Our climate is rapidly changing. Recent studies show earth could be entering a period of warming not seen since the end of the age of dinosaurs. That is, if current trends continue. In this week’s Exploradio, we look at local climate research and local plans to help prevent the effects of a warming planet. Beth Herndon teaches geology at Kent State University. She’s rummaging through a large freezer in her office filled with bags of soil from the Arctic. The permafrost samples she collected in

Our climate is rapidly changing. Recent studies show earth could be entering a period of warming not seen since the end of the age of dinosaurs. That is, if current trends continue. In this week’s Exploradio, we look at local climate research and local plans to help prevent the effects of a warming planet. Beth Herndon teaches geology at Kent State University. She’s rummaging through a large freezer in her office filled with bags of soil from the Arctic. The permafrost samples she collected in

Mark Turner is an Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He studies how our brains can innovate or form new ideas, and one of his methods actually involves digging into our use of language. “If I say, ‘You’re digging your own financial grave,’ well, that’s advice about investing. And think of all of the great network in investing. It involves hundreds of thousands of people, and lots of causation, and it goes over time and space, different

Ohio is the birthplace of air and space pioneers like the Wright brothers, Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. But has the aerospace industry really taken off in the birthplace of aviation? In this week’s Exploradio, WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair meets the new head of the Ohio Aerospace Institute who’s helping map out the state’s aviation future.

Ohio is the birthplace of air and space pioneers like the Wright brothers, Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. But has the aerospace industry really taken off in the birthplace of aviation? In this week’s Exploradio, WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair meets the new head of the Ohio Aerospace Institute who’s helping map out the state’s aviation future.

Mention spiders, and many people shiver. But a local researcher says they are nature’s most adept architects, spinning intricate webs from amazingly elastic material. In this week’s Exploradio WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair reports on why the eight-legged arachnids deserve our respect. We’re in the lab of University of Akron researcher Todd Blackledge .

Mention spiders, and many people shiver. But a local researcher says they are nature’s most adept architects, spinning intricate webs from amazingly elastic material. In this week’s Exploradio WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair reports on why the eight-legged arachnids deserve our respect. We’re in the lab of University of Akron researcher Todd Blackledge .

Patricia Princehouse , director of the evolutionary biology program at Case Western Reserve University, wants to know how we got man’s best friend, dogs, from wolves. “ There is an extraordinary amount of variation present in, you know, Canis domesticus. You don’t find that in any other domesticated breed, so it’s not just something that we’ve brought to dogs, ” Princehouse says. “ There’s something about the genome of dogs. ” Most dog breeds are descended from the gray wolf, whom humans met

Gold’s gleam has fascinated humans for millennia. Giuseppe Strangi, professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University, wants to use gold’s special relationship with light in the fight against cancer. It started centuries ago, when people melted gold into stained glass. Strangi describes the unexpected discovery. "If you go in France and look at the cathedrals, you see that this color is not coming from any pigment, but is coming from gold, coming from the fact that gold is absorbing light

A major effort is underway to brand Cleveland as a national tech hub. Blockland is the brainchild of a Cleveland luxury car dealer who’s put together an A-team of backers of blockchain technology. But what is blockchain and what can it do? In this week’s Exploradio, WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair looks at the challenges of making Cleveland a tech Mecca.