Podcasts de physics

Alligator Hearts Thrive With Less Oxygen

Some alligators can run much faster than you might think. Even more surprising is how alligators...

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Vitamines and Vitamins

In 1912 a Polish biochemist, Casimir Funk, identified substances within food that were vital for...

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The Massive Migration Of The Hoverfly

What do wildebeest, humpback whales and Canada geese all have in common? They all partake in huge...

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Too Smart For Their Own Good?

Some of the ways we use devices like smartphones may present risks that aren't so apparent. For...

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How Plants Survive In The Desert

Succulent plants such as cacti, aloes and agaves beat the dry heat of the desert by storing...

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Mission To Saturn

Saturn is orbited by an interesting moon called Titan that is larger than the planet Mercury and...

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Sneezing Plants

Agriculturalists are worried about a fungus-caused plant disease called leaf rust that afflicts...

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Hands Apart

Some people have a neurological disorder called alien hand syndrome that causes them to lose...

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Did Theia Bring Water To The Earth?

Planetary scientists think that the moon formed after a Mars-sized object called Theia hit Earth,...

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Saguaro Boot

When a saguaro cactus dies, its flesh decays, leaving behind the woody skeleton that supported...

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Is Coral A Plant Or An Animal?

As larvae, corals are called planulae, and are free-swimming. An individual mature coral animal...

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Waking Up Sleeping Bacteria

Bacteria may not sleep the way humans do, but bacteria called "persisters" can fall into...

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Insect Navigation

Insects are able to tell east from west using the sun. While it's hard to study insect brains to...

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Fire Over Chelyabinsk

In 2013 a small asteroid about 60 feet across entered Earth's atmosphere traveling at 12 miles...

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Koalas Have Fingerprints, Too

Common knowledge states that every person’s fingerprint is unique. While this has never been...

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Don't Believe Your Fingers

Cross your fingers and experience an illusion involving the sense of touch, on this Moment of...

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The Ancient Riddle Of Geometric Increase

If you calculate the geometric growth of the number two, you quickly come to an incredibly large...

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Computing With Light

Computers would be much faster, smaller, and consume less energy if they used light signals...

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A Rock In A Rowboat

Imagine you're in a rowboat, in a small pond. You have a huge boulder with you in the boat. You...

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Grapefruit Juice And Medicine

Experiments have shown that drinking grapefruit juice while taking drugs to control cholesterol,...

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