Science Selections
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This series of podcasts is intended to keep you up to date on the whole spectrum of scientific progress without losing you in technospeak or abstract concepts. It features selections from the more popular scientific journals, such as Scientific American Magazine, but also takes its material from such sources as the Los Angeles Times or the New Yorker, when appropriate. The articles read range from methane on Mars and cosmic radiation to our sense of smell and the intelligence of ravens.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limits of Ancestry Tests - Feb 19, 2019 Vox.com | 23andMe and other genetic testing companies promise to reveal your family's past. But what are they actually finding? By Brian Resnick. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:57 |
| Affordability For All - Feb, 2019 Scientific American | The hope of gene therapy could be crushed by its expense unless there are more rational ways of paying for it. By Michael Sherman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:08:58 |
| A Genetic Shortcut - Feb, 2019 Scientific American | Gene therapies that turn the body into a designer antibody factory could bypass drawbacks of expensive treatments. By Amanda Keener. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:40 |
| Is Antarctica Collapsing? - Feb, 2019 Scientific American | Rapid glacier retreat could put coastlines underwater sooner than anticipated. Written by Richard P. Alley. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:29 |
| Is Sunscreen the New Margerine? - LongReads.com Jan, 2019 | Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests... By Rowan Jacobsen. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:20 |
| Tracking Weather and Pirates - Jan, 2019 Wired | Satellites are tracking weather and movements of ships and air traffic. Arrgh! they might even chase pirates matey! By Sarah Scoles. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:09 |
| Evolved to Exercise - Jan, 2019 Scientific American | Unlike our ape cousins, humans require high levels of physical activity to be healthy. By Herman Pontzer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:34:00 |
| Taming the System - 2019 TechER | How Riot Games' Naomi McArthur keeps the peace in online gaming and how those lessons can extend to real life. By Alexander Gelfand. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:42 |
| Hidden Inferno - Dec, 2018 Scientific American | A supervolcano may be brewing beneath Chile, with a cold interior that upends ideas about triggers of huge eruptions. By Shannon Hall. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:19 |
| Neurons That Tell Time - The New Yorker Dec, 2018 | The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway? By Ingfei Chen. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:28 |
| Space Colonization - Nov, 2018 The Week Magazine | The Colonization of Space. Humanity is inching closer to establishing colonies on other worlds. Is it really feasible? | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:44 |
| Microrobots - Nov, 2018 Berkeley Engineer | Microrobots fly, walk and jump into the future. By Jennifer Huber. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:51 |
| Big Business of Bottoms - The Guardian, Nov, 2018 | As more and more women go under the knife in pursuit of curves, it's clear they are paying with their health. By Eva Wiseman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:01 |
| Brain Bugs? - Nov, 2018 ScienceMag.org | We know the microbes in the gut greatly affect health. Could some of them be making a home in our brains? By Kelly Servick. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:08:53 |
| Geometry Vs. Gerrymandering - Nov, 2018 Scientific American | Mathematicians are developing forensics to identify political maps that disenfranchise voters. By Moon Duchin of Tufts University. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:57 |
| Sleep Learning Gets Real - Nov, 2018 Scientific American | Experimental techniques demonstrate how to strengthen memories when our brains are off-line. By Ken A. Paller & Delphine Oudiette. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:46 |
| Clicks, Lies and Videotape - Oct, 2018 Scientific American | AI makes it possible for anyone to manipulate audio and video. The biggest threat is that we stop trusting anything. By Brooke Borel. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:22 |
| Eye On Innovation - Fall, 2018 Caltech Magazine | Caltech researchers are looking for technological solutions to some of the most common causes of blindness or vision impairment. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:10 |
| Earthquakes In The Sky - Oct, 2018 Scientific American | The best early warnings of a big disaster may appear 180 miles above the ground, a controversial new theory says. By Erik Vance. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:16 |
| Cell Phones Improve - Oct, 2018 Scientific American | 5G Is Just Around the Corner. It will make 4G phones seem positively quaint. By David Pogue. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:07:13 |
| Human Consciousness - Sep, 2018 Scientific American | Might humans be the only species on the planet to be truly conscious? Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness. By Susan Blackmore. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:07 |
| Cost of Insulin - The Conversation Sep 13, 2018 | After a century, insulin is still expensive - Could do-It-Yourselfers change that? By Jenna E. Gallegos & Jean Peccoud. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:56 |
| Last Hominin Standing - Sep, 2018 Scientific American | The Last Hominin Standing. Why did homo sapiens alone survive to the modern era? By Kate Wong. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:28 |
| Origins of Morality - Sep, 2018 Scientific American | The Origins of Morality. How mankind learned to put our fate in one another's hands. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:58 |
| Inside Our Heads - Sep, 2018 Scientific American | Inside Our Heads. Two Key Features Created the Human Mind.. By Thomas Suddendorf. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:02 |
| 23 And We - Aug, 2018 Scientific American | The limitations of personal genome service testing. Is current technology that tests for disease gene variants actually worth it? | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:08:02 |
| The Seventh Sense - Aug, 2018 Scientific American | Long thought to be divorced from the brain, the immune system turns out to be intimately involved in its functioning. By Jonathan Kipnis. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:42 |
| Bringing Darwin Back - Aug, 2018 Scientific American | Research shows 60% of American teachers avoid teaching evolution. A growing movement tries to change that. By Adam Piore. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:35:53 |
| An Exploration of Race -Apr, 2018 UnDark.org | National Geographic: The magazine's spotlight on race coupled with their genetic testing kits seems odd... By Michael Schulson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:16 |
| Peak Energy Storage - Jul, 2018 IEEE Spectrum | Li-Ion Battery Storage to Replace Three Natural Gas Power Plants in California. Tesla batteries to help meet peak power demand. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:12 |
| Weather Smart Grid - Jul, 2018 Scientific American | Renewable energy will rule only when weather data drives the design of a new electric grid. By Peter Fairley. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:14 |
| Battle of the Brains - Jul, 2018 Scientific American | Dogs beat their domesticated rivals, cats, in a new attempt to measure cognitive power. By Josh Fischmann. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:05:01 |
| Bacterial Builders - Summer, 2018 Caltech Magazine | Bacterial Builders. Frances Arnold is directing bacteria to build molecules never before assembled in nature. By Emily Velasco. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:03 |
| Ultrasonic Noise - Jun 18, 2018 Wall Street Journal | Can largely inaudible ultrasound signals from widespread electronics be responsible for headaches & dizziness? By Lee Hotz. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:36 |
| Super-Charge Your Baby -Jun, 2018 Scientific American | Many toys promise to help babies read, learn, do math and walk earlier than expected - with dubious science. By Erik Vance. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:40 |
| String Theory - Sep, 2017 TheGuardian.com | Gravitational waves could solve the hotly contested string theory by means of cutting-edge laser detectors. By Hannah Devlin. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:07:46 |
| Greatest Pandemic - The Conversation, Jan, 2018 | The "Greatest Pandemic in History" was 100 years ago - but many of us still get the basic facts wrong. By Richard Gunderman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:27 |
| Cleaning Up Space Debris - May, 2018 IEEE Spectrum | Testing a new spacecraft that cleans up space debris using nets and harpoons. By Jeremy Hsu. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:07:50 |
| Deep Sea Mining - May, 2018 Scientific American | Is Deep-Sea Mining Worth It? The race is on to exploit - and protect - the ocean floor. By Thomas Peacock & Matthew H. Alford. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:59 |
