Podcasts de physics

Born To Own A Dog

In 2019 a team of Swedish and British scientists published a study claiming that whether we chose...

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The Ocean’s Fish Are Running Out Of Clean Water

The ocean is getting louder. Fish make noise. They whistle, chirp, hum, sing, swish. But boat...

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Habits Of Highly Successful Animals

Those who love anteaters and rhinoceroses might be out of luck if we want to see our favorite...

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The Cleaning Powers Of Goat Stomachs

Researchers from the University of Zurich examined 28 goats that were fed different pelleted...

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How Ants Turn Into Zombies

Scientists have found zombie ants in the Brazilian rainforests. The ants are infected by a...

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Madly In Love

Scientists have found that when you're in love, your brain is flooded with different chemicals,...

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Mosquitoes On The Scent

Scientists have known for over half a century that most mosquito species are attracted to carbon...

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The Abominable Yeti Crab

Like the fantastical abominable snowman, also known as a yeti, the yeti crab is white, and its...

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Birds Of A Feather Flock Together

Social niches are made up of the social aspects of a species' environmental relationship. In the...

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A New Atomic Clock Could Help Spaceships Navigate Better

NASA recently launched the Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC, on a test mission. DSAC should allow...

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Grunting And Tennis

While watching tennis, it's hard to miss the unmistakable grunts the players make when they hit...

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Ants To The Rescue

In 2019 ethologists published evidence that a species of harvester ants will rescue their nest...

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Help On Horseback

Horses can help people learn to walk again through a form of physical rehabilitation called...

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Penguins, Biodiversity And Antarctica

Colonies of penguins that live in Antarctica create hotbeds of diversity by doing something that...

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Gut Microbes And Depression

In 2019, a team of Belgian researchers obtained new evidence correlating gut bacteria with...

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Cloudy Vision

Cataracts are the result of the natural breakdown of proteins in the eye's lens as you age. When...

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How Mosquitoes Find Us

Mosquitoes can smell carbon dioxide from up to 100 feet away, and when we exhale, we emit CO2....

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Sort Nuts By Shaking The Can

If you shake a can of mixed nuts for a few seconds, the largest nuts come to the top. The spaces...

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Why Is The Sky Blue?

As common as the question is, explaining why the sky is blue is not as simple. It requires an...

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The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

In the north Atlantic, there is an enormous bloom of Sargassum seaweed. It is wreaking ecological...

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