Thu, 30 March 2017
![]() This week, how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells into biocomputers, and a look at how underground labs in China are creating synthetic opioids for street sales in the United States with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic.
Caitlin Hicks Pries joins Julia Rosen to discuss her study of the response of soil carbon to a warming world.
And for this month’s book segment, Jen Golbeck talks to Rob Dunn about his book Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future.
[Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Music: Jeffrey Cook] |
Thu, 8 December 2016
![]() This week, we chat about cleaning blueberries with purple plasma, how Tibetan dogs adapted to high-altitude living, and who’s checking ocelot message boards with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Joe Paton about how we know time flies when mice are having fun.
[Image: Joseph Sites/USDA ARS; Music: Jeffrey Cook] |
Thu, 2 October 2014
Satellite data helps map the last unexplored terrain on planet Earth. |
Thu, 25 September 2014
New evidence reveals the complicated history of stone tool use 400,000 - 200,000 years ago. |
Thu, 18 September 2014
Hindcasting weather over the ocean near the California coast for 600 years. |
Thu, 11 September 2014
Frugal engineering for global health; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 4 September 2014
Bringing cellulosic ethanol to market; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 28 August 2014
Sharing microbes around the house; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 21 August 2014
Investigating web censorship practices in China; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 14 August 2014
Parenting from before conception; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 7 August 2014
A new class of gamma ray sources; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 31 July 2014
A new class of gamma ray sources; roundup of daily news. |
Thu, 24 July 2014
NIH opts to back researchers rather than research; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 17 July 2014
Controlling populations in the wild through genetic manipulation; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 10 July 2014
The fate of plastic that ends up at sea; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 3 July 2014
Psychedelic research resurgence; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 26 June 2014
Moths chasing odors; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 19 June 2014
Learning to read minds; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 12 June 2014
Mapping Mexico's genetically diverse population; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 5 June 2014
Taming the unwieldy web of global supply chains; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 29 May 2014
The impact of Tiananmen Square on science in China; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 22 May 2014
Inequality and health; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 15 May 2014
Measuring minute motions; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 8 May 2014
Marine archaeology on the Silk Road; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 1 May 2014
Climate and crops; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 24 April 2014
Tsetse fly genetics; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 17 April 2014
![]() A distinctive binary star system; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 10 April 2014
Fruitflies take evasive action; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 3 April 2014
Money battles; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 27 March 2014
BRCA1 turns 20; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 20 March 2014
Human odor discrimination; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 13 March 2014
What Google's Flu Trends can teach us about the pitfalls of big data; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 6 March 2014
![]() Celebrating crystallography's centennial; how climate pushes malaria uphill; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 27 February 2014
Treatment trials for Down Syndrome; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 20 February 2014
Eavesdropping on ecosystems; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. |
Thu, 13 February 2014
Termite-inspired builder robots; why some mammalian cells have so many copies of their chromosomes. |
Thu, 6 February 2014
![]() Tackling the role of early fetal brain development in autism; daily news stories with David Grimm. |
Thu, 30 January 2014
![]() Should we worry more about quantum decryption in the future or the past, how salt's role as a micronutrient may effect the global carbon cycle, and a daily news roundup. |
Thu, 23 January 2014
![]() The genome from a cancerous cell line that's been living for millenia, Opportinty's first 10 years on Mars, and a daily news roundup. |
Thu, 16 January 2014
![]() Hunter-gatherer gut microbes, fast moving mountains, and a daily news roundup. |
Thu, 9 January 2014
![]() Ocean-going vesicles; stories from our daily news site. |
Thu, 2 January 2014
![]() Britain's prehistoric stone monuments; stories from our daily news site. |
Thu, 19 December 2013
![]() Notable highlights from the year in science; Science's breakthrough of the year and runners up. |
Thu, 12 December 2013
![]() Fear-enhanced odor detection with John McGann; the latest from Curiosity’s hunt for traces of ancient life on Mars with Richard Kerr; and more. |
Thu, 5 December 2013
![]() Discussing the origin of transcriptional noise with Alvaro Sanchez; examining results from a drilling expedition at the Tohoku-oki fault; and looking at the potential benefits of snake venom with Kai Kupferschmidt. |
Thu, 28 November 2013
![]() Talking kids' science books with Maria Sosa; predicting happiness in marriage with James McNulty; investigating questionable scholarly publishing practices in China with Mara Hvistendahl. |
Thu, 21 November 2013
![]() The minimum requirements for a Y chromosome with Monika Ward; Eliot Marshall checks in on U.S.'s missile interception program 30 years later; Sylvia Zhu breaks down observations from the brightest gamma-ray burst. |
Thu, 14 November 2013
![]() The origin of dog domestication in Europe with Robert Wayne; Richard Lenski tracks the adaptation of bacteria over 50,000 generations; Robert Services describes the prospects of a new contender in solar technology. |