Sinopse
Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the world of science. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American . To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast
Episódios
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The Pandemic's Mental Toll, and Does Telehealth Work? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 1
01/03/2023 Duração: 10minHosts Josh Fischman and Tanya Lewis explore the pandemic’s mental health toll on teens and young adults. They also delve into the effectiveness of telehealth, which has been booming since the start of the pandemic.
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Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity?
27/02/2023 Duração: 05minResearchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your “mind’s eye,” are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition and what it may mean for those who have it.
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Sorry, UFO Hunters--You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon
24/02/2023 Duração: 07minFrom space aliens to foreign surveillance, we spoke to experts to find out what’s really going on with the balloon brouhaha.
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Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change [Sponsored]
23/02/2023 Duração: 05minSuccessfully mitigating the impacts of climate change will rely heavily on innovation in science and technology.
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How Do We Find Aliens? Maybe Unlearn What We Know About 'Life' First
22/02/2023 Duração: 08minScience might be redefining what “life out there” really means.
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Love and the Brain: Do Partnerships Really Make Us Happy? Here's What the Science Says
20/02/2023 Duração: 14minHow romance affects our well-being is a lot more complicated than “they lived happily ever after.”
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Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet
17/02/2023 Duração: 11minIn fair zoo-ona, a pair of star-cross’d pandas take their life. And we learn about whether or not animals can fall in love.
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Love and the Brain: How Attached Are We to Attachment Styles?
15/02/2023 Duração: 12minAre you “anxious,” “avoidant” or “disorganized?” So-called attachment styles have taken the Internet by storm. But it turns out there’s a lot more to unpack than people think.
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Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited
13/02/2023 Duração: 13minHost Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love.
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Coming Soon to Your Podcast Feed: Science, Quickly
06/02/2023 Duração: 04minA new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week. Get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes.
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The 60-Second Podcast Takes a Short Break--But Wait, There's More
21/12/2022 Duração: 03minScientific American’s short-form podcast has been going for 16 years, three months and seven days, counting today. But it’s time for us to evolve.
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Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?
20/12/2022 Duração: 06minA new study puts the “brain drain hypothesis”—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster.
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Why Your Dog Might Think You're a Bonehead
16/12/2022 Duração: 03minThe verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence.
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Alaska's Protective Sea Ice Wall Is Crumbling because of the Climate Crisis
14/12/2022 Duração: 06minA massive storm slammed into Alaska’s western coast, and there was no ice to stop it.
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It's the Bass That Makes Us Boogie
09/12/2022 Duração: 05minConcertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones.
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How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44
06/12/2022 Duração: 07minVaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies.
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'Chatty Turtles' Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals
02/12/2022 Duração: 06minRecordings of more than 50 species of turtles and other animals help scientists reassess the origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates.
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Tardigrades, an Unlikely Sleeping Beauty
30/11/2022 Duração: 05minResearchers put this ancient critter through a subzero gauntlet to learn more about what happens to their internal clock while surviving the extreme.
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A Burned Redwood Forest Tells a Story of Climate Change, Past, Present and Future
23/11/2022 Duração: 06minFrom the ashes of the giants of Big Basin Redwoods State Park arise a history of fire suppression and real questions about what happens to the forests in a drought-stricken West Coast going forward.
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Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43
22/11/2022 Duração: 04minIn this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity.