A Moment of Science: Audio
Summary: You have questions and A Moment of Science has answers. These two-minute audio podcasts provide the scientific story behind some of life's most perplexing mysteries. There's no need to be blinded by science. Explore it, have fun with it, but most of all learn from it. A Moment of Science is a production of WFIU Public Media from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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- Artist: A Moment of Science (amomentofscience.org)
- Copyright: Copyright 1998-2009
Podcasts:
Spacesuits get a makeover and shed some pounds for a new streamlined look.
Chameleons are nature's mood ring; their color reflects how they're feeling.
Sit tight! Movement triggers neurons that dull your hearing.
"Extremophile" bacteria might be able to clean up toxic nuclear waste sites.
Genghis Khan fathered an empire in more ways than one.
Thanks to human ingenuity, things get even more bitterly cold!
Antarctica takes the cake for coldest place on Earth.
Bigfoot is the stuff of make-believe, but Giganto
Flies will travel upwards of 6,000 feet to deliver maximum annoyance.
In case there was ever any doubt, Earth only has one moon.
Scientists prove crows are just as clever as they are fabled to be.
The bad news: The sun is going to burn out and life as we know it will be over. The good news: We've still got 5 billion years left.
To make matters worse, the leatherback sometimes mistakes the soft plastic refuse littering the ocean for its normal snack-of-choice, jellyfish
Leatherback turtles, immune to cold waters, lay eggs whose sex is determined by water temperature.
Where's the best place to keep warm, a mountain top or a valley? Well, it just depends...
