Podcasts de physics

How Young Animals Leave Their Homes

Scientists think there are a number of reasons why young animals leave home. By doing so, they...

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Milk Osmosis

The sugar added to sweetened condensed milk kills bacteria that would otherwise digest the milk...

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Monkey Bonding Through Grooming

Monkeys use grooming to reinforce male-female mate bonds as well as same sex friendship bonds....

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The Periodic Table

This year, 2019, the periodic table turns 150. It organizes the elements into rows and columns....

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Ancient Roman Parasites

Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that ancient Romans did not see a reduction in...

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Microbes Help Form Copper Deposits

Copper, gold and silver can’t just be found anywhere buried under the soil. It takes very...

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Generational Plant Wisdom

Information about when to germinate is imprinted by the mother plant in the seeds’...

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When The Sky Turns Green

As sunlight enters our atmosphere, it bends slightly.  This is due to refraction, the same thing...

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Flies That Eat Spiders

In most showdowns between spiders and flies, the odds weigh heavily in the spider's favor....

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Your Shadow’s Halo

A "heiligenshein," is German for halo.  This is a glowing light around the head and shoulders of...

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Hills In The Ocean

In the Western Pacific around New Guinea, there's a watery hill almost 250 feet high.  This isn't...

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Clouds In The Kitchen

Steam is water that's heated to two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit.  Believe it or not, steam...

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A Spoon’s Double Vision

Look at the back of a spoon and your reflection appears right side up.  Look into a spoon's bowl,...

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Hot And Bothered Fish

Scientists working with two species of damselfish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef discovered...

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Super Rabbit

Five million year old rabbit fossils found on the island of Minorca were six times the size of...

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Jabuticaba, The Fruit That Grows On Trees

Jabuticaba is a fruit native to Brazil. It’s the size and color of a plum, with a white pulp and...

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Don’t Try To Cross A Cross Sea

On the beach at Île de Ré, small island off the west coast of France, there are square waves....

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Organs Can Heal Themselves Like Skin

Scientists found that human organs have small amounts of stem-like cells that can divide really...

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Rewards Change How Rats See The World

In a recent experiment, rats changed the mental map of their surroundings after getting a...

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Coffee Cup Convection

Convection is a common process in nature, and occurs when warmer air or liquid lies under a...

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