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We Have Concerns
Jeff Cannata and Anthony Carboni talk about the personal philosophical concerns they find lurking inside everyday things. It's fun?
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Shocking Stats About Lightning
The World Meteorological Organization’s Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes recently certified a new record: the longest lightning strike ever m...
The Mystery of Roanoke
The "Lost" Colony of Roanoke is one of the most enduring American mysteries, despite there being persuasive evidence to explain the disappearance of s...
Eating Ants
Findings published in the journal Evolution reveal that mammals independently evolved specialized adaptations for exclusively feeding on ants and term...
Cool vs Good
What are the characteristics that make someone cool? How about good? Is there overlap? Can someone be both cool and good? Anthony and Jeff look at a n...
The Science of Big Splashes
When it comes to making a splash, technique tops brute force. While you might think a cannonball will yield the biggest splash in the pool, science ha...
Hummingbirds, Penguins, and Cockatoos, oh my.
Three stories this week, all concerning birds! Pranksters, scamps, potential saviors of earth? In the first, cockatoos in Australia have learned how t...
Tales From the Crypt
For 60 years, between 1637 and 1697, people who died at the largest hospital in Milan were dropped into a brick-lined crypt. Now, 300 years later, the...
Silence is Golden
New research aims to quality the health effects of silence. It turns out, just a few hours of quiet time per week can have striking benefits. Anthony...
Snakebites for Science
Tim Friede has allowed himself to be bitten by venomous snakes more then 200 times. As a result, his blood has helped scientists concoct a new antibod...
Virtual Nostalgia
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced InteRecon, a program that enables users to reca...
Speaking Bonobo
A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that bonobos, our closest living relatives alongside chimpanze...
Batman's Cocktail Party Mystery
Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations...
The Walking Dead
A new study places the US at the top of the list of most fatal countries to be a pedestrian. Anthony and Jeff take a look at all the reasons it is so...
Taste This Machine
Scientists have developed a device, called “e-Taste”, capable of recreating complex flavours of food and drink from five basic building blocks, and pl...
Move with the Crowd
Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of people moving in coordinate...
Try to Imagine It
People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon images in their "mind's eye." But a new study suggests that the blueprints for those imaginary image...
Why Do We Itch?
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have uncovered new insights into the dual nature of scratching an itch, indicating that while it can worse...
AI vs Critical Thinking
The rise of AI has directly resulted in diminishing levels of critical thinking, epseically among young people, a new study shows. Anthony and Jeff di...
Generation Lead
A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that one generation in particular has higher exposure to unsafe levels o...
Showers for Health: Hot or Cold?
Much has been made about taking a cold shower in the morning vs a hot one. A new study aims to measure the health benefit of these different temperatu...
Alpha Wolf Brain Parasite
A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with a parasite that can only...
Old at 44
A new study finds that the human body does not age at a constant rate throughout adulthood. Instead, it accelerates dramatically around ages 44 and 60...
Gut Health Among Friends
More and more research points to the fact that the microbiome in our gut contributes sigificantly to both our phsyical and mental health. But what def...
Bat-Powers Can Be Yours
Contrary to previous assumption, a new study shows that bat-like echolocation is a skill that can be learned by both blind and sighted practitioners i...
Spicy Expectations
A new study used varying levels of hot sauce to test whether the expectation of spice and discomfort impacted the actual experience. Jeff and Anthony...
History's Greatest Con Man
In the 19th century, Scottish scammer Gregor MacGregor made a fortune selling land in Poyais. The only problem? Poyais never existed. Jeff and Anthony...
Not-So-Happy Slappy
The sport of Slap Fighting has taken the Internet by storm over the last year. But would you believe: it is stupid and dangerous? I KNOW. Jeff and Ant...
Blue Food
When you see food that is colored blue, what flavor do you expect it to be? As the rarest color in plants and animals, blue might be the strangest col...
Lightning Milk
Among rural communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was taken as fact that a thunderstorm would turn milk sour. Jeff and Anthony look at the jo...
The Strangest Science of 2024
It's time to celebrate the strangest, silliest, and most weirdly useful science of the last year! The Ig Nobel Prizes are back, and we're going to cov...
Inventor of Doom
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Refreezing the Arctic
Researchers in the Arctic are experimenting with drastic plans to geoengineer away the damaging effects of climate change. Jeff and Anthony look at on...
Bird Detectives
When birds collide with airplanes, their remains are sent to a special lab in Washington, DC. There, an elite team of avian detectives works to identi...
Wakeful Sleeping
A new study shows that some insomniacs who claim to have been up through the night have actually been sleeping. What is going on in their brains? Anth...
Get to the Front of the Line
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Hacking Your Flow State
By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians, researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state. The findings have...
Monsters in the Walls and in the Tank
Two stories this week, both involving kids who get more than they bargained for. In the first, a toddler is certain she hears a monster in the walls o...
AI Wants Your Fingerprints
No two human fingerprints are alike. Even different fingers from the same person are unique. But new research from Columbia University using an applie...
Sugar Bones
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Lead for Lunch
Consumer Reports released a new report on Lunchables in which it found lead and cadmium, and also observed the presence of phthalates, which can impac...