 2020-Jul-01 • 2 minutes Tweets Reveal Politics of COVID-19 Tweets Reveal Politics of COVID-19 |
| 2020-Jun-30 • 3 minutes Nature's Goods and Services Get Priced The gross ecosystem product, or GEP, tries to take into account the contribution of nature to the economy. |
| 2020-Jun-29 • 3 minutes Animal Migrations Track Climate Change Animal Migrations Track Climate Change |
| 2020-Jun-24 • 2 minutes Science Briefs from around the World Science Briefs from around the World |
| 2020-Jun-19 • 2 minutes Stiffer Roads Could Drive Down Carbon Emissions Stiffer Roads Could Drive Down Carbon Emissions |
| 2020-Jun-18 • 3 minutes Unicorns of the Sea Reveal Sound Activities Narwhals, recognizable by their large single tusk, make distinct sounds that are now being analyzed in depth by researchers. |
| 2020-Jun-16 • 3 minutes Human Speech Evolution Gets Lip-Smacking Evidence A study of our closest evolutionary relatives finds that the chimp behavior known as lip smacking occurs in the same timing range as human mouths during speech. |
| 2020-Jun-15 • 3 minutes Printed Coral Could Provide Reef Relief Three-dimensional printed coral-like structures were able to support the algae that live in real corals, which could help restore reefs and grow algae for bioenergy production. |
| 2020-Jun-11 • 2 minutes 'Snot Palaces' Reveal Undersea Creature Secrets 'Snot Palaces' Reveal Undersea Creature Secrets |
| 2020-Jun-09 • 3 minutes Helping Kids Cope with COVID-19 Worries Helping Kids Cope with COVID-19 Worries |
| 2020-Jun-08 • 3 minutes Ancient DNA Rewrites Dead Sea Scroll History By sequencing DNA from the dust of dead sea scrolls, scientists were able to glean new clues about the ancient manuscripts. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Jun-07 • 3 minutes Whale Protections Need Not Cause Lobstering Losses Right whales, other whales and turtles get caught in lobster trap lines, but fewer lines can maintain the same lobster catch levels. |
| 2020-Jun-06 • 3 minutes How to Keep COVID-19 Conspiracies Contained An expert on climate denial offers tips for inoculating people against coronavirus conspiracy notions. |
| 2020-Jun-02 • 3 minutes Bioluminescence Helps Prey Avoid Hungry Seals Prey animals flash biochemically produced light to confuse elephant seals hunting in the dark. But at least one seal turned the tables. |
| 2020-Jun-01 • 3 minutes 3 Words Mislead Online Regional Mood Analysis 3 Words Mislead Online Regional Mood Analysis |
| 2020-May-31 • 3 minutes COVID Has Changed Soundscapes Worldwide The Silent Cities project is collecting sound from cities around the planet during the coronavirus pandemic to give researchers a database of natural sound in areas usually filled with human-generated noise. |
| 2020-May-28 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from All Over Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about an incredibly well-preserved horned lark ( Eremophila alpestris ), like the one pictured, that lived 46,000 years ago. |
| 2020-May-27 • 2 minutes Colorful Corals Beat Bleaching Colorful Corals Beat Bleaching |
| 2020-May-22 • 3 minutes Skinny Genes Tell Fat to Burn A gene whose mutated form is associated with cancer in humans turns out to have a role in burning calories over a long evolutionary history. |
| 2020-May-21 • 3 minutes Malaria Mosquitoes Are Biting before Bed-Net Time Mosquitoes that like to bite at night are being thwarted by bed nets, leading to the rise of populations that prefer to bite when the nets are not up yet. |
| 2020-May-15 • 2 minutes We're Being Tested President Trump pointed out yesterday that if we didn't do any testing for the virus we would have very few cases, which forces us to confront the issues posed by testing in general. |
| 2020-May-14 • 3 minutes Barn Owl Babies Can Be Helpful Hatch Mates Food sharing is mainly found in adult animals as a part of social bonding. But in a rarely observed behavior in birds, older barn owl chicks will share food with younger ones. |
| 2020-May-12 • 3 minutes Donut Sugar Could Help Stored Blood Last Donut Sugar Could Help Stored Blood Last |
| 2020-May-11 • 3 minutes Lemur Flirting Uses Common Scents Lemur Flirting Uses Common Scents |
| 2020-May-07 • 3 minutes Flamingos Can Be Picky about Company Flamingos Can Be Picky about Company |
| 2020-May-05 • 3 minutes Horses Recognize Pics of Their Keepers Horses picked out photographs of their current keepers, and even of former keepers whom they had not seen in months, at a rate much better than chance. |
| 2020-May-01 • 3 minutes Tapirs Help Reforestation via Defecation Tapirs Help Reforestation via Defecation |
