A cancer center in the U.K. found that patients had significantly lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol after harmonizing for an hour. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Four billion years ago asteroids and comets could have melted the Martian cryosphere, and started up hydrothermal springs—a potential hotspot for ancient microbial life. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Understanding the regional vocal patterns of various canid species sheds light on animal communication and could help ranchers broadcast "keep away" messages to protect livestock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Japanese great tit combines two calls in a specific order and does not respond to a recording of the calls combined in reverse order, apparently demonstrating compositional syntax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Researchers have created what they call the first "programming language" for cells, which compiles code into a genetic circuit. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We could use laser light to mask our transits across the sun and thus hide Earth from any intelligent aliens looking for planets to invade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A flash of light shortly after the detection of gravitational waves could mean that that historic event has an added wrinkle—the black holes that collided may have been born in the same collapsing massive star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Birds that live in urban environments are brasher than rural birds, solve problems better and even have more robust immune systems. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quasars can shape the evolution of their galaxies, by blasting 135-million-mph winds. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The new movie Fastball dissects the pitch from the perspective of pitchers, hitters, umpires—and scientists, who talk about everything from the physics governing the trajectory of the ball to the neuroscience of the batter’s perception and reaction—including how the ball can appear to vanish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some white storks have stopped migrating from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa in the winter, because of the availability of food in landfills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Researchers say their prototype is cheaper and easier to make than other smart glass, and since it's flexible and foldable, could be used for camouflage. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology researcher Eduardo Inigo-Elias, a veteran of efforts to work with Cuban researchers, talks about what improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba could mean for science and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A decade of modest financial investment has revitalized Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, explains biologist Sean B. Carroll in his new book The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discovery How Life Works and Why It Matters . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Musicians are better at separating out one meaningful audio stream from a combination, a skill that could help decipher a single conversation in a crowd. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Creatures that live on the seafloor play vital roles in marine ecosystems, but human-made noise can alter their behaviors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Researchers created a model that can accurately predict a cave's bat populations using audio alone. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When the Nyiragongo volcano erupted in January 2002, it set the geologic stage for earthquakes nine months later. Julia Rosen reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pounding and slicing meat and vegetables would have saved our ancestors millions of tough chews a year—potentially explaining the evolution of smaller jaws and teeth. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Arachnophobic study subjects estimated the size of spiders as bigger than did people who do not fear the eight-legged beasties. Jason Goldman reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smart Bat sensor captures swing data and reenacts the motion on a smartphone app. Larry Greenemeier reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The dragonfly Pantala flavescens can travel 9,000 to 11,000 miles, and may interbreed across the globe. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wading birds in the Everglades prefer to nest near resident gators for protection. And the arrangement appears to be mutually beneficial. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A pair of astrophysicists advise searchers of intelligent life to look in the narrow band of galactic sky from which any alien observers would see Earth transit the sun—a method we use to detect exoplanets. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A conversation following a play about the famous Milgram experiments about conformity and authority included mention of a just-published new version of the test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The immune systems in bats are in a continuous state of activation, which may explain why they can carry viruses like Ebola without harm. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some 300,000 premature deaths could be avoided by 2030 if the U.S. abides by the ambitious Paris Climate Agreement, according to a new analysis. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Fast radio bursts” detected here on Earth last only a thousandth of a second, but are the result of a faraway source briefly shining a billion or more times brighter than our sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California paid $17,000 to regain access to their patient digital information and other data held hostage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jessica Witt of Colorado State University explains that how well you're performing affects your visual perception of the world around you, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
