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If you are a frequent participant in a social media community, you know what it’s like when someone new comes along and just doesn’t seem to understand or…
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For decades, researchers assumed the monkeys depicted on a 3,500-year-old painting in Greece were from Africa, just across the Mediterranean. But recently…
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A lot of the Black Lives Matter movement has been framed in terms of policing. But even if we could fix the racial disparities that exist in use-of-force…
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How long has coal burning been responsible for climate change? If right now you are trying to remember when the industrial revolution began, that’s a…
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Today on the program we’re talking about black holes — places in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that light can’t escape. But gravity is just…
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All across the world’s oceans, you can find creatures known as larvaceans – free-swimming invertebrates with a superpower, of sorts. They make huge…
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We all know that exercise is good for us — that’s sort of a given. But have you ever thought about whether one sort of exercise is better than others? Is…
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As it was becoming clear that the United States was going to be one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was asked to talk to a group of climate…
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We’re talking to three researchers who came together, across very different disciplines, to try to do something to address a problem that affects millions…
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We’re talking about an ancient ancestor of modern anchovies, a fearsome fish that swam the seas about 55 million years ago — and, like so many other…