| 2020-Apr-30 • 3 minutes Virus-Infected Bees Practice Social Distancing Virus-Infected Bees Practice Social Distancing |
| 2020-Apr-29 • 3 minutes New Data on Killer House Cats Wild cats kill more animals than domestic ones do. But pet cats kill many more of them in a small area than similarly sized wild predators. |
| 2020-Apr-28 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the World Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about what the eruption of Mount Vesuvius might have done to one ill-fated resident of Herculaneum. |
| 2020-Apr-22 • 3 minutes Birds on Rhinos' Back Help Them Avoid Poachers Oxpeckers riding on rhinoceroses feast on ticks, and their calls warn the nearsighted herbivores about approaching humans. |
| 2020-Apr-21 • 3 minutes Jane Goodall: We Can Learn from This Pandemic Jane Goodall: We Can Learn from This Pandemic |
| 2020-Apr-20 • 2 minutes Our 3,000th Episode Our 3,000th Episode |
| 2020-Apr-17 • 3 minutes How Herbivore Herds Might Help Permafrost Introducing herds of large herbivores in the Arctic would disturb surface snow, allowing cold air to reach the ground and keep the permafrost frosty. |
| 2020-Apr-15 • 3 minutes Lung Cancer Screen Could Be Easy Pee-sy In mice, a test for lung cancer involves nanoprobes that recognize tumors and send reporter molecules into the urine for simple analysis. |
| 2020-Apr-14 • 2 minutes Obama Talks Some Science Policy As he endorsed Joe Biden today, former president Barack Obama touched on some environmental, economic and science matters. |
| 2020-Apr-13 • 3 minutes Red-Winged Blackbirds Understand Yellow Warbler Alarms Researchers studying yellow warbler responses to the parasitic cowbird realized that red-winged blackbirds were eavesdropping on the calls and reacting to them, too. |
| 2020-Apr-10 • 3 minutes Waiter, What's This Worm Doing in My Sushi? Waiter, What's This Worm Doing in My Sushi? |
| 2020-Apr-09 • 3 minutes What's a Narwhal's Tusk For? Although the tusk can be a weapon, the variation in tusk length among animals of similar body size points to it being primarily a mating status signal. |
| 2020-Apr-07 • 2 minutes Coronavirus Misinformation Is Its Own Deadly Condition Pulitzer-winning Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, talks about the dangers of politicians offering coronavirus misinformation. |
| 2020-Apr-06 • 3 minutes Coronavirus Can Infect Cats Coronavirus Can Infect Cats |
| 2020-Apr-02 • 3 minutes Squid's Glowing Skin Patterns May Be Code Humboldt squid can rapidly change the pigmentation and luminescence patterns on their skin by contracting and relaxing their muscles, possibly to communicate. |
| 2020-Apr-01 • 3 minutes Bird Fossil Shared Earth with T. rex Bird Fossil Shared Earth with T. rex |
| 2020-Mar-31 • 3 minutes City Birds: Big-Brained with Few Offspring or Small-Brained with a Lot To make it in urban areas, birds tend to be either large-brained and able to produce few offspring or small-brained and extremely fertile. In natural habitats, most birds brains are of average size. |
| 2020-Mar-30 • 3 minutes Coyotes Eat Everything from Fruits to Cats Coyotes Eat Everything from Fruits to Cats |
| 2020-Mar-29 • 3 minutes Tiny Wormlike Creature May Be Our Oldest Known Ancestor The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago. |
| 2020-Mar-28 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the Planet Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain. |
| 2020-Mar-26 • 3 minutes Help Researchers Track COVID-19 Help Researchers Track COVID-19 |
| 2020-Mar-25 • 3 minutes Sick Vampire Bats Restrict Grooming to Close Family Sick Vampire Bats Restrict Grooming to Close Family |
| 2020-Mar-24 • 4 minutes Exponential Infection Increases Are Deadly Serious Listen in as I use two calculators to track the difference in numbers of infections over a short period of time, depending on how many people each infected individual infects on average. |
| 2020-Mar-21 • 3 minutes Swamp Wallaby Reproduction Give Tribbles a Run Swamp Wallaby Reproduction Give Tribbles a Run |
| 2020-Mar-19 • 3 minutes Ocean Plastic Smells Great to Sea Turtles Ocean Plastic Smells Great to Sea Turtles |
| 2020-Mar-17 • 2 minutes Ancient Clam Shell Reveals Shorter Day Length The growth layers in a 70-million-year-old clam shell indicate that a year back then had more than 370 days, with each day being only about 23.5 hours. |
| 2020-Mar-11 • 2 minutes Snapping Shrimp Make More Noise in Warmer Oceans As oceans heat up, the ubiquitous noise of snapping shrimp should increase, posing issues for other species and human seagoing ventures. |
