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Understanding the chemical composition of tomatoes could help manufacturers decrease the sugar content of processed foods.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
MRI scans of beatboxers show that they’ve unwittingly borrowed sounds from exotic languages.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A newly discovered but long-extinct whale species may have eaten sharks.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A world of bacterial life inhabits storm clouds high in the atmosphere.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Dung beetles use the Milky Way to roll their dung balls in a straight line.
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Migraine headaches are associated with lightning storms.
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Researchers have figured out how Staph bacteria transfer antibiotic resistance to one another.
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Fireflies are inspiring the design of more efficient LED lights.
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A growing understanding of inflammation may lead to new therapies for many diseases.
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Newborn babies have a preference for their mother's language over foreign languages.
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 01:01
Some dinosaurs may have used feathers to show off, much like some modern birds.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Chinese children's reading development has gone downhill since electronic communication technologies became common.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A type of plant can sense mating chemicals from fruit flies, and builds up its defenses when it does.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Female songbirds sometimes have a hard time separating truly worthy male crooners from the fly-by-night wannabees.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Big brains are detrimental in some animal species.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Gecko tails fall off along pre-determined lines.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The Twa people of Uganda climb trees with ease. A new study suggests that the trait may be the result of practical necessity.
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The blind mole rat, like its distant cousin the naked mole rat, never gets cancer.
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Climate change may have unraveled the sophisticated Maya empire.
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 01:00
The hormone oxytocin has many functions in the human body. Scientists now think it may also help deter cheating.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Chef Gift gives us a simple soup. Strangely, it's similar to a primordial soup.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Measuring the acoustical signatures of colliding football helmets could help improve helmet safety.
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Sophisticated computer imaging may help decode the world’s oldest un-deciphered written language.
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Evidence suggests that an ancestor of modern humans both walked upright and climbed trees.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 01:00
