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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
Niger is one of the largest and poorest countries in West Africa. While most of the country is in the Saharan Desert, a reclamation has begun, with...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
This week on the show: Are parents planning to vaccinate their kids? And are there any reasons not to? Also, a study reaches the strange conclusi...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Of all the COVID-19 vaccines out there, do any work well against the B.1.351 variant that's spread around the globe? And wh...
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 30:00
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
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
Several years ago a colleague of mine, Geetu Bharwaney, from the UK, wrote an excellent book about emotional resilience. With all the challenges we...
- Added: Dec 03, 2020
- Length: 54:58
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
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
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
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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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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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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
This week on the show: Stillbirths, ethics & satire -
Why have stillbirth rates gone up during the pandemic? What does it mean to behave "ethi...
- Added: Oct 04, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Schools open, antibodies fall & horses and llamas help -
In this episode, co-host Gabe returns from the worst-hit coun...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Six months in, pregnancy & your confessions -
In this episode, we take a look back at what we've learned about COVID-19 i...
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Poo tests, steroids against COVID-19 & more -
Listen to DW's 30-minute science show.be spotted first in wastewater? Als...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the insid...
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- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 33:06
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Schools & music -
We find out what the science has to say about kids returning to school — and teachers' facemasks. Also...
- Added: Jun 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Getting back to "normal" -
A German researcher explains how "lockdown" could have potentially been avoided. Also, the two...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Protest risks, a multi-purpose drug & conspiracies -
In this episode, new research shows how sunglasses fit into the coron...
- Added: Jun 07, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Music, minks & molecules -
In this episode, hear some fresh German research on safely singing and playing instruments...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Good vs. bad medicine & the mood in Germany -
In this episode, we look at a new German medicine that could be better tha...
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 30:00