| 2020-Mar-10 • 3 minutes Stress from Undersea Noise Interferes with Crab Camouflage In an example of how sea noise can harm species, exposed shore crabs changed camouflaging color sluggishly and were slower to flee from simulated predators. |
| 2020-Mar-04 • 3 minutes Indigenous Amazonians Managed Valuable Plant Life Studies on very old vegetation in the Amazon basin show active management hundreds of years ago on species such as Brazil nut and cocoa trees. |
| 2020-Mar-03 • 3 minutes Computers Confirm Beethoven's Influence Computers Confirm Beethoven's Influence |
| 2020-Mar-02 • 3 minutes Science News Briefs from around the World Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from off the California coast about the first heart rate measurement done on a blue whale. |
| 2020-Feb-25 • 3 minutes Jet Altitude Changes Cut Climate-Changing Contrails Jet Altitude Changes Cut Climate-Changing Contrails |
| 2020-Feb-24 • 3 minutes Thoroughbred Horses Are Increasingly Inbred Inbreeding in Thoroughbreds has increased significantly in the past 45 years, with the greatest rise occurring in the past 15 or so of them. |
| 2020-Feb-20 • 3 minutes Pablo Escobar's Hippos Could Endanger Colombian Ecology Pablo Escobar's Hippos Could Endanger Colombian Ecology |
| 2020-Feb-19 • 3 minutes Wasp Nests Help Date Aboriginal Art Art created by Australian Aboriginal people used organic carbon-free pigments, but wasp nests above or below the art can be used for radiocarbon dating that supplies boundaries for the age of artworks. |
| 2020-Feb-18 • 3 minutes Industrial Revolution Pollution Found in Himalayan Glacier Industrial Revolution Pollution Found in Himalayan Glacier |
| 2020-Feb-15 • 3 minutes Fight-or-Flight Nerves Make Mice Go Gray Fight-or-Flight Nerves Make Mice Go Gray |
| 2020-Feb-13 • 4 minutes Espresso May Be Better when Ground Coarser A very fine grind can actually hamper espresso brewing, because particles may clump more than larger particles will. |
| 2020-Feb-11 • 3 minutes Feral Dogs Respond to Human Hand Cues Feral Dogs Respond to Human Hand Cues |
| 2020-Feb-07 • 3 minutes Neandertals Tooled Around with Clams Neandertals ate clams and then modified the hard shells into tools for cutting and scraping. |
| 2020-Feb-06 • 2 minutes Fingering Fake Whiskeys with Isotopes Fingering Fake Whiskeys with Isotopes |
| 2020-Feb-05 • 2 minutes Having an Albatross around Your Boat By outfitting 169 albatrosses with GPS data loggers, scientists were able to track fishing boats apparently trying to hide their location. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Feb-03 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from All Over Science News Briefs from All Over |
| 2020-Feb-02 • 3 minutes Facts about Groundhogs Other Than Their Poor Meteorology Groundhogs are less accurate at weather forecasting than are coin flips, but they are nonetheless pretty interesting critters. |
| 2020-Feb-01 • 2 minutes Did Animal Calls Start in the Dark? Did Animal Calls Start in the Dark? |
| 2020-Jan-30 • 3 minutes Sign Languages Display Distinct Ancestries Well more than 100 distinct sign languages exist worldwide, with each having features that made it possible for researchers to create an evolutionary tree of their lineages. |
| 2020-Jan-26 • 2 minutes Docs Given Updated Opioid Prescribing Habit Docs Given Updated Opioid Prescribing Habit |
| 2020-Jan-25 • 2 minutes Some Wolf Pups Show Innate Fetching Talent Some wolf pups will play fetch with a stranger, suggesting that an ability to playfully interact with people could have come before, and played a role in, dog domestication. |
| 2020-Jan-24 • 3 minutes Barred Owls Invade the Sierra Nevada By listening to the sounds of the forest, biologists were able to identify an invasion of barred owls in spotted owl habitat. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Jan-23 • 4 minutes Curiosity Killed the ... Mouse? Curiosity Killed the ... Mouse? |
| 2020-Jan-17 • 2 minutes This Fish Knows How to Stick Around This Fish Knows How to Stick Around |
| 2020-Jan-15 • 2 minutes Antarctic Is Ripe for Invasive Species Mussels and crabs are two of the creatures most likely to invade Antarctica in the next 10 years, a panel of scientists say. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Jan-14 • 3 minutes Bacteria Helped Plants Evolve to Live on Land Bacteria Helped Plants Evolve to Live on Land |
| 2020-Jan-13 • 2 minutes Meteorite Contains Material Older Than Earth Meteorite Contains Material Older Than Earth |
