Podcasts – A Moment of Science
Summary: You have questions and A Moment of Science has answers. Short science videos and audio science 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: 2017
Podcasts:
Asian jumping worms are, as their name suggests, an invasive species. They were first reported in the U.S. in 1939, and were first found in Wisconsin in 2013.
Scientists are still trying to figure out just how long whales have been making annual trips south for the winter.
The Ancient Egyptians substantially influenced the personality of the domesticated cat, turning a fierce predator into the house cat of today.
Blow dryers show us something about physics. Here's an experiment you can do at home. All you need is a blow dryer, and a ping-pong ball.
The brains of people with dyslexia respond differently to reading alphabets than they do to logographic scripts like Chinese.
Mitchell’s Satyr is an endangered species on the brink of extinction, and is one of the world’s rarest butterflies. In recent decades, there have been only a few sightings in Indiana and Michigan.
A new study proposes that by switching from a hunter-gatherer diet to an agrarian one, early humans may have changed the way people speak today.
In their search for alien life, scientists look for gases, or combinations of gases, that should only be present if they are produced by life.
Today on A Moment of Science, we’ll look at how geodes form and how they collect in such complex patterns.
Electrically stimulating a part of the brain of patients undergoing surgery induces laughter followed by an immediate feeling of relaxation and happiness.
In the 1940s biologists George Beadle and Edward Tatum wanted to “find out what genes do by making them defective.”
While studying Heliconia flowers in Costa Rica, biologists noticed that they were clearly choosing their pollinators, but they still didn’t know how the flowers could tell one hummingbird from another.
Entomologists found that potato leafhoppers, which are migratory pests, arrived in the fields an average of 10 days earlier in 2012 than they did in the early 1950s.
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University did a collaborative study in which they tried to find the ultimate limit of how far out we could predict the weather.
According to a recent study conducted by two pizza-eating physicists in Rome, wood-fired brick ovens are the cause of an Italian pizza's perfection.
