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The call of a rare bird, marijuana-like brain chemicals, the Earth without a tilt, using measles to fight cancer, and making public aquariums accessible to the blind.
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Why you can't remember your babyhood, Africa's pulling apart, how amoebas move, nonsmoking women are more prone to lung cancer than nonsmoking men, and coral reefs are susceptible to global warming.
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Using ultrasound to find expensive wood, how cheese is helping to fight a tree fungus, the connection between prostate cancer and a lack of male sons, the division in your brain, and the secret to a ultra-white beetle.
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How addiction is like hunger, a new therapy that targets a virus's genes, the best math students perform the worst, pollution could contribute to obesity, and new immigrants face color and height biases.
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Where insects go in winter, winged dinosaurs, fish that cannibalize their young, calculating the value of polio vaccinaton, and mining can cause earthquakes.
Insects in Winter
A listener asks: Where do all the insects go in winter?
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Why you're not perfect, sitting up straight could be bad for you, the downfalls of two ancient civilizations coincided with climate change, the study of procrastination, and your useless organs.
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A recipe for life on Mars, how Alzheimer's and herpes are related, amnesia obscures the future as well as the past, a zoo exhibit features humans, and what the appendix is for.
The Vestigial Appendix
A listener asks: Does the appendix have a purpose?
Mars Life
An astrobiologist posits that we haven't found life on Mars because we haven't been looking for the right thing.
Solar Roundup
Despite not having been washed for billions of years, nature stays relatively clean. How?
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Small distractions could be big trouble, the effects of cell phone waves on our health, how nature cleans itself, eels and grouper hunt together, and squirrels and spruce trees outwit each other for seeds.
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Giving blood could be good for you, backpacks are better with bungee cords, taking a census of the air's bacteria, happiness helps ward off colds and flu, genetic engineering protects against mad cow disease
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Exploring the origins of life, a laser-enhanced satellite for monitoring ozone, why cannibalism is in everyone's blood, a spit-test for sleepiness, and whether identical triplets are possible.
Assembling Life
A new technique may help scientists find out more about how life on Earth began.
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An update to the stethoscope, why fevers may be healthy, how whales' brains are like ours, making robots from DNA, and lessons from the fat and skinny genes.