Science, Spoken

The accelerometers give scientists information about whether animals are swimming, walking, running, or even sprinting up a hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Using a camera shooting 300,000 frames per second, researchers catch the amphipod snapping its extraordinarily powerful claw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They talk about something called state vectors. What the heck are those, and would it really work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine can be delivered in a single dose, but it’s also slightly less effective. Who should get it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A modeling system called Vulcan shows that on average, cities across the country pollute 18.3 percent more than they’ve estimated. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To understand how universes might inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Archaeologists found the entrance to the unexplored burial shaft earlier this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Testing a vaccine on children takes longer and comes with more challenges. But inoculating kids can protect an entire population. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Pence promised to land on the moon in 2024, but that’s fallen out of reach. So what now? Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scientists find that cyanobacteria cause sediments on glaciers to clump, thus absorbing more sunlight. It's not great news for fans of lower sea levels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three-dimensional computer simulations have solved the mystery of why doomed stars explode at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facilities that suck carbon dioxide out of the air could be powerful weapons for fighting climate change. But their deployment requires a huge wartime-style investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mega-sites need a lot of personnel and pose problems of access and equity.  But other vaccination campaigns might point us in the right direction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning signs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Using voice-activation tech and nature-inspired soundscapes, these space are designed to give medical workers some respite from the Covid-19 front lines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An algorithm discovered dozens of Martian craters. It’s a promising remote method for exploring our solar system and understanding planetary history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scientists say they've got 20-million-year-old evidence of giant worms that hunted in pretty much the most nightmarish way possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Computational biologists used an algorithm meant to model human language to instead predict how viruses could evolve to evade the immune system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scientists find an average of 40 microplastic particles per cubic meter of the northern water. The likely source? The synthetic clothing in our washing machines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Launching rockets from planes is a decades-old concept that never really took off. Billionaire Richard Branson thinks its time has come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottles. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It won't prevent teens from later becoming smokers. But some health experts say that focusing on the risk of addicting new smokers cuts off a chance to help adults quit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most claims of running on “clean” electricity come with caveats, and many technologies required for round-the-clock renewable energy aren’t quite ready yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A small group of king penguins have appeared on Martillo Island in Argentina. How they got there, and whether they will stay, is unknown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The airplane in the movie is stripped down and doesn't have all of its brakes installed, making the calculations even more fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices