Podcasts – A Moment of Science

If you want to zip around the Milky Way, the speed of light is too slow, since the next closest star to Earth is four-and-a-half light years away.

Some insects and spiders produce a milk-like substance to feed their offspring.

In 2018 biologists reported that the elephantnose fish can sense qualities they called “electric colors.”

The Dracula ant moves faster than the cheetah, even if it doesn't run faster.

In New York, the sea has risen a foot over the past century, and in Maine, a half foot. How can we explain that difference?

In a recent experiment, crows were able to judge the weights of objects simply by watching how they behaved in a breeze.

Although it can't talk, the five-foot tall Whooping Crane can communicate in a variety of other ways.

Recently, an international team of entomologists made a discovery highlighting the architectural abilities of termites.

In the same way that visual camouflage makes things hard to see, acoustic camouflage makes it hard for bats to see moths.

Just one glacier can release up to 41 tons of methane from meltwater a day during the summer months.

The pyrosome is a good example of why we don't need to go to a distant galaxy to find exotic creatures.

In the Bronze Age site of Megiddo in Israel, archeologists found traces of chemical compounds usually found in natural vanilla extract.

Researchers at MIT have developed and tested a completely new kind of airplane.

Some scientists have been proposing extreme tactics in the fight against rising global temperatures.

Oral wounds heal faster than wounds to the skin, and scientists are exploring why.