伟德国际app Podcasts

On this week’s show: Digging into global earthworm populations, detecting bias in an algorithm used to make health care decisions, and a plea for space archaeology

On this week’s show: Uncovering the biological basis of consciousness, and understanding why adults think their generation was always “better”

On this week’s show: New insights into dinosaurs from 300-million-year-old molecules, and stretching rubber bands and twisting memory metals to cool things down

On this week’s show: Detecting childhood eye disease in old photos, and inserting memories into zebra finches

On this week’s show: Social scientists are waiting impatiently for a trove of Facebook data held up by privacy concerns, and fertility researchers examine why so many human eggs have the wrong number of chromosomes

On this week’s show: How dust from an asteroid breakup might have triggered an ice age, and billions of North American birds have vanished

On this week’s show: We hear about a gold mining town more than 5 kilometers above sea level, and learn why studying play behavior is important

On this week’s show: Archaeologists search for a mysterious city that evaded Spanish conquistadors for a century, and linguists find that—no matter how complex their structure—many languages convey information at the same rate

On this week’s show: A survey of microbes in Hawaii reveals how plants and animals get their microbiomes, and a crowdsourced map of how our early ancestors altered the world

On this week’s show: Three promising prevention strategies to save lives, and how one researcher recommends integrating relocation into our long-term climate change goals