Podcast: Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills
On this week’s show: Plans for bigger and more sensitive gravitational wave detectors, and cleaning up crude with a special sponge
Science Podcasts
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Podcast: The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color
On this week’s show: A 2000-year-old pet cemetery shows how people care for animals in ancient times, and the surprising find that Caenorhabditis elegans—a tiny roundworm with no eyes—can discriminate colors -
Podcast: Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
On this week’s show: InSAR satellites see centimeter-size changes in Earth’s surface, and generating random numbers with a laser on a chip -
Podcast: All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets
On this week’s show: The big questions about vaccines against the novel coronavirus, and the advantages of a new model for terrestrial planet formation -
Podcast: Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probes
On this week’s show: Using the latest research to buttress Africa’s Great Green Wall, and probing the oceanic crust with whale songs -
Podcast: Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing
On this week’s show: Advances and complications after 20 years of human genome sequencing -
Podcast: Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole rat chirps
On this week’s show: Why the Biden administration decided to change the social cost of carbon on day one, and why naked mole rats chirp to each other -
Podcast: Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras
On this week’s show: A new estimate for the number of rats and mice in U.S. labs, a possible explanation for irritable bowel syndrome, and how cobras evolved to spit venom -
Podcast: An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments change our behavior
On this week’s show: A look at the past, present, and future of the fabled Arecibo Observatory, and what we can learn about how the environment alters human behavior -
Podcast: The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms
On this week’s show: Federal regulators in the United States give up on quarantining a forest pest and researchers rattle robots around to organize them
