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A Moment of Science

Indiana Public Media

A Moment of Science is a daily audio podcast, public radio program and video series providing the scientific story behind some of life"s most perplexing mysteries.

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Is there an easy way to make diamonds?

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2024/08/19

Diamonds are only occasionally brought to the surface. But because carbon is plentiful, science fiction, such as Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age, has sometimes imagined a world where scientists find an easy way to make lots of diamond artificially.

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Can zebras be domesticated?

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2024/08/16

People like to ride horses, so why not zebras?

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When grey goo attacks

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2024/08/15

Some nanotechnology theorists and science fiction aficiondos imagine a more ominous possibility. What if one of these tiny robots were given the ability to self-replicate?

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Hungry porpoises may find dinner at hole foods

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2024/08/14

It’s dinnertime in the North Sea, and you’re a hungry porpoise. Sadly, there’s no oceanic grocery store. What’s a famished sea creature to do?

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Pigeons have their own superstitions

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2024/08/13

Would you be surprised to learn that human beings aren't the only animals to behave superstitiously? The psychologist B.F. Skinner showed that you can even form a superstitious belief...in a pigeon.

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How do clouds float?

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2024/08/12

One thing we at A Moment of Science love is having the opportunity to explain the science behind things you see every day in the world around you.

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The phenomenon of long colds

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2024/08/09

One infamous feature of COVID-19 is the phenomenon of “long COVID.” Researchers hadn’t previously looked for long persisting forms of colds or the flu.

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Do ants drown every time it rains?

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2024/08/08

Ants must have a variety of survival strategies. How do ground-nesting ants cope with rain?

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Which came first: the woodpecker or the fungus?

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2024/08/07

Set aside the question about the chicken and the egg, what about the woodpecker and tree fungus?

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The benefits of a walkable neighborhood

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2024/08/06

It makes sense that if you live in a neighborhood where you can walk to places to do errands and such, that would be good for your health.

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Stay balanced with your center of gravity

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2024/08/05

Everyone has a center of gravity. Every object has one, too. It’s the point in our body where all weight is evenly balanced.

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What makes you see the man in the moon?

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2024/07/31

Pareidolia is a term from psychology that refers to the tendency in people to perceive a meaningful pattern in a vague stimulus.

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What's the autokinetic effect?

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2024/07/30

"Auto" means "self" and kinetic means "motion." When you see a tiny point of light moving, it's often because you are moving yourself--or, rather, your eye is.

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Skydiving spiders in the Amazon

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2024/07/29

What's brown, has eight legs and flies?

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Even rats can be pessimistic

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2024/07/26

Ever notice when you're having a bad day it always seems to get that much worse?

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New Caledonian crows can infer weight

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2024/07/25

If you see an object blowing down the street, you will infer that it is light. That will be your conclusion even if you can’t determine what the object is.

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Why do our eyes get puffy when we cry?

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2024/07/24

When you cry for emotional reasons, your eyes act differently. So what happens next?

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Immune cells and the struggle against aging

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2024/07/23

Aging is a complex process involving accumulating damage to the cellular mechanisms of life. Anti-aging researchers want to understand and combat this process to give us healthier and longer lives.

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Color-changing monkeys

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2024/07/22

A species of howler monkey isn't dying its fur, but they are changing color.

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Queen of the drowned: Bumblebees that can survive a...

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2024/07/18

When water leaked into containers of dormant queen bumblebees, the scientists assumed they’d need to hold a state funeral. But amazingly, the regal insects lived, despite drowning!

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