A Moment of Science: Audio show

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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  • Copyright: Copyright 1998-2009

Podcasts:

 The proteins in dinosaur feathers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

Modern birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. Specifically, paleontologists have shown that birds evolved from a group of two legged dinosaurs called theropods.

 UFO attack or meteor fragments? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

June 1969. Not one airliner but two, plus the pilot of an Air National Guard fighter plane, report being harassed by a team of UFOs.

 Beans get their flavor from yeast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

Coffee and cacao beans are fermented. Similar to wine, the flavor of the beans is determined by the type of yeasts and microorganisms present.

 Solving a new problem with an old remedy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

From DIY oven cleaner to removing odor from rugs, baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, has long been known as an essential home cleaning agent.

 Think like a penguin: Finding your niche | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

A "niche" is an organism's special "slot" in an ecosystem that allows it to co-exist with other species.

 Going for a spin and getting dizzy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

When someone moves, fluid sloshes inside the ears’ semicircular canals. The fluid tugs at tiny strands of hair.

 The risk astronauts take with the Sun | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

The Apollo astronauts were at risk of something many people don't know about. The Sun.

 Are you a tick magnet? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

We all know someone who goes for a walk in the woods, and comes back with many ticks crawling on them.

 What are contrails? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

Why do airplanes sometimes leave contrails behind, and what are they exactly?

 How does carbon dioxide impact our ability to think? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

At high levels, carbon dioxide can affect the brain to cause impaired thinking.

 Dinosaurs may have had malaria | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

Scientists discovered a type of malaria in a twenty-million-year-old mosquito fossil from the Dominican Republic preserved in amber.

 Murphy's breakfast never goes to plan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

If you're eating toast, and you accidentally bump it to the floor, it seems more likely to land buttered side down.

 Bacteria feel full, too | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

We've been hearing a lot about the importance of gut bacteria. Now it seems that bacteria also have a say in how and when we eat.

 How the motor cortex treats words | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

The instant you decide to move your foot, the part of your brain's motor cortex responsible for sending commands to the foot goes into action. So what does this mean?

 What a steel! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:00

Have you ever prepared a meal that required lots of garlic and found that after all of that chopping your hands reek of garlic for the rest of the night?

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