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What can evolution to teach us about getting sick and how do we make use of what we are learning? Dr. Biology gets over ... Read more

For hundreds of years scientist have explored life on Earth with their feet firmly planted on the ground. Doing research... Read more

One of the benefits of being a biologist can be travel. There are some researchers who travel the globe as part of their... Read more

How many times do you get to say poop on a podcast and have it be scientific? Dr. Biology visits bioengineer Rosa Krajma... Read more

The evening news, your local paper, online websites, blogs, twitter, Facebook, and yes podcasts all are communicating th... Read more

Diving deep into the ocean is likely the most extreme place someone can set out to collect data, but sometimes that is w... Read more

This is the story of wild rabbits, humans, and a virus that might lead to a treatment for cancer. Twice humans moved wil... Read more

Our bodies are made up of 30 trillion cells – give or take a few cells. These cells like humans and some other animals n... Read more

Life in the year 2050, what will it look like? Will it be the age of intelligent computers? Physicist and author Max Teg... Read more

Hacking is a word that is often tied to something bad. However, there are times when hacking can be for something good. ... Read more

Television portrays the lives and work of forensic artists, but what is it like to really be a forensic artist? Are the ... Read more

What would life be like on other planets? Life on Earth is tied to carbon and water, but would this be the same for life... Read more

In the tiny world of DNA, we might call genomes monsters. These huge sets of information include all the codes for all t... Read more

Did you know the westerly winds in the Southern Ocean have been helping to keep our planet livable? Yes, they have been ... Read more

Dead men tell no tales, but their bones can. It just takes a particular kind of scientist to read the clues that tell th... Read more

Around 4,000 years ago, on the wind-swept island of St. Kilda, Scotland, people started creating a food storage of sorts... Read more

If you could travel back in time what would you find 50 million years ago? What was the climate like and what plants and... Read more

You hear that space is the final frontier, but could we have another frontier right here on Earth? The microscopic world... Read more

Remember your last paper cut, or the bad cold that had you coughing and blowing your nose? It was your immune system tha... Read more

During a plague year, locusts can swarm over 20 percent of the world’s landmass, affecting one out of every 10 people on... Read more