| Mucus Nets - The Conversation May 2, 2018 | Meet the ocean creatures that use a mesh of mucus to catch their food, written by Kelley Sutherland. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:43 |
| Our Stuff, Ourselves - May, 2018 Scientific American | Low emotional security can intensify our relationships to our belongings. By Francine Russo. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:42 |
| Facebook Security - Apr, 2018 Wired | The Security Risks of Logging in With Facebook. By Louise Matsakis. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:41 |
| The Cancer Tree - Apr, 2018 Scientific American | Studies indicate genetic changes early in a primary tumor, point to a promising new approach to therapy. By Jeffrey P. Townsend. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:50 |
| Silent No More - Apr, 2018 Scientific American | The rise of the atheists. A credible indirect estimate says 26 percent of Americans are atheists. By Michael Shermer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:07:40 |
| Meltdown -Apr, 2018 Scientific American | The arctic climate is shattering record after record, altering weather worldwide. By Jennifer A. Francis. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:40 |
| Preventing Suicide - Apr, 2018 Scientific American | Social scientists have begun to close in on new ways to stop people from taking their own lives. By Lydia Densworth. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:58 |
| The Baddest - Mar, 2018 Scientific American | Studies of the bite forces of crocodiles and their relatives reveal secrets of their evolutionary success. By Gregory M. Erickson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:56 |
| Self-Taught Robots - Mar, 2018 Scientific American | Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together... By Diana Kwon. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:19 |
| A Perfectly Avoidable Crisis - Mar, 2018 Scientific American | Bone Fractures are rife after age 50. Can't we do more about osteoporosis? By Claudia Wallis. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:07:25 |
| Build an Altair 8800 - Feb, 2018 IEEE Spectrum | Build Your Own Altair 8800 P.C. Go back to 1974 and the dawn of home computing with this Arduino-based kit. By Stephen Cass. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:08:27 |
| Monster Black Holes - Feb, 2018 Scientific American | How could the oldest super massive black holes have grown so big so early in cosmic history? By Prijamvada Natarajan. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:57 |
| Smart Phones - Feb, 2018 Scientific American | Are Smart Phones Destroying the Adolescent Brain? Are device-hooked teens doomed? The reality isn't so simple. By Carlin Florin. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:34:01 |
| War On Super Bugs - Dec, 2017 Time Magazine | How a forgotten 100 year old therapy (based on bacteriophages) is saving lives. By Alexandra Sifferlin. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:21 |
| Tribalism of Truth - Feb, 2018 Scientific American | As political polarization grows, the arguments we have with one another may be shifting our understanding of truth itself. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:44 |
| Loneliness - Jan, 2018 Scientific American | The Toxic Well of Loneliness. Isolation from others can lead to a range of illnesses and even premature death. By Francine Russo. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:52 |
| Hydropower - Nov, 2017 UnDark.org | Hydropower may seem like a clean and easy solution for energy-hungry countries. But the devil is in the details. By Lois Parshley. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:40:31 |
| War Against Ourselves - Jan, 2018 Scientific American | Many new drugs trigger an immune reaction that cripples them - and the race is on to thwart the attack. By Michael Waldholz. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:12 |
| Breaking the Bank - Jan, 2018 Scientific American | New financial networks could stop the concentration of wealth and increase participation in the economy - but only if used with care. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:35 |
| Top 10 Technologies - Dec, 2017 Scientific American | Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017. Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world. By various authors. Part 2 of 2. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:10 |
| Top 10 Technologies - Dec, 2017 Scientific American | Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017. Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world. By various authors. Part 1 of 2. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:16 |
| Rise and Fall of BitCoin - Nov, 2017 Wired Online | The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto created the ingenious digital currency that is capturing the public imagination. By Benjamin Wallace | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:35:00 |
| Captives Changed the World - Dec, 2017 Scientific American | Stolen people - mostly women and children - were a driving force in the evolution of modern society. By Catherine M. Cameron | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:27 |
| War On Slime - Nov, 2017 Scientific American | Bacteria mats kill as many as cancer and fight antibiotics. Scientists are turning their own weapons against them. By Karin Sauer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:45 |
| Expression - Nov, 2017 UnDark.org | Experiments on baby Willy Darwin led to lifelong study of how we show emotion - & breakthroughs in child psychology. By James T. Costa. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:52 |
| Alan Turing - Oct, 2017 IEEE Spectrum | Alan Turing: How His Universal Machine Became a Musical Instrument. By Jack Copeland & Jason Long. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:13 |
| Neutrino Puzzle - Oct, 2017 Scientific American | The largest experiment ever to probe these mysterious particles could point the way to new physics. By Clara Moskowitz. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:07 |
| Dangerous Medicine - Oct, 2017 Scientific American | In the mid-19th century two surgeons transformed the ancient butchering art of surgery with science. By Lindsey Fitzharris. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:38 |
| The Chicken Experiment - Oct, 2017 UnDark.org | In 1948, a scientist fed baby chickens a tiny dose of a new antibiotic, setting off a cascade of consequences... By Maryn McKenna. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:03 |
| Blockchains - Sep, 2017 IEEE Spectrum | Blockchains: The technology behind Bitcoin could touch every transaction you ever make. By Morgen E. Peck. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:33:33 |
| Baby's First Organ - Oct, 2017 Scientific American | The placenta, arguably the least studied of all human body parts, is full of surprises. By Adrian Erlebacher & Susan J. Fisher. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:47 |
| Not Just For Men - Sep, 2017 Scientific American | Researchers and doctors must explore gender differences before they can provide women with better treatments. By Marcia L. Stefanick | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:51 |
| Microplastic Contamination - Sep, 2017 TheGuardian.com | Tests show billions of people globally are drinking water contaminated by plastic particles. By Damian Carrington. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:11 |
| Nanoscale Agricultural Experiment - Sep, 2017 UnDark | Researchers experiment with nano-sized nutrients that might curb chemical use and transform agriculture cheaply. By Jan Ellen Spiegel. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:39 |
| Is There a 'Female' Brain? - Sep, 2017 Scientific American | The debate over differences between male and female brains could have implications for health and personal identity. By Lydia Denworth. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:11 |
| Gender Myths - Sep, 2017 Scientific American | The notion that behavioral differences between the sexes are immutable does not hold up under scrutiny. By Cordelia Fine & Mark Elgar | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:20 |
| Soy Formula Experiment - Aug, 2017 UnDark | Soy milk and formula contain potent human hormone disruptors. We don't know what this means for child development. By Deborah Blum. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:11 |
| Geosynchronous Repair Robots - IEEE Spectrum | Inside DARPA's Mission to Send a Repair Robot to Geosynchronous Orbit. The RSGS spacecraft could visit and inspect dozens of satellites. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:22 |
| Facial Recognition - The Conversation, Apr 2017 | Facial recognition is becoming increasingly common, but how does it work? By Jessica Gabel Cino. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:38 |
| Evolution of Dance - Jul, 2017 Scientific American | Do humans dance just for fun, or did it help our ancestors survive thousands of years ago? By Thea Singer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:22 |
| Probiotics, No Panacea - Jul, 2017 Scientific American | Although certain bacteria help treat some gut disorders, they have no known benefits for healthy people. By Ferris Jabr. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:47 |
