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Can Food Work as Medicine?
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Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.
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Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.
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05/01/24 • 11 min
36 Listeners
Ant Colonies Avoid Traffic Jams
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Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.
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Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.
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11/07/19 • 3 min
13 Listeners
Ranking Rise May Intimidate Opponents
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In an analysis of chess and tennis matches, players rising in the rankings did better than expected against higher-ranked opponents and better than similarly ranked players who were not rising.
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In an analysis of chess and tennis matches, players rising in the rankings did better than expected against higher-ranked opponents and better than similarly ranked players who were not rising.
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11/06/19 • 4 min
10 Listeners
New Nobel Laureate Talks Today's Virology
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Charles Rice, who today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, talked about how rapidly research now occurs, compared with his early work.
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Charles Rice, who today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, talked about how rapidly research now occurs, compared with his early work.
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10/05/20 • 4 min
7 Listeners
Researchers determined that Greenland is on track to lose more ice this century than during any of the previous 120 centuries. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Researchers determined that Greenland is on track to lose more ice this century than during any of the previous 120 centuries. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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10/03/20 • 3 min
6 Listeners
Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.
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Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.
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09/08/23 • 6 min
5 Listeners
Can plants “think?" Do they “talk” to one another? These are questions that scientists are asking—and the answers might surprise you. Zoë Schlanger, climate reporter at The Atlantic, sits down with Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman to discuss her new book The Light Eaters, which explores the surprising science of plant intelligence.
Related Reading:
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
How Plant Intelligence Can Soothe Climate Anxiety
Email us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover!
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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Kelso Harper, Carin Leong Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Zoë Schlanger from The Atlantic. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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Can plants “think?" Do they “talk” to one another? These are questions that scientists are asking—and the answers might surprise you. Zoë Schlanger, climate reporter at The Atlantic, sits down with Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman to discuss her new book The Light Eaters, which explores the surprising science of plant intelligence.
Related Reading:
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
How Plant Intelligence Can Soothe Climate Anxiety
Email us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover!
Discover something new everyday: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for our daily newsletter.
Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Kelso Harper, Carin Leong Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Zoë Schlanger from The Atlantic. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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06/07/24 • 23 min
4 Listeners
Sign Languages Display Distinct Ancestries
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Well more than 100 distinct sign languages exist worldwide, with each having features that made it possible for researchers to create an evolutionary tree of their lineages.
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Well more than 100 distinct sign languages exist worldwide, with each having features that made it possible for researchers to create an evolutionary tree of their lineages.
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01/30/20 • 4 min
4 Listeners
Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too
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Researchers seeking evidence for cancer in dinosaurs found it in a collection of bones at a paleontology museum in Alberta.
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Researchers seeking evidence for cancer in dinosaurs found it in a collection of bones at a paleontology museum in Alberta.
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09/28/20 • 4 min
3 Listeners
Science News from around the World
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Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from Israel about what DNA reveals about the Dead Sea Scrolls’ parchment.
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Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from Israel about what DNA reveals about the Dead Sea Scrolls’ parchment.
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09/22/20 • 3 min
3 Listeners
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FAQ
How many episodes does Science Quickly have?
Science Quickly currently has 1883 episodes available.
What topics does Science Quickly cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Science Quickly?
The episode title 'Can Food Work as Medicine?' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Science Quickly?
The average episode length on Science Quickly is 5 minutes.
How often are episodes of Science Quickly released?
Episodes of Science Quickly are typically released every 1 day, 17 hours.
When was the first episode of Science Quickly?
The first episode of Science Quickly was released on Jun 4, 2014.
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