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Science Quickly

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Science Quickly episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Science Quickly for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Science Quickly episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Science Quickly - Can Food Work as Medicine?
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05/01/24 • 11 min

Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.

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Science Quickly - Ant Colonies Avoid Traffic Jams
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11/07/19 • 3 min

Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.

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Science Quickly - Ranking Rise May Intimidate Opponents
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11/06/19 • 4 min

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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Science Quickly - New Nobel Laureate Talks Today's Virology
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10/05/20 • 4 min

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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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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Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.

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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.

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Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It

How Plant Intelligence Can Soothe Climate Anxiety

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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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Science Quickly - Sign Languages Display Distinct Ancestries
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01/30/20 • 4 min

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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Science Quickly - Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too
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09/28/20 • 4 min

Researchers seeking evidence for cancer in dinosaurs found it in a collection of bones at a paleontology museum in Alberta.

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Science Quickly - Science News from around the World
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09/22/20 • 3 min

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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FAQ

How many episodes does Science Quickly have?

Science Quickly currently has 1843 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, 15 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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