Dimpled Cars
A listener asks: Would the dimples on a golf ball also speed up a car or an airplane?
Podcast
Our special birthday show! A louse killer that's evolution-proof, what comes after Hubble, the universality of color, listening to icebergs, and how physics was different in the early universe.
Changing Physics
A listener asks: Was physics different when the universe was young?
Solar Flares and GPS
Strong solar flares could render some GPS receivers temporarily useless.
Podcast
Underwater noise pollution, genes for alcoholism, PCBs may compromise vaccines, proof of dark matter, and uvulas in animals.
Dark Matter Proof
Scientists recently proved the existence of dark matter. Here's why that's such a big deal.
Podcast
The world's sharpest needle, a cancer treatment from a war paint plant, how men are like dogs, an outdoor greenhouse, and your brain's reaction to exercise.
Sharpest Needle
What qualifies something as the sharpest object in the world?
Podcast
The mosquito's love song, putting highway surveillance cameras to a medical use, behind the obesity vaccine, 9/11 rescue workers' lungs, and the physics of candy wrappers.
Crumpling Noise
A listener asks a question about the physics of an everyday thing: candy wrappers.
Podcast
Cars that communicate with each other, reasons to get rid of the penny, improving the information in video games, chubby hamsters help with obesity research, and why snow is white when water and ice are clear.
Podcast
Deciphering horses' whinnies, how apes plan ahead, the science of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, getting really mad over little things, and whether booze can cure a cold.
Invisibility Cloak
Harry Potter's invisibility cloak may not be completely fictional for much longer.
Psych Roundup
Scientists have finally come up with an explanation for how Ritalin works.
The Microbes Below
To study underground bacteria, scientists have been pretty much just digging holes. Until now.
Podcast
Emailing in your sleep, a lost planet, the risks of marketing remedies, a laser that zaps fat, and new developments in nanotechnology.
Podcast
Fish Week! An underwater surveillance program, fish of the abyssal plain, the math of mayonnaise, calcium and stroke, and medical help from fish.
Podcast
A parasite from cats, how comets kick the bucket, the next best thing to dino DNA, helping disabled kids find their voices, and using lasers in medicine.
Podcast
What makes a song popular, spite in chimps, the up-side of parasites, the physics of cracking, and fighting flesh-eating viruses and tuberculosis.
Podcast
How to catch lying politicians, black holes are for real, a virus that could make you fat, having deja vu over and over again, and man versus beast.
Podcast
The North Star's companion, the origin of laughter, scientific mind-reading, an explanation of dark energy, and new insights into cancer and AIDS.
Podcast
Blocking addiction in the brain, how particle accelerators work, mapping the Milky Way, the other human genome, and how tobacco could save lives.
Particle Accelerator
The action in particle accelerators makes the fastest racecars look like slugs.
Choir Effect
'Tis the season for choral singing. Bob Hirshon has this story about a mystery hidden in the melodies.