| 2020-Jan-12 • 4 minutes Loss of Large Mammals Stamps Out Invertebrates, Too Loss of Large Mammals Stamps Out Invertebrates, Too |
| 2020-Jan-09 • 3 minutes Brittle Stars Can "See" without Eyes Brittle Stars Can "See" without Eyes |
| 2020-Jan-07 • 2 minutes Atlantic Puffins Spotted Using Tools Atlantic Puffins Spotted Using Tools |
| 2020-Jan-06 • 3 minutes Traffic Cameras Show Why the Yankees Should Suffer Fewer Injuries in 2020 Traffic Cameras Show Why the Yankees Should Suffer Fewer Injuries in 2020 |
| 2020-Jan-05 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the Globe A few brief reports about international science and technology from Indonesia to Spain, including one from Brazil about the highest-voltage electric eel ever discovered. |
| 2020-Jan-03 • 2 minutes Part of Real Paleo Diet: It's a Tuber In South Africa archaeologists found the charred remains of a roasted root vegetable. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2020-Jan-02 • 1 minutes You Traveled Far in 2019 Getting around the sun last year was some trip. |
| 2019-Dec-27 • 2 minutes Fido's Human Age Gets New Estimates By comparing how DNA gets altered over the lifetimes of people and dogs, researchers came up with a new way to compare canine years with human years. |
| 2019-Dec-26 • 1 minutes Gift Wrapping Is Effective Future Trash Research suggests people value gifts more when they have to unwrap them. But how do we avoid all the wasted paper? Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Dec-24 • 3 minutes Superstrong Fibers Could Be Hairy Situation Human hair tested stronger than thicker fibers from elephants, boars and giraffes, providing clues to materials scientists hoping to make superstrong synthetic fibers. |
| 2019-Dec-20 • 2 minutes Flaky Scalps Have a Unique Fungal Microbiome Flaky Scalps Have a Unique Fungal Microbiome |
| 2019-Dec-19 • 3 minutes Moths Flee or Face Bats, Depending on Toxicity Tiger moth species that contain bad-tasting and toxic compounds are nonchalant in the presence of bats, while edible moth species evade their predators. |
| 2019-Dec-18 • 2 minutes Ancient Seawall Found Submerged Ancient Seawall Found Submerged |
| 2019-Dec-14 • 3 minutes Citizen Scientists Deserve Journal Status Upgrade Citizen Scientists Deserve Journal Status Upgrade |
| 2019-Dec-13 • 3 minutes Not All Hydropower Is Climate-Considerate While some hydropower facilities release almost no greenhouse gases, others can actually be worse than burning fossil fuels. |
| 2019-Dec-12 • 2 minutes Certain Zip Codes Pick Losers Certain Zip Codes Pick Losers |
| 2019-Dec-11 • 3 minutes Linguists Hear an Accent Begin Residents of an overwintering station in Antarctica provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in speech that may signal the development of a new accent. |
| 2019-Dec-10 • 2 minutes Romans Would Roam for Wood Romans Would Roam for Wood |
| 2019-Dec-09 • 3 minutes When the Bellbird Calls, You Know It When the Bellbird Calls, You Know It |
| 2019-Dec-05 • 2 minutes Fishy Trick Lures Life Back to Coral Reefs Playing the sounds of a healthy reef near damaged corals may help bring the fish community back. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Dec-04 • 3 minutes Rain Forest Dwellers and Urbanites Have Consistently Different Microbiomes A study done in South America found that with increasing population density, humans had more diversity of fungi on the skin but less microbial diversity in the gut. |
| 2019-Dec-03 • 2 minutes Internet Cables Could Also Measure Quakes Internet Cables Could Also Measure Quakes |
| 2019-Dec-02 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from All Over A few brief reports about international science and technology from Mexico to Tanzania, including one about the need to quarantine bananas in Colombia that are potentially infected by a fungus. |
| 2019-Nov-29 • 2 minutes Subtle Ancient Footprints Come to Light Ground-penetrating radar can detect tiny density differences that lead to images of ancient footprints impossible to discern by eye. |
| 2019-Nov-25 • 2 minutes Ancient Rock Art Got a Boost From Bacteria Ancient Rock Art Got a Boost From Bacteria |
| 2019-Nov-24 • 3 minutes Ick Factor Is High Hurdle for Recycled Drinking Water Recycled wastewater can be cleaner than bottled water, but people still avoid drinking it because of their disgust over its past condition. |
| 2019-Nov-21 • 3 minutes Bots Outperform Humans if They Impersonate Us Bots Outperform Humans if They Impersonate Us |
| 2019-Nov-20 • 3 minutes Implanting Memories in Birds Reveals How Learning Happens Implanting Memories in Birds Reveals How Learning Happens |
