"Lost in Math," Alan Alda, A Radical Brain Surgery, New Jersey Floods. August 3, 2018. Part 1
For decades, physicists trying to uncover the large and small structures of the universe have...
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Bacteria Extinction, Facial Recognition, Solar Probe. August 3, 2018, Part 2
Long before we walked the Earth, bacteria took it over. They’re in every ecosystem on the Earth,...
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Ant Traffic Flow, Natural Reactors, David Quammen. August 17, 2018, Part 2
Worker ants keep the nest alive. They look for food, take care of the eggs, and dig all the...
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Coastal Flooding, Elephants and Cancer, Yosemite Bears. August 17, 2018, Part 1
More than five years after the devastating 14-foot high waters of Superstorm Sandy flooded New...
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Yellow Fever and Ebola, Trans-boundary Aquifers, Probiotics. Aug 24, 2018, Part 2
From 1976 to 2017, the Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced eight outbreaks of the deadly...
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Hurricane Lane, Disposable Contacts, Brief History of Time. Aug 24, 2018, Part 1
This year was both the 30th anniversary of Stephen Hawking’s science blockbuster A Brief History...
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Outdoor Influencers, Northwest Passage, Undersea Volcanoes. Aug 31, 2018, Part 1
NASA is exploring a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii as a test run for human and robotic...
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Grazing, Work-Life Imbalance. Aug. 7, 2018, Part 2
Each spring, animals move from their winter grazing grounds in search of greener pastures. For...
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Tick Repellents, Robot Relationships. Aug. 7, 2018, Part 1
If you were given a robot and asked to break it, would you do it? The amount of Furby destruction...
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Undiscovered Presents: I, Robovie. Sept 11, 2018.
A decade ago, psychologists introduced a group of kids to Robovie, a wide-eyed robot who could...
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Florence Flooding, Algorithms, Dino Demise. Sept. 14, 2018, Part 1
Last month, California passed a bill ending the use of cash bail. Instead of waiting in jail or...
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Undiscovered Presents: The Holdout. Sept 18, 2018.
Since the 1980s, Gerta Keller, professor of paleontology and geology at Princeton, has been...
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Utah Dino Bones, Salt Lake Migrations, Tree Canopies. Sept. 21, 2018, Part 1
If you stood in southeastern Utah over 200 million years ago, you’d be overlooking the ocean. The...
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Endangered Crow, Hawaiian Biodiversity, Mars Simulation. Sept. 21, 2018, Part 2
About five million years ago, the island of Kauai emerged from the ocean waves, and a new chain...
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Undiscovered Presents: The Magic Machine. Sept. 25, 2018
As a critical care doctor, Jessica Zitter has seen plenty of “Hail Mary” attempts to save dying...
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Utah National Monuments, North Carolina Coal Ash, Asteroids. Sept. 28, 2018, Part 1
Back in December, the Trump administration announced reductions to two of Utah’s national...
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Water Wars, Air Pollution And Fetuses, Electric Blue Clouds. Sept. 28, 2018, Part 2
Yemen is gripped by civil war—and some experts say it could be the first of many “water wars” to...
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Dung Beetles, Exomoon, Poison Squad. Oct 5, 2018, Part 2
Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was formed in 1906, you might have been more weary...
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Nobels, Argument Logic. Oct 5, 2018, Part 1
This week the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine awarded its top scientists...
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Squirrel Monkeys, Salmon Migration, The Realness. Oct 12, 2018, Part 2
Squirrel monkeys have big brains for their size, they’re chatterboxes, and they’ve even been to...
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