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Science Nation Celebrates Its 100th Episode
Science Nation celebrates its 100th episode by speaking with its producers and looking back on some favorites thus far.
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SupraSensor could be super tool for precision agriculture
Preserving the environment and developing agricultural products that do not harm unintended targets are top priorities for many scientists and farmers, as well as environmentalists. It's a new era of crop management known as precision...
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The Secret Of A Snake's Slither
Snakes certainly make it look easy when they slither forward, leaving perfect S-curve tracks behind them, but scientists have long been puzzled by the mechanics of their locomotion. Now, after a series of experiments and some computer...
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Electric Fish Charges Up Research On Animal Behavior
An electric eel can generate enough current to stun its prey, just like a Taser. Weakly electric fish can also generate electricity but not enough to do any harm. ""Weakly electric fish are unique in that they produce and detect electric...
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Mapping The Genomes Of Crocodiles And Alligators - It's Not For The Faint Of Heart!
David Ray never turns his back on his research, and with good reason! Ray and his team study alligators, crocodiles, and bats, among other creatures. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), this multidisciplinary team...
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Bio-logging collar reveals unprecedented detail about California mountain lions
How do you get to know a free roaming California Mountain lion? Very carefully! Actually, you may never be able to spend time on the trail with a wild cat, but if the cat is wearing the new high tech collar designed by University of...
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Catching A Coral Killer
We often hear about insects and other animals passing on diseases to humans, so-called zoonotic diseases, such as rabies, cholera, West Nile virus, etc...Now, for the first time, researchers are examining a disease that humans are...
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Orangutan Copy Cats
Copying what others do is a familiar human trait; whether it's the latest teen craze in fashion or the way many of us, at any age, are eager to follow the crowd. With support from the National Science Foundation, primatologist Marietta...
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Science in Motion: Evolution Hits the Beach
A lively, informal look at a fossil that may represent the first vertebrate to emerge from the ancient seas, discovered by scientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard University and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
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Oil spill cleanups: finding the right chemistry
Sunlight plays a key role in the natural degradation of oil after a spill, oxygenating the oil so it dissolves in seawater and comes in contact with microbes that will break it down. But, under certain conditions, sunlight can have...
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The Future Of Farming
Food production is subject to a lot of forces, from trade deals to global competition, to the health of national economies, to the weather. Two experts provide a report card on farming today, and its likely trajectory in the years to come.
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Sounds Of Survival
Many animals communicate with members of their own species using specific sounds. These sounds are behaviorally relevant to the animals because they facilitate important behaviors such as maintaining a territory or finding offspring on...
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Researchers crack the ice to study the arctic marine food web
Scientists traveled to a town near the top of the world to study a creature at the bottom of the marine food chain--microscopic sea ice algae. Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, where a team of marine ecologists gears up to hit the sea...
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Dissecting the Covid Rebound
As the economy in the U.S. roars back to life, businesses are facing very different challenges and opportunities depending on their sector. How are businesses adapting to the post-Covid world? Jonathan Lavine of Bain Capital breaks it down.
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Back to the Future of Learning
If we save education, can we save humanity? Christian Madsbjerg thinks so. In this episode of New Economic Thinking, he explores the systemic failures which COVID-19 has unmasked, and the clarity it has provided to move forward.
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Extremophile Hunter
With support from the National Science Foundation, Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible--from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets...
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Bird Courtship
Gail Patricelli studies the courtship behavior of the sage-grouse, one of the most spectacular and bizarre birds in the world, and also being considered for the federal list of endangered species. Patricelli, an animal behaviorist at the...
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Whiskered Robots
The image of a rat sniffing around for food with its little whiskers moving back and forth to help satisfy it's appetite is enough to make most people lose theirs! But those whiskers play a valuable role in helping rats determine what is...
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Leaf Cutter Ants
Leaf cutter ants could be called the overachievers of the insect world. They are farmers, medicine makers, and green energy producers. With support from the National Science Foundation, bacteriologist Cameron Currie studies the complex...
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Arctic soils key to future climate
Since the last ice age, plants in the Alaskan Arctic have been taking carbon out of the atmosphere and locking it away in the soil. So, for thousands of years, the soil microbes in this region of the world have subsisted on a limited...
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Science in Motion: Nature's Strongest Glue?
A lively, informal look at the amazing ""superglue"" produced by aquatic bacteria, discovered by scientists at Brown University and Indiana University in Bloomington.
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Monkey Business
Most of us can understand how we feel if someone else gets a better reward for doing the exact same work we did. Researchers are studying how these feelings of inequity evolved and if primates have the same sense of inequity. Sarah...
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Talk To The Animals
Most pet owners talk to their animals at one time or another, and some do every day. But, how much do our pets actually understand? Is their perception anything like our own? These are the questions that fascinate Irene Pepperberg and...
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Bonobos Chimpanzees
Duke University anthropologist Brian Hare wants more people to appreciate what the Bonobo chimpanzee can teach us about human nature. The Bonobo is endangered and found in the wild only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along with...