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Our Monthly Science Roundtable looks at the science of political tweeting. Specifically, Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton would be a failed…
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Should STEM become STEAM? We look at the growing movement to add arts to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).Supporters say that…
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We may not be not the universe's first advanced civilization. University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank is the co-author of a new paper that puts…
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Our Monthly Science Roundtable looks at gravitational waves. The remarkable story of the first detection of gravitational waves confirms that Einstein was…
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Wait, there's a ninth planet? A ninth planet that's not Pluto?Apparently there is, according to researchers who say the evidence is mounting that a big,…
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Our Monthly Science Roundtable asks: What if science could fix one of our country's big energy mistakes?A decade ago, government was all-in on corn-based…
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ConnectionsEven if you’ve never played a video game in your life, video game design and gamification are still shaping our lives. More than 155 million Americans…
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ConnectionsOne of the biggest challenges farmers face is pests. But what if safe sex for insects could curb this problem. No, you read that right -- safe sex for…
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NASA has sent man to the moon, a rover to Mars, and a probe to Pluto. Their work is often celebrated as heroic, and it requires remarkable precision to…
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In the first half of the show, we talk with astrophysicist Brian Koberlein. He participated in the National Science Foundation’s Astronomy in Chile…