Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsCan an origami creation remove a battery from your stomach?Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, explains how her lab uses principles of origami to…Dec 21, 2017Dec 21, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWhat are pancake and frazil ice?Oceanographer Ted Maksym tells us about four different types of sea ice, and what they might indicate about the changing Arctic.Dec 15, 2017Dec 15, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWhat do the humerus bones of Neolithic women tell us?Dr. Sabrina Agarwal, a biological anthropologist, talks about how we can tell strength from bones, and how that might just change our view…Dec 7, 2017Dec 7, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWho should your autonomous car save?Azim Shariff, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior at UC Irvine, discusses some of the moral issues surrounding…Nov 16, 2017Nov 16, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWhat flies, dives, and swims?Farrell Helbling, from the Microrobotics Lab at Harvard University, talks about their new robo-insect that can do just that.Nov 16, 2017Nov 16, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWhat could kill you and save you? A snail.Biochemist Mandë Holford gives us some insight into potential cures derived from killer cone snail venom.Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWhat goes on in a worm hotel?Matt Churgin, a post-doc in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the purpose of the WorMotel.Nov 1, 2017Nov 1, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsDoes removing amyloid beta reduce cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s?A promising new drug is undergoing Phase 3 clinical trials.Nov 1, 2017Nov 1, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsHow do we change our voices when we talk to babies?Elise Piazza and her colleagues research “motherese,” better known as baby talk.Oct 20, 2017Oct 20, 2017
Xochitl GarciainScience Friday SpoonfulsWhy are the whales back in New York?Dr. Howard Rosenbaum describes the research being done by the Ocean Giants Program and how a fish may have led to the return of whales to…Oct 12, 2017Oct 12, 2017