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Astronomers discover carbon dioxide on a planet outside our solar system, clothes that could save …
Electronic Cotton
Electrically conductive cotton could be used to make clothes that monitor your health.
Global Warming
A listener asks: If it's so cold outside this winter, how can we be experiencing global warming?
Little Ice Age
Widespread disease epidemics in the Americas may have set off a period of global cooling in the …
Science Update: 1/5/09-1/9/09
All 5 of this week's shows bundled together.
Podcast
Making people toxic to mosquitoes, sleep to save your heart, pain hurts more if you really mean it, …
Teen Obesity
Teens from low-income backgrounds face several heightened obesity risks.
Lopsided Colonoscopies
Colonoscopies are very effective at detecting tumors in the left colon but nearly useless in …
Endectocides
Certain drugs can make human blood toxic to disease-carrying insects.