| Operation: Diabetes - Jul, 2017 Scientific American | Surgery that shortens intestines cures diabetes. Evidence shows the gut - not just insulin - may be responsible. By Francesco Rubino | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:02 |
| Brain Simulation - Jun, 2017 IEEE Spectrum | Henry Markram Talks Brain Simulation. When will we have computers as capable as the brain? By Henry Markram. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:55 |
| Greenland's Vanished Vikings - Jun, 2017 Sci Am | They ruled the icy outpost for hundreds of years before their colonies collapsed. Their puzzling decline. By Zach Zorich. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:09 |
| Smart Moves - Spring 2017 Berkeley Engineer | California's Next-Gen Infrastructure. UC Berkeley engineers share their thoughts on the State's future. By Paul Preuss. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:21 |
| Ray Kurzweil - Nov, 2010 IEEE Spectrum | His prophecies earned him a reputation as a tech visionary, but many of them don't look so good on close inspection. By John Rennie | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:37 |
| Lost Picture Show - Apr, 2017 IEEE Spectrum | Film studios invested in magnetic-tape storage for film archiving but now struggle to keep up with the technology. By Marty Perlmutter. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:37 |
| Making AI Human - Jun, 2017 Scientific American | Artificial intelligence has staged a revival by starting to incorporate what we know about how children learn. By Alison Gopnik. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:32 |
| Piltdown Hoax - The Conversation, May, 2017 | Behind closed doors: What the Piltdown Man hoax from 1912 can teach science today. By Samuel Redman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:45 |
| Parkinson's Disease - Caltech Magazine, Spring 2017 | Do gut bacteria contribute to or cause the shaking, stumbling, and overall deterioration of motor skills... of Parkinson's disease? | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:07 |
| Aspirin vs. Cancer - May, 2017 Scientific American | In addition to relieving headaches and preventing heart attacks, aspirin seems to keep malignant cells from spreading. By Viviane Callier. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:38 |
| Typing-by-Brain - Apr, 2017 IEEE Spectrum | Facebook Announces Typing-by-Brain Project. Suddenly, the big Silicon Valley players want to get into brain tech. By Eliza Strickland. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:07 |
| User Manuals - Apr, 2017 Scientific American | What Happened to User Manuals? Google happened ... and something very important was lost. Written by David Pogue. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:06:39 |
| Facial Recognition - From The Conversation, Apr, 2017 | Facial recognition is becoming increasingly common, but how does it work and what are its privacy considerations? By Jessica Gabel Cino. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:54 |
| Success Against Alzheimer's - Apr, 2017 Scientific American | A gold-standard clinical trial provides evidence that diet, exercise and an active social life can help prevent cognitive decline. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:50 |
| Inside the Echo Chamber - Apr, 2017 Scientific American | Computational social scientists study how conspiracy theories spread online and what can be done to stop them. By Walter Quattrociocchi. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:01 |
| Gasping for Air - Mar, 2017 Scientific American | Gasping for Air. Shortness of breath can arise from a large number of conditions, complicating diagnosis and treatment. By Robin Lloyd. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:09 |
| Am I Human? - Mar, 2017 Scientific American | Researchers need new ways to distinguish artificial intelligence from the natural kind. By Gary Marcus and John Pavlus. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:44 |
| The Whistled Word - Feb, 2017 Scientific American | Before cell phones,some rural folks "spoke" long distance by whistling - a technique that still fascinate linguists. By Julien Meyer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:09 |
| The Exercise Paradox - Feb, 2017 Scientific American | How we burn calories helps explain why exercise does little to control weight and how we developed distinctive traits. By Herman Pontzer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:25 |
| Stomach Upset - Feb, 2017 Scientific American | Doctors are dealing with evidence that chronic use of popular heartburn medicines may be riskier than was thought. By Karen Weintraub. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:31 |
| Taking Wing - Jan, 2017 Scientific American | A fossil record of the dinosaurs that led to birds, reveals how evolution produces new kinds of organisms. By Stephen Brusatte. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:48 |
| E-mail - Jan, 2017 Scientific American | Your E-mail Password Will Never Be Safe! A long list of corporate and political hacks has made that very clear. By David Pogue. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:07:30 |
| Whose Tools Are These? - Jan, 2017 Scientific American | Wild monkeys make stone "tools" that bear a striking resemblance to artifacts produced by early humans. By Kate Wong. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:37 |
| Lab-Built Brains - Jan, 2017 Scientific American | Scientists copy nature's most complex organ in the hope of solving the mysteries of brain disorders .... By Juergen A. Knoblich. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:04 |
| Robot Disobedience - Jan, 2017 Scientific American | Don't worry about defiant machines. Devious human masters and misunderstood commands are a bigger threat. By G. Briggs and M. Scheutz. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:13 |
| Communication - The Conversation Dec 13 | What does research say about how to effectively communicate about science? By Andrew Maynard and Dietram A. Scheufele. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:10 |
| Robot Surgeons - May, 2016 IEEE Spectrum | Would You Trust a Robot Surgeon to Operate on You? Surgical robots may take over the operating room. By Eliza Strickland. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:25 |
| Changing the World - Dec, 2016 Scientific American | Ten Ideas That Will Change the World. Advances with the potential to solve problems and improve life for all of us. Ideas 5 through 10. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:22 |
| Changing the World - Dec, 2016 Scientific American | Ten Ideas That Will Change the World. Advances with the potential to solve problems and improve life for all of us. Ideas 1 through 5. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:31 |
| Human Organs From Animals - Nov, 2016 Scientific American | Scientists are taking steps toward growing organs for people inside pigs, cows and other animals. By Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:17 |
| The Fusion Underground - Nov, 2016 Scientific American | A few physicists are exploring faster, cheaper roads to the ultimate source of clean energy. By W. Wayt Gibbs. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:31:05 |
| Social Media & the Election - The Conversation, Nov, 2016 | Did Social Media Robots Affect Your Vote? How Twitter bots affected the US presidential campaign. By Emilio Ferrara. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:02 |
| On the trail of El Nino - Oct, 2016 Scientific American | It often gets blamed for extreme weather. A closer look at the most recent cycle shows the truth is more subtle. By Emily Becker. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:57 |
| How Many Genes Make a Person? - The Conversation Oct 18 | Fewer than a banana. This has implications for the study of human health and raises questions on what generates complexity. By Sean Nee | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:44 |
| The Celebrity Scientist - Oct, 2016 Scientific American | Engaging the public has long been taboo in scientific circles, but social media outlets are starting to force a change. By 3 authors. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:17 |
| Basic income after automation? - The Conversation Oct, 2016 | A monthly check from the government to every citizen to cover basic necessities? - That's not how capitalism works! By Katharina Nieswandt. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:26 |
| A Look Inside the Brain - Oct, 2016 Scientific American | A new experimental approach using both chemistry & biology lets us peer into the deepest reaches of the brain. By Karl Deisseroth. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:04 |
| The Threat of Inequality - Sep, 2016 Scientific American | The gap between rich and poor has grown recently. Society must address this and tame the behavior it promotes. By Angus Deaton. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:14 |
| Orders of Magnitude - The Conversation Sep 14, 2016 | The beauty, power, and unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. What exactly does 'instantaneous' mean? By Kevin Knudson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:39 |
| Tale of Two Worlds - Sep, 2016 Scientific American | A Tale of Two Worlds. The aging and the procreating. Who will prosper and who will fall behind? By Mara Hvistendahl. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:50 |
| The Red Line - Sep, 2016 Scientific American | The Red Line. Will we control the genetic destiny of mankind? By Stephen S. Hall. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:32:00 |
