WFIU-FM: A Moment of Science: Audio Podcast
Summary: You have questions and A Moment of Science has answers. These two-minute audio podcasts provide the scientific story behind some of life's most perplexing mysteries. There's no need to be blinded by science. Explore it, have fun with it, but most of all learn from it. A Moment of Science is a production of WFIU Public Media from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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- Copyright: Copyright 1998-2009
Podcasts:
Fish live in water, but do they drink it? The answer is yes, but how fish drink water depends on where they live. Learn more on this Moment of Science.
Haven't we all been on an elevator and noticed that just about everyone stops talking when they get on?
If you were a Clark's Nutcracker, your winter food preparations would involve collecting nuts.
What brings on itches in the first place, and why does scratching provide such welcome relief?
Few minor injuries are as painful as the dreaded paper cut. Just thinking about it probably makes you cringe. However, these cuts are usually small, hardly noticeable, and rarely bleed, so what makes them so painful? Learn more on this Moment of Science.
Psychology explains why guys hate veggies.
Does drinking from a curved glass increase the chance that you'll drink faster?
Why are diseases like cancer so common in humans but so rare in chimps?
Gobbledygoop is a wild and wonderful mixture you can make in your kitchen.
Fingernails. They're good for scratching, biting, clipping, and polishing. But what are they, in fact?
The butterwort might be a small scale carnivore, but its hunting tactics are nothing short of terrifying, at least within the insect world!
Are you ready to go into space?
To humans, wildfires are often scary and dangerous. If you were a lodgepole pine cone, though, you would be eagerly awaiting the blazing heat of those flames!
Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status, but it still has moons. This new moon, called P5 for now, is the fifth moon found orbiting Pluto.
Kitty litter, cat box, automatic pooper scooper--an industry has built up around the fact that domestic cats bury their waste.