| 2019-Nov-19 • 2 minutes Dogs Like Motion That Matches Sound Dogs Like Motion That Matches Sound |
| 2019-Nov-16 • 3 minutes Egyptian Vats 5,600 Years Old Were For Beer Brewing Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Hierakonpolis discovered five ceramic vats containing residues consistent with brewing beer. |
| 2019-Nov-13 • 3 minutes Famously Fickle Felines Are, in Fact, Clingy Cats are clingier to their human owners than their reputation would suggest. Karen Hopkin reports. |
| 2019-Nov-12 • 2 minutes Aversion to Broccoli May Have Genetic Roots Aversion to Broccoli May Have Genetic Roots |
| 2019-Nov-09 • 3 minutes Marine Mammal Epidemic Linked to Climate Change Marine Mammal Epidemic Linked to Climate Change |
| 2019-Nov-07 • 3 minutes Ant Colonies Avoid Traffic Jams Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock. |
| 2019-Nov-06 • 3 minutes Ranking Rise May Intimidate Opponents Ranking Rise May Intimidate Opponents |
| 2019-Nov-05 • 3 minutes Familiar Tunes Rapidly Jog the Brain Within just a third of a second of hearing a snippet of a familiar refrain, our pupils dilate, and the brain shows signs of recognition. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Nov-01 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the Globe A few brief reports about international science and technology from Brazil to Hong Kong, including one about male elephants in India exhibiting unusual social behaviors. |
| 2019-Oct-31 • 3 minutes We Owe Our Pumpkins to Pooping Megafauna We Owe Our Pumpkins to Pooping Megafauna |
| 2019-Oct-29 • 2 minutes Bird Egg Colors Are Influenced by Local Climate Bird Egg Colors Are Influenced by Local Climate |
| 2019-Oct-28 • 2 minutes Crabs Do a Maze Crabs Do a Maze |
| 2019-Oct-24 • 3 minutes Odd Bird Migrates Twice to Breed The phainopepla migrates from southern California to the desert Southwest to breed in the spring before flying to California coastal woodlands to do so again in summer. |
| 2019-Oct-23 • 3 minutes Piranha-Proof Fish Gives Inspiration for Body Armor Piranha-Proof Fish Gives Inspiration for Body Armor |
| 2019-Oct-22 • 3 minutes Galloping Ant Beats Saharan Heat The Saharan silver ant feeds on other insects that have died on the hot sands, which it traverses at breakneck (for an ant) speeds. |
| 2019-Oct-21 • 2 minutes Some Mosquito Repellents Act like Invisibility Cloaks Some Mosquito Repellents Act like Invisibility Cloaks |
| 2019-Oct-17 • 3 minutes Your Skull Shapes Your Hearing Your Skull Shapes Your Hearing |
| 2019-Oct-16 • 3 minutes Tardigrade Protein Protects DNA from Chemical Attack The Dsup protein protects DNA under conditions that create caustic free radical chemicals. |
| 2019-Oct-15 • 3 minutes "Mars-quakes" Could Reveal How Mars Was Built "Mars-quakes" Could Reveal How Mars Was Built |
| 2019-Oct-10 • 2 minutes Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back to Bigots Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back to Bigots |
| 2019-Oct-09 • 3 minutes Nobel in Chemistry for Lightweight Rechargeable Batteries Nobel in Chemistry for Lightweight Rechargeable Batteries |
| 2019-Oct-08 • 3 minutes Nobel in Physics for Exoplanets and Cosmology Nobel in Physics for Exoplanets and Cosmology |
| 2019-Oct-07 • 3 minutes Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels |
| 2019-Oct-06 • 3 minutes Teeth Tell Black Death Genetic Tale DNA from the teeth of medieval plague victims indicates the pathogen likely first arrived in eastern Europe before spreading across the continent. |
| 2019-Oct-05 • 2 minutes Tiny Worms Are Equipped to Battle Extreme Environments Tiny Worms Are Equipped to Battle Extreme Environments |
| 2019-Oct-02 • 2 minutes Heat Changes Insect Call, but It Still Works Tiny insects called treehoppers produce very different mating songs at higher versus lower temperatures, but the intended recipient still finds the changed songs attractive. |
| 2019-Oct-01 • 2 minutes Corals Can Inherit Symbiotic Adaptations to Warming Corals Can Inherit Symbiotic Adaptations to Warming |
| 2019-Sep-30 • 2 minutes Brains of Blind People Adapt in Similar Fashion The brains of those who are blind repurpose the vision regions for adaptive hearing, and they appear to do so in a consistent way. |
| 2019-Sep-29 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the World A few brief reports about international science and technology from Hungary to Japan, including one about a wine grape in France that DNA testing shows has been cultivated for almost a millennium. |