| The NSA Hack - The Conversation - Aug 18, 2016 | After the NSA hack: Cybersecurity in an even more vulnerable world. By Nir Kshetri at theconversation.com | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:59 |
| Drilling for Earthquakes - Jul, 2016 Scientific American | Scientists are confident about the link between earthquakes and oil & gas production, yet regulators are slow to react. By Anna Kuchment. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:36:19 |
| The Huntington's Paradox - Aug, 2016 Scientific American | The gene that causes a devastating neurodegenerative disease may also have been critical in the evolution of our species. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:24 |
| The World's Power Grid - The Verge Jul, 2016 | Tesla's future depends on the Gigafactory, by Jordan Golson. Why Tesla's home battery should terrify utilities, by Josh Dzieza. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:42 |
| Emptiest Place in Space - Aug, 2016 Scientific American | Efforts to explain a strange cold spot in the cosmos led to the discovery of something even odder: a vast area with very little matter. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:34 |
| Saltwater Solution - Jul, 2016 Scientific American | Farmland is being ruined by salty water. Rice and fruits, genetically modified to survive salt, could feed millions. By Mark Harris. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:39 |
| Stellar Fireworks - Jun, 2016 Scientific American | Every year thousands of exploding stars appear in bizarre forms. Astronomers want to know what makes them go boom. By Daniel Kasen. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:03 |
| Pandas - The Conversation: Jun, 2016 | To help these cuddlies survive, we must understand the biology of their death. By Garret Suen, Kimberly Dill-McFarland, & Tommy Leung | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:45 |
| Video Games - Jul, 2016 Scientific American | Shooting zombies and repelling aliens can lead to lasting improvement in mental skills. By Daphne Bavelier and C. Shawn Green. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:31 |
| Supersmart Robots - Jun, 2016 Scientific American | If we're not careful, we could find ourselves at odds with intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own. By Stuart Russell. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:59 |
| Tesla's Problems - Vox.com Jun 9, 2016 | Tesla's real problem isn't that its cars are expensive. It's that they're unreliable. By Timothy B. Lee with Edward Niedermeyer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:01 |
| Treating Chronic Pain? - The Conversation, Jun 2, 2016 | About 50 million in the U.S. suffer from it. Very little research is done and doctors lack the skill to treat it. By Robert Caudle. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:00 |
| Science Is Often Flawed - May, 2016 Vox.com | If we saw science as a human construction, science and our understanding of it would be better off. By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:15 |
| Quantum Connections - May, 2016 Scientific American | Scientists are trying to make quantum computers a reality by connecting many small networks together into one large whole. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:45 |
| Simulating Evolution: The Conversation May, 2016 | Simulating Evolution: In Evolutionary Science, how close do computer models come to reality? By Christoph Adami. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:55 |
| Language Wars - May, 2016 Scientific American | Where did the Indo-European language family originate? New evidence heightens the scientific disagreements. By Michael Balter | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:08 |
| Mosquito Mods: The Conversation Apr 2016 | To fight the Zika virus, let's genetically modify mosquitoes - the old-fashioned way. By Jeffrey Powell. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:41 |
| Recalculating! - The Conversation, Mar, 2016 | Drivers make suboptimal routing decisions, leading to traffic jams, when traveling around town. By Marta Gonzalez and Antonio Lima | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:09:52 |
| Mystery Human - Mar, 2016 Scientific American | An astonishing trove of fossils has scientists, and the media, in a tizzy over our origins. By Kate Wong. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:42:36 |
| Leap Years - The Conversation Feb 25, 2016 | Leap Day: Fixing the Faults in Our Stars. All you ever wanted to know about leaps. By James Hetrick. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:54 |
| Brain Drain - Feb, 2016 Scientific American | An internal plumbing system rids the brain of toxic wastes during sleep. By Maiken Nedergaard and Steven A. Goldman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:02 |
| Apple vs. FBI - The Conversation, Feb, 2016 | A couple of articles about Apple's decision not to grant the F.B.I.'s request to help access the data on a terrorist's iPhone. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:14 |
| Orders of Magnitude - The Conversation, Feb 19, 2016 | Orders of Magnitude. Extreme numbers: The unimaginably large and small pop up in recent experiments. By Kevin Knudson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:02 |
| Gravitational Wave Proof - The Conversation, Feb 11, 2016 | What happens when LIGO texts you to say it's detected one of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves? By Chad Hanna. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:56 |
| The Power of the Infant Brain - Feb, 2016 Scientific American | Understanding intense learning during childhood suggests strategies for correcting disorders later in life. By Takao K. Hensch. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:42 |
| Collective Wisdom of Ants - Feb, 2016 Scientific American | Ant colonies have no central control. Understanding this might help us understand other systems that have no leader... Deborah M. Gordon. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:08 |
| Fundamental Farces - Jan, 2016 Scientific American | Anti Gravity. The Ongoing Search for Fundamental Farces column by Steve Mirsky. 3x equals an omelet. Math can be fun for readers of all h's. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:06:46 |
| Do Animals Know Where Babies Come From? - Jan 2016 Sci-Am | Nonhuman species can seem to comprehend procreation, but even apes lack the cognitive traits to truly understand. By Holly Dunsworth. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:37 |
| Carbon Capture Fallacy - Jan, 2016 Scientific American | Every credible plan to cut global warming hinges on carbon-trapping playing a major role. That doesn't seem likely. By David Biello. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:31 |
| Where Am I? - Jan, 2016 Scientific American | Where Am I? Where Am I Going? Scientists are discovering how the brain navigates. By May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:13 |
| English is not Normal - Dec, 2015 The Week | It's a wonder English ever caught on, said John McWhorter, because it's weirder than just about every other tongue. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:36 |
| The End of Work? - Dec, 2015 Turning Points | The End of Work? When robots start doing all the work, what will be left for humans? By Ji Shisan. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:11:16 |
| Dinosaurs - Dec, 2015 Scientific American | What Killed the Dinosaurs? The asteroid strike was bad. The timing was worse. By Stephen Brusatte. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:25 |
| Telescope Wars - Dec, 2015 Scientific American | Grudges between three astronomer teams threaten the survival of ground-based astronomy's boldest, biggest projects. By Katie Worth. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:48 |
| Robots With Heart - Nov, 2015 Scientific American | Before we can share our lives with machines, we must teach them to understand and mimic human emotion. By Pascale Fung. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:38 |
| Baby Talk - Nov, 2015 Scientific American | Every infant is a natural-born linguist capable of mastering any of the world's 7,000 languages like a native. By Patricia K. Kuhl. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:15 |
| Seeing In The Dark - Nov, 2015 Scientific American | The ambitious new Dark Energy Survey aims to solve the riddle of why space is expanding at an ever faster pace. By Joshua Frieman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:34 |
| The Pyramid Effect - Nov, 2015 Scientific American | The construction of Egypt's most famous monument spawned a social organization that changed the world. By Zach Zorich. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:51 |
| Hunting the Godzilla El Nino - Oct, 2015 Nature Online | As a massive El Nino builds in the Pacific Ocean, researchers hope to make the most of the chance to study it. By Quirin Schiermeier. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:39 |
| Murder Antidote - Oct, 2015 Scientific American | City leaders across the Americas are exploiting science to reduce homicide. By Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:48 |
| Sleep On It! - Oct, 2015 Scientific American | Sleep On It! Your nightly rest turns out to affect your mind and health more than anyone suspected. By Robert Stickgold. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:55 |
