Science Talk

By Scientific AmericanScience

Science Talk episodes

August 07, 2019 Real Laughs Motivate More Guffaws
Honest, involuntary laughter cued people to laugh more at some really bad jokes than they did when hearing forced laughter.

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4 min
August 05, 2019 Extinction Wipes Out Evolution's Hard Work
By killing off many of New Zealand’s endemic birds, humans destroyed 50 million years’ worth of evolutionary history. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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4 min
August 03, 2019 London Is Crawling with Drug-Resistant Microbes
Nearly half of bacteria gathered in public settings around the city were resistant to two or more commonly used antibiotics, such as penicillin and erythromycin. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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3 min
August 01, 2019 Male Black Widows Poach Rivals' Approaches
Mating is risky business for black widow males—so they hitchhike on the silk threads left by competitors to more quickly find a mate. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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4 min
July 31, 2019 Babies Want Fair Leaders
Babies as young as a year and a half want leaders to fix situations in which they see someone else being treated unfairly.

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5 min
July 30, 2019 Parrots Are Making the U.S. Home
Released or escaped parrots are now living in most states and are breeding in at least 21. For some, it’s a second chance at survival.

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4 min
July 29, 2019 Science News Briefs from All Over
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Guatemala to Australia, including one about the first recorded tornado in Nepal.

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4 min
July 25, 2019 Tourist Photographs Help African Wildlife Census
Photographs snapped by safari tourists are a surprisingly accurate way to assess populations of African carnivores. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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4 min
July 23, 2019 For Ants, the Sky's the Compass
Computer modeling revealed that insects with a celestial compass can likely determine direction down to just a couple degrees of error. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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4 min
July 21, 2019 It's Melting: Science on Ice
Glaciologist Elizabeth Case of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University’s Earth Institute takes us out near Juneau, Alaska, to study and live on the shifting ice.

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27 min

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Science Talk is a podcast of longer-form audio experiments from Scientific American--from immersive sonic journeys into nature to deep dives into research with leading experts.