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Dan Walls is a postdoctoral research associate visiting the Ramírez-Andreotta laboratory at the University of Arizona from Rensselaer Polytechnic I...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
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My name is Matt Huntley and I’m a senior at the University of Arizona majoring in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a minor in Biochemistry.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 09:55
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My name is Logan Porrazzo and I am a senior at the University of Arizona. I am currently a triple major studying general biology, plant sciences, a...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 04:50
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This week on the show: At this point in the pandemic, shouldn't we be able to stop the spread of COVID-19 inside nursing homes? And for those of y...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Eros, Credit: NASA
In 2020, my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 14 extremely tough asteroids which regularly travel closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: Remember those jokes about "2020 vision"? Well a new study suggests that stay-at-home measures during that year may have ca...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: As Germany doubles down on the lockdown, new data suggests vaccines will keep us all safe for a long, long time. But even a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: We are told that contagious mutations of Sars-CoV-2 have ushered in a new phase in the pandemic. How important are anti-vir...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: In late January 2020, a doctor in Munich made a startling discovery about COVID-19 with major implications. It ended up be...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Sifting through the 100+ episodes we've done this year about the coronavirus has given us time to reflect on what we've a...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Will Germans change their Christmas plans enough to avert a coronavirus catastrophe in January? Also, why are women so muc...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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This week on the show: Swine flu, bonkers 'science' & who shouldn't be vaccinated - Which lessons should — and shouldn't — be drawn from the H1...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Can you be a good Christian and eat meat? - Rainer Hagencord is a Catholic priest based in the heart of Germany's meat in...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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This week on the show: Gabe makes a house call with Conor in quarantine to find out he's tested negative for the coronavirus. But he's not out of ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Is the rapid increase of confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus around the world due simply to more tests being done?...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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This week on the show: Is the rapid increase of confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus around the world due simply to more tests being done?...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: What, exactly, is behind the frightening surge in Europe's COVID-19 numbers? And are we blaming the wrong groups of people ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Could having Neanderthal DNA be beneficial if you contract COVID-19? How can scary movies, haunted houses, and apocalypti...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Humans are unpredictable, reality, chaotic. So how is it that from this mess, a certain kind of theorist can use tools an...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: - A small Chinese study suggests wearing glasses correlates with lower COVID-19 rates. The question is, why would that b...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1