| May 7, 2013 |
Numeral Hotspot
- Scientists have discovered the area of the brain dedicated to recognizing numerals.
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| April 16, 2013 |
Carnivorous Plant Food Webs
- Each carnivorous pitcher plant contains a unique food web, depending on what falls in.
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| December 18, 2012 |
The DNA Eaters
- A group of microscopic animals get 10% of their active genes by eating the DNA of other species.
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| December 17, 2012 |
Flu Forecasting
- Flu forecasts may soon become a news staple.
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| November 30, 2012 |
Podcast for 30 November 2012
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT - Are kids naturally stingy? Why children's self-control could depend on the adults around them. And why math anxiety "hurts". Also: What monsters from Dungeons & Dragons can tell us about the importance of eyes.
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| November 15, 2012 |
Painful Math Anxiety
- Areas of the brain normally associated with physical pain are activated when people with math anxiety think about doing math.
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| August 6, 2012 |
When More is Less
- New research suggests that we’re prone to think a package deal is a better value if quantity is listed before price.
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| June 19, 2012 |
Wide Angle Mirror
- A mathematician has designed a wide-angle driver's side mirror that doesn't distort shapes.
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| March 16, 2012 |
Podcast for 16 March 2012
- SCIENCE OF SOCIETY - Do wealthier people tend to have fewer scruples? The social costs of mass incarceration. Seeing-eye smartphones for the blind. And, new evidence calls an accepted tenet of science into question. Also: how to make plastic from plants.
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| January 9, 2012 |
Counting Pigeons
- New research suggests that pigeons, like monkeys, can count.
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| November 29, 2011 |
Posture & Numbers
- People tend to underestimate numbers when they lean to the left, and overestimate them when they lean to the right.
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| September 15, 2011 |
Sex & Spatial Thinking
- Gender differences in spatial reasoning abilities may be strongly influenced by culture.
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| March 10, 2011 |
Star Distance
- Astronomers calculate the distance to the furthest stars by comparing them to stars they know.
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| March 3, 2010 |
Teaching Math Anxiety
- Female teachers may pass their own math anxiety to the girls they teach.
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| February 12, 2010 |
Slime Engineers Roundup
- Slime molds inspire mass transit planners.
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| February 4, 2010 |
Value of Most
- English speakers agree on a surprisingly narrow numerical value for the word "most."
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| January 29, 2010 |
Podcast
- Sleeping birds, sperm wars, looking for water on distant planets, and the value of "most".
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| December 15, 2009 |
Accounting Fraud Alert
- A new algorithm looks for accounting fraud by analyzing non-financial statistics.
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| July 13, 2009 |
Virtual Sounds
- New computer programs generate real-time, accurate sounds for virtual-reality events.
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| July 3, 2009 |
Podcast
- Dinosaurs get re-sized, why we favor a biased media, people who never forget a face and more.
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| April 23, 2009 |
Star Distance II
- Astronomers calculate the distance to the furthest stars by comparing them to stars they know.
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| April 22, 2009 |
Star Distance I
- Astronomers use a concept called parallax to calculate the distance to the nearest stars.
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| April 10, 2009 |
Podcast
- How to calculate the distance of stars, new uses for old rocks in the fight against global warming, and why video games might actually be good for your vision.
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| October 1, 2008 |
Number Sense
- Kids with good "number sense" do better in math class.
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| August 21, 2008 |
Antikythera Mechanism
- An ancient astronomical calculator had a dedicated calendar for the Olympics and other games.
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| July 17, 2008 |
Seeing in STEREO
- Solar physicists see the sun in 3-D with NASA's STEREO Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory.
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| June 27, 2008 |
Podcast
- COMPUTERS & BIOLOGY: Both bacteria and beetles promise to speed up computing, a computer game that could lead to a cure for deadly diseases, and more.
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| June 25, 2008 |
Bacterial Computing
- Bacteria may be the backbone of some future supercomputers.
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| June 20, 2008 |
Math Roundup
- A large international study suggests that girls only lag behind boys in math achievement in cultures where gender inequality remains a problem.
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| May 5, 2008 |
Most Powerful Laser
- The world's most powerful laser can create miniature stars right in the laboratory.
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| March 6, 2008 |
Brainwaves & Schizophrenia
- Mental illness alters brainwaves during neural processing.
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| March 3, 2008 |
Brain Geometry
- When we hallucinate, what we see may actually be the architecture of our own brains.
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| February 21, 2008 |
Oscar Nods
- Working with big names helps get you an Oscar nomination, but knowing Academy voters doesn't.
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| November 23, 2007 |
DNA Music Roundup
- DNA is more than just an instruction manual for life. In fact, genes may actually function more like a well-orchested symphony.
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| November 20, 2007 |
Bus Schedule Math
- Engineers have developed a mathematical algorithm for optimizing bus schedules.
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| November 16, 2007 |
Podcast
- A snail hides in plain sight. A high-speed continental collision. And what fossils tell us about future extinctions.
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| November 14, 2007 |
Knot Physics
- Physicists study how headphone cords tie themselves in knots.
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| August 9, 2007 |
Hill-Climbing Robots
- Scientists are teaching a robot how to climb hills.
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| July 20, 2007 |
Podcast
- How the solar system formed, determining the standard for the kilogram, how brain damage affects art, cancer drugs from trees, protecting ports with underwater using sound.
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| March 16, 2007 |
Podcast
- Why rainbows are round (yes, round), ultraviolet light is an aphrodesiac to jumping spiders, getting rid of interior rattles in cars, senior citizens are less reliable crime eyewitnesses, and why some medical studies are more likely to get refuted.
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| March 14, 2007 |
Bad Medicine
- Why do so many medical claims get refuted?
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| September 8, 2004 |
Consensus Model
- A computer model shows how people reach consensus in society.
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| April 28, 2004 |
Predicting Fingerprints
- A mathematical model predicts fingerprint patterns based on biological factors.
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| February 16, 2004 |
Math of Marriage
- A model that can predict whether a couple will stay together or split up.
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| November 17, 2003 |
White Hole
- A new model showing that the Big Bang occurred inside the opposite of a black hole
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| April 9, 2003 |
African Fractals (rerun of #2865)
- rerun
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| August 16, 2002 |
Baseball, Fish and Lazybones
- Baseball mathematicians to improve line-ups, fish testosterone, and couch potatoes damage their health
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| July 2, 2002 |
Cracking Whip
- A whip crack comes from a loop accelerating down the length of the whip.
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| March 11, 2002 |
African Fractals
- Traditional African architecture contains fractals, patterns that repeat and nest within themselves
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| April 24, 2001 |
Juggling Mathematics
- Using mathematics to analyze juggling patterns
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