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Each week, Charlie and James read the research papers behind headline science news and give you the details you can't get in the stories.
What happens when you give a scientist, obsessed with biblical death, near unlimited control over a utopian city of mice? Well...a lot of de...
As urban environments grow and natural vegetation gets replaced with concrete and asphalt, “Urban Heat Islands” develop, where urbanized are...
Returning rock samples from planets and asteroids can provide new insights into how the solar system, the universe, and life formed. But how...
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
This week is a bit different - instead of a fresh episode, we are sharing one of our bonus episodes covering the Stanford Prison Experiment....
Oumuamua is an interstellar object that passed through our solar system in late 2017. It originally made the news thanks to several scientis...
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
Any kid can intuitively understand how much you need to fill a water balloon to effectively drench someone. But it turns out that predicting...
The coronavirus, COVID-19, has been spreading around the world since it was first detected in December 2019. Since then, drastic measures ha...
Gray whales have some of the longest migrations on the planet--between 10,000-12,000 miles long each year! Sadly, they often get stranded on...
Over a year ago we covered the challenges that NASA’s InSight lander overcame to land on Mars and begin performing the first detailed seismo...
Consciousness is challenging to study. We interact with consciousness everyday, and yet there are still so many questions. Learning about ho...
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-long signals we detect coming from distant galaxies. They were only recently discovered in 2007 and we sti...
It’s clear that birds can communicate. All you have to do is listen to their songs. But when they communicate, do their songs conform to the...
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
In the year 79 A.D., the infamous Mt. Vesuvius transformed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum--as well as its residents. For a long time,...
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It is estimated that sleep apnea affects nearly 1 billion worldwide. However, many of the mechanisms behind sleep apnea are still a mystery....
OSIRIS-REx is an exciting mission from NASA that seeks to return samples from asteroid Bennu back to Earth, providing insight into the origi...
Join us this new year as we discuss the best science of 2019 that we never got to present on Paper Boys! Like the show? Want more every mont...
(WARNING: Do not listen with young children!!) For Christmas Eve, the Paper Boys tackle the everlasting mythos of Santa Claus. Why do parent...
Jupiter’s moon Europa garners a lot of attention for its potential to house life, particularly thanks to what are predicted to be vast ocean...
Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists for its unique features and potential for life. Despite its far distance fro...
Food has a big impact on the world. What we eat can drastically affect our health. It can also have major consequences for the environment....
With winter setting in, it’s easy to wonder why we humans can’t simply hibernate. How is it that animals like bears can simply bypass eating...
Certain languages have reputations for speaking faster. But, over the same amount of time do these languages actually convey more informatio...
With their habitats heavily dependent on sea ice, Emperor penguins are extremely impacted by climate change in Antarctica. The 2015 Paris Cl...
Cell phones, tablets, home assistants, and even cars are leveraging voice control technology to add convenience to our lives. But are our vo...
In a new paper in Nature, Google recently claimed that they achieved "quantum supremacy," or using a quantum computer to achieve a task that...
Touch screens are ubiquitous in technology today. We’ve grown very accustomed to using our fingers to tap and swipe our way through most tas...
Endurance athletes are used to pushing themselves; most people would give up if they attempted similar feats. Does this constant push toward...
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three researchers whose work significantly advanced our understanding of the universe. Two o...
Astronomers have noticed a strange clustering of objects orbiting our solar system very far from the sun. Their grouping suggests that there...
The material Vantablack made headlines a few years ago as being the “blackest black” color ever known. People were shocked by how this color...
Health studies continuously debate the pros and cons of different diets, particularly vegetarian diets vs. carnivorous diets. Will one type...
Talk of intermittent fasting has grown in the news. Some feel intermittent fasting is a new dieting fad, others claim that it’s an amazing t...
Our planet is bombarded with tons of extraterrestrial dust every year. While much of the dust comes from asteroids, some of these particles...
Tracking the productivity and impact of research has always been problematic. Especially in the highly competitive environment of today wher...
For the average person, the words used to describe whiskey can seem strange, if not completely arbitrary. Dignified vs. subtle, austere vs....
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
Nearly everyone has heard the advice “walk 10,000 steps per day to be healthy!” As fitness trackers like FitBit have grown in popularity, ma...
News channels have been buzzing with the new press releases from Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink. The company hopes...
Stonehenge has puzzled people for centuries. What was the purpose of such a massive rock formation? And how were people able to move such la...
Recent research has sparked popular news headlines about the brain “seeing what’s around the corner.” Can your brain actually look around co...
In the early 20th century, Einstein, Hubble, and other scientists confirmed the universe was expanding. With the exception of a few nearby g...
Most people don’t need an excuse to drink caffeine in the morning. Pick your poison: whether it’s coffee, tea, or an extra large Red Bull, c...
Researchers have long been puzzled about how human language evolved. Humans’ ability to create complex, flexible, spoken language stands out...
In the 1980s, neuroscientists put forth the Critical Brain Hypothesis, which suggests our brain operates on a teetering edge between differe...
Humans love to test their limits. Some people run marathons, race triathlons, or climb the world’s highest peaks. All of these endeavors are...