| Trouble In Mind - Oct 2015 Scientific American | A huge effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Poor management, or a fundamental flaw in Big Science? By Stefan Theil | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:47 |
| The Space Solar Power Initiative - ENGenious #12 | Engineering & Applied Science professors discuss a project to orbit a space vehicle constellation to generate solar power for Earth. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:24 |
| What Einstein Got Wrong - Sep 2015 Scientific American | Everyone makes mistakes. But those of the legendary physicist are particularly illuminating. By Lawrence M. Krause. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:48 |
| Head Trip - Sep, 2015 Scientific American | Head Trip: Einstein's thought experiments left a long and somewhat mixed legacy of their own. By Sabine Hossenfelder. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:52 |
| Reinventing Reality - Sep, 2015 Scientific American | Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry. By Walter Isaacson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:27 |
| 100 Years of General Relativity - Sep, 2015 Scientific American | Einstein: Why He Matters. The fruits of one mind shaped civilization more than seems possible. By Brian Greene. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:41 |
| Vertigo & Kids - Aug, 2015 Scientific American | Vertigo: Ear implants & gene therapy are new attempts at relief, by David Noonan. Are mobile devices ruining today's kids? by David Pogue | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:56 |
| Building Bloodhound - Jul, 2015 IEEE Spectrum | Bloodhound: The Fastest Car in the World. Jets, rockets, and computer models will help a British team break 1,000 m.p.h. By Stuart Nathan | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:53 |
| Hidden Hearing Loss - Aug, 2015 Scientific American | Jackhammers, concerts and other common noisemakers may cause irreparable damage to our ears - in unexpected ways. By Charles Liberman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:33 |
| Alien Jupiters - Aug, 2015 Scientific American | Two rival teams race to form images of giant planets in space. What they find could change the future of planet hunting. By Lee Billings | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:30:02 |
| Change of State - Aug, 2015 Scientific American | Searching for California's missing moisture. Drought may be turning California into a different kind of place altogether. By Dan Baum. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:35:56 |
| Drone Videography - Jun 2015 IEEE Spectrum | The Insider's Guide to Drone Videography. This expert guide will get you video geeks off the ground, by T. J. Diaz. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:48 |
| Out-Shining Silicon - Jul, 2015 Scientific American | Perovskite could make solar cells cheaper and more efficient than silicon. By Varun Sivaram, Samuel D. Stranks and Henry J. Smith. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:59 |
| From Wolf to Dog - Jul, 2015 Scientific American | Scientists are racing to solve the enduring mystery of how a large, dangerous carnivore evolved into our best friend. By Virginia Morell. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:35:43 |
| The Future of Aviation - Jun, 2015 | Selections from a Scientific American booklet on the history of aviation and how science proposes to smooth flights and soothe passengers | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:40:48 |
| All The Light There Ever Was - Jun, 2015 Scientific American | Astronomers are starting to read light emitted by galaxies throughout the universe since the start of time. By Dominguez, Primack & Bell | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:22 |
| The Amazing Teen Brain - Jun, 2015 Scientific American | A mismatch in brain network maturation leaves teens open to risky behavior but allows leaps in cognition and adaptability. By Jay N. Giedd | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:31 |
| Search For a New Machine - May, 2015 Scientific American | With the end of Moore's law in sight, chip manufacturers are spending billions to develop novel computing technologies. By John Pavlus. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:33:14 |
| Tyrannosaurs - May, 2015 Scientific American | Rise of the Tyrannosaurs. New fossils put T. rex in its place. By Stephen Brusatte. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:45 |
| Antibodies - May, 2015 Nature Online | Antibodies are the workhorses of biological experiments, but they are littering the field with false findings. By Monya Baker. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:46 |
| Conquer Yourself - Apr, 2015 Scientific American | Self-control is a key psychological trait that breeds success at work and play - and in overcoming life's hardships. By Roy Baumeister | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:51 |
| Queen of Carbon - Apr, 2015 IEEE Spectrum | Electronics made from nanoscale carbon shapes are coming, thanks to pioneering researcher Mildred Dresselhaus. By Mark Anderson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:20 |
| The Soil Sleuth - Apr, 2015 Nature On-Line | Forensic geologist Lorna Dawson has pioneered methods to help convict criminals using the dirt from their shoes. By Chelsea Wald. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:02 |
| Net Neutrality - Mar, 2015 IEEE Spectrum | It's Like a Truck Going Through a Pipe With Tollbooths. Metaphors for Net neutrality - and why they all stink. By Joshua J. Romero. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:10:35 |
| Save Blood, Save Lives - Mar, 2015 Nature Online | Transfusions are one of the most overused treatments in medicine. Researchers are working out how to cut back. By Emily Anthes. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:09 |
| Multiple Lives of Moore’s Law - Mar, 2015 IEEE Spectrum | Why Gordon Moore’s grand prediction for exponential growth of integrated circuit complexity has endured for 50 years. By Chris Mack. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:36 |
| Cyber War - Apr, 2015 Scientific American | How to Survive Cyber War. Step One: Stop counting on others to protect you... By Keren Elazari. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:19 |
| Burning Rings of Fire - Apr, 2015 Scientific American | Firewalls of particles may border black holes, confounding both general relativity and quantum mechanics. By Joseph Polchinski. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:44 |
| Our Transparent Future - Mar, 2015 Scientific American | No secret is safe in the digital age. The implications for our institutions are downright Darwinian. By Daniel Dennett and Deb Roy. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:19 |
| Sound Bytes - Mar, 2015 Scientific American | Ears are such terrific pattern finders that scientists are using audio data to detect cancer cells and space particles. By Ron Cowen. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:06 |
| Shock Medicine - Mar, 2015 Scientific American | Stimulation of the nervous system could replace drugs for inflammatory and auto immune conditions. By Kevin J. Tracey. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:31:51 |
| Can We Mine A Black Hole? - Feb, 2015 Scientific American | To get energy out of a black hole, the first step would be to build a space elevator that defies the laws of physics... By Adam Brown | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:04 |
| Optics: Super vision - Feb 2015 Nature Online | Using techniques from astronomy, physicists are finding ways to see through opaque materials like living tissue. By Zeeya Merali. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:07 |
| Unsung Heroes - Jan 2015 Nature Online | Not your average tech. Research relies on unsung heroes working behind the scenes - some have rather unusual jobs. By various authors. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:25 |
| Treating Depression - Feb, 2015 Scientific American | Electrical stimulation deep within the brain may alleviate devastating mood disorders. By Andres M. Lozano and Helen S. Mayberg. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:05 |
| Neandertal Minds - Feb, 2015 Scientific American | Analyses of anatomy, DNA and cultural remains have yielded insights into the inner lives of our mysterious extinct cousins. By Kate Wong. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:32:01 |
| Will We Still Enjoy Pinot Noir? - Jan, 2015 Scientific American | Winegrowers are trying to preserve the flavor of wines as climate change alters the compounds in grapes. By Kimberly A. Nicholas. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:32:52 |
| Military Health - Jan, 2015 Nature On-Line | 24 years after the conflict ended, scientists and veterans are still fighting for recognition of Gulf War illness. By Sara Reardon. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:08 |
| A World of Movement - Jan, 2015 Scientific American | A new microscope reveals tiny changes in objects that appear to be stock-still. By Fredo Durand, William Freeman and Michael Rubinstein | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:52 |
| Better Than Earth - Jan, 2015 Scientific American | Planets quite different from our own may be the best homes for life in the universe. By Renee Heller. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:55 |
