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Welcome to Curiosity Weekly from Discovery, hosted by Dr. Samantha Yammine. Once a week, we’ll bring you the latest and greatest in scientific discoveries and break down the details so that you don’t need a PhD to understand it. From neuroscience to climate tech to AI and genetics, no subject is off-limits. Join Sam as she interviews expert guests and investigates the research guiding some of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs affecting our world today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sleep Munchies, Ancient Greek Ship Found, Relationship Trick

13 mins; September 20, 2021

Nudge Theory’s Dark Side (w/ Richard Thaler), Hybrid Fruit Science, Words for “Pirate”

17 mins; September 17, 2021

Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler on How Nudge Changed the World — Plus, Squirrel-Inspired Robots

13 mins; September 16, 2021

Apes Say Hello, Life on Snowball Earth, Learn Twice as Fast

13 mins; September 15, 2021

Earth’s Core Growing Lopsided and the Science of Gut Feelings

12 mins; September 14, 2021

Backward Letters, Dogs Detect Lies, Neutron Star Mountains

13 mins; September 13, 2021

Learning to Read Right, Risks of Trusting Science, Trivia

13 mins; September 10, 2021

Emily Oster on Parenting Decisions, A New Type of Supernova

15 mins; September 09, 2021

Why Facts Don’t Win Arguments, SETI 101, Self-Control Pitfalls

12 mins; September 08, 2021

Mapping the Ocean, Soap-Making Cells, Crows Comprehend Zero

13 mins; September 07, 2021

Road to the 8-Hour Workday, the Liking Gap, Shocking Tomatoes

14 mins; September 06, 2021

Fossil Prep Mistakes, 1840s Electric Cars, Tip of Your Tongue

16 mins; September 03, 2021

Dino Fossil Preparation and Newborns “Dream” About the World

14 mins; September 02, 2021

Diderot Effect, Animated Cave Art, Running Benefits Your Knees

14 mins; September 01, 2021

Infinity in a Used Prayer Book and Vampire-Like Sea Slugs

12 mins; August 31, 2021

Talkers Are Leaders, DNA Evidence Myth, Thinking Sans Brain

13 mins; August 30, 2021

How COVID Tests Work, Making Decisions with Math, Dog Talent

15 mins; August 27, 2021

Turning the Table on Addictive Apps, Black Hole Reflections

13 mins; August 26, 2021

Alibi Memory, Denisova Cave History, Cleaning Fruit & Veggies

12 mins; August 25, 2021

Pirates Plundered the Metric System, What Marsquakes Teach Us

11 mins; August 24, 2021

Romanesco Fractals, Dolphin Names & Evolution vs. Mating

15 mins; August 23, 2021

Hamster Microwave, Are Humans Still Evolving?, Art Is Better in a Museum

14 mins; August 20, 2021

Easter Island Mythbusting and the Universe’s Expansion Rate

11 mins; August 19, 2021

Volcano Perks, Club Soda vs. Seltzer, How to Procrastinate Correctly

12 mins; August 18, 2021

Hygiene Hypothesis, Ancient Coronavirus, Black Hole Eats Neutron Star

14 mins; August 17, 2021

Cognitive Flexibility, Arctic Dinosaurs, Noctilucent Clouds

13 mins; August 16, 2021

How to Talk to Strangers, Red Dead Redemption 2 Naturalists, July Curiosity Challenge

14 mins; August 13, 2021

History of Talking to Strangers, Dark Matter Between Galaxies

13 mins; August 12, 2021

Meat Disgust, Cosmic Rays for Medicine, Immortal Battery

13 mins; August 11, 2021

New Human Species, Digital Library of Babel, Running to Music

13 mins; August 10, 2021

Earworms Aid Memory, How Auroras Happen, Don’t Give Cats Milk

13 mins; August 09, 2021

Tool to Cure Hiccups, Corvid Childhoods, How Spacecraft Move

12 mins; August 06, 2021

An Out-of-Body Experience Without Drugs and Earth’s “Pulse”

10 mins; August 05, 2021

Your Biggest Regret, Tall Mountain Myths, The Deep Web

12 mins; August 04, 2021

Anger Looks Guilty, Quantum Microscope, Good News About Cancer

12 mins; August 03, 2021

Kids v. Sarcasm, 24,000-Year-Old Worm, Why Betelgeuse Dimmed

12 mins; August 02, 2021

Your Brain on Music, Super-Singing Songbirds, Animal Sunburns

14 mins; July 30, 2021

Alien Dataomes, How Animals Smell Viruses, Why to Read Aloud

13 mins; July 29, 2021

Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”

