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Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions
Receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat, and using combustion to propel insect-size robotsFirst up on this weeks episode, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about why despite originating from a dry, dese
Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid
How the Tonga eruption caused some of the fastest underwater flows in history, and why many U.S. renewable energy projects are on holdFirst up on this weeks show, we hear about extremely fast underwater currents after a volcanic eruption. Produce
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell
How active learning improves calculus teaching, and using machine learning to map odors in the smell spaceFirst up on this weeks show, Laird Kramer, a professor of physics and faculty in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International Uni
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender
A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in our series on science, sex, and gender First up on this week’s show, determining the origin of solar wind—the streams of plasma that emerge from the Sun and e
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh
First up on this weeks show, we hear about the skewed perception of our own hands, extremely weird giant viruses, champion regenerating flatworms, and more from Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox. Christie also chats with host Sarah Crespi about her work
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in African American ancestry, and a reckoning for Philadelphias Mtter MuseumFirst up on this weeks show, ancient DNA researchers and ances
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa
On this weeks show: evaluating scientific collaborations between independent scholars and industry, farming in ancient Europe, and a book from our series on sex, gender, and science.First up on this weeks show, a look behind the scenes at a collabora
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones
A massive effort by African volunteers is ensuring artificial intelligence understands their native languages, and measuring 40,000 skeletonsOur AI summer continues with a look at how to get artificial intelligence to understand and translate the thousan
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo
Sciences NextGen voices share their thoughts on artificial intelligence, how to avoid creating sociopathic robots, and a visit to a historic observatory as researchers pack their bagsAs part of a Science special issue on finding a place for artificial
Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero
Worldwide survey kills the myth of Man the Hunter, and tightly constraining the electric dipole moment of the electronFirst up this week on the show, freelance science writer Bridget Alex joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss busting the long-standing m