| Pain That Won't Quit - Dec, 2014 Scientific American | Chronic pan can defy treatment. New insights into the causes are leading to fresh ideas for combating it. By Stephani Sutherland. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:57 |
| Immunity's Illusion - Dec, 2014 Scientific American | Sophisticated math tools suggest the immune system has a blind spot when it comes to influenza virus mutations. By Adam J. Kucharski. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:56 |
| The fracking fallacy - Dec, 2014 Nature Online | The U. S. is banking on decades of abundant natural gas to power its economic resurgence. That may be wishful thinking. By Mason Inman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:19 |
| The Peer-Review Scam - Nov, 2014 Nature Online | Some authors were caught reviewing their own papers, ... weaknesses in modern publishing. By Cat Ferguson, Adam Marcus & Ivan Oransky | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:42 |
| Solar Wars - Nov, 2014 Scientific American | Solar Wars. The growing popularity of solar power on rooftops spurs a utility backlash. By David Biello. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:45 |
| The Programmable World - Nov, 2014 Scientific American | New materials, printers & designs could yield objects that can assemble themselves and change shape or function on command ... | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:36 |
| After The Berlin Wall - Nov 5, 2014 Nature Online | The countries of central and Eastern Europe are carving their own unique identities in science. By Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeier. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:15 |
| Beacon from the Big Bang - Oct, 2014 Scientific American | Discovery of gravitational waves from the Big Bang may reveal a connection between gravity and quantum mechanics... By Lawrence Krause | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:33:35 |
| Virus Therapy for Cancer - Nov, 2014 Scientific American | For some patients, viruses engineered to kill tumor cells work well. Our task is to build on this success. By Mahoney, Stojdl and Laird | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:14 |
| An Inconvenient Ice - Oct, 2014 Scientific American | Methane hydrates could solve the world's energy challenge - or make global warming worse. By Lisa Margonelli. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:30 |
| The Big Reboot - Oct, 2014 Nature Magazine | Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider gear up to go beyond the standard model of particle physics. By Matthew Chalmers. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:54 |
| The first South Americans - Oct, 2014 Nature | Extreme living. After humans arrived in South America, they quickly spread into some of its most remote corners. By Barbara Fraser. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:55 |
| Saving Coffee - Oct, 2014 Scientific American | Researchers are racing to breed new traits into the non-diverse coffee crop before it succumbs to its threats. By Hillary Rosner. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:26 |
| Automobile Electronics - Sep, 2014 IEEE Spectrum | Tesla Overreach, by Mark Anderson; Self-Driving Car Passes Driver's Test, by Mark Harris; GM Car Talks to Other Cars, by Philip Ross | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:16 |
| Human Evolution - Sep, 2014 Scientific American | Still Evolving (after all these years). For 30,000 years our species has been changing quickly. We're not done yet. By John Hawks | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:55 |
| After Cyber Warfare - Aug, 2014 IEEE Spectrum | Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here. A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world. By William A. Radasky | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:54 |
| Powers of Two - Sep, 2014 Scientific American | Powers of Two. Primate Monogamy. Coupling up might have been the best move our ancestors ever made. By Blake Edgar. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:55 |
| The Science of Learning - Aug, 2014 Scientific American | Researchers are using new tools to see what works best in classrooms. The results aren't making it to schools. By Barbara Kantrowitz | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:32 |
| Accidental Genius - Aug, 2014 Scientific American | A blow to the head can sometimes unmask hidden artistic or intellectual gifts. By Darrold A. Treffert. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:43 |
| The Robo-Chemist - Aug, 2014 Nature On-Line | The race is on to build a machine that can synthesize any organic compound. It could transform chemistry. By Mark Peplow. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:56 |
| Cosmic (In)significance - Aug, 2014 Scientific American | To know whether life exists beyond Earth, we must come to terms with our own significance in the universe... By Caleb Scharf | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:14 |
| Black Hole at t=0. Aug, 2014 Scientific American | Is the big bang ... a holographic mirage from another dimension? By Niayest Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:48 |
| Milky Way's Giant Bubbles - Jul, 2014 Scientific American | Newly discovered lobes stretch many light-years from the Milky Way's disk. By Douglas Finkbeiner, Meng Su & Dmitry Malyshev. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:57 |
| Bottoms Up - Jul, 2014 Scientific American | Treated sewage could be the safest, ... source of tap water yet - if we can get over the yuck factor. By Olive Hefferman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:48 |
| Extra Sensory Perception - Jul, 2014 Scientific American | How a world filled with sensors will change the way we see, hear, think and live. By Gershon Dublon and Joseph Paradiso. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:11 |
| Nutrition: Vitamins on Trial - Jun, 2014 Nature | After decades of study, researchers can't agree on whether nutritional supplements improve health. By Melinda Wenner Moyer. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:06 |
| The Ponzi Economy - Jun, 2014 Scientific American | The Ponzi Economy. Many ordinary business practices resemble this infamous con game." By Kaushik Basu. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:16 |
| Solar energy - Jun 4, 2014 Nature Online | Solar energy: Springtime for the artificial leaf. Researchers make headway in turning photons into fuel. By Jessica Marshall. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:56 |
| Good Habits, Bad Habits - Jun, 2014 Scientific American | Researchers are pinpointing the brain circuits that can help us form good habits and break bad ones. By Ann M. Graybiel & Kyle S. Smith | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:57 |
| Cancer's Off Switch - May, 2014 Scientific American | By releasing the brakes tumor cells place on the immune system, researchers develop new treatments for cancer. By Jedd D. Wolchok | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:01 |
| Supersymmetry - May, 2014 Scientific American | Crisis in Physics. Supersymmetry, with its deep view of the quantum world, is at a crossroads. By Joseph Lykken & Maria Spiropulu | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:53 |
| Fossil GPS - May, 2014 Scientific American | Luck played a big part in many fossil discoveries. New models predict where the bones are... By Robert Anemone and Charles Emerson | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:23 |
| Crash-Proof Cars - May, 2014 IEEE Spectrum | Rise of the Crash-Proof Car. When cars won't let drivers make mistakes, crashes may become a thing of the past. By staff writers. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:26 |
| Is Anybody In There? - May, 2014 Scientific American | Communicating with patients who appear to lack consciousness is becoming a reality. By Adrian M. Owen. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:55 |
| False Hope - Apr, 2014 Scientific American | The rate of global temperature rise may have hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future. By Michael E. Mann. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:44 |
| Rise of the Human Predator - Apr, 2014 Scientific American | Anthropologists have long debated when and how men became hunters. Recent discoveries have yielded surprising insights." By Kate Wong | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:48 |
| The First Starlight - Apr, 2014 Scientific American | Not long after the big bang, all light left the cosmos. Astronomers are solving the mystery of its return. By Michael D. Lemonick | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:46 |
| Anesthesia - Apr, 2014 Scientific American | Hidden Dangers of Going Under. Anesthesia may have lingering side effects on the brain, even years after an operation," by Carina Storrs | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:37 |
| The $1,000 Genome - Mar, 2014 Nature Online | A unique US Government program has driven the cost of genome sequencing impressively downward, by Erika Check Hayden | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:54 |
| Chestnut's Rebirth - Mar, 2014 Scientific American | A foreign fungus nearly wiped out North America's once vast chestnut forests. Genetic engineering can revive them, by William Powell | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:16 |