13 mins; July 28, 2021

Brain Replays Memories at 20x Speed & A Real Maxwell’s Demon

10 mins; July 27, 2021

Dog Days of Summer, Magic Tricks for Birds, Planck Time

11 mins; July 26, 2021

Letting Wounds Breathe, Grocery App Benefits, Tardigrade Guns

11 mins; July 23, 2021

Speech-to-Song Illusion and a High-Tech Use for Tree Rings

13 mins; July 22, 2021

Daddy Longlegs, Dyson Spheres, and Exercising with a Partner

12 mins; July 21, 2021

Missions to Venus and How to Extract DNA from Strawberries

11 mins; July 20, 2021

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back

12 mins; July 19, 2021

Why Megalodon Was So Huge, Misophonia in the Brain, Trivia

13 mins; July 16, 2021

Glowing Sharks, Cities’ Unique Microbes, Milky Way Mistake

13 mins; July 15, 2021

Shark Week Tech, Crime & Birth Year, Sharks’ Near-Extinction

14 mins; July 14, 2021

Bomb-Detected Whales & What It’s Like to Film Shark Week

13 mins; July 13, 2021

Scary Shark Music, Your Brain Predicts the Future, Hydrobot

10 mins; July 12, 2021

Does ESP Exist?

13 mins; July 09, 2021

Could You Adapt to Having an Extra Thumb?

12 mins; July 08, 2021

How to Improve Your Sense of Direction

12 mins; July 07, 2021

Weird Dreams Might be a Brain Feature, Not a Bug

11 mins; July 06, 2021

Why Song Lyrics Are Getting Simpler

13 mins; July 05, 2021

Are Facial Expressions Universal?

14 mins; July 02, 2021

The Phantom Torso Experiment Protected Astronauts in a Very Creepy Way

13 mins; July 01, 2021

How Life Expectancy Doubled in Just 150 Years (w/ Author Steven Johnson)

13 mins; June 30, 2021

We Found the Earliest Evidence of Ancient Human Activity

13 mins; June 29, 2021

Looking Into Space Is Looking Back in Time

11 mins; June 28, 2021

Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Butts

12 mins; June 25, 2021

Bats Map the World By Time, Not Distance

12 mins; June 24, 2021

Why We Won’t Have “Robot Butlers” Any Time Soon (w/ AI Researcher Michael Wooldridge)

13 mins; June 23, 2021

We Found the First Pregnant Mummy Ever Documented

11 mins; June 22, 2021

How to Manage Your Work-from-Home Paranoia

11 mins; June 21, 2021

Will Future Civilizations Get Oil From Human Fossils?

14 mins; June 18, 2021

What Does Your Digital Body Language Say?

14 mins; June 17, 2021

Pollen Is Not Actually Plant Sperm

11 mins; June 16, 2021

Painless Tips to Help the Environment (w/ Paul Greenberg)

12 mins; June 15, 2021

Move Over, CRISPR — New Gene Editing Tech is Here

12 mins; June 14, 2021

A Good Reason to Resolve Your Arguments

13 mins; June 11, 2021

The Oldest Kids in Class Are Also the Most Popular

11 mins; June 10, 2021

Why We Always Forget that Less Is More (w/ Leidy Klotz)

14 mins; June 09, 2021

Stress During Pregnancy Might Affect the Baby’s Sex

13 mins; June 08, 2021

A Robot That Talks to Itself Might Be Easier to Interact With

11 mins; June 07, 2021

How Do Wild Animals Know What to Eat?

12 mins; June 04, 2021

What Rain is Like on Other Planets

14 mins; June 03, 2021

What Elevators Can Teach Us About Autonomous Cars (w/ Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur Magazine)

14 mins; June 02, 2021

We’re Morbidly Curious About What “Might Have Been”

11 mins; June 01, 2021

Why Cavities Are So Sensitive to the Cold

12 mins; May 31, 2021

Is Exercise for Work as Good as Exercise for Play?

11 mins; May 28, 2021

How a Plant Gene Ended Up in an Insect’s DNA

13 mins; May 27, 2021

What’s the Deal with Hot Flashes? (w/ OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter)

16 mins; May 26, 2021

The World’s Oldest Thumb Belongs to a Dinosaur

12 mins; May 25, 2021

Human Screams Communicate a Rainbow of Emotions

12 mins; May 24, 2021

Mushrooms Are More Like Humans Than Plants

12 mins; May 21, 2021

Roses Smell Different in Space

13 mins; May 20, 2021

How LEDs Work (w/ LED Pioneer George Craford)

14 mins; May 19, 2021

Octopuses Have Sleep Cycles, Too

11 mins; May 18, 2021

Introverts Fared Better Than Extroverts During the Pandemic

13 mins; May 17, 2021

Using AI to Play Ancient Board Games

13 mins; May 14, 2021

When the Pursuit of Knowledge Goes Wrong (w/ Physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)

13 mins; May 13, 2021

Go Ahead, Google Your Symptoms

12 mins; May 12, 2021

Your Roommate Really Doesn’t Know How You’re Feeling

12 mins; May 11, 2021

Why Koala Fingerprints Look Eerily Human

12 mins; May 10, 2021

How Astronauts Clean Their Underwear

12 mins; May 07, 2021

From Music to Bacon, Biology is Everywhere (w/ Biologist Melanie Peffer)

12 mins; May 06, 2021

This Dino Was Fossilized Incubating Its Eggs

12 mins; May 05, 2021

How Deadliest Catch Navigates a Deadly Pandemic (w/ Captain Sig Hansen)

12 mins; May 04, 2021

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