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Haiti’s Seismic History, Rome’s Metro System, Excess Flu Vaccines
Podcast 49: Geologists had warned Haiti about an impending earthquake. Engineers and archaeologists collaborate on Rome's new Metro line. Europe is trying to dispose of extra doses of H1N1 vaccine. »
Naming Planets in Hebrew, Toward Copenhagen, Mayan Daily Life
Podcast 40: Danish Climate Minister on new climate treaty. The Israelis are trying to give Hebrew names to Uranus and Neptune. And environmentalists are trying to get wildlife of the Vietnamese menu. »
Swine Flu Vaccine, Mother-to-Daughter Cancer, Vegetarian Spider
Podcast 36: Responses to swine flu vaccine differ on either side of the Atlantic. A mother passed cancer cells to her fetus. Dyslexia more complex among Chinese speakers. »
China Goes Green, The EU Debates Biofuels, Swearing Eases Pain
Podcast 23: Two views on China’s push to become greener, biofuel controversy in Europe, and a look at how jockeys can make a horse go faster. »
BBQ Begets Bigger Brains
Forum 2: Richard Wrangham, author of “Catching Fire,” argues that our ape ancestors became human because they learned to cook. Join Wrangham in an online chat.Forum »
Obama’s Science Envoys, Nobels on Climate, Eons of Laughter
Podcast 17: President Obama may send science envoys around the world. Global warming grabs the attention of Nobel laureates (and others). The evolution of laughter. »
Pakistan Water Crisis, Spain’s Vultures, China’s Great(er) Wall
Podcast 11: Pakistan is running out of water. Spain’s vultures are going hungry. The Great Wall of China gets much longer. And night owls are more alert than early risers. »
New Stem Cell Rules, The First Horsemen
Podcast 5: New U.S. stem cell rules. Ancient horses. A European pesticide controversy. And a Bolshevik murder mystery solved after nearly a century. »
Finding Osama, Looting in Iraq
Podcast 2: A scientific search for Osama bin Laden. Archaeological looting in Iraq. Water troubles in Australia and Mexico City. And a doctor who fought Ebola in Africa. »
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