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New Hopes for Malaria Vaccine, The Dying Trees of Canal du Midi

By Rhitu Chatterjee

Podcast 136: Field trials of a new malaria vaccine yields promising results. Trees lining France's Canal du Midi are dying. Efforts to prevent water wars in the Australian Outback. more »

What’s the Deal with “Planking?”

By Clark Boyd

Technology Podcast 329: What is this woman doing? Why, she's planking, of course! Find out more about this crazy, some would say deadly, game whose global popularity is being spurred by social networks. more »

Rationing Health Care, Socks for Malaria Control, Cholera in Haiti

By Rhitu Chatterjee

Podcast 97: A South African committee that rations life-saving medical treatments. Smelly socks may aid malaria control. The controversial cause of Haiti's cholera outbreak. more »

Preventing Blindness, Clues to Bilingualism, Science in Singapore

By David Baron

Podcast 29: Fighting blindness in Ethiopia. Creating a science workforce for Singapore. Walking in circles in the woods. Plus: malaria, bilingualism, and a strange giant planet. more »

Our All-Animal Special: Jags, Crocs, Seals and Tasmanian Devils

By admin

Podcast 28: We present you with an all-animal podcast. We have stories about creatures in Canada, Cambodia, Australia and Panama. more »

Frogs at Risk, Flu Redux, Bumbling Bees

By admin

Podcast 14: Swine flu may not be so bad after all. Good news and bad on climate. An aircraft manufacturer tries to green its image. A giant frog flies to safety. more »

Dangerously Hot Tea, Claustrophobic Cosmonauts

By admin

Podcast 8: Cosmonaut claustrophobia in Moscow. Car pollution and hot tea in Iran. A mass toad killing in Australia. And your brain knows what you want before you do. more »

Prehistoric Sex, Ancient Footprints

By admin

Podcast 3: Prehistoric sex. Ancient human footprints. A lost city in the Amazon. The cult of the future. And a hormone that increases a woman's odds of cheating on her partner. more »

Finding Osama, Looting in Iraq

By admin

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. more »