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Fluoride protects teeth in surprising ways.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Our eyes’ ability to detect color deteriorates with age, but our brains compensate.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:43
Electrical stimulation to the brain can improve math performance.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...
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- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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Humans were polluting the air with lead as far back as 3,900 years ago.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The compound eyes of insects have inspired the design of a new camera.
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 01:00
A fun video game teaches college-level computer programming skills to 10-year-olds.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 01:00
“Nanosponges” in the bloodstream could mop up toxins from bacteria, bees, or snakes.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Playing soundwaves synchronized with a person's own deep sleep rhythms may improve short-term memory.
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:00
Olympic-level athletes have some enhanced cognitive abilities.
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Using frozen DNA, researchers have created early-stage embryos of an extinct frog.
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Advances in technology bring us new, visionary underwater devices to record and transmit observational data. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 05:20
Researchers have developed an implantable blood testing sensor that can monitor blood glucose levels and chemotherapy drugs, among other things.
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Mummies from a variety of different cultures show signs of heart disease.
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Fur seals sleep with on half of their brain at a time.
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Juana Acrivos, professor emeritus of chemistry at San Jose State University, reminds us that sometimes we must leave our expectations at the door—w...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 02:37
Did our ability to digest alcohol first emerge at the dawn of civilization or millions of years earlier?
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Scientists have reproduced a human ear using a 3-D printer.
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Ancient people had beneficial bacteria to fight dental plaque that is absent in modern populations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
One injection has eliminated the symptoms of Type I diabetes in dogs – for four years and counting.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00
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
Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 15:46