| 2019-Sep-25 • 3 minutes Musical Note Perception Can Depend on Culture Musical Note Perception Can Depend on Culture |
| 2019-Sep-24 • 2 minutes Nature Docs Avoid Habitat Destruction Nature Docs Avoid Habitat Destruction |
| 2019-Sep-19 • 3 minutes Heat Loss to Night Sky Powers Off-Grid Lights A slight temperature difference at night between a surface losing heat and the surrounding air can be harnessed to generate electricity to power lights. |
| 2019-Sep-18 • 2 minutes Early Butchers Used Small Stone Scalpels Homo erectus used hand axes to butcher elephants and other game. But a new study suggests they also used finer, more sophisticated blades. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Sep-17 • 2 minutes Microplastics in Fresh Water Are Mostly Laundry Lint Microplastic particles are everywhere, but in freshwater systems, 60 percent of particles are clothing lint from laundry. |
| 2019-Sep-16 • 3 minutes Kids Are Not Hurt by Screen Time A study finds no deleterious effects on mental health when kids spend their leisure time texting and engaging in other online activities. |
| 2019-Sep-13 • 3 minutes Lab-Grown Human Mini Brains Show Brainy Activity As the little structures grow, their constituents specialize into different types of brain cells, begin to form connections and emit brain waves. They could be useful models for development and neurological conditions. |
| 2019-Sep-12 • 2 minutes Eavesdropping Puts Anxious Squirrels at Ease Eavesdropping Puts Anxious Squirrels at Ease |
| 2019-Sep-11 • 3 minutes Earth's Magnetic Field Initiated a Pole Flip Many Millennia before the Switch Lava flow records and sedimentary and Antarctic ice core data show evidence of planetary magnetic field activity 20,000 years before the beginning of the last pole reversal. |
| 2019-Sep-10 • 3 minutes Humpback Whales Swap Songs at Island Hub Humpback Whales Swap Songs at Island Hub |
| 2019-Sep-09 • 3 minutes Food Expiration Dates May Mislead Consumers Food Expiration Dates May Mislead Consumers |
| 2019-Sep-05 • 2 minutes Farmland Is Also Optimal for Solar Power The conditions of sunlight, temperature, humidity and wind that make cropland good for agriculture also maximize solar panel efficiency. |
| 2019-Sep-04 • 2 minutes Chemical Tweak Recycles Polyurethane into Glue Chemical Tweak Recycles Polyurethane into Glue |
| 2019-Sep-03 • 3 minutes Cholesterol Climbs after Crows Chomp Cheeseburgers Cholesterol Climbs after Crows Chomp Cheeseburgers |
| 2019-Aug-30 • 3 minutes How Hurricanes Influence Spider Aggressiveness As Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida, consider that feeding style means that aggressive tangle-web spider colonies produce more offspring after severe weather, while docile colonies do better in calm conditions. |
| 2019-Aug-28 • 2 minutes Graphene Garment Blocks Blood-Sucking Skeeters Graphene Garment Blocks Blood-Sucking Skeeters |
| 2019-Aug-26 • 2 minutes Martian Winds Could Spread Microbe Hitchhikers Martian Winds Could Spread Microbe Hitchhikers |
| 2019-Aug-21 • 3 minutes Including Indigenous Voices in Genomics Including Indigenous Voices in Genomics |
| 2019-Aug-19 • 3 minutes West Point Uniforms Signify Explosive Chemistry West Point Uniforms Signify Explosive Chemistry |
| 2019-Aug-14 • 2 minutes Secrets of the Universe Trapped in Antarctic Snow Secrets of the Universe Trapped in Antarctic Snow |
| 2019-Aug-13 • 2 minutes Certain Personality Types Are Likely to Make a "Foodie Call" Certain Personality Types Are Likely to Make a "Foodie Call" |
| 2019-Aug-12 • 2 minutes Artificial Intelligence Sniffs Out Unsafe Foods Researchers trained machine-learning algorithms to read Amazon reviews for hints that a food product would be recalled by the FDA. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Aug-09 • 2 minutes A Computer Tells Real Smiles from Phonies Slight changes around the eyes are indeed a giveaway as to whether a smile is sincere or faked. |
| 2019-Aug-08 • 2 minutes Stare Down Gulls to Avoid Lunch Loss Researchers slowed the approach of greedy gulls by an average of 21 seconds by staring at the birds versus looking elsewhere. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Aug-07 • 3 minutes Real Laughs Motivate More Guffaws Honest, involuntary laughter cued people to laugh more at some really bad jokes than they did when hearing forced laughter. |
| 2019-Aug-05 • 2 minutes Extinction Wipes Out Evolution's Hard Work Extinction Wipes Out Evolution's Hard Work |
