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These vignettes remove some of the mystery from science, but not the wonder. A Moment of Science makes you think"Wow, that's neat!"and go tell somebody else about it. Primary Format : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Bloomington State/Province : IN Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of WFIU: A Moment of Science Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of WFIU: A Moment of Science Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of WFIU: A Moment of Science Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Learning About Autism One Yawn at a Time One person in the room yawns, and suddenly the urge to follow suit takes hold of you as well, even if you aren't tired. Before long, the yawn has passed from person to person around the room. Find out what contagious yawns have to do with autism on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Sneakers How are today's high tech running shoes designed, and how do they help your performance? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mermaid's Hair and Cancer Researchers at the University of California, San Diego recently discovered that a blue-green algae known as "mermaid's hair" contains a powerful chemical compound that kills cancer cells. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too Much on Your Plate Have you ever noticed that a lot of restaurants use oversize plates? Find out why on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Return of Psychedelic Drugs In the 1960s scientists used to be interested in psychedelic drugs like LSD. Do scientists today still study these drugs? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amazing Mammal Found on Tanzania Have you heard about the cat-sized mammal that scientists discovered in the mountains of Tanzania? Learn about the grey-faced sengi on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flu Mist Now you can get a flu vaccine without getting a shot. Instead, you can get the flu mist. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World's Largest Flower's Unusual Gene Sharing Normally, plants and animals initiate some form of sex to pass along their genes. But transfer of genes between two very different species is extremely rare, since genetic differences make their sex cells incompatible. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moles Did you know that a mole can smell a worm through three inches of clay? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Accents are Hard to Unlearn Why is it so hard to disguise or unlearn an accent? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's with Those Lines on Transparent Tape? Have you ever noticed this? When you quickly pull a piece of transparent tape off its roll, it tends to do a good job of staying transparent. If you pull the tape off slowly, or if you pause for a moment while you pull it, it can leave behind opaque white lines on the tape. What's going on? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foxy Smell in the Garden If you've ever walked through a flower garden in bloom and thought you smelled something unpleasantly pungent, you may not have been imagining things. Find out why on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Morning, Dave... Conscious, human-like machines are so popular in science fiction that it may come as a surprise to learn Artificial Intelligence researchers aren't even sure what it means to ask whether a computer will ever think. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Landslides After a landslide has gone by, in its tracks little dainty flowers are still standing. Blades of grass are unbent. How is this possible? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Supersonic Whipper-snapper Ohile some of nature's limits—like the speed of light—are probably impossible to break, humanity has been breaking the sound barrier since before recorded history. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fish, Fish, the Musical Fish Today on "A Moment of Science," herring make sounds when passing gas... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trial and Tribulations of a Lascivious Housefly Who is likely to get a sexually transmitted disease? Find out why on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virgin Births in Sharks In 2001 a hammerhead shark was born at a zoo in Nebraska. The birth might not have been newsworthy, except that baby appeared in a tank with three female but no male sharks! Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Are Birds Eggs Speckled? Have you ever wondered why some birds' eggs are speckled? Find out why on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website True Blue Inside of You? Did you ever hear that blood is actually blue inside your body, but turns red instantly on contact with air? It may not true, but isn't a bad guess. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Self-destructing Palm Biologists have discovered a new kind of palm tree in Madagascar. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Small Origins Whales must have evolved from some other larger, ancient creature, right? Find out on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Sky at Night People have been predicting weather since long before we had Doppler radar and satellite photos, and many of these prediction strategies have survived as popular folk sayings. Learn more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Salt, Higher Blood Pressure The body needs a certain amount of salt to function properly. Without enough salt, blood can't properly deliver oxygen and nutrients to cells. But too much salt, can turn the tables. Find out more on this "Moment of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Invasion Can Be Hard on Invaders, Too Today on "A Moment of Science," being an invasive species is hard on invaders... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sewn to Extinction The Neanderthals were smart, tough, and well-adapted to the cold where they lived in regions north of Africa. So what happened to them? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's in the Sun? From here on earth, the sense we get of the sun is largely homogeneous. Modern investigations, however, have shown our "common sense" image to be superficial. Far from being homogeneous, the sun in fact has several interior layers, each concealing the next like skins on an onion. Learn more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Magnets and Memory Researchers at the City University of New York are using transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, to learn more about how magnetic fields affect areas of the brain associated with memory formation. Learn more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why is a Hothouse Hot? Why does glass work so well for building hothouses? