S10 E6: Voices of the North: Going Home

S10 E6: Voices of the North: Going Home

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Insect Robots, Bigfoot & Bears, Chronic Stress
Curiosity Weekly

Today, you’ll learn about the fastest mini robots ever created, how Bigfoot sightings may help scientists study bear populations, and the link between financial stress and poor health. Insect Robots Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed. ...  عرض المزيد

The New Conservationists: Thanks to Conservation Efforts, Pandas, Wolves and Panthers Are Making a Comeback (Part 4)
Science Quickly

Tens of thousands of animal species are facing extinction, mostly because of human activity. But thanks to conservationists, there are some animals that are making a comeback. This is part four of “The New Conservationists,” a four-part series about the evolving world of animal c ...  عرض المزيد

What Scientists Have Learned From 125 Years Of Bird Counts
Science Friday

This winter marks the 125th year of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, in which bird nerds across the Western Hemisp ...

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The man who walked butterflies on a leash
Unexplainable

Static electricity plays an invisible role in the natural world, and it may even help insects pollinate plants. To understand this hidden force, scientists have jumped through some pretty weird experimental hoops — and “walked” butterflies through literal hoops. Guests: Sam Engla ...  عرض المزيد

Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution
The Life Scientific

As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was told a second bout would probably kill him. Aged only 20, this brush with his own mortality led him to promise himself he would writ ...  عرض المزيد