| Case of the Stolen Words - Mar, 2014 Scientific American | I wanted to build software to navigate medical jargon, but ended up revealing plagiarism and fraud, by Harold "Skip" Garner. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:34 |
| Crowd-sourcing - Feb, 2014 Nature Online | Researchers are find that online collaboration can speed up their work - if they choose the right problem, by Philip Ball | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:40 |
| Mind Games - Feb, 2014 Scientific American | Video games could transform education, but game designers, teachers & parents must overcome hype and fear," by Alan Gershenfeld. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:46 |
| Changing Face of Primate Research - Feb, 2014 Nature | A hard-won political victory for primate research is at risk of unravelling in pockets of Europe, by Alison Abbott | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:01 |
| Never Say Never - Feb, 2014 Scientific American | Why you shouldn't be surprised when the same six winning lottery numbers come up in successive drawings, by David J. Hand | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:02 |
| Remembrance of All Things Past - Feb, 2014 Scientific American | Some people can remember events from 20 years ago almost as well as those of yesterday," by James L. McGaugh and Aurora LePort | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:23 |
| The Heart of Darkness - Jan, 2014 Nature | Supermassive black holes at the centre of large galaxies are full of mysteries. Astronomers are finally getting a clear look, by Ron Cowen | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:41 |
| The Missing Heat - Jan, 2014 Nature | Climate Change: The Case of the Missing Heat. Why the Apparent Stall in Global Temperature Rise? by Jeff Tollefson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:43 |
| The Learning Machines - Jan, 2014 Nature | Using massive amounts of data to recognize photos and speech, deep-learning computers take a big step towards true A.I., by Nicola Jones | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:53 |
| Against Copernicus - Jan, 2014 Scientific American | Opposition to his revolutionary idea of Earth revolving about the sun also came from scientists, by Dennis Danielson and Christopher Graney | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:46 |
| Solar and Wind Energy - Jan, 2014 Scientific American | A Long Slow Rise: The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking, by Vaclav Smil | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:55 |
| Fungi on the March - Dec, 2013 Scientific American | A strange fungal disease in Canada and the Northwestern U.S. heralds a new threat to human health," by Jennifer Frazer | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:29:25 |
| Good With Faces - Dec, 2013 Scientific American | Most think face recognition needs a complex brain. But some insects are pretty good at it, by Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Adrian G. Dyer | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:22 |
| North America's broken heart - Dec, 2013 Nature | A billion years ago, a huge rift nearly cut North America in two, and then stopped. Researchers may soon find why. By Jessica Marshall | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:32 |
| Google - Changing Your Brain - Dec, 2013 Scientific American | For millennia humans have relied on one another to recall needed info. Now we rely on the cloud. By Daniel Wegner and Adrian Ward | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:10 |
| Graphene - Nov, 2013 Nature Magazine | The quest for supercarbon. Graphene promises a technological revolution, but can fundamental problems be overcome? By Mark Peplow | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:30 |
| Long Live The Humans - Oct, 2013 Scientific American | Modern genomes and ancient mummies yield clues to why our life span far exceeds that of other primates. By Heather Pringle. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:34:17 |
| Whiter Brights With Lasers - Nov, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | BMW's highly efficient laser headlights will turn night into day for its upcoming all-electric supercar. By Lawrence Ulrich. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:05 |
| Data-Driven Society - Oct, 2013 Scientific American | Digital traces we leave reveal much about us. Privacy nightmare - or the basis of a healthy, prosperous world? By Alex Pentland | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:38 |
| An Ear to the Big Bang - Oct, 2013 Scientific American | Future devices will let astronomers view the interior of black holes and observe the early history of time." By Ross D. Andersen | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:15 |
| King of Beasts - Nov, 2013 Scientific American | Africa once had many more big carnivores than it does today. Competition with early humans may have caused this. By Lars Werdelin | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:11 |
| Eyes of a Mouse - Oct, 2013 Nature | Some brain researchers are starting to use mice to study visual processing, but others fear this is short-sighted." By Monya Baker. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:03 |
| Return of the Natives - Sep, 2013 Scientific American | Reviving native bee species could save honeybees - and our agricultural system - from collapse. By Hillary Rosner. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:55 |
| Oceanography's billion-dollar baby - Sep, 2013 Nature | A huge undersea project will soon start spewing data. Some wonder whether it's worth its high price." By Alexandra Witze. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:07 |
| Climate science: Rising tide - Sep, 2013 Nature | Researchers struggle to project how fast, how high and how far the oceans will rise." By Nicola Jones. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:42 |
| Are Engineered Foods Evil? - Sep, 2013 Scientific American | Boosters of genetically modified crops say it's the only way to feed a changing world. Critics say risk is too high. By David Freedman | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:27:11 |
| STEM Crisis? - Aug, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | The STEM Crisis Is a Myth. Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of trained techies. By Robert N. Charette. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:00 |
| Origins of Space & Time - Aug, 2013 Nature | Many believe physics will not be complete until it can explain not just the behaviour of space & time, but their origins. By Zeeya Merali | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:39 |
| Calories! - Sep, 2013 Scientific American | Everything You Know About Calories is Wrong! Digestion is far too messy a process to accurately convey in neat numbers." By Rob Dunn | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:36 |
| Evidence-based justice - Aug, 2013 Nature | Elizabeth Loftus has exposed flaws in eyewitness testimony. Her ideas are gaining traction in our legal system." By Moheb Costandi | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:28 |
| Exotic optics: Metamaterial world - Aug, 2013 Nature | Engineered structures with bizarre optical properties are set to migrate out of the laboratory and into the marketplace" By Lee Billings. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:19:18 |
| Hunt for the Magnetic Monopole - Aug, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | If magnets don't have to have two poles, it could lead to an entirely new class of devices. By Jonathan Morris | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:04 |
| Perchance to Prune - Aug, 2013 Scientific American | During sleep, the brain weakens connections among nerve cells, conserving energy and aiding memory. By Giulio Tononi & Chiara Cirelli | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:32 |
| Exercise - Aug, 2013 Scientific American | Why Exercise Works Magic. Being active is good for us for many reasons beyond the old familiar ones. By various authors. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:32 |
| Ancient Scourge of TB - Jul, 2013 Scientific American | The Diabolical Genius of an Ancient Scourge. TB seems to be evolving in unexpected ways that outsmart humans. By Sally Lehrman | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:46 |
| Unclean At Any Speed - Jul, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | Electric cars don't solve the automobile's environmental problems." By Ozzie Zehner. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:50 |
| The Dawn of Distant Skies - Jul, 2013 Scientific American | We no longer just hope an alien civilization will spot us. We're examining distant planets for signs of life. By Michael D. Lemonick | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:27 |
| Once Blind and Now They See - Jul, 2013 Scientific American | Surgery in blind children from India allows them to see for the first time and reveals how vision works in the brain." By Pawan Sinha | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:31:38 |
| Chef in a Box - May, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | In the kitchen of the future, a food compositor could fabricate haute cuisine from scratch. By Nathan Myhrvold and Pablos Holman | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:16:00 |
| Brain Barrier - Jun, 2013 Scientific American | Research on the blood-brain barrier may revolutionize treatment of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. By Jeneen Interlandi | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:16 |
| Edge of the Internet - Jun, 2013 Scientific American | The Web needs to radically change the way it handles information, says head of Bell Labs Research. By Larry Greenemeier | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:22 |
| Periodic Table Cracks - Jun, 2013 Sci Am | Element 117 filled the last gap in the periodic table. But even as it's completed, the table may be losing its power. By Eric Scerri | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:44 |
| CDMA - May, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | Captain of CDMA. Irwin Jacobs wins 2013 IEEE Medal of Honor for his pioneering work on cell phone systems." By Tekla S. Perry | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:04 |
| To Print the Impossible - May, 2013 Scientific American | Will three dimensional printing transform conventional manufacturing? By Larry Greenemeier. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:54 |
| Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC - May, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery." By Peter Fairley. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:14 |
| Seeds of Dementia - May, 2013 Scientific American | "A chain reaction of toxic proteins may help explain Alzheimer's and other killers..." by Lary C. Walker and Mathias Jucker. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:06 |
| Ghostly Beacons - Apr, 2013 Scientific American | "Neutrinos, the strangest beasts in the particle zoo, may soon open the way to unexplored realms" by various authors | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:33 |
| Love Among the Dinosaurs - Apr, 2013 Scientific American | "Scientists are starting to crack the once imponderable mystery of how the big reptiles had sex." by Brian Switek. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:28 |
| Anguish of the Abandoned Child - Apr 2013 Scientific American | "Study of orphaned Romanian children reveals scars from first years spent without a loving, responsive caregiver." by various authors | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:44 |
| The Threat from Pox Viruses - Mar, 2013 Scientific American | "Smallpox may be gone, but its viral cousins - monkeypox and cowpox - are staging a comeback." by Sonia Shah | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:08 |
| Text Mining Spat - Mar, 20, 2013 Nature | "Scientists and publishers clash over licences that would let machines read research papers." by Richard Van Noorden | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:32 |
| My "Augmediated" Life - Mar, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | "Steve Mann: My "Augmediated" Life. What I�ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear." by Steve Mann. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:55 |
| The End of Orange Juice - Mar, 2013 Scientific American | "A devastating disease is killing citrus trees from Florida to California." by Anna Kuchment | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:03 |
| The Origins of Creativity - Mar, 2013 Scientific American | "Evidence of ancient ingenuity forces us to reconsider when our ancestors started thinking out of the box." by Heather Pringle | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:28:39 |
| Secrets of Primitive Meteorites - Feb, 2013 Scientific American | "Study of chondrites, provide details of what our neighborhood in space was like before planets formed." by Alan E. Rubin. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:52 |
| Renewable Energy - Popular Mechanics On-Line | "The Renewable Energy Nobody is Talking About" by John Ackerly; "Why You Should Use a Pellet Stove" by Joseph Truini | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:13:39 |
| Translational Research - Feb, 2013 Nature | "Christopher Austin, director of NIH's Translational Research Centre, must jump-start drug-development." by Meredith Wadman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:25 |
| Electronics on Paper - Feb, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | "Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets." by Andrew J. Steckl. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:08 |
| The Battery Powered Bullet - Feb, 2013 Scientific American | "Few petroleum-powered cars have ever surpassed 400 mph. A group of students plans to do it with electric power." by Gregory Mone. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:56 |
| Quantum Dots Go on Display - Jan, 2013 Nature | "Adoption by TV makers could expand the market for light-emitting nanocrystals." by Katherine Bourzac. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:08:19 |
| Dyscalculia: Number games - Jan, 2013 Nature | "Brian Butterworth's crusade to understand the number deficit dyscalculia - and to help those who have it." by Ewen Callaway. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:19 |
| Google Gets in Your Face - Jan, 2013 IEEE Spectrum | "Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality." by Elise Ackerman. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:12:55 |
| A Confederacy of Senses - Jan, 2013 Scientific American | "Our senses collaborate more than previously realized. What we hear depends a lot on what we see and feel." by Lawrence D. Rosenblum | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:15:46 |
| The Coming Megafloods - Jan, 2013 Scientific American | "Huge atmospheric vapor flows have caused huge floods every 200 years." by Michael Dettinger and Lynn Ingram | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:20 |
| The Pioneer Anomaly - Dec, 2012 IEEE Spectrum | "30 years ago, Pioneer spacecraft started slowing unexpectedly. We finally know why." by Viktor Toth and Slava Turyshev | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:02 |
| The Unquantum Quantum - Dec, 2012 Scientific American | "Quantum theorists often speak of the world as being digital. But is it really?" by David Tong | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:17:56 |
| The Winters of our Discontent - Dec, 2012 Scientific American | "Loss of Arctic sea ice is stacking the deck in favor of harsh winter weather in the U.S. and Europe." by Charles H. Greene. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:22:38 |
| Disappearing Daguerreotypes - Dec, 2012 Scientific American | "How an unlikely team saved priceless images from the earliest days of photography." by Daniel Grushkin. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:48 |
| Robotic Road Train - Nov 2012 IEEE Spectrum | "Semiautonomous cars will play follow the leader, giving drivers a rest and saving fuel." by Erik Coelingh and Stefan Solyom | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:16 |
| The Strangest Bird - Nov, 2012 Scientific American | "Recent fossil discoveries reveal the surprising evolutionary history of penguins" by R. E. Fordyce and D. T. Ksepka. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:24:35 |
| Grow Your Own Eye! - Nov, 2012 Scientific American | "Biologists have coaxed cells to form a retina, a step toward growing replacement organs outside the body." by Yoshiki Sasai. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:18:52 |
| The Higgs at Last! - Oct, 2012 Scientific American | "After a 30 year search, scientists appear to have found the elusive particle. A new era in physics could be about to dawn." | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:33 |
| Mind and Machine - Oct, 2012 UCLA Magazine | "Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence. Smartphones that talk. Self-driving cars. Robots that think." by Dan Gordon. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:07 |
| The Sleeping Slayer - Sept, 2012 Scientific American | "In the neurological netherworld between sleep and wakefulness, the mind's delirium can turn tragically real." by James Vlahos. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:55 |
| 2012 And Counting! - From "The Skeptic" | "A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012." by David Morrison. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:37:38 |
| Sociable Killers - Oct, 2006 Natural History | "Studies of the great white shark reveal complex social and hunting strategies." by R. Aidan Martin and Anne Martin. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:26:25 |
| Microwave Weapons - Sep, 2012 Nature | Despite 50 years of research on high-power microwaves, the US military has yet to produce a usable weapon. By Sharon Weinberger. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:20:02 |
| The Power of 100 Suns - Sep, 2012 IEEE Spectrum | "Tapping the Power of 100 Suns. Concentrated solar power will keep future armies on the Mar." by Richard Stevenson. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:25:11 |
| Beyond the Quantum Horizon - Sept 2012 Scientific American | "Once thought to limit knowledge and technology, quantum theory is now expanding computing power." by David Deutsch and Artur Ekert. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:23:14 |
| Mind in Motion - Sep, 2012 Scientific American | "The idea that paralyzed people might control their limbs by thinking is no longer fantasy." by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:21:15 |
| Keep Getting Smarter? - Sept, 2012 Scientific American | "Ever rising IQ scores suggest that future generations will make us seem like dimwits in comparison." by Tim Folger. | Reader: Joe Jurca | 00:14:51 |
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