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A Moment of Science

Study links air pollution and a decline in cognitive function

Dodany: 18 marca 2024

Has your brain been feeling foggy lately? Or maybe, smoggy? If you live somewhere affected by air pollution, there might be a connection.

The jellyfish that never grows old

Dodany: 15 marca 2024

Scientists once thought that aging and death were the inevitable fate of all complex living things. But then, by accident, they discovered they were wrong.

The great cilantro debate

Dodany: 14 marca 2024

On today's Moment of Science, we'll be sniffing our way through a controversial culinary conundrum: the great cilantro debate.

Elephant grandmothers means more elephant calves

Dodany: 13 marca 2024

Grandmother elephants are important for the survival of baby calves.

Looks delicious! The connection between appearance and taste

Dodany: 12 marca 2024

English is full of phrases that connect appearance to taste. However, scientists have been discovering that the connection between the two runs deeper than simple metaphors.

Escaping alive from a frog's stomach

Dodany: 11 marca 2024

Sometimes, when a frog eats a large insect, you can see it squirming in the frog’s belly, desperate to escape. Lack of air, acids, and digestive enzymes seal its inevitable doom.

Copy your neighbors, but only when they're successful

Dodany: 8 marca 2024

Scientists looked at the nestbox choices of pied flycatchers after the birds observed the "success" of nesting great tits.

Why are operating rooms so cold?

Dodany: 7 marca 2024

Is there a reason operating rooms are always so cold and drafty?

Starfish are all heads, no tails

Dodany: 6 marca 2024

Colorful or plain, skinny or chubby, big or small, the nearly 2,000 species have it all.

Skeptics think about vaccines differently

Dodany: 5 marca 2024

Vaccine skeptics might see vaccines the way they do because they tend to overestimate the likelihood of rare negative events.

Walked or swam? An index can answer

Dodany: 4 marca 2024

How do scientists figure out even basic facts such as whether an animal walked on land or swam in the sea?

Play and the brain

Dodany: 1 marca 2024

Researchers classify an animal behavior as play when it doesn’t involve an external reward, such as food, seems to serve no purpose, occurs repeatedly, and happens when the animal is relaxed and...

What we can learn from ancient climate records

Dodany: 29 lutego 2024

Scientists find clues to how the earth's climate is changing by looking to the past.

Tetrataenite as a solution to the rare earth crisis

Dodany: 28 lutego 2024

Demand for rare earth elements is soaring, and it will continue to grow in the future.

The effects of bismuth in Pepto Bismol

Dodany: 27 lutego 2024

When the bismuth combines with the trace amounts of sulfur in your saliva and in your gastrointestinal tract, it reacts to form a black substance called bismuth sulfide.

King Tut's dagger from space

Dodany: 26 lutego 2024

King Tutankhamen of Egypt has fascinated people ever since archeologist Howard Carter discovered his splendid tomb in 1922.

Where does bitterness come from? Ask the sharks

Dodany: 23 lutego 2024

Bitterness, like sweetness or saltiness, is one of the major taste sensations. And while it makes our food flavorful, detecting bitterness can sometimes be a warning that we’re eating something toxic.

Remembering the past, as a baby

Dodany: 22 lutego 2024

What's your earliest memory?

Why are sunrises faster than sunsets?

Dodany: 21 lutego 2024

It takes much less time for the sun to light up the sky at dawn than it does for all the light to disappear after the sun sets at dusk.

The temperature of ice on a hot day

Dodany: 20 lutego 2024

If you drink a glass of ice water on a hot day, what temperature is the ice?