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What Is A Dinosaur? | How To Mend A Heart Everyone has a favorite dinosaur, but what is a dinosaur? Is it a reptile? Is it a bird? Dinosaur paleontologist David Varricchio discusses these extinct animals. Also, learn how we may one day be able to mend a broken heart . . . after a heart attack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buck-Toothed Demon Lizard | How To Confuse A Mosquito Dr. Hans Sues from the National Museum of Natural History discusses the new T. rex relation he recently identified. Also, learn how we might avoid mosquitoes by confusing their ability to hone in on us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3D Transistors | Planets Without Stars Michael Mayberry, Director of Components Research at Intel, describes their new and innovative 3 dimensional transistor that will be released later this year. Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger comments on the hypothesis that there are planets in the galaxy without their own star. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Renewable Energy Fair Guests The museum hosted dozens of guest researchers at its Renewable Energy Fair. Hear about the latest in wind power, solar power, lithium ion batteries, and more from many of the event's participants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bacteria-Busting Nanoparticles | Tornado Outbreak Learn how a new approach to combating bacteria could lower the incidence of antibiotic-resistance and then hear about the devastating twisters of April 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billion-Dollar Bats Dr. Thomas Kunz from Boston University, aka Bat Man, discusses the economic and ecological benefits of bats, and warns of current threats to their survival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Month Guests: A Giant Earthquake and Mercury in the Atmosphere April is Earth Month, and we had many guests here at the museum to present various earth related topics. Dr. Alan Kafka talks about the recent Japan earthquake and earthquakes in general. Then, Dr. Noelle Selin discusses her work on studying mercury in the atmosphere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harvard's Forest Laboratory | Fighting Fire With Electricity Ecologists from Harvard Forest describe some of the research that is done in the 3500 acre forest in Western Massachusetts. Also, we will learn how electricity may be used to blow out a fire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Addicted to Chocolate? I love chocolate, but am I addicted to it? Harvard graduate student Naveen Sinha talks about the science of chocolate. Also, Dr. Ashley Gearhardt discusses the new issue of food addiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to NanoDays: Nanotubes, Quantum Dots, Nanobiology Once again NanoDays introduced us to dozens of researchers studying the very small. We learned about nanotubes in space, the "magic" of quantum dots, and nano-biotechnology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RACE: The Boston Marathon and Human Classification Coach Rick Muhr talks about training the Museum of Science Marathon Team for the 2011 Boston Marathon on Monday April 18. Also, Dr. Michael Carson discusses the other definition of race and whether or not there is a genetic basis for the human classifications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet Two MIT Innovators Two distinguished MIT scientists discuss their inventions in this podcast. Dr. Alice Chen, this year's Lemelson-MIT student prize winner, discusses the medical uses for her humanized mice. Then, Dr. Boris Katz describes how his natural language question-answer system enabled the development of a Jeopardy! champion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Violent Weather: From Tornadoes to the Sun Dr. Joshua Wurman from Storm Chasers describes his latest tornado chasing with the VORTEX 2 project. Also, Dr. Nicholas Gross talks about space weather and new ways that scientists can predict how the sun will affect the earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Violent Weather: From Tornadoes to the Sun Dr. Joshua Wurman from Storm Chasers describes his latest tornado chasing with the VORTEX 2 project. Also, Dr. Nicholas Gross talks about space weather and new ways that scientists can predict how the sun will affect the earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turmoil In The Pacific: Tsunamis and Volcanoes This week we will hear from two experts in Hawaii looking at some of the natural phenomenon occurring in the Pacific. Dr. Nathan Becker will talk about the tsunami created by the recent Japan earthquake and Dr. Matthew Patrick will describe the recent eruptions at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glowing Nanotubes and Making Diamonds Dr. Daniel Heller from MIT explains how glowing carbon nanotubes may be used to detect a number of different molecules and even cancer. Dr. Gary Harris from Howard University describes how to make synthetic diamonds . . . for electrical engineering purposes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diabetes in Diverse Populations Dr. William Hsu and Dr. Enrique Caballero from the Joslin Diabetes Center talk about the prevalence of diabetes in various ethnic populations. Also, find out why the incidence of type II diabetes is increasing in these populations in the United States and all over the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Great Is Your Good Cholesterol? Dr. Marina Cuchel from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describes her studies of high density lipoprotein, aka HDL or good cholesterol, and discusses why measuring HDL level is not the best way to understand risk of heart disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Sauropod Dinosaurs | Dispersant Effects on the Gulf How did the largest of all land animals, the sauropod dinosaurs, get that huge and stay that huge? What are the long term effects of the chemical dispersant used in the Gulf oil spill? