You have questions and A Moment of Science has answers. These two-minute audio podcasts provide the scientific story behind some of life's most perplexing mysteries. There's no need to be blinded by science. Explore it, have fun with it, but most of all learn from it. A Moment of Science is a production of WFIU Public Media from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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A weekly one hour program, Profiles features new guests each week from a variety of backgrounds, delving into the person behind the persona.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Ethercast is the companion podcast to Ether Game, a weekly music trivia show produced by WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana. On each episode of Ethercast, host Christopher Burrus explores big questions in the world of classical music.
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Night Lights is a weekly classic jazz program and jazz blog by host David Brent Johnson produced by WFIU Public Media in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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Ethercast is the companion podcast to Ether Game, a weekly music trivia show produced by WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana. On each episode of Ethercast, host Christopher Burrus explores big questions in the world of classical music.
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InFocus is a live, 30 minute monthly production, airing on WTIU and WFIU. Each show includes a panel of experts, discussing the proposed topic of the month. The focus of this program is to highlight issues or concerns in the state. Each show’s topic is carefully selected to provide useful information to the community, on upcoming policies, and important events. The show allows opportunity for in-depth discussion of topics in areas of the economy, education, and diversity. The goal of the sho ...
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Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.
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The U.S. government’s sole execution chamber is on the grounds of a prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Isolated from its general population, 44 condemned men are held in the Special Confinement Unit, or America’s death row. In 2020, the Trump administration launched a spree of executions, killing 13 condemned Americans in quick succession. A team of public radio journalists covered each execution in person.
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When you cry for emotional reasons, your eyes act differently. So what happens next?By Indiana Public Media
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Aging is a complex process involving accumulating damage to the cellular mechanisms of life. Anti-aging researchers want to understand and combat this process to give us healthier and longer lives.By Indiana Public Media
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A species of howler monkey isn't dying its fur, but they are changing color.By Indiana Public Media
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Cows and humans aren't the only ones who produce milk. There are also some insects and spiders that produce a milk-like substance to feed their young.By Indiana Public Media
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Queen of the drowned: Bumblebees that can survive a week underwater
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When water leaked into containers of dormant queen bumblebees, the scientists assumed they’d need to hold a state funeral. But amazingly, the regal insects lived, despite drowning!By Indiana Public Media
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Climate change is making insects eat more crops
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Scientists are saying that as the climate warms and temperatures rise, we might lose more crops to insects.By Indiana Public Media
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Did you know that ancient bricks are magnetic?By Indiana Public Media
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These days, pandas have bamboo for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But that wasn't always the case.By Indiana Public Media
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Emotion differentiation makes you less angry
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Although we all get angry at times, for some people anger turns to aggression, while for others it doesn’t. The reasons for this have to do with how we regulate our emotions.By Indiana Public Media
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An amphibian mother feeds her offspring with 'milk'
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Human mothers secrete milk to feed their babies. So do other mammals. Biologists now know that many other kinds of animal mothers also secrete milk-like nutritious substances to feed their offspring.By Indiana Public Media
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Fruit flies might not have manners when they invade your home, but they do have culture.By Indiana Public Media
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Making their way through polluted water, fish become disoriented, as sights, smells, and sounds crowd the waters. Chemical and noise pollution, and reduced water clarity, interfere with the senses, as well as the fishes’ natural instincts.By Indiana Public Media
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Putting science on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851
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These days, you can hear about self-driving cars when you turn on the news, or you can browse store shelves for high-tech gadgets. But in the mid-nineteenth century, there was one go-to place for the public to view scientific achievement: the Great Exhibition.By Indiana Public Media
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A simple exercise to do at home with A Moment of ScienceBy Indiana Public Media
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Would you drink a mixture of acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, acetone, acetic acid, and a few of the compounds known as hexenals, which give fresh-cut grass is characteristic odor?By Indiana Public Media
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Swimming in a school has a lot of benefits for fish, from social opportunities to avoiding predators to finding more food.By Indiana Public Media
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Researchers have heard orangutans make the noise after the danger has passed—a sign that they’re communicating about the past, and the first evidence that primates other than humans have that ability.By Indiana Public Media
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Craving dessert? Today’s episode considers some particularly sweet science: the importance of eggs for baking a cake.By Indiana Public Media
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It’s a tough world out there, so really, what’s a gull to do?By Indiana Public Media
