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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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Study links air pollution and a decline in cognitive...

A Moment of Science ·

2024/03/18

Has your brain been feeling foggy lately? Or maybe, smoggy? If you live somewhere affected by air pollution, there might be a connection.

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The jellyfish that never grows old

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2024/03/15

Scientists once thought that aging and death were the inevitable fate of all complex living things. But then, by accident, they discovered they were wrong.

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The great cilantro debate

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2024/03/14

On today's Moment of Science, we'll be sniffing our way through a controversial culinary conundrum: the great cilantro debate.

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Elephant grandmothers means more elephant calves

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2024/03/13

Grandmother elephants are important for the survival of baby calves.

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Looks delicious! The connection between appearance...

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2024/03/12

English is full of phrases that connect appearance to taste. However, scientists have been discovering that the connection between the two runs deeper than simple metaphors.

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Escaping alive from a frog's stomach

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2024/03/11

Sometimes, when a frog eats a large insect, you can see it squirming in the frog’s belly, desperate to escape. Lack of air, acids, and digestive enzymes seal its inevitable doom.

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Copy your neighbors, but only when they're successful

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2024/03/08

Scientists looked at the nestbox choices of pied flycatchers after the birds observed the "success" of nesting great tits.

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Why are operating rooms so cold?

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2024/03/07

Is there a reason operating rooms are always so cold and drafty?

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Starfish are all heads, no tails

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2024/03/06

Colorful or plain, skinny or chubby, big or small, the nearly 2,000 species have it all.

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Skeptics think about vaccines differently

A Moment of Science ·

2024/03/05

Vaccine skeptics might see vaccines the way they do because they tend to overestimate the likelihood of rare negative events.

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Walked or swam? An index can answer

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2024/03/04

How do scientists figure out even basic facts such as whether an animal walked on land or swam in the sea?

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Play and the brain

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2024/03/01

Researchers classify an animal behavior as play when it doesn’t involve an external reward, such as food, seems to serve no purpose, occurs repeatedly, and happens when the animal is relaxed and not facing threats.

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What we can learn from ancient climate records

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2024/02/29

Scientists find clues to how the earth's climate is changing by looking to the past.

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Tetrataenite as a solution to the rare earth crisis

A Moment of Science ·

2024/02/28

Demand for rare earth elements is soaring, and it will continue to grow in the future.

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The effects of bismuth in Pepto Bismol

A Moment of Science ·

2024/02/27

When the bismuth combines with the trace amounts of sulfur in your saliva and in your gastrointestinal tract, it reacts to form a black substance called bismuth sulfide.

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King Tut's dagger from space

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2024/02/26

King Tutankhamen of Egypt has fascinated people ever since archeologist Howard Carter discovered his splendid tomb in 1922.

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Where does bitterness come from? Ask the sharks

A Moment of Science ·

2024/02/23

Bitterness, like sweetness or saltiness, is one of the major taste sensations. And while it makes our food flavorful, detecting bitterness can sometimes be a warning that we’re eating something toxic.

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Remembering the past, as a baby

A Moment of Science ·

2024/02/22

What's your earliest memory?

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Why are sunrises faster than sunsets?

A Moment of Science ·

2024/02/21

It takes much less time for the sun to light up the sky at dawn than it does for all the light to disappear after the sun sets at dusk.

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The temperature of ice on a hot day

A Moment of Science ·

2024/02/20

If you drink a glass of ice water on a hot day, what temperature is the ice?

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