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ringed Seals on the Hot Seat You might have heard that global warming and melting ice and snow in the Arctic is killing off polar bears by shrinking their habitat. Are other arctic animals suffering, too? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snap, Crackle and Pop Why do crisped rice cereals make so much noise? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Can't Outrun a Ray Gun No matter how fast you are, you can't ever duck out of the way of a laser beam. Find out why on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Compulsively Cluttered Compulsive hoarding is a neuropsychiatric disorder. Compulsive hoarders tend to hang on to stuff that most people consider junk, like old take out menus, magazines, bank deposits, and so on. Learn more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chilling Effect of Aerosol Cans Why do aerosol cans get cold? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Bitter, but Colorful Pill There's evidence that the color of a pill has a bearing at least on our perception of how well it works. Learn more on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Close Shave Is shaving cream really necessary and, if so, how does it work? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Squirrels and Snakeskin Is it true that some squirrels eat snakeskin? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Grandmother Hypothesis In most species, the females die once they hit menopause and can no longer reproduce. So why do human females live so long after they're no longer able to have children? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Do We Love Junk Food? Why Do We Love Junk Food? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beetle Poop and Wildfire Recovery Beetle droppings are composed of fecal matter and chewed wood shavings. And that mix turns out to be perfect for replenishing soil nutrients lost during forest fires. Learn more on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Good Are Fingerprints? Why have we evolved such convoluted finger tips? What makes them useful? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tennis Elbow What's up with tennis elbow. How does it occur and what can you do about it? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hard Bread and Soggy Cookies What happens to a baked good when you leave it out on the counter overnight? Find out on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baby Talk in Monkeys and Humans Two studies, one in humans and one in rhesus monkeys, suggest that the tones mothers use to address babies are more universal than previously thought. Learn more on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sun Just Blew Up! How do you know the sun didn't just explode? The answer? We don't. Not yet, anyway. Find out why on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lakes Beneath the Ice Scientists have found evidence that subglacial lakes act as a sort of lubricant for ice streams. So the lakes have an effect on sea level, because the more ice that flows into the ocean and melts, the higher the sea level. Learn more on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution in Your Mouth While evidence of previous life forms does play a central part in our understanding of evolution, it isn't necessary to go on a dig to see it in action - you might just look inside your mouth. Learn more on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viruses May Help Invasive Plants Conquer New Ranges Humans have been domesticating plants for over 10,000 years, and for just as long have impacted the ecology of native plants across the globe. Learn more on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dull Nails You're doing a bit of weekend carpentry, nailing some decorative trim onto your kitchen cabinets perhaps, but every time you pound a nail into a narrow piece of trim, the wood splinters apart. Find out why on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Cyanide Kills Let's take a look at a mystery writer's favorite, and learn how cyanide kills, on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Singing Sand Dunes We'll learn about singing sand dunes, on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Broccoli vs. Skin Cancer According to scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, three-day old extracts from broccoli might protect the skin against damage caused by being in the sun too much. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Would I or Wouldn't I? How far would people go when told to do something unethical by a perceived authority? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pregnant Teenage Dinosaurs Until very recently, humans tended to reproduce before reaching full adult maturity. And so did the dinosaurs. Find out why on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Born Leaders, Born Liars Why is it that, to many, "politician" and "liar" are thought to go hand in hand? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here's Looking at You, Baby How much do babies actually look like their parents? Could an impartial stranger match a roomful of babies with their moms and dads? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Sing the Brain Electric, Pt. 2 Last time we discussed Dr. Robert Bartholow, the 19th-century physician who demonstrated that the human brain sends signals via electricity by putting wires into his housemaid's brain and causing her limbs to move. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Sing the Brain Electric, Pt. 1 Back in 1874 a rather disturbing thing happened that had profound implications for our understanding of the human brain. Find out what it wason this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fire Beetles Most creatures run the other way when they detect a forest fire, but not beetles of the genus Melanophila, sometimes referred to as "fire beetles" or the "fire bug". Find out why on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And You Thought YOUR Neighbors Were Annoying The common Reed, Phragmites australis, is a non-native invasive plant that has taken over hundreds of thousands of acres of wetlands along the East Coast of the US. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First-aid Bubbles Any well-equipped first-aid cabinet probably includes a bottle of the antiseptic, hydrogen peroxide. Where do the bubbles come from, and do they really help? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chirpless Crickets Whether you find chirping musical or annoying, cricket chirps aren't intended for us at all, but are the strategy by which male crickets attract female mates. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moose, Bears, and Traffic Researchers in Grand Teton National Park have found that bears there shy away from roads. So as the park's bear population has grown, Grand Teton moose have gravitated toward human traffic when they want to avoid bears. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chemistry of Trust Trust is essential to social interaction among humans. Find out how trust works...chemically, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website French Fries as a Health Food Researchers have found that many types of potatoes are chock-full of beneficial nutrients and health-promoting "phytochemicals." Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case of the Missing Sea Turtles Where do the endangered green sea turtles spend their early years? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Popcorn Lung Over the past few decades, several workers at popcorn plants developed a lung disease that permanently scars the airway. The damage is so bad that some of the popcorn workers need lung transplants. Find out why on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Really, Really Old Clam What's the world's oldest living animal? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spicy Source of Pain Relief Hot peppers might be the key to a new type of anesthetic that blocks pain without making you numb or paralyzed. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Queen Bee Brainwash Within the hive, the queen bee releases pheromones from a gland near her jaw that effectively "brainwash" the worker bees. Learn more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Head for Numbers (3) Some scientists now argue that the ability to understand and work with numbers is something that evolution has "hard-wired" into our brains. In other words, you are born with a number sense, at least in a basic way. Learn more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Head for Numbers (2) The closer two numbers are, the longer it takes us to compare them. This suggests to some psychologists that we solve such problems with a mental number line. Learn more about the "Distance Effect" on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mmmm! Pie Scientists at Cambridge University discovered that a hormone called leptin influences the "reward centers" of the brain, which control food cravings and the pleasure we feel from eating. Learn more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Head for Numbers (1) Which of the following numbers is larger: 90 or 50? 16 or 14? 9 or 7? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why You Can't Knock Down a Clown Gravity pulls on every point - your nose, your arms, your feet. But if you put all those effects together, you can come up with one spot that's the average. That's your center of gravity. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Itching in the Genes Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine discovered in mice a gene involved with itching. Mice with the gene scratch a lot when they experience something itchy, and mice engineered not to have the gene don't scratch nearly as much. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dragon Pushups Pushup behavior is actually pretty common among lizards. But unlike acoustic displays like bird calls and frog croaks, visual displays like lizard pushups haven't been studied very much. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stereotype Threat Science has shown that negative stereotypes can cause a very specific type of harm, even to people who do not believe the stereotypes; they can significantly affect a person's ability to perform mental tasks. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cold Potatoes, Black Bananas Some fresh produce does well when we stick it in the refrigerator. Lettuce and cabbage, carrots and apples--these stay fresh even as the temperature approaches the freezing point. For some produce, however, the refrigerator is a big mistake. How come? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We're Both in Here, Part 2 In extremely severe epilepsy, where a patient doesn't respond to medication and is incapacitated by seizures, surgeons can as a last measure give some relief by separating the two halves of the brain. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thirsty? Try Drinking through Your Skin Most desert organisms have special adaptations to keep them hydrated. For example, some can extract any water they need from their food, and don't drink at all. Others minimize water loss by concentrating their urine and feces, or by reducing evaporation through their skin and respiration. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skeletons, They're Not Just for Structure Anymore Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered a surprising and important function of the skeleton. Their study shows that the skeleton plays an active and critical role in helping regulate sugar metabolism and fat storage, and may play an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes, sometimes called "adult-onset diabetes." Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wave Power For several years scientists have experimented with ways to use the up and down motion of waves to generate energy. But so far, wave-powered technologies have been cumbersome and therefore limited. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Attack and Learn It isn't clear yet if social learning is the main reason for mobbing in meerkats and other animals, but it is clear that social behaviors, like mobbing, may have many important functions. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sunny Side of Aging Elderly people report a higher sense of well-being than younger people do, and studies show that as we age, our emotional responses to the world become more positive. