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Green Roofs

December 4, 2007

Growing plants on your roof has ecological benefits – and can save energy, too.

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Podcast

November 23, 2007

Mysteries of nature: Why do some leaves turn red in the fall? Global warming and the future of rivers. And the music of DNA.

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Autumn Color

November 22, 2007

Fall colors come in several shades. But why the different colors?

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Podcast

November 9, 2007

When plants heat things up. How dolphins sleep. "Healthy" restaurants that aren't. Army ant groupies. And more.

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Hot Plants

November 7, 2007

An Australian plant reproduces through trickery.

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Podcast

October 12, 2007

Whale-inspired windmills. Tracing the origins of a killer asteroid. Using vowels to sell. And more.

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Plant Gravity

October 11, 2007

A listener asks: Regardless of how you plant a seed, the roots always grow downward and the shoots upward, so how does the plant orient itself?

Read morePlant Gravity

Shrubs and CO2

September 25, 2007

Carbon dioxide emissions can help shrub weeds at the expense of grasslands.

Read moreShrubs and CO2

Podcast

September 14, 2007

Antibiotics made out of Teflon. A new diet for chickens. A virus that can cause obesity? Why things aren't quite as bad as we think they'll be. And just how fast can dolphins swim?

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Chicken Diet

September 11, 2007

Special diets are helping curb the environmental impact of chickens.

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Tree Carbon

September 4, 2007

A listener asks: Which trees are more effective at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, conifers or deciduous trees?

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Agriculture Roundup

August 24, 2007

Unless the U.S. adopts different agricultural practices, the nation's topsoil will continue to disappear at an alarming rate.

Read moreAgriculture Roundup

Podcast

August 24, 2007

Diet foods could make kids fat, the incompatibility of ape and human blood, the secrets of fingerprints, all about the jet streams, and how the United States can better conserve its topsoil.

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Podcast

July 27, 2007

How fetuses breathe inside the womb, rats that help out other rats, ancient chile peppers found in Mexico, why we yawn, and the surprising forms alien life might take.

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Ancient Mexican Food

July 25, 2007

Mexican food may have changed surprisingly little over the last millennium.

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Plant Medicine Roundup

July 20, 2007

Lifesaving drugs are being developed from unexpected sources.

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Podcast

July 20, 2007

How the solar system formed, determining the standard for the kilogram, how brain damage affects art, cancer drugs from trees, protecting ports with underwater using sound.

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Podcast

July 13, 2007

The importance of bubbles, living on icebergs, family-oriented plants, eye medicine from oven cleaner, and how water gets from your mouth to your muscles.

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Plant Kin Help

July 12, 2007

Plants are more generous to kin than strangers.

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Podcast

June 15, 2007

The dinosaur extinction may have been stinky, carbon emission rates may be worse than was thought, wild wheat plants itself, a cow with naturally skim milk, and what sound sounds like on other planets.

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Seed Movement

June 13, 2007

Some seeds plant themselves.

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Podcast

May 4, 2007

The Darfur region has an ancient underground lake, animals navigate with internal compasses, what plants would look like on other planets, why offering too many choices is bad marketing, and why kids have temper tantrums.

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Extraterrestrial Plants

May 2, 2007

Lawns on other worlds might not be green, but black, red, or orange.

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Podcast

March 30, 2007

Deciphering the calls of blue whales, genetic tests for mental conditions, a three-way symbiotic relationship, studying tear film, and the truth about tanning beds.

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