18 November, 2020 – Episode 800 – This is Our 800th Episode!

What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Long Necks, Giant Viruses, Zoo Monkeys, Geoengineered Nope, Lava Water, Sleep Your Age, Dog Connections, COVID Update, Finch Familiarity, Palate Parasite, Owl Wings, Spy Vacuum, Nostalgia, Trivia, And Much More…

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Science.

It’s how you are hearing this, what you watch things on, why you can see at night, how you keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Science.

It’s how appliances work, how vehicles work, why airplanes are a thing,

and what computer programs are made of…

Science.

It’s what doctors study, it’s the why behind food safety, medicine, vaccines, health recommendations, operations, therapies and cures.

Where are you when you use your GPS to navigate? Relativity speaking?

You are smack dab in the middle of science, that’s where.

We talk about science from time to time here in this space.

Results from across the scientific disciplines, around the world and beyond…

In the short time we have been doing this show, a staggering yet believable number of studies have illuminated our world with new information…

Cosmic questions asked and answered, data captured from stars, black holes, supernovas, dark matter, gravity waves, bosons and neutrinos galore…

data in such quantities we barely have the means to store let alone analyze what we have found…

A next generation, with a new appreciation of space exploration has only just begun to lead the way into frontiers long imagined.

We have unearthed fossils, decoded DNA, and found unexpected artifacts

giving glimpses into our past, trading out old fables of how we came to be