| 2019-Aug-03 • 2 minutes London Is Crawling with Drug-Resistant Microbes Nearly half of bacteria gathered in public settings around the city were resistant to two or more commonly used antibiotics, such as penicillin and erythromycin. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Aug-01 • 2 minutes Male Black Widows Poach Rivals' Approaches Male Black Widows Poach Rivals' Approaches |
| 2019-Jul-31 • 3 minutes Babies Want Fair Leaders Babies Want Fair Leaders |
| 2019-Jul-30 • 3 minutes Parrots Are Making the U.S. Home Parrots Are Making the U.S. Home |
| 2019-Jul-29 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from All Over A few brief reports about international science and technology from Guatemala to Australia, including one about the first recorded tornado in Nepal. |
| 2019-Jul-25 • 2 minutes Tourist Photographs Help African Wildlife Census Tourist Photographs Help African Wildlife Census |
| 2019-Jul-23 • 2 minutes For Ants, the Sky's the Compass For Ants, the Sky's the Compass |
| 2019-Jul-20 • 3 minutes Why Two Moonships Were Better Than One Engineer John Houbolt pushed for a smaller ship to land on the lunar surface while the command module stayed in orbit around the moon. |
| 2019-Jul-19 • 4 minutes One Small Scoop, One Giant Impact for Mankind Just before Neil Armstrong climbed back into the lunar module, he scooped up a few last-minute soil samples--which upturned our understanding of planetary formation. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Jul-18 • 2 minutes Investigating the Zombie Ant's "Death Grip" Investigating the Zombie Ant's "Death Grip" |
| 2019-Jul-16 • 3 minutes Attractive Young Females May Have Justice Edge Attractive Young Females May Have Justice Edge |
| 2019-Jul-15 • 3 minutes Tobacco Plants Made to Produce Useful Compounds A proof-of-concept study got transgenic tobacco plants to make a useful enzyme in their chloroplasts, not nuclei, minimizing chances for transfer to other organisms. |
| 2019-Jul-11 • 4 minutes Rhinos and Their Gamekeepers Benefit from AI Rhinos and Their Gamekeepers Benefit from AI |
| 2019-Jul-10 • 2 minutes Backpack Harvests Energy as You Walk Backpack Harvests Energy as You Walk |
| 2019-Jul-09 • 3 minutes Why Baseballs Are Flying in 2019 An analysis of the 2019 edition of the Major League baseball points to reasons why it's leaving ballparks at a record rate. |
| 2019-Jul-03 • 2 minutes Some Hot Dog Histology Some Hot Dog Histology |
| 2019-Jul-01 • 3 minutes Mind and Body Benefit from Two Hours in Nature Each Week Mind and Body Benefit from Two Hours in Nature Each Week |
| 2019-Jun-30 • 3 minutes Scientist Encourages Other Women Scientists to Make Themselves Heard Geneticist Natalie Telis noticed few women asking questions at scientific conferences. So she publicized the problem and set about to make a change. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Jun-27 • 2 minutes Male Bats Up Mating Odds with Mouth Morsels Males that allow females to take food right out of their mouths are more likely to sire offspring with their dining companions. |
| 2019-Jun-26 • 2 minutes Scientists Fool Flies with "Virtual Tastes" By switching fruit flies' sensory neurons on and off with light, scientists were able to create the sensation of sweet or bitter tastes. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Jun-25 • 2 minutes Wheat Plants "Sneeze" and Spread Disease Wheat Plants "Sneeze" and Spread Disease |
| 2019-Jun-24 • 3 minutes Elite Runners' Microbes Make Mice Mightier Mice that were fed bacteria isolated from elite athletes logged more treadmill time than other mice that got bacteria found in yogurt. |
| 2019-Jun-23 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from around the World A few brief reports about international science and technology from Canada to Kenya, including one about how humans thousands of years ago in what is now Argentina butchered and presumably ate giant ground sloths. |
| 2019-Jun-21 • 2 minutes Antiperspirant Boosts Armpit and Toe-Web Microbial Diversity Rather than wiping microbes out, antiperspirants and foot powders increased the diversity of microbial flora in armpits and between toes. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Jun-17 • 2 minutes Monkey Cousins Use Similar Calls Monkey Cousins Use Similar Calls |
| 2019-Jun-16 • 3 minutes How Millipedes Avoid Interspecies Sexual Slips Millipedes, often blind, have come up with clever physical signals to ward off sexual advances from members of wrong species. |
| 2019-Jun-13 • 3 minutes You Contain Multitudes of Microplastics People appear to consume between 74,000 and 121,000 microplastic particles annually, and that's probably a gross underestimate. |
