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Science Update Podcast - Daily Edition

Each 60-second episode of the daily Science Update Podcast series is a brief yet satisfying story on

Episodes

Total: 30

Weighing Rain

2018/10/5

BOB HIRSHON (host): Weighing rain. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update. Rain gauges can

Skunk Smell

2018/10/4

A striped skunk. (K. Theule/USFWS/CC BY 2.0, via flickr) BOB HIRSHON (host): Skunk vs skunk. I&#8217

Exercise & Memory

2018/10/3

Even light exercise can have memory benefits. (MabelAmber/Pixabay) BOB HIRSHON (host): Memory-boosti

Altruistic Toddlers

2018/10/2

An infant in the Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy neuroimaging lab. (Kathleen Krol) BOB HIRSHON

BOB HIRSHON (host): Debunking STEM gender myths. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update. F

Planetary Hygiene

2018/9/28

The solar arrays on NASA’s InSight lander, eventually bound for Mars, inside a clean room at L

Octopuses on Ecstasy

2018/9/27

A California two-spot octopus (O. bimaculoides). (Thomas Kleindinst) BOB HIRSHON (host): Octopi on e

IDing Ivory Poachers

2018/9/26

Tusks from a 2015 ivory seizure in Singapore. (Center for Conservation Biology University of Washing

A praying mantis munches on a guppy it caught in an artificial pond in India. (Rajesh Puttaswamaiah)

Gut-Brain Connection

2018/9/24

BOB HIRSHON (host): Behind our “gut feeling”. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update. Lik