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We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 03:53
Can tweets reveal how thoughts and moods shift throughout the day?
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW
- Added: Jun 30, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 4
The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive beetle attacking Ash trees across the Midwest. The beetle first showed up in Bloomington in 2008, with the Ind...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 05:47
Could a drug erase the memories that keep addicts coming back for more?
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
People who are financially dependent on their spouse June be more likely to cheat on them.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
A critically endangered fish may be making up for to a lack of mates by reproducing without sex.
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
The measles vaccine protects the immune system from other infectious diseases.
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
Virtual “bodyswapping” helps people set aside unconscious biases towards others.
- Added: Dec 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Researchers are testing a vaccine against life-threatening antibiotic resistant bacteria.
- Added: Dec 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Brain scans can predict a quitter’s likelihood of smoking again.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 13, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
The outcome of a medical test could be affected by the time of day.
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
New guidelines could maximize transplant success by better matching donated kidneys with recipients.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:00
People’s unconscious reactions to liars and truth-tellers are more accurate than their conscious judgments.
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 01:00
A Indiana University researcher has been awarded a 1.15 million dollar grant to develop a blood test that could be used to determine if individuals...
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 08:39
The human genome may be the best avenue to date in the battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. It is also the focus of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroima...
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 09:22
An IU School of Medicine cancer research team is in process of refining a new drug that would target the protein SHP2, a protein that contributes t...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 08:23
Bloomington is in the running for a year-long partnership with Code for America, a national service organization that assigns "tech" talent to loca...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 09:02
For those of us who will not be around 105 years from now, this is our last chance to see the planet Venus pass between earth and the sun. The astr...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 08:19
John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 09:37
A recent audit of Monroe County’s energy use turned up a variety of ways the County could save money and energy - from replacing lights to institut...
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 10:07