
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Inhale. Now exhale. Notice anything different? Our response to the virus is changing the air in unexpected ways. A pandemic-driven pause on travel has produced clear skies and a world-wide air quality experiment. And a new study reveals that hundreds of tons of microplastics are raining down on us each day.
But we can improve the quality of the breaths we do take; engineers have devised a high-tech mask that may kill coronavirus on contact. Plus, although you do it 25,000 times a day, you may not be breathing properly. Nose-breathing vs mouth breathing: getting the ins-and-outs of respiration.
Guests:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By Big Picture Science4.5
912912 ratings
Inhale. Now exhale. Notice anything different? Our response to the virus is changing the air in unexpected ways. A pandemic-driven pause on travel has produced clear skies and a world-wide air quality experiment. And a new study reveals that hundreds of tons of microplastics are raining down on us each day.
But we can improve the quality of the breaths we do take; engineers have devised a high-tech mask that may kill coronavirus on contact. Plus, although you do it 25,000 times a day, you may not be breathing properly. Nose-breathing vs mouth breathing: getting the ins-and-outs of respiration.
Guests:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

63,795 Listeners

11,529 Listeners

1,077 Listeners

1,225 Listeners

762 Listeners

1,351 Listeners

323 Listeners

831 Listeners

3,861 Listeners

2,864 Listeners

560 Listeners

533 Listeners

827 Listeners

6,404 Listeners

1,548 Listeners

336 Listeners

352 Listeners

8,484 Listeners

2,344 Listeners

404 Listeners

332 Listeners

392 Listeners

2,308 Listeners