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Kinect and a New Blast Detection Badge Guest Alfred Thompson from Microsoft describes how the new XBox Kinect works. Also, we will learn about a blast detector badge being developed for soldiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perspectives on Climate Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that 2010 was tied for the warmest year on record. Hear some perspectives on this information from researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making More Stuff! Material scientist Dr. Zvonimir Dogic talks about using biology as inspiration for new synthetic materials. Also, producer Chris Schmidt from Nova's "Making Stuff" talks about the process of making the new series and even mentions some interesting research that was left out of the final cut. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Race, Place, and Health Science Researchers from the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute talk about their health studies in the Boston area. First, we will hear about potential health risks from living too close to highways in Somerville. Then we will hear about the state of parks in Lawrence and how that may affect obesity rates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Studded Tires Causing Health Problems | Parasitic Worms Alleviating Colitis Studded tires used in winter can prevent accidents, but grinding up the pavement can also cause negative health effects. Parasitic worms are being used and studied to alleviate bowel diseases like colitis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advances in HIV Prevention and Treatment In 2010, there was much scientific progress in preventing and treating HIV infections. We devote this segment to exploring a number of advances in this field. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top Ten Science Stories of 2010 From natural disasters to cutting edge technologies, the Current Science & Technology team at the Museum of Science has been keeping up with new research and innovations all year. Hear our choices for the Top 10 science stories of 2010 in this podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US Human Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial Dr. Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, describes their human embryonic stem cell clinical trial to cure Stargardt macular degeneration in humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US Human Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial Dr. Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, describes their human embryonic stem cell clinical trial to cure Stargardt macular degeneration in humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Flying Reptiles | 2010 Hurricane Season How did a 40 foot pterosaur get off the ground to fly through the sky? Listen here to learn about its unique launch style. Also, find out why 2010 was such a busy hurricane, and why we did not feel many of the effects in the US. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy Solutions: UMass Wet Lab and a Better Battery John Miller from the Marine Renewable Energy Center talks about the future University of Massachusetts wet lab to be used for wind, wave, and tidal energy research. Also, Dr. Donald Sadoway from MIT describes his research on making better batteries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Stuff! Material scientists Dr. Amy Moll and Dr. Ainissa Ramirez join us for Nova's Making Stuff Day. They talk about their own research on how to make electronics stronger, smaller and greener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Concussions and Beyond Learn about repetitive head trauma from Dr. Ann McKee from Boston University and the Bedford VA Medical Center. Then, find out why it isn't only big hits that can cause brain damage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mountain of Fire | Skin Cells to Blood Cells Learn about the ongoing Merapi volcanic eruption on the island of Java. Also, discover how researchers have transformed skin cells into blood cells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy Saving Technologies Dr. Angela Belcher from MIT talks about how her lab makes solar cells and batteries with living organisms. Her former student Shakeel Avadhany, CEO and co-founder of Levant Power, introduces GenShock, a novel technology that harvests energy from vehicle shocks and transforms it into electricity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiny Carbon: For Harvesting Heat and Sequencing DNA Hear about an interesting technology, developed by Dr. Long Que at Louisiana Tech University, that can produce electricity from a range of different energy sources . Also, learn about the potential use of graphene in improving the speed of DNA sequencing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website T. rex Cannibalism | Where Do Antibiotics Come From? Did Tyrannosaurus rex eat other Tyrannosaurus rex? Cannibalistic dinosaurs? Where do antibiotics come from? A bacterial social system? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Superbugs Dr. Stuart Levy from Tufts University School of Medicine discusses how bacteria combat the special chemicals we often use to treat infections, and describes why antibiotic resistance is a growing problem on our planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archaeology in Boston? A Virus That Causes Obesity? October is Massachusetts Archaeology Month and local archaeologist Ellen Berkland talks about some very local Boston dig sites. Also, hear about a virus that may cause obesity in children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Read Minds and Filter Water What am I thinking right now? Find out how scientists are trying to read the minds of paralyzed patients. Also, learn about new filters to purify drinking water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Stormy Sun Dr. Mike Stevens, a space physicist at the Boston University Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, describes some of the dynamic phenomenons that occur on the sun and affect us here on Earth. Hear how scientists study this space weather now and about plans for future solar missions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food For Thought: Transgenic Salmon A Waltham, Massachusetts company is looking for FDA approval to be able to market their salmon as the first transgenic animal ever to be sold as human food. Listen here for the pros and cons of this controversial food issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Head Trauma | Potential for Diabetes Treatment Learn about head trauma in this podcast and decide whether Lou Gehrig really did have the disease that bears his name. Also, hear about a new finding in Type 2 diabetes research that could help prevent the disease in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protecting with Probiotics | Hunting for Hurricanes Harvard graduate student Sarah Fankhauser talks about the importance of gut bacteria and probiotics. We will also hear details about the 2010 hurricane season so far. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jupiter Collision | Using Ivy in Sunscreen Discover how during the formation of our solar system, Jupiter may have been involved in a massive collision which has forever altered it. Switching from the very large to the very small, hear about ivy-based nanoparticles that may be used to make a better sunscreen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friends Can Help You Live Longer Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad from Brigham Young University describes her massive comparative study on social relationships and mortality. The results show that having positive social interactions (aka friends) can increase your lifespan. Being lonely is a risk factor tantamount to smoking, alcoholism, and obesity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving Autism Diagnoses | A New Identity for Triceratops Dr. Tal Kenet from Massachusetts General Hospital discusses her work through the Transcend Research Program to identify consistent ways of diagnosing autism. Also, find out how a relative of Triceratops is an even more important family member than previously thought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot Summer In The City | A Surprise Primate Fossil Yes, this summer has been exceptionally hot and you can find out why in this podcast. Also, Dr. Iyad Zalmout and Dr. Bill Sanders join us from the University of Michigan to talk about the discovery of a new primate ancestor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Sea Turtle Eggs From The Gulf Oil Spill Patricia Behnke from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and David Godfrey from the Sea Turtle Conservancy talk about steps being taken to move 70,000 sea turtle eggs away from the oil in the Gulf of Mexico and relocate them on the east coast of Florida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Images of the Sun | 10 Year With The Human Genome Dr. Ed DeLuca from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics talks about the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the amazing new pictures of the sun. Also, Dr. Destin Heilman from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute discusses the Human Genome Project and what's happened in the 10 years since the genome has been sequenced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wearable Electronic Fibers | Cool Vaccines Dr. Yoel Fink, a materials scientist at MIT, brings us into his lab to explain how he makes high-tech, small-sized acoustic fibers. Also, we will hear about preliminary work to create a cool new tuberculosis vaccine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marauding Chimpanzees | Artificial Lung Transplants On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Jane Goodall's first observations of chimpanzees in the wild, learn about new data that have led scientists to think about why chimpanzees fight and even kill. Then, hear about Massachusetts researchers who have been able to grow and transplant functioning lungs into rats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bonehenge: Assembling A Sperm Whale Skeleton Join Keith Rittmaster, Natural Science Curator at the North Carolina Maritime Museum, as he tells the tale of assembling a 33 foot male sperm whale skeleton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nature's Beauty: Bubbles and Diamonds Bubbles and diamonds are not only beautiful, but they may also be important to scientists. The complex way that a bubble pops is now being studied, and diamonds may have use in nanotechnology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extremophiles: On Earth and On Titan? This week we will learn about extreme forms of life: a methane-eating, sulfate-breathing bacteria living in the Earth's Arctic Circle, and a hypothetical (yet improbable) methane-eating organism on Saturn's largest moon Titan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Museum's Wind Turbine Lab | World Oceans Day and Hermit Crabs Have you wondered what all those different wind turbines are doing on the roof of the Museum? The Museum's wind analyst Marian Tomusiak will talk all about the Museum's Wind Turbine Lab. Also, during World Oceans Day on June 8 the Museum focused on hermit crabs and some of their social behaviors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Severe Summer Weather | Woolly Mammoth Evolution Hear about harbingers of summer that we don't usually look forward to: tornadoes and hurricanes! Also, learn how genetic research has revealed information about the evolution of an extinct animal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let's Play Ball! | Building a Cooler Transistor Physicist Dr. Alan Nathan from University of Illinois talks about some of the physics of baseball. We will also learn about a new nano-material that may keep computer transistors cooler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Growing and Changing Family Tree New information is constantly being added to our human family tree. This week we will hear about a new addition, Australopithecus sediba, and about a new place for Neanderthals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Worms | Walden Pond In this segment, two scientists describe their research using distinct model systems as a way of studying a bigger picture. Dr. Claire Benard from UMass Medical School details how biology of the worm, C. elegans, can provide understanding of human neural disease, and Dr. Charles Davis from Harvard University discusses how local plant ecology can provide information about the environmental effect of climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Domestication of Chickens | Some Bacteria Linked to Obesity Is there a difference between wild chickens and domesticated chickens? Do wild chickens even exist anymore? Can bacteria in our bodies actually cause obesity? