College football is all about traditions, and most schools have some signature thing they do at games. Mississippi State has the headache-inducing din of cowbells. Arkansas fans summon their team to the field with a hog call. “Woooo Pig Soooie!” The Oklahoma Sooners have the Sooner Schooner. It's a little covered wagon pulled by a pair of enthusiastic ponies—you know, a prairie schooner—that careens onto the field whenever the home team scores. It’s pretty exciting. Learn about your ad choices: ...
Oct 25, 2019•8 min
With all the talk about sending humans to the moon and eventually Mars, it can be easy to forget there are other planets worth exploring. But a team of researchers at NASA has set its sights on Venus, Earth’s closest neighbor and one of the least understood planets in the solar system. Since the first (crash) landing on Venus in 1966, by a Soviet probe, spacecraft have only survived a total of a few hours on the planet’s surface. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 24, 2019•6 min
When NASA designed its first space suits, they were tailored to fit the all-male crews who flew in the early 1960s and landed on the moon in 1969. But as NASA has become a more diverse agency, both in space and on the ground, the limitations of its suits have become a growing source of embarrassment. Since the final Moon mission in 1972, more than 40 American women have flown on the space shuttle or spent time on the International Space Station. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-c...
Oct 24, 2019•7 min
If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger to tap along hollow tree branches, listens for grubs within, gnaws a hole in the wood, and reaches that middle finger inside to fish out the food. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 23, 2019•5 min
When Cypher is selling out his compatriots over dinner with Agent Smith in The Matrix, he muses: “I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.” In a simulation like the Matrix, ones and zeroes represent every nuance of that steak—the texture, the smell, the flavor. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 23, 2019•6 min
Presidential candidates are in the business of making big promises, and few of the Democratic contenders for the 2020 nomination have promised more than Andrew Yang. An entrepreneur turned politico, Yang has styled himself as the techie’s candidate. His platform is defined by its embrace of high-tech solutions for a variety of social problems and earned him endorsements from Silicon Valley heavyweights like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jack Dorsey. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-...
Oct 22, 2019•8 min
Andrew Anzalone was restless. It was late fall, 2017. The year was winding down, and so was his MD/PhD program at Columbia. Trying to figure out what was next in his life, he’d taken to long, leaf-strewn walks in the West Village. One night as he paced up Hudson Street, his stomach filled with La Colombe coffee and his mind with Crispr gene editing papers, an idea began to bubble through the caffeine brume inside his brain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 22, 2019•7 min
The Trump administration this week proposed ending the so-called Roadless Rule, which banned logging, development, and road construction in Alaska’s Tongass, the biggest national forest in the US. If the USDA Forest Service has its way, it would “remove all 9.2 million acres of inventoried roadless acres and would convert 165,000 old-growth acres and 20,000 young-growth acres previously identified as unsuitable timber lands to suitable timber lands. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/...
Oct 21, 2019•6 min
It’s official: Humans are canceled. If we’re not intent on slowly destroying the planet, then we’re getting busy being downright nasty to each other online. But in a world increasingly devoid of human role models, there are some unlikely sources of inspiration out there. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 21, 2019•6 min
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Oct 18, 2019•6 min
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Sep 25, 2019•7 min
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Sep 20, 2019•8 min
Opinion: Brain scans, aided by AI, reveal as much about you as your DNA. Grappling with their ethical implications is vital to scientific integrity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 19, 2019•7 min
A new measurement seems to eliminate an anomaly that has captivated physicists for nearly a decade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 18, 2019•5 min
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Sep 16, 2019•6 min
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Sep 11, 2019•9 min
New shape-shifting liquids can move or morph on command. One scientist even used them to make liquid cables for his headphones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 10, 2019•7 min
If successful, India will become the fourth country to put a lander on lunar soil. The spacecraft will then collect data on the south pole's many mysteries. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 09, 2019•6 min
Called the eDumper, the massive truck relies on regenerative braking to recover some of its energy as it slows down. Let's break down the physics. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 06, 2019•7 min
A new paper tracked possible bias among scientists awarding prestigious research positions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 03, 2019•7 min
Researchers quantify the emissions of every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area. Your city could be next. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 29, 2019•5 min
The country was going to start a herd of genetically dehorned cows. Then errors in the cows' DNA cropped up. Link Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 28, 2019•5 min
The first anatomically correct model of the visual cortex seeks to capture how the brain sees the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 28, 2019•12 min
An investigation into respiratory illnesses connected to e-cigs by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention turned up the first known death this week. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 27, 2019•5 min
At the core of Brazil's out-of-control fires in the Amazon is deforestation. Here's how human meddling fundamentally transforms a rainforest. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 27, 2019•5 min
Economic activity appears to be causing the rainforest to burn, unlike the other epic fires ravaging the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 26, 2019•5 min
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Aug 23, 2019•5 min
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Aug 22, 2019•7 min
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Aug 21, 2019•2 min
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Aug 19, 2019•8 min
