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Water Roundup

March 14, 2008

Water leaves a signature at the scene of a crime and scientists purify water with nano-materials.

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Podcast

March 14, 2008

Archaeologists dig deep, the mystery of Maya Blue, where your hair has been, and more.

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Maya Blue

March 13, 2008

Scientists use high-tech tools to analyze ancient art.

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Pushing Atoms

March 12, 2008

Scientists have determined how much force it takes to move a single atom.

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Sunbleached Hair

March 11, 2008

A one-two punch causes hair to bleach in the sun.

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Archaeological Digs

March 10, 2008

A listener asks: When archaeologists uncover ancient cities, why do they have to dig so deep?

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Animal Roundup

March 7, 2008

Beaver dams help conserve water and scientists discover a behemoth amongst frogs.

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Podcast

March 7, 2008

Math & The Brain: The geometry of hallucinations, teaching computers regret, schizophrenia and …

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Brainwaves & Schizophrenia

March 6, 2008

Mental illness alters brainwaves during neural processing.

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Modeling Regret

March 5, 2008

Computer models simulate human behavior better when they learn to regret.

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Lost City Vent

March 4, 2008

An unusual deep-sea vent may have churned out the first seeds of life.

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Brain Geometry

March 3, 2008

When we hallucinate, what we see may actually be the architecture of our own brains.

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