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this week's podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coral Reef Ecology | Birdology In this segment, find out how Dr. Randi Rotjan from the New England Aquarium is studying tropical coral reefs. Also, hear New Hampshire author Sy Montgomery discuss her new book detailing surprising characteristics of birds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Firefly Scientists! Firefly season is almost here! Listen to firefly scientists Dr. Chris Cratsley and Dr. Kristian Demary talk about their research and about how the citizen science project Firefly Watch has helped them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disease Detection: Heart and Eye Hear Dr. Aaron Baggish from Massachusetts General Hospital describe his research on the effectiveness of electrocardiogram screening in young athletes. Then, find out about technologies on the horizon for glaucoma detection and treatment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's A Small World: Nano Landscaping and Micro Robotics Hear how Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, a physicist at Harvard University, is able to landscape on the nanoscale by moving around individual atoms. Then Harvard graduate students Ben Finio and Rebecca Kramer talk about how they are using small biological organisms to inspire the design of small robots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preventing Prematurity | Beautiful Butterflies Dr. Jon Davis, Chief of Newborn Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, talks about causes of newborn prematurity and some ways to prevent it. Then we'll hear about how a beautiful butterfly can be used to study human evolutionary genetics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guests from NanoDays! Across the country this March, NanoDays celebrated all things tiny. Today's guests include Dr. George Whitesides from Harvard University talking about developing simple medical diagnostics and Dr. Don Ingber from Harvard University explaining how to manipulate cells on the nanoscale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fingers: 40,000 year old DNA Identification and Bacterial Fingerprinting DNA from a small 40,000 year old finger may lead to the discovery of another ancient human relative. Physical fingerprints and human DNA might not be the only unique clues at a crime scene once our own bacterial fingerprints are determined. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Da Vinci Surgical Robot | Electric Bacteria Find out how a robot is assisting surgeons with their work and improving outcomes for patients. Also, learn about electricity-producing, ocean-dwelling bacteria that could provide us with new battery solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Illuminating Human Diversity and Light Bulb Technologies Learn about the incredible genetic diversity maintained in African people who are members of the oldest lineages of humans. Then, hear a comparison of established and new lighting technologies -- it could help you plan future reductions in your own energy consumption! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Owl Research and Improved Magnetic Technology Guest researcher Angela Beltrani discusses her work with New England owls and a rare juvenile disease that she is studying. We will also hear about an improved type of magnetic imaging technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Movie Magic | Fighting Huntington's Disease Special effects Academy Award winner Dr. Doug Roble describes some of the work he has done on movies like The Day After Tomorrow and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Also, scientists have found a possible way to correct for the extra long gene that causes Huntington's disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New England Earthquakes | Exploring Arabia Here Dr. John Ebel discuss his research into New England earthquakes at the Weston Observatory of Boston College. Also, Saudi Arabian filmmaker Hamzah Jamjoom talks about his experience with the new IMAX movie Arabia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Color of Dinosaurs | Nanoburrs to Help Your Heart Fossil evidence has finally been found to paint a pretty picture of dinosaurs, literally. Also, nanotechnology may be used to help fight heart disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Purifying Pollutants | Running With Or Without Shoes? Is it possible to use glass to remove oil from water? Is it better to run with or without running shoes? Find out here, the answers may surprise you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Promising Pancreas and CO2 Storage Discover how an artificial pancreas may benefit Type I diabetes patients. Also, while many scientists are trying to reduce carbon emissions, learn how other groups are searching for places to store the carbon dioxide that will be emitted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spitting Cobras: Fast and Accurate Anatomist Bruce Young from the University of Massachusetts Lowell talks about his research with spitting cobras. Not only are they deadly, but they are incredibly fast and accurate with their venom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Migratory Monarchs Hear Dr. Steven Reppert from the University of Massachusetts Medical School discuss his studies of monarch butterflies and learn surprising information about the biology of the insects and their annual migration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fuel On The Moon | Adaptive Bacteria Find out how we may be able to refuel our space rockets on the moon and learn how well bacterial disinfectants work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top 10 Science Stories of 2009 Hear Susan Heilman's picks for the year's best science news, including stories about space exploration, anthropology, health initiatives, and a giant snake! