
Biology
Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?
Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:27A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...
9 years ago
Listen 13:05It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens
It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...
9 years ago
Listen 9:47“I Contain Multitudes” – on microbes and our microbiome; Hiring undocumented immigrants
Guests: Ed Yong, Javier Garcia Hernandez For centuries humankind has been waging a war against microbes – the bacteria, viruses, ...
Air Date: August 25, 2016
Listen 00:48:46100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service
Guests: David Quammen, Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, Jeremy Cronon We’ll discuss the 100th anniversary of Am ...
Air Date: August 24, 2016
Listen 00:48:49Human-Animal hybrids; then Trump’s ‘jokes’
Guests: Monika Piotrowska, Sean Wu, Jody Avirgan Part lion, part goat, and part snake, the mythological and feroc ...
Air Date: August 11, 2016
Listen 00:48:46Ocean pollution and microplastics
Guest: Chelsea Rochman, Marcus Eriksen By 2050, scientists warn that there will be more plastic in the ocean than ...
Air Date: August 8, 2016
Listen 00:48:47If Bela Batorfi has his way, Hungary may soon be synonymous with complex dental procedures in the way that France is known for baguettes ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:51‘Coyote America’ with author and biologist Dan Flores
Guest: Dan Flores In the war between humans and coyotes, there’s no question the coyotes have won. The incredib ...
Air Date: July 7, 2016
Listen 00:48:46Environment show: jellyfish, Tom Steyer, climate change and 2016
Guests: John Gaynor, Tom Steyer, Rachel Leven An environmental edition of Radio Times today. First up, clingin ...
Air Date: June 30, 2016
Listen 00:48:45Radio Times in Review: animal minds
Guests: Diana Reiss, Frans de Waal, Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, James Serpell On today’s show, we’re goi ...
Air Date: June 24, 2016
Listen 00:49:45When the gloves came off, Muhammad Ali was a fighter for those suffering from Parkinson’s Disease
For many people, Muhammad Ali was a champion both inside and out of the ring. For people living with Parkins ...
9 years ago
Listen 4:43Bodysnatching and the curious case of One-Eyed Joe
This piece is part of our “Bodies” show. Take a look at the rest of our stories here. ...
9 years ago
Listen 24:18How are our bodies regulated after death?
Thousands of people donate their bodies to science each year, to be dissected by wide-eyed med students during their first-year anatomy c ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:25Autopsies contribute valuable scientific data, but they’ve become rare
Dr. Robert Ownbey, a pathologist who heads up the Hahnemann Hospital ...
9 years ago
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