Podcasts – A Moment of Science

One of nature’s most basic and subtle shapes is the winding, back and forth S-curve of a meandering river.

In 2018 a team of American astronomers announced the discovery of the most distant solar system body yet discovered.

By studying cockroaches, scientists can learn a lot about the relationship between individuals and groups, and what they learn might be applicable to people, too.

Scientists hypothesize that people rely on some general mental scheme of what apples look like to remember the Apple logo.

A team of researchers recently studied giraffes in Zimbabwe and found that their unique body shape helps them regulate their temperature.

The ability to make comparisons and analogies‑‑to tell when and how things are the same or different‑‑is a mental capacity that distinguishes human beings from at least most other animals.

In 1909 Paul Ehrlich developed the first safe and effective drug to treat syphilis in humans.

A newly created computer program was capable of reconstructing intelligible speech from recordings of brain waves.

New research shows that bats have surprisingly fast brains.

In 2018, NASA launched the transiting exoplanet survey satellite, or TESS, in order to study planets that circle other stars.

In a recent study, people took longer to tell the truth in a foreign language because the extra cognitive load of speaking a different language made it harder.

Blizzards and icy weather may seem out of place in a warming world, so how do we explain cold weather in the time of global warming?

Root rot is a condition of indoor and outdoor plants that may be caused by poorly drained or overwatered soil or soil-borne pathogens and nematodes.

An international team of biomedical scientists think Alzheimer’s is caused by an infection of the brain by the same bacterium that causes the gum disease gingivitis.

Not getting enough sleep can eventually clog arteries, which can cause a heart attack or stroke.