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Dogs are man’s best friend, but what’s really going on inside of their heads?This hour, we talk with canine cognition researcher Brian Hare.Hare runs Duke…
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Did you know 75 percent of animals in the ocean glow?From single-celled organisms to terrifying creatures like the anglerfish in the Pixar movie “Finding…
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Dust is everywhere, but we rarely see it. We shed it from our skin, hair, and nails, leaving little bits of DNA wherever we roam. More than 100 tons of…
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What happens when you do a DNA test from a company like Ancestry.com or 23andme, and you get some life-shattering information, like your sibling is really…
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"Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution."That's the so-called "NASA definition of life."Or there's…
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They are giants who live their whole lives underwater. In many ways, a whale’s life is completely alien to the human experience. Yet these ocean giants…
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We all communicate in our daily lives, but how do languages actually work?This hour, we talk with linguist Nicole Holliday about the science behind…
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In 2017, The New York Times uncovered a program at the Defense Department which investigated unidentified flying objects.This year, the former chair of…
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Semiotics is the study of sign process, which is to say: it's the science of the search for meaning.And then, part of the underlying premise of semiotics…
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Numbers are so fundamental to our understanding of the world around us that we maybe tend to think of them as an intrinsic part of the world around us.…