On this episode, we’ll learn about how an increase in research spending over decades has changed NYU.

And we’ll speak with an international scholar in the area of therapy dogs in classrooms.

This week, we’ll celebrate the best of The Best of Our Knowledge in 2024.

We’ll visit a former pig barn that is serving as a temporary home to the largest collection of popular music in the world.

We’ll spend time at the intersection of music and evolutionary theory.

And we’ll learn how children’s ideas are brought to life in glass.

The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York has expanded. Officials say new lab space will make the facility a national leader in cancer research.  

And we’ll learn about a giant centipede with a talent for toxins.

On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make the closest approach to the sun ever. We’ll learn about the science behind the mission.

And the Fish and Wildlife Service wants to place the monarch butterfly on the Endangered Species List.

The biggest T. Rex to ever live may be bigger than previously thought.

Several Northeast communities experienced record dryness this fall.

And a private New York college is becoming a university.

The spongy moth caterpillar has been defoliating forests in the United States for more than a century. Now, a study hopes to learn how the invasive species is affecting populations of the tick that carries Lyme disease.

And we’ll visit the ancient sand dunes of a unique upstate New York landscape.

After 25 years of stumping scientists, a mysterious mollusk found drifting in the ocean off the coast of California, has been identified. We’ll learn more about this unusual animal.

And we’ll learn about how human practices can both contribute to and help prevent wildfires.

Award-winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger teaches students how they can become better screenwriters and travels to share his knowledge with writers of all sorts.

We’ll speak about beginning a writing career, avoiding writer's block, and adapting books for TV or film.

The solar cycle is in its maximum phase, causing the northern lights to recently be visible in lower latitudes. We’ll learn about the science of auroras.

And amid a drought in the northeast United States, we’ll learn about the causes and science behind wildfires.

A meteorite that struck the Earth more than 3 billion years ago might have acted like a giant “fertilizer bomb” for life on the Blue Planet.

We’ll learn about a new national study that may lead to a new affordable treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.  

And officials are celebrating a new national hub for semiconductor research.