Science Selections
- Author: Vários
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- Duration: 145:17:28
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Synopsis
Science Selections From Popular Scientific Journals
Episodes
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Tesla's Tower - May 2021 Smithsonian.com
08/05/2021 Duration: 15minThe Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower. His vision of a global wireless-transmission tower proved to be his undoing.
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Virus Affects Brain - Apr 2021 Science News
29/04/2021 Duration: 13minNew clues hint at how Researchers are sifting through symptoms to figure out what the virus does to the brain, by Laura Sanders
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Human Hair - Apr 2021 Smithsonian
22/04/2021 Duration: 11minWhy Did Humans Lose Their Fur? We are the naked apes of the world, having shed most of our body hair long ago. By Jason Daiey.
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Einstein Baffled Press & Public - Apr 2021 Pocket Worthy
22/04/2021 Duration: 21min100 years ago few people claimed to fully understand Relativity, but it still managed to spark the publics imagination. By Dan Falk
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Y Chromosome is Disappearing - The Conversation, Apr 2021
22/04/2021 Duration: 09minResearch shows the Y chromosome may escape extinction in the short term. But what if, in the future, we reproduce artificially?
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An Evolutionary Puzzle - Apr 2021 Pocket Worthy
16/04/2021 Duration: 11minPaleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals. By Riley Black.
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Our Strange Sun - Apr 2021 Quanta Magazine
11/04/2021 Duration: 14minThe Sun radiates far more gamma rays than expected, raising questions about its magnetic field and the possibility of exotic physics
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Programming By Voice - Mar 2021 IEEE Spectrum
05/04/2021 Duration: 08minProgramming by Voice May Be the Next Frontier in Software Development. Your speech becomes your computer's commands.
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Time Will Blow Your Mind - Mar 2021 Pocket Worthy
26/03/2021 Duration: 11minThis Physicist's Ideas of Time Will Blow Your Mind. Is time only in our head? By Ephrat Livni.
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Comets Are Dangerous - Mar 2021 Nautil.us
18/03/2021 Duration: 15minComets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought. Could a comet, not an asteroid, have killed the dinosaurs? By Sean Raymond
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Dark Energy Stars? - Mar 2021 Nautil.us
15/03/2021 Duration: 12minAre Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars? Why a physicist believes our understanding of black holes is wrong. By Jesse Stone
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Physics Behind Evolution - Mar 2021 Quanta Magazine
13/03/2021 Duration: 19minNigel Goldenfeld applied condensed matter physics to show evolution was blazingly fast for the earliest life and then slowed down.
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Aging Is Reversible - Mar 2021 Pocket Worthy
06/03/2021 Duration: 11minAging Is Reversible - at least in human cells and live mice. Study shows changes to gene activity that occur with age can be turned back.
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End of Aging and Cancer? - Mar 2021 Pocket Worthy
06/03/2021 Duration: 09minDetailed images of the anti-aging enzyme telomerase are a drug designer's dream. By Richard Faragher.
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The Breakfast Economy - Mar 2021 Pocket Worthy
03/03/2021 Duration: 12minWhether it actually is the most important meal of the day, the real emphasis seems to be on keeping weekday breakfast low-key.
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Feynman's Learning Technique - Mar 2021 Farnam Blog
27/02/2021 Duration: 40minIf you want to supercharge learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might be the best way to learn absolutely anything.
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Forgetting - Feb 2021 Nautilus Blog
25/02/2021 Duration: 22minHow We'll Forget John Lennon. Our culture has two types of forgetting. By Kevin Berger.
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Brain Background Noise - Feb 2021 Quanta Magazine
13/02/2021 Duration: 24minBrain background noise may yield clues to persistent mysteries, giving insights into sleep, aging and more. By Elizabeth Landau
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Origins of The Universe - The Atlantic Feb 2021
13/02/2021 Duration: 41minTheoretical physicist Andrei Linde may have the world's most expansive conception of what infinity looks like. By Alan Lightman
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Gut Microbes Drive Brain Disorders - Nature, Feb 2021
12/02/2021 Duration: 23minScientists study how the gut microbiome can affect brain health. It may lead to better and easier brain disease treatment.