Science Magazine Podcast
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End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories
On this week’s show: 2018’s top online stories, breakthrough of the year, and a roundup of science books
‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull
On this week’s show: revisiting Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons” 50 years later, and the link between Neanderthal DNA and head shape
Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children
On this week’s show: A look into the offshore investment accounts of private research funders, and a new grant to study firearm deaths in kids
The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution
On this week’s show: A different approach to determining when stars formed, and color-changing lizard and toxin-resistant yeast point to “plastic” form of adaptation.
Exploding the Cambrian and building a DNA database for forensics
On this week’s show: A fossil excavation site that’s helping crack the Cambrian explosion, and would a universal DNA database for law enforcement be better than what we have now?
The worst year ever and the effects of fasting
On this week’s show: a contender for the darkest year of the darkest age and a review of what we know about fasting, metabolism, and aging
A big increase in monkey research and an overhaul for the metric system
On this week’s show: Record numbers of monkeys are being used in labs, and the metric system is set to be transformed
How the appendix could hold the keys to Parkinson’s disease, and materials scientists mimic nature
On this week’s show: how removing the appendix might prevent Parkinson’s, and what material scientists are learning from the natural world
Children sue the U.S. government over climate change, and how mice inherit their gut microbes
On this week’s show: kids put climate change on trial in U.S. courts, and the surprising fidelity of gut microbes passed down 10 generations
Mutant cells in the esophagus, and protecting farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure
On this week’s show: what we can learn from non–cancer-causing mutations in the esophagus, and how to protect farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure
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