What happened to the mice of Universe 25? (BONUS EPISODE)
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...
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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.
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20 of 92 episodesIs solar reflective pavement the cure for hot cities?
As urban environments grow and natural vegetation gets replaced with concrete and asphalt, “Urban Heat Islands” develop, where urbanized are...
What’s inside a Martian meteorite?
Returning rock samples from planets and asteroids can provide new insights into how the solar system, the universe, and life formed. But how...
Is eating sugar a gut instinct?
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
What happened in the Stanford Prison Experiment? (Bonus episode)
This week is a bit different - instead of a fresh episode, we are sharing one of our bonus episodes covering the Stanford Prison Experiment....
Did Oumuamua come from a destroyed planet?
Oumuamua is an interstellar object that passed through our solar system in late 2017. It originally made the news thanks to several scientis...
Does traffic spread like a virus?
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
Why is Uranus losing its atmosphere?
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
Why do water balloons pop?
Any kid can intuitively understand how much you need to fill a water balloon to effectively drench someone. But it turns out that predicting...
How can we suppress COVID-19?
The coronavirus, COVID-19, has been spreading around the world since it was first detected in December 2019. Since then, drastic measures ha...
Why do gray whales strand during solar storms?
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...
What has InSight discovered on Mars?
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...
Can you stimulate consciousness?
Consciousness is challenging to study. We interact with consciousness everyday, and yet there are still so many questions. Learning about ho...
Why do extragalactic “fast radio bursts” repeat?
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-long signals we detect coming from distant galaxies. They were only recently discovered in 2007 and we sti...
Do penguins speak like humans?
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...
How should you talk to babies?
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
How did Mount Vesuvius' victims die?
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,...
How fast is the world's fastest spin?
Check out the paper, news articles, and more at www.paperboyspodcast.com . Like the show? Want more every month? Fan of universal constants?...
Does tongue fat cause sleep apnea?
It is estimated that sleep apnea affects nearly 1 billion worldwide. However, many of the mechanisms behind sleep apnea are still a mystery....
What's OSIRIS-REx doing at asteroid Bennu?
OSIRIS-REx is an exciting mission from NASA that seeks to return samples from asteroid Bennu back to Earth, providing insight into the origi...