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Asimov Press episodes

  • How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs

    While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage. By Antoine Vigouroux.

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    28 min
  • Dead Reckoning

    Bioarchaeologists recently identified a murdered medieval royal. Now, they are trying to shed light on other ancient deaths. By David Brzostowicki

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    39 min
  • Working in Glass

    How a twisted triangle of glass tubing helped democratize chemistry and build the modern laboratory. By Spencer Wright.

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    21 min
  • The Legibility Problem

    What happens in a world where AIs make scientific discoveries that humans cannot understand? By Matthew Carter

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    14 min
  • The Origins of Agar

    First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium. By Corrado Nai.

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    21 min
  • Baseline Drift

    [Fiction] A eulogy to the reference human. By Eliomer H. Kaas.

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    11 min
  • Scent, In Silico

    Once a primal instinct, olfaction is now being mapped, measured, and modeled by machines. By Taylor Rayne.

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    34 min
  • Making the Vortex Mixer

    The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.

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    9 min
  • A Brief History of Xenopus

    From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an outsized influence on the life sciences. By Matt Lubin.

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    21 min

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