Podcasts – A Moment of Science

By A Moment of Science (amomentofscience.org)

You have questions and A Moment of Science has answers. Short science videos and audio science podcasts provide the scientific story behind some of life\'s most perplexing mysteries. There\'s no need ... more

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The podcast currently has 235 episodes available.

Podcasts – A Moment of Science episodes:

June 13, 2019 What Exactly Do Genes Do?
In the 1940s biologists George Beadle and Edward Tatum wanted to “find out what genes do by making them defective.”
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June 12, 2019 Flowers Are Able To Choose Who Pollinates Them
While studying Heliconia flowers in Costa Rica, biologists noticed that they were clearly choosing their pollinators, but they still didn’t know how the flowers could tell one hummingbird from another.
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June 11, 2019 Global Warming Helps Leafhoppers Proliferate
Entomologists found that potato leafhoppers, which are migratory pests, arrived in the fields an average of 10 days earlier in 2012 than they did in the early 1950s.
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June 10, 2019 The Limitations of Weather Forecasts
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University did a collaborative study in which they tried to find the ultimate limit of how far out we could predict the weather.
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June 07, 2019 The Thermodynamics Of Pizza Ovens
According to a recent study conducted by two pizza-eating physicists in Rome, wood-fired brick ovens are the cause of an Italian pizza's perfection.
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June 06, 2019 The Curve Of A Meandering River
One of nature’s most basic and subtle shapes is the winding, back and forth S-curve of a meandering river.
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June 05, 2019 Farout: The Solar System’s Most Distant Known Member
In 2018 a team of American astronomers announced the discovery of the most distant solar system body yet discovered.
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June 04, 2019 Cockroaches Have Personalities And Make Choices
By studying cockroaches, scientists can learn a lot about the relationship between individuals and groups, and what they learn might be applicable to people, too.
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June 03, 2019 The Apple in the Mind’s Eye
Scientists hypothesize that people rely on some general mental scheme of what apples look like to remember the Apple logo.
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May 31, 2019 Why Giraffes Have Long Necks
A team of researchers recently studied giraffes in Zimbabwe and found that their unique body shape helps them regulate their temperature.
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FAQs about Podcasts – A Moment of Science:

How many episodes does Podcasts – A Moment of Science have?

The podcast currently has 235 episodes available.