The science story you should be paying attention to today, instead of wasting your brain cells on all that front-page rubbish.... more
FAQs about Science Me Now!:How many episodes does Science Me Now! have?The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
April 17, 201817 April 2018: Dinosaurs Ended, And Started, With a BangPolitical dinosaurs dominate the news, but you can ignore them for a few minutes: here's a story about real dinosaurs and their footprints, which show that their global dominance may have resulted from a catastrophic extinction event.Original Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03996-1...more3minPlay
April 16, 201816 April 2018: Battling Bacteria with Graphene BladesWhile Trump, Macron & May scrable to justify throwing missiles at Syria, here's a science story of a much healthier kind of warfare: using graphene in the fight against bacterial infection in surgical implants....more3minPlay
April 12, 201812 April 2018: Frogs Rebounding With Surprising SecretionsThe US and Russia continue their game of chicken, the UK hacks ISIS and China is Top Executioner Of The World. Take a few minutes away from the news with a positive story about frogs — and who doesn't like frogs?! Good news: after years of decline, they're on the way back in Central America. Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/vumc-srd041118.phpOriginal Paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6383/1517...more3minPlay
April 11, 201811 April 2018: Breaking Quantum RecordsThe US and Russia are threatening to trade twitter insults for actual missiles, and the IMF is describing the global trade outlook with the words "Dark" and "Clouds", so it's probably a good time to look away from the news. Here's a science story to cheer things up: record-breaking quantum scientists!Original Source: https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/162049Research paper: https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.021012...more4minPlay
April 10, 201810 April 2017: Choose Your Vape WiselyWith Zuckerberg in front of congress, Cosby back in court, and a certain President's personal lawyer raided by the FBI, it's better to close down your browser tabs and listen to a science story instead — especially if you're partial to vaping. You might want to think a bit harder about your e-liquid flavour choices in future.Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/ps-tpb040918.phpOriginal Paper: Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Volume 120, 20 May 2018, Pages 72-79...more3minPlay
April 09, 20189 April 2018: Three Weekend Heart Disease ShockersThree stories from the weekend, all from the American Heart Association, and all from the Department of Research That Surprises No One At All....more4minPlay
April 06, 20186 April 2018: Vampire BatsOur un-evolved politicians are attacking each other across the globe, but you can safely ignore that for a few minutes to ponder this: just how did vampire bats evolve to live on a diet of blood alone?Original Paper: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2018) doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0476-8Source: www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=185088&CultureCode=en...more3minPlay
April 05, 20185 April 2018: Draining the Swamp is No Laughing MatterTurn off the swamp-draining and manure-slinging for a bit — here's a science story from Estonia that should be in the news instead: draining marshlands releases laughing gas, and it's NOT funny.Original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03540-1Source: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/erc-asb040418.php...more3minPlay
April 04, 20184 April 2018: Burning Wood in NorwayUse the newspaper front page to light a warm fire, curl up and enjoy todays science story about Norway's not-so-carbon-neutral wood-burning ways.Original paper: Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 3299 (2018)Find it at: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21559-8...more3minPlay
April 03, 20183 April 2018: The Mystery of the Missing Dark MatterInstead of the usual bleak headlines, ponder the mystery of the Galaxy with the Missing Dark Matter.Original paper by van Dokkum et al in Nature, at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25767Hubble Space Telescope images of the mysterious galaxy: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-16...more4minPlay
FAQs about Science Me Now!:How many episodes does Science Me Now! have?The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.