Science Podcasts
Each week, The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee brings you the latest and greatest science news from all four corners of the globe. You can subscribe via iTunes, RSS or email. Also, check out our Science Forum page.
John Vaillant’s ‘The Tiger,’ Protecting Wild Tigers, Wheat Genome
Podcast 82: The true story of a tiger in the Russian far-east that killed a poacher for revenge. Efforts to save wild tigers from the brink of extinction. First draft sequences of wheat genome released. »
Serengeti’s Conservation Battles, Whiskey Biofuel, Bacteria in Space
Podcast 81: Controversy over proposal to build a road through Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Scientists have made biofuel from whiskey byproducts. A newly found bacteria survived a year in space. »
Saving Lebanon’s Cedar Trees, Black Carbon & Climate Change
Podcast 80: Efforts to save Lebanon's threatened cedar trees. Black carbon, a component of soot, is a potent climate warmer. Scientists have stumbled upon a rare magnetic star. »
Citizens Help Discover Pulsar, Lost Frogs, Stem Cell Work in China
Podcast 79: Citizens' computers help scientists discover Pulsar. China emerges as a player in stem cell research. Scientists go looking for lost frogs. Iceberg breaks off in Greenland. »
Solar Flares & Northern Lights, Life in Space, Malaria Misdiagnoses
Podcast 78: Solar flares are sending hot plasma towards the Earth. Life in space is boring and full of interpersonal-squabbles. Cases of ordinary fever are sometimes misdiagnosed as malaria. »
Journalist Fred Pearce on Population
Podcast 77: World population is set to increase to 9 billion by 2050. But veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce says overpopulation no longer threatens the environment as much as consumption does. »
Plato & Music, Hope for AIDS Prevention, Cassava Sting Operation
Podcast 76: Plato's writings had a hidden musical structure. AIDS prevention efforts in Africa report some breakthroughs. Mounting an insect war to protect Thailand's cassava crops. »
Seeking the Roots of Kindness: The Life & Work of George Price
Podcast 75: Science historian Oren Harman talks about George Price and the search for the evolutionary roots of altruism. Harman is also the guest on our Science Forum discussion. »
Huntington’s Disease in Venezuela, Pros & Cons of Genetic Testing
Podcast 73: A Venezuelan community that participated in a landmark genetic study three decades ago is yet to benefit from the research. The pros & cons of genetic testing. Norway's approach to oil drilling. »
The World Science Forum
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
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