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Momma’s Voice

May 30, 2001

A brain transplant can make a baby chicken respond to the call of a mother quail.

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Temperamental Cats

May 29, 2001

Why do cats sometimes bite when you're petting them? (They get annoyed, but we don't pick up on it.)

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Curve Balls

May 25, 2001

A computer program that describes the physics of the curve ball

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Filtering Fluoride

May 24, 2001

Is fluoride taken out by a filter- a water filter? (only minute amounts by Brita and Pur charcoal …

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Bacteria Killer

May 23, 2001

Using enzymes from bacteriophages to kill bacteria in human noises and throats

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Ethnic Drug Resistance

May 18, 2001

How your cultural heritage could affect how your body processes medicines and chemotherapies.

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Flash-Free Fireflies, rerun #2446

May 17, 2001

rerun

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Cancer-Preventing Drugs

May 16, 2001

Instead of looking for drugs to treat cancer, some researchers are looking to prevent cancer with …

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Chalky Ice Cubes

May 15, 2001

My ice cubes evaporate and leave a particulate behind-- what is it? (calcium carbonate, chalk, …

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Balloon Explorers

May 14, 2001

Using balloons to explore the planets

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Microbots

May 9, 2001

Tiny robots that can wheel around on their own, collecting chemical, sound, temp information

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Musical Pleasure

May 8, 2001

Why is music pleasureable? (because it may help us learn better, in the end, helping us survive)

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