Episodes
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Today, you’ll learn about a compelling study on twins and the nature versus nurture debate, how scientists solved a 60-year-old mystery about bees, and why you shouldn’t go last.
Twin Trauma
Bee Mystery
Sequence Bias
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Today, you’ll learn about a new plan to use waste from beer brewing to clean metal out of our water supply, a study that puts languages like Orc and Klingon to the test, and a discovery about the direction our memories travel in our brains.
Brewer’s Yeast
Constructed Languages
Memory Direction
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Today, you’ll learn about a medication that can successfully treat frostbite, the study of bloodsplatter in space, and a surprising finding about the supposed benefits of small class sizes.
Frostbite Treatment
Blood in Space
Small Classes
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Today, you’ll learn about a skin printer that could lead to scar-free surgeries, the possibility of bringing the wooly mammoth back to life, and how to work at being happy.
Printed Skin
Mammoth De-Extinction
Learning Happiness
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Today, you’ll learn about a radical idea for installing a curtain around a massive ice sheet, how positive vibrations might help people with social anxiety, and new tech that could remove dangerous forever chemicals from our environment.
Glacier Curtain
Good Vibrations
PFAS Water Detox
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Today, you’ll learn about a surprising discovery inside the worms of Chernobyl, a way to protect metals at sea inspired by barnacles, and foot-eye coordination.
Chernobyl Worms
Barnacle Proteins
Foot-Eye Coordination
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Today, you’ll learn about the magic of the upcoming solar eclipse, a simple way to reduce the amount of microplastics in your drinking water, and the connection between self-control and the perception of power.
Livestream of the total solar eclipse on Discovery’s YouTube channel on April 8 at 2:15pm ET here!
Eclipse 2024
Boiling Microplastics
Self-Control
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Today, you’ll learn about a potentially risky new idea to geoengineer our way out of extreme heat, bad news for fans of artificially sweetened drinks, and an incredible new discovery about butterflies.
Geoengineering
Artificial Sweeteners
Butterfly Mimicry
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Today, you’ll learn about an alarming new killer behavior in orcas, a potential breakthrough for patients with one of the deadliest cancers, and the brain science behind flow.
Shark Hunter
Asbestos Cancer Treatment
Creative Flow
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Happy 300 episodes to our Curiosity Daily listeners! Today, you’ll learn about a massive database of human genomes that’s uncovering major new genetic discoveries, the scientists building stone age tools from scratch… and then putting them to work, and a treasure trove of deep sea discoveries in an underwater mountain range.
Human Diversity
Ancient Tool Use
Deep Sea Discoveries
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Today, you’ll learn about how we learn the same information differently from people we like than from those we don’t like, a drug men already take that could have incredible added benefits, and a weed that could feed a hungry world.
Learning From Friends
Hair & Heart
Feeding Weeds
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Today, you’ll learn about how ADHD might have actually helped our ancient ancestors thrive, the way pollution makes it hard for nighttime pollinators to stop and smell the flowers, and a new study that suggests lions, tigers, and other big cats can tell who’s talking to them.
ADHD Foraging
Pollution & Pollinators
Big Cats Listen
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Today, you’ll learn about mind-reading machines, the brightest object in the known universe, and the potential power punch of cinnamon.
Mind-Reading
Universe’s Brightest Object
Cinnamon
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Today, you’ll learn about hurricanes so powerful they need a new category, bacteria linked to young-onset colo-rectal cancer, and ancient treasures made out of meteorites.
Category 6
Colo-Rectal Bacteria
Meteorite Loot
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Today, you’ll learn about the surprising effect our immune system has on our emotional health, a new discovery about the biological clock of plants, and how researchers are rediscovering the science of psychedelics.
Stress & Immunity
Crop Resilience
Psychedelic Scale
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Today, you’ll learn about the link between body temperature and depression, how taking the the Polar Bear Plunge could soothe symptoms of menopause, and a new sticker that can detect organ failure.
Depression Temp
Cold Water Menopause
Ultrasound Sticker
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Today, you’ll learn about a new blood test that can detect signs of psychosis and guide precision treatment, a gene mutation that happened in two different high altitude populations thousands of years apart, and new findings of the mental impacts of polycystic ovary syndrome.
Psychosis Blood Test
Altitude Genes
PCOS Cognition
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Today, you’ll learn about a new rapid test for detecting fentanyl, a hyper-sensitive new lead detector, and the mathematical proof that Bach… was a great composer.
Fentanyl Rapid Test
Lead Detector
Bach & Math
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Today, you’ll learn about how a population of female chimps have surprisingly been found to go through menopause and live well beyond their reproductive years, an ancient tsunami and its devastating impact on stone age populations, and the dire effects of sexism in science.
Chimp Menopause
Ancient Tsunami
Sexism in Science
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Today, you’ll learn about a potential breakthrough in the treatment of ovarian cancer, how just passively listening can help you learn things much more quickly, and the ant that changed the lion’s cuisine.
Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Passive Learning
Lions & Ants
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