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warm-Blooded VS Cold-Blooded | De-Ice VS Anti-Ice Hear new evidence in the debate about whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded versus cold-blooded. Also, learn an easier way of getting rid of ice- never have any in the first place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robots That Climb Or Act Human New technologies are constantly being developed to improve the function of robots. This week's episode focuses on two different types of robots: biologically inspired climbing robots and a pair of virtual humans. Both are on display at the Museum of Science, Boston in Cahner's ComputerPlace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canning BPA and Tracking Neurons BPA is not just in water bottles; it is also in many canned foods. Find out how the exposure limits for the intake of BPA are devised. Then learn about a new method for imaging a mouse's nerve cells as it grows new connections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obesity: You and Your Pet Dr. Lisa Freeman from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University discusses the burgeoning problem of pet obesity. She describes steps we can take to reduce the risk of obesity-related disease in our household friends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Should I Vaccinate? | Building A Better Hand Listen to Dr. Anita Loughlin from the Boston University Center for Vaccine Research as she answers vaccination questions and dispels vaccine myths. Also, learn how researchers are building a better prosthetic hand by connecting them to nerve cells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heart Health | Combination Scalpel Hear Dr. Aaron Baggish from Massachusetts General Hospital discuss his studies on the effect of exercise on athletes. Also, learn about a new way to excise tumors by connecting current technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Relative And A Nano Nose Anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva from Boston University talks about Ardi, our 4.4 million year old ancestor. Also, a new device uses nanotechnology to detect harmful chemical toxins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Studying the Sun and Spooky Spiders Solar physicist Dr. Gemma Attrill talks about the new mission to study the atmosphere of the sun. Also, Halloween time brings us some spooky information on a new giant spider species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helpful Bee Stings | Prehistoric Primates Although bee stings can be painful and possibly harmful, discover how the toxin may also be able to help kill cancer cells. Then, find out if ancient primates Ida and Afradapis are our cousins or our ancestors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ocean and Ice Sheets | Flu Information Hear how guest researcher Dr. Fiamma Straneo studies the interaction between the ocean and Greenland's glaciers. Also, get the latest information about swine flu, seasonal flu, and vaccinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Water on the Moon? Oranges in Tires? Hear Boston University graduate student Tony Case talk about his part in the latest missions to the moon. Also, find out how orange oil can be used to make tires. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archaeology Without Digging Geophysicist Dr. Meg Watters from Time Team America teaches us how to see beneath the soil without actually digging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Measures of Melting | Green Batteries The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are constantly changing. In the first part of this podcast, find out how this happens and how scientists are measuring these changes. Then, learn about a type of algae that could significantly improve our current battery technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space, The Final Frontier: Lunar Water and Black Holes On October 9th the LCROSS satellite will crash into the moon in the search for lunar water. Our guest Andrew Chaikin gives a guided tour of the moon. Also, astrophysicist Dan Evans talks about a galaxy-destroying black hole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blight and Blindness Tomato plants are dying all over New England. Find out why in this week's segment. Also, learn how gene therapy can be used to cure color blindness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Appendix and The Adhesive The appendix is an organ that has been around for millions of years - it has a function in other animals, but is it useful in humans? Find out more in this segment. Also, learn about a medical adhesive that mimics the natural glue produced by sandcastle worms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stem Cell Targeting | Genetics of Sleep Discover how scientists can use nanomagnets to direct stem cells to injured locations in the body. Then learn how genetics can play a role in how we sleep. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Life of Robotic Bees Spying, exploring, pollinating. These are just some of the many uses for robotic bees. Hear how a wide range of scientists and engineers at Harvard University are designing a mechanical form of this social insect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Benefits of Blueberries and the Bitterness of Broccoli Blueberries are a well-known healthy food, but blueberry leaves may now play a beneficial role in treating Hepatitis C. DNA sequencing of the Neanderthal genome suggests that our extinct cousins would have been able to taste the bitterness of broccoli in a way similar to humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jellyfish Mix the Ocean | Monkeys Can Eat Less and Live Longer What do jellyfish have to do with climate change? Can primates (like monkeys and humans) live longer if they eat less? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this week's segment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skate Like a Snake | Cancer Vaccines Discover how scientists have been studying snake motion. Also, learn how testes proteins could provide an effective means of treating breast cancers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science of Sharing Learn about a research study conducted in the Museum of Science's Living Laboratory, by Harvard graduate students Peter Blake and David Rand, that teases out at what age children are willing to share. