Impossible fossils and Lunar New Year
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. An analysis of small, prehistoric fossils found in sandstone...
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Every day, faculty members at schools and universities throughout the world are making discoveries that shape our ways of thinking and redefine our understanding of today's knowledge-driven...
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20 of 25 episodesCould arsenic waste be transformed into semiconductors?
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Arsenic is a naturally-occurring toxin with a big reputation...
Prehistoric math and protecting biomedical research
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. An analysis of pottery fragments from ancient Mesopotamia ha...
Was part of King Tut’s story swept under the rug?
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. The culture and traditions of Ancient Egypt have long captiv...
Rock, paper, lizards
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. A common lizard in the American west plays a unique game of...
A lemon-shaped planet and a curious cloud
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Scientists have discovered a distant planet that resembles a...
A quantum discovery and an inspiring museum
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. On this episode, we’ll speak with a scientist who helped pin...
The best of The Best of Our Knowledge: 2025
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. This week we’ll celebrate the best of The Best of Our Knowle...
Bringing up bongo
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. On this episode, we’ll learn how an endangered antelope was...
The Moai statues on Easter Island “walked”
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research. The Rapa Nui peoples of Easter Island have sculpted statues k...
Early humans on the African continent
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research. The East African Savannah is known to be the cradle of humani...
Supermassive black hole blast sets record for brightness
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Imagine seeing something brighter than 10 trillion suns… see...
Stone tools and early humans
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Can you imagine early humans over 2 million years ago using...
Venomous snakes’ behaviors and techniques to strike
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. There are about 600 venomous snake species worldwide and I h...
Dinosaurs’ extinction and rural school challenges
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. We learn about fossils of dinosaurs found in New Mexico that...
Sun’s hidden particles exposed
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. The sun is the center of our solar system and our source of...
A history of head-binding practices thousands of years ago
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Ever thought about wanting to change the shape of your head,...
Pygmy Seahorses
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Seahorses are some of the most unique and beautiful creature...
Monster Molecular Cloud
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. A monster Molecular Cloud has been discovered in our galaxy...
Vampire Bats and Ancient Voyage
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. Vampire Bats… not really an inviting name, but new research...