Sinopse
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Episódios
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Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence
15/10/2021 Duração: 07minNearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.
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The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Universe [Sponsored]
14/10/2021 Duração: 06minEwine van Dishoeck received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in 2018 for elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets. What other mysteries of space are left to be uncovered?
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A Canary in an Ice-Rich, Slumping Rock Glacier in Alaska
13/10/2021 Duração: 07minHere’s what we can learn about climate change and infrastructure from Denali National Park’s only road.
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COVID Quickly, Episode 16: Vaccines Protect Pregnancies and a New Antiviral Pill
08/10/2021 Duração: 05minToday we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here.
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The Mystery of Water Drops That Skate Across Oil at Impossible Speeds
05/10/2021 Duração: 06minThe speed of these self-propelling droplets on a hot-oil surface seemed to defy physics until researchers broke out the super-slow-motion camera.
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Night Flights Are No Sweat for Tropical Bees
01/10/2021 Duração: 05minNew research uses night vision to see how nocturnal bees navigate the dark.
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These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change
28/09/2021 Duração: 02minPhotoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capture of carbon dioxide.
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 15: Booster Shot Approvals--plus Vaccines for Kids?
24/09/2021 Duração: 07minToday we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here.
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Dinosaurs Lived--and Made Little Dinos--in the Arctic
21/09/2021 Duração: 04minNew research shows that the prehistoric giants were even cooler than we thought
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During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities
17/09/2021 Duração: 04minThe rodents’ personalities may help them to secure territory and avoid prey.
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A Car Crash Snaps the Daydreaming Mind into Focus
15/09/2021 Duração: 03minOne researcher’s poorly timed attention lapse flipped a car—and pushed science forward.
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan
10/09/2021 Duração: 07minToday we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here.
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The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Atoms [Sponsored]
09/09/2021 Duração: 09minGerd Binnig shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention had on nanoscience?
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In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects
08/09/2021 Duração: 04minResearcher Matthew Austin has become a wildflower pollinator, sans the wings.
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These Baby Bats, like Us, Were Born to Babble
03/09/2021 Duração: 05minThe greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do.
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Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida
31/08/2021 Duração: 05minTheresa and Donald Dardar lived their whole lives in coastal Louisiana. They knew the “big one” might come someday. It did, and now everything is uncertain.
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters
27/08/2021 Duração: 06minToday we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here.
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Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything'
24/08/2021 Duração: 04minResearchers have developed a microprocessor built on high-performance plastic rather than silicon—and they say it could enable smarter food labels and supply chain management.
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Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic
20/08/2021 Duração: 05minAn educational experiment used escape rooms and the undead to set the stage for a terrible situation that would become all too real
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The Incredible, Reanimated 24,000-Year-Old Rotifer
17/08/2021 Duração: 05minThe last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, woolly mammoths roamed the earth.