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We're Both in Here, Part 1 In extremely severe epilepsy, where a patient doesn't respond to medication and is incapacitated by seizures, surgeons can as a last measure give some relief by separating the two halves of the brain. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pop Quiz! Which letter comes before P in the alphabet? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Smart as a Cockroach Scientists in Japan have conducted their own Pavlovian experiment, but using cockroaches. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lab Mice The standard lab mouse these days is black, with a nice glossy coat. That's the kind of mouse that went on the space shuttle and was used as a model for the mouse genome-sequencing project. Find out why on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birds' Nannies Australian researchers have found that fairy wren chicks raised by multiple helpers are no more likely to survive than chicks raised by a regular old mom and dad bird pair. In fact, chicks raised by the collective tend to be scrawnier and weaker at birth. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oil Paintings - Here Today, but What About Tomorrow? From the moment an artist completes an oil painting---the painting begins to change color. The shift is gradual-taking decades, even centuries. But eventually some colors fade, others darken and many become more transparent over time. Find out more about how age affects paintings on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Your Mother's Ultrasound Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle are experimenting with high intensity ultrasound waves that could be used to mend internal wounds without doing surgery. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rogue Waves For centuries mariners have told stories of ships sunk by huge isolated ocean waves, often in perfectly clear weather. These rogue waves, which appeared without warning, were described as nearly vertical walls of water, up to 100 feet high. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Feel Guilty? What role does guilt serve? How did guilt evolve? I mean, other animals don't seem to experience guilt as far as we know. So why humans? Find out on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Tide What is a red tide and why is it important> Find out, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning A Language Why can some people learn a new language easily but others struggle? Find the answer on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Puddings and Custards Turned Into a Soupy Mess? Custards or pudding thickened with both eggs and starch, can end up watery or soupy from either undercooking OR overcooking. But the biochemical causes for the runny filling differ in each case. Find out how on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Females Prefer More Exotic Males A study on spotted hyenas has found that at least in some species, females really do prefer foreign males. Find out why, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anosmia Having no sense of smell can have serious effects on a person's health and safety. Anosmia, the term for the lack of a sense of smell, affects over two million Americans. Find out more on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raven Youth Gangs They were so well mannered when they were young. But then they left the nest and joined these roving youth gangs, grabbing what they could and harassing adults. We're not talking about humans, but rather the surprising behavior of juvenile ravens, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Bed Moves When you lie down to sleep after a day on a boat, an odd thing happens. Close your eyes and the bed seems to be rocking, up and down, just like the boat. Find out why on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will All Human Beings Please Stand? (Part 2) Last time we discussed how human beings are the only primate that walks on two feet. More on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will All Human Beings Please Stand? (Part 1) Among all the primates, humans are the only ones that stand on two legs. Find out why this is on today's Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick, Hide in Here Quick, Hide in here! on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Hair on Scars Growing hair on scars, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Underwater Sniffs Underwater siffs, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is There a Memory in the House? Is there a memory in the house? on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plowing Soil Down the Drain Plowing soil down the drain, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fewer Signals, Safer Driving? Fewer signals, safer driving? on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Organic Good for You? Is organic good for you? on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Monoclonal antibody therapy, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saying No and Growing Up Saying no and growing up, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Peanut Revolution A peanut revolution, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hypnic Jerks Hypnic jerks, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stinky Orchid Stinky orchid, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Need No (Nutrition) Education Don't need no (nutrition) education, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Runaway Tail Runaway tail! on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doc Small Talk Doc small talk, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Addicted to Exercise Addicted to exercise, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turtles: Cute, but Contaminated Turtles: cute, but contaminated, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foamy Beer Heads Foamy beer heads, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comet Water Comet water, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heterochromia Heterochromia, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Non-mercury Thermometers Non-mercury thermometers on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Veggies Turning Brighter and Then Duller Green? Veggies turning brighter and then duller green? on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There Might be Mites in Those Eyelashes There might be mites in those eyelashes, on this Moment of Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploding Lakes Exploding lakes, on this Moment of Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Down