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Keeping Time in Clocks & Our Brains, Chevron in Ecuador

By Rhitu Chatterjee

Podcast 106: Physicists want to develop more precise atomic clocks. Researchers get a peek at how our brains process time. Ecuadorian court convicts Chevron. more »

CSI in 19th Century France, Bird-friendly Coffee

By Rhitu Chatterjee

Podcast 92: A grisly tale about a 19th century serial killer in France and the birth of modern forensic science. How coffee endangers songbirds. Also, join our online discussion on nuclear energy. more »

A Swine Flu Special

By admin

Podcast 12: A Mexican hospital copes with swine flu, China tries to ward off the virus, and the U.S. remembers a 1976 outbreak. Plus dancing birds, asteroids, and dinosaurs. more »

Pakistan Water Crisis, Spain’s Vultures, China’s Great(er) Wall

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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. more »

City Bees, Predicting Earthquakes

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Podcast 9: Urban beekeeping in Germany. Green architecture in Canada. The perils of predicting earthquakes. Plus chimps and mosquitoes. more »