| 2019-Jun-12 • 3 minutes A Biodegradable Label Doesn't Make It So A Biodegradable Label Doesn't Make It So |
| 2019-Jun-06 • 2 minutes High School Cheaters Nabbed by Neural Network Researchers trained a neural network to scrutinize high school essays and sniff out ghostwritten papers. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Jun-04 • 2 minutes Preserved Poop Is an Archaeological Treasure Anthropologists found parasite eggs in ancient poop samples, providing a glimpse of human health as hunter-gatherers transitioned to settlements. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Jun-03 • 2 minutes Remembering Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann, 1969 Nobel Laureate in Physics who identified the quark, died May 24th. |
| 2019-May-29 • 2 minutes Bonobo Mothers Supervise Their Sons' Monkey Business Bonobo Mothers Supervise Their Sons' Monkey Business |
| 2019-May-28 • 3 minutes Music May Orchestrate Better Brain Connectivity in Preterm Infants Preterm babies who listened to music in the neonatal intensive care unit had brain activity that more closely resembled that of full-term babies. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-May-23 • 2 minutes Icy Room Temperatures May Chill Productivity A new study suggests women's performance on math and verbal tasks increases as room temperature rises, up to about the mid 70s F. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-May-22 • 2 minutes Bird Beak Shapes Depend on More Than Diet Bird Beak Shapes Depend on More Than Diet |
| 2019-May-20 • 2 minutes Ancient Gum Gives Archaeologists Something to Chew On Chewing gums discovered in western Sweden contain the oldest human DNA found in Scandinavia. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-May-17 • 3 minutes Nobelist: Harness Evolution as a Problem-Solving Algorithm Frances Arnold, the Caltech scientist who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says evolution can show us how to solve problems of sustainability. |
| 2019-May-16 • 3 minutes Unread Books at Home Still Spark Literacy Habits Growing up in a home filled with books enhances enhances intellectual capacity in later life, even if you don't read them all. |
| 2019-May-15 • 3 minutes Kid Climate Educators Open Adult Eyes A study finds that kids, especially daughters, are effective at teaching their parents about climate issues. |
| 2019-May-14 • 2 minutes Penguin Poop Helps Biodiversity Bloom in Antarctica Penguin Poop Helps Biodiversity Bloom in Antarctica |
| 2019-May-13 • 3 minutes Ancient Whiz Opens Archaeology Window Ancient Whiz Opens Archaeology Window |
| 2019-May-08 • 2 minutes U.S. Coral Reefs Do $1.8 Billion of Work Per Year U.S. Coral Reefs Do $1.8 Billion of Work Per Year |
| 2019-May-06 • 2 minutes Could Air-Conditioners Help Cool the Planet? Could Air-Conditioners Help Cool the Planet? |
| 2019-May-02 • 3 minutes Chemists Investigate Casanova's Clap Chemists Investigate Casanova's Clap |
| 2019-May-01 • 3 minutes Software Sniffs Out Rat Squeaks Software Sniffs Out Rat Squeaks |
| 2019-Apr-30 • 2 minutes New Model Aims to Solve Mystery of the Moon's Formation Scientists propose that the moon could have formed when a Mars-sized object slammed into an Earth covered in magma seas. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Apr-29 • 2 minutes Cats Recognize Their Names—but May Not Respond Cats Recognize Their Names—but May Not Respond |
| 2019-Apr-27 • 2 minutes Science News Briefs from All Over A few brief reports about international science and technology from Liberia to Hawaii, including one on the discovery in Northern Ireland of soil bacteria that stop the growth of MRSA and other superbugs. |
| 2019-Apr-26 • 3 minutes Hurricane Maria Rain Amount Chances Are Boosted by Climate Change The likelihood of an event like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and of its massive precipitation, is fivefold higher in the climate of today than it would have been some 60 years ago |
| 2019-Apr-25 • 3 minutes Harder-Working Snakes Pack Stronger Venom Snake venom toxicity depends on snake size, energy requirements and environmental dimensionality more than on prey size. |
| 2019-Apr-24 • 2 minutes River Dolphins Have a Wide Vocal Repertoire Freshwater dolphins are evolutionary relics, and their calls give clues to the origins of cetacean communication in general. Christopher Intagliata reports. |
| 2019-Apr-23 • 2 minutes Honeybees Can Put Two and Two Together The tiny brain of a honeybee is apparently able to calculate small numbers' addition and subtraction. Annie Sneed reports. |