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If the air temperature gets close to our body temperature, something more is needed to keep the skin cooler than the inner body. We sweat.By Indiana Public Media
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By human standards, some animals’ eating habits are strange, and even disgusting. One example is coprophagy—eating poop.By Indiana Public Media
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Water molecules attract each other. The molecules at the surface of a body of water make a film under tension. That film is strong enough to support a needle or a small insect like a water strider.By Indiana Public Media
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Researchers reported that they discovered a tiny spider in the Peruvian Amazon rain forest that has a behavior that’s surprisingly similar to the web-slinging superhero.By Indiana Public Media
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One mirror is not enough to see yourself as others see you. When you look at a bathroom mirror you see an image of yourself with left and right reversed.By Indiana Public Media
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If you look at a map of Scotland, you may notice a line cutting straight through the country. This line, called the Great Glen Fault, is the result of a long geological history that has in turn impacted the history of Scotland itself.By Indiana Public Media
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A cool, dry cotton fiber springs back after being bent. A warm, damp cotton fiber doesn't. Moisture and temperature make the difference.By Indiana Public Media
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Blue jays, poison dart frogs, and peacocks—each of these animals is distinct for their same vibrant color. But have you ever seen a blue spider?By Indiana Public Media
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Why a mix of red light and green light looks yellow, in this Moment of Science.By Indiana Public Media
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Male mammals aren't always bigger than females
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Evolutionary biologists thought it was a general rule among mammals that males are bigger, but that's not always the case.By Indiana Public Media
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The 17th-century English physicist Robert Hooke was curious about the remarkable properties of cork -- its ability to float, its springy quality, its usefulness in sealing bottles. Hooke investigated the structure of cork with a new scientific instrument he was very enthusiastic about: the microscope.…
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One of the more mysterious pleasures of a warm summer evening is the spectacle of lightning from distant thunderstorms, flickering silently on the horizon while stars shine overhead. People usually call it heat lightning.By Indiana Public Media
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Learn about the role that ethylene plays in ripening fruit with today's A Moment of ScienceBy Indiana Public Media
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Over the past 100,000 years, a snail species has done what it normally takes a species millions of years to do: give live birth.By Indiana Public Media
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The distant past is poorly known, and paleontologists find fossil evidence for new large animals all the time.By Indiana Public Media
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Jabuticaba is a fruit native to Brazil. It’s the size and color of a plum, with a white pulp and several seedsBy Indiana Public Media
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Perhaps you’ve heard that the average person dreams four to six times each night. But did you know that most of us are unable to recall 90% of our dreams?By Indiana Public Media
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The carefree southern sea otters of central California’s coast have had a secret mission: working to fight the devastating loss of kelp forests due to anthropogenic climate change.By Indiana Public Media
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What animals will thrive in the next century?
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Researchers used statistical tools to forecast which characteristics the animals of the future will likely have.By Indiana Public Media
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Research suggests there's a link between parenting styles and health effects later in lifeBy Indiana Public Media
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As any aficionado will tell you, water can be just as important as the tea leaves themselves when it comes to a good brew.By Indiana Public Media
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If the color of the bottles was significant enough to control how they’re recycled, then surely the color was more than cosmetic. So what's the reason why wine bottles are olive-green and beer bottles are amber?By Indiana Public Media
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Because of the isolation, New Zealand has evolved a unique set of animals dominated by abundant bird species found nowhere else.By Indiana Public Media
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Exposure to music, art, and architecture can have a formative impact on our sense of self.By Indiana Public Media
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Humans aren't unique when it comes to fingerprints
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Fingerprints might be unique to one person, but they aren't unique to one species.By Indiana Public Media
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Have you ever made rice that was perfectly fluffy and then the next day, taken it out of the fridge only to find it hard and crumbly?By Indiana Public Media
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Normally, when tissue gets injured, cells start replicating and make new tissue. But what about the heart?By Indiana Public Media
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Benjamin Franklin and his fabric swatches in the snow
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In a letter written in 1761, Benjamin Franklin tells how he collected some little squares of broadcloth. Franklin wanted to demonstrate that these colors would absorb different amounts of light from the sun and convert the light to different amounts of heat.By Indiana Public Media
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Extremophiles go to the ends of the Earth and thrive there
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Just like Goldilocks, humans have searched for a place that's "just right" to live in. That's not the same for all species, though.By Indiana Public Media
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We usually think of paint as a substance that adds color to things. But, from a physical point of view, paint works by taking colors away.By Indiana Public Media
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Tennis players are known for the loud grunts they make during a game. Why do they do it?By Indiana Public Media
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