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloning Mad-Cow-Free Cows This week, we’ll hear about genetically engineered cows that are immune to mad cow disease.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolving Lactose Tolerance and "Martian" Bacteria in Mines On this week’s show, we’ll learn about the link between cows and human evolution, and hear about the discovery of some of the smallest organisms in the world.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Back at 2006 As 2006 winds down, we thought it would be fun to look back at a few of our favorite segments from the last year, and ask you to tell us yours.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bacterial Weight Gain Today we’ve got a show about the bacteria that live inside your body and how they may influence the way you look.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nanotech Toolkits for Cancer and Plugging in Your Car On this episode, we’ll learn about a nano-swiss-army-knife of sorts for brain cancer, and get some good news for the future of cars that plug into the wall.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulating "Nano" and Unlocking the Secrets of Red Wine Today we’ll look at the first environmental regulations on consumer nanotechnology, and we’ll hear about a new understanding of the benefits of dry red wines.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Death by Jet Lag We’ve got a travel-related show this week, with a look at jet lag and it’s potentially dangerous results.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Help From Chocolate Cheaters and Gas on the Moon Adam is back from vacation with a story of a few study participants whose weakness for chocolate gave the scientists an unexpected surprise, and a look at an unusual feature on the Moon that may be caused by escaping gas.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bad News for Nits and Targeted Tiny Test Tubes Discover how problems with lice research in Utah and problems with lice at home added up to a new way to dislodge these pests that torment over 9 million children in the US every year and hear how a group of scientists at the University of Florida is putting corks in tiny test tubes that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking the Knock Barrier with Ethanol One of the primary factors limiting the power output of internal combustion engines is pre-ignition. Called ‘knock’, pre-ignition happens when the fuel and air mixture ignites before the ideal time for power output due to heat created in the course of compression. A group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Brain's Role in Feeling Full and Shaking Breasts to Detect Cancer This week, we’ll look at how your brain might be having a similar reaction to food that it would have to addictive drugs, and we’ll hear about how vibrations could be used to detect breast cancer. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toxic Injections to Prevent Scars and the Sound of Cancer We’ve got a biology show for you this week, with a reason why you might want to be given a deadly toxin after a car accident, and hear all about why doctors may one day be listening for skin cancer as well as looking for it.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nanotech Anthrax-Catchers and a Different Look at Ant Colonies On this episode, we’ll hear about a way to trap and detect anthrax spores using sugar-coated carbon nanotubes, and we’ll talk to a researcher who studies ants by filling their nests with molten metal.Listen now:Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3)Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four-Winged Dinosaurs and Human-Fueled Hurricanes Today we’ll update the image of a well-known dinosaur, and we’ll hear about a study that firmly places the blame for more-powerful hurricanes on us. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Breast Imaging Technology and a Very Old Toddler October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we’ll take an extended look at breast imaging technology with a radiologist, and then we’ll spend a few minutes talking about the newly-announced oldest hominid child fossil. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Traffic-Tracking Telephones and Wired-up Neurons On this week’s show, we’ll learn about a new way your cell phone could keep you out of traffic jams, and hear about how researchers at Harvard are bringing us one step closer to becoming one with technology. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Nanotech DVD Upgrade and Cancer-Fighting War Paint Today we’ll hear about how nano-antennas could lead to better DVDs, and how a weed could treat breast cancer. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Space Exploration This week, we’re doing a special on the future of space exploration with former astronaut Jeff Hoffman. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasting Sourness and Super-Fast Ants This week, we’ll get a better understanding of why lemons give you that “sourpuss” look, and we’ll hear about some record-breaking insects. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oil-Eating Bacteria and the Problems with Pluto Today we’ll hear about a breakthrough in the work to use oil-eating bacteria to clean up oil spills. We also have Owen Gingerich — chairman of the International Astronomical Union’s Planet Definition Committee — to give us a definitive look at the announcement that we really only have eight planets in our solar system. Listen now: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Golden Cancer Therapy and Tiny Volcanoes Today we’ll examine a new way to treat cancer using gold, glass, and light; we’ll hear about the discovery of miniature volcanoes on the ocean floor, and since a number of you liked our look at Venus last week, we’ll get another update from the world of space. Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin's Evolving Finches and a Possible Distant Earth Today we’ll hear about new evolution work being done on Darwin’s finches, and look at a computer simulation that may point us toward another planet a lot like the Earth Listen now: Download podcast directly: Audio Podcast (.mp3) Read about Current Science & Technology Podcasts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website