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TECHNOLOGY REPORT: Lung-powered batteries, a spider-inspired water-repellent, art-restoring lasers, the health risks of polycarbonate plastics, and more.
Teaching Math Anxiety
Female teachers may pass their own math anxiety to the girls they teach.
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COMMUNICATING SCIENCE: The physics of superheroes, teaching evolution to children, science in the theater, and math anxiety in girls.
Bad Plastic
Polycarbonate plastics that contain a chemical called bisphenol A can disrupt normal reproductive development in both rodents and humans.
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MEDICINE: Alzheimer's in the eye, artificial red blood cells, and a microbial Achilles' heel. Also: do toilet seats spread disease?
Aging Roundup
A sign of premature aging shows up in the DNA of people who were abused as children.
Chewing Gum Myth
A listener asks: If you accidentally swallow chewing gum, does it really take years to go through your system?
Newborn Accents
The sound of a newborn baby's cry depends on the language its parents spoke while it was in the womb.
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Satellites for human rights, a sprinter's anatomical advantage, the face of aggression, and newborns with accents.
Parental Lies
New research suggests that parents lie to their children much more often than previously thought.
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Lies parents tell their children. Is comfort food a fallacy? Imitating the dog's nose. And computer-facilitated brain-to-brain communication.
Reading in Dim Light
In this episode our new series Reality Check: Does reading in dim light ruin your eyes?
Micro-needle Patch
A new vaccine skin patch could change how we get our shots.
Public Health Roundup
Public health officials are re-assessing who is most likely to spread the flu in an effort to keep it from reaching the most vulnerable members of society.
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HEALTH REPORT: A new micro-needle patch could bring vaccines to millions, we really do walk in circles when we're lost, and a robot that outperforms humans at tumor surgery. Also: does melatonin cure jet lag, and will reading in dim light really ruin your eyes?
Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency in children has become extremely widespread.
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HEALTH UPDATE - The genetics of the placebo effect, nano-diamond wound therapy, the rise of vitamin D deficiency, and more.
Early Life & Chronic Disease
People who were poor early in life have a biological tendency towards inflammation – which could contribute to chronic diseases.
HPV Vaccine
Vaccines against the viruses that cause cervical cancer are proving to be extremely effective at preventing the disease.
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Staring into space, assessing ocean health via satellite, teaching robots to smile, and the dangers of cancer in wildlife.
Race & Bulimia
Black girls from poor families are more likely than wealthy white girls to suffer from bulimia.
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Why smart people sometimes make really dumb decisions, the neural consequences of not paying attention, and our complicated relationship with food.