Science Update
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- http://www.scienceupdate.com
Science Update is the daily, one-minute radio feature of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS0. Broadcast nationally since 1988, Science Update covers research in all areas of science, from aardvarks to zygotes and even, on rare occasions, aardvark zygotes. We also answer listener questions phoned into our toll-free line 1-800-WHY-ISIT (4748) or emailed from our website, www.scienceupdate.com. Stories come from major scientific journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physics Review Letters and Science magazine, as well as major scientific conferences and the results of our reporters snooping around labs.
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The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains an embryonic planet in arrested development.
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Hearing acuity may be linked to touch sensitivity.
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
People who live around fewer varieties of plants, and whose skin carries fewer kinds of bacteria, are more likely to have allergies.
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
What would you do if given enough money?
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
People think others are larger and stronger if they’re holding a weapon in their hand.
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Researchers are breeding specialized fish that glow when exposed to industrial pollutants.
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Baby goats’ baas may contain a hidden message for their herdmates.
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Just by entering a room, you stir up millions of microorganisms.
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Can a smartphone app influence your dreams?
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Social anxiety can affect how you sense temperature.
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Eliminating bears, wolves, and other top predators has far-reaching consequences.
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Baboons can learn to distinguish English words from nonsense letter sequences.
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
A new technique can quickly identify a pathogen and size up its drug resistance, all with one test.
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Researchers have estimated the total number of Emperor Penguins in Antarctica using satellite images.
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
A microscopic capsule delivers chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells without damaging healthy cells.
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Raindrop impressions, preserved for 2.7 billion years, reveal clues about the early Earth's climate.
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Scientists have developed a plastic that repairs itself when damaged.
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Music and speech use the same tonal qualities to evoke happy and sad emotions.
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
People draw different conclusions from online symptom checkers, depending on how the symptoms are listed.
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
What caused Leonardo da Vinci’s famous self-portrait to yellow with time, and the genetics behind Vincent Van Gogh’s mutant sunflower paintings.
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
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