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View the full archive of NPR Health Ice Heats Up and Leaves Fall Down A baby's cry reveals the language of their parents, NASA takes pictures of melting ice, the pig genome gets sequenced, and who leaves fall off trees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carbon, You Are My Shinning Star Carbon is this week's star at the Science Desk. Congress evaluates both the pros and cons concerning planting forests to remove carbon dioxide, and trys to quantify the carbon dioxide a car produces when running on biofuels; plus the taste of carbonation is revealed. Also, the desk explores why musicians hear better and samples some wild cricket sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frogs Find Love and Other Modern Marvels NASA orchestrates a major collusion on the Moon, neuroscientists find that it takes the human brain about half a second to process speech, some Australian frogs' mating calls jump a few octaves higher, and cap-and-trade may not be the perfect answer to regulating greenhouse gas emissions after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accolades and Millstones NASA makes a big mess on the moon, NPR tracks down this year's Medicine or Physiology and Physics Nobel winners, and decomposition never felt so good. Oh yeah, that's science baby... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frogs Find Love and Other Modern Marvels NASA orchestrates a major collusion on the Moon, neuroscientists find that it takes the human brain about half a second to process speech, some Australian frogs' mating calls jump a few octaves higher, and cap-and-trade may not be the perfect answer to regulating greenhouse gas emissions after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accolades and Millstones NASA makes a big mess on the moon, NPR tracks down this year's Medicine or Physiology and Physics Nobel winners, and decomposition never felt so good. Oh yeah, that's science baby... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As the World Turns Causes behind this week's geologic tragedies are investigated. Also, NASA needs a plutonium fix, the hominid family tree finds a long lost relative, and some fun bird noises during intimate moments. NPR's Science Desk delivers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As the World Turns Causes behind this week's geologic tragedies are investigated. Also, NASA needs a plutonium fix, the hominid family tree finds a long lost relative, and some fun bird noises during some intimate moments. NPR's Science Desk delivers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Forward, Looking Back Despite its urgency, climate diplomacy is slow going in New York at the UN. Thanks to growing global demand for refrigerators and air conditioners HFC's, a low profile greenhouse gas, may soon be causing large problems for the atmosphere. Three new studies show that the Moon is covered with a very thin film of water and another new discovery in China of a mini T-Rex, called Raptorex, reveals information about the famous dinosaur's evolutionary history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Problems Solved In Unexpected Ways A proposal for NASA regarding a nautical mission to sail the super cold nitrogen seas of Saturn's moon of Titan surfaces; a surprising new study claims to have cured color blindness in mature male squirrel monkeys shocks the neuroscience community, one researcher attempts to predict disastrous tipping points, and DNA cracks down on illegal poaching by testing fancy boats and hunks of meat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Travel and Ancient Threads This week NPR's science desk explores Hubble's future and views pictures from space. Ancient Georgian textiles are uncovered, Congress tries to bury carbon and the kilogram is reweighed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Written For Monkeys Strikes A Chord Stories in this episode: 1) Some scientists think no-till farming may not contain carbon better than conventional farming. 2) Music can alter our emotions, and a new study shows that it can move monkeys, too. 3) Scientists have big hopes for tiny lasers. 4) Babies and dogs make the same classic mistake: A new study reveals a link between the way dogs and infants think. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Shaggy Dog Story This week science reporters Richard Harris and Chris Joyce bring us stories of recent advancements in the genetics of both human diseases and dog's shaggy coats. We also hear about new data on the neccessary evil of agriculture: nitrous oxide. Listen to find out what laughing gas has to do with our increasingly flimsy ozone layer and why the kilogram has a weight problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Super Rice' and Unicorn Tricksters of the Sea Boots sloshing through rice fields in Bengladesh, California sea lions jostling on California harbors, and the splish-splashing of the elusive Narwhal...just some of the sounds in this week's podcast. You'll also hear about one strategy to feed a planet of 9 billion people, and how scientists recently transformed bacteria into a completely different species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Cave Dwellers to Flying Scientists This week it's been all about human successes and setbacks. We've learned that humans discovered the power of fire earlier than we thought, but that a mission to Mars isn't exactly in our stars. We've built science laboratories in airplanes, but that won't help us save the corals in the seas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colliders, Clunkers And Chimps, Oh My The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is on course to start up again in November after being broken down for a year. The "cash for clunkers" program may not be as environmentally beneficial as it seems. And scientists have found genetic evidence that a deadly form of malaria may have jumped from chimps to humans relatively recently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jellyfish Motion Mixing The Ocean While many world fisheries seem doomed to extinction, some fisheries are rebounding thanks to strict fishing laws. You'll hear one fish bring the ocean to life with its growls, hums and grunts. Some swimming marine life, including jellyfish, may affect climate change by stirring up ocean water. Meanwhile, climate change may be causing more frequent deadly rain-on-snow events that starve large arctic animals like oxen and reindeer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA: From Space Race To The Future On the 40th anniversary of the first voyage to the moon, we look at NASA, then and now. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin recall their historic moon walk and talk about the excitement surrounding their flight. These days, NASA wants to go to the moon again, this time with different motivations. But some say we should head for new destinations instead of going back to the moon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aerial Wars: Moths Click To Evade Bat Sonar The toucan's beak isn't just an attractive ornament, it cools the bird down. Of course, humans cool themselves a different way - and can withstand higher temperatures than you would think. Timing is everything for a flock of migratory birds that swoop in and feed on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware. But climate change may be shifting the tight calendar that nature has set up for the birds. And a moth species has evolved to outsmart bats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Bones and Dinosaur Skin Scientists discover a rare dinosaur fossil with its skin intact. Genomic testing suggests the immune system plays a role in schizophrenia. A body farm uses donated human bodies to educate students in forensics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website