Fast new 3D printing method creates objects as big as an adult human
Printer could revolutionize car and aircraft manufacturing".
Metallurgy, Chemicals
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
On this week’s show: Uncovering the biological basis of consciousness, and understanding why adults think their generation was always “better”".
New video reveals how flies land upside-down
Study could inspire advanced drones and other flying robots".
A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm
On this week’s show: Digging into global earthworm populations, detecting bias in an algorithm used to make health care decisions, and a plea for space archaeology".
In decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics
Physicist Alessandro Strumia’s views have drawn widespread condemnation".
HHMI to fund expansion of Meyerhoff program to boost minorities in science
New competition will fund six universities to adapt successful Maryland program".
Vampire bats form bonds of ‘friendship’ that last beyond captivity
But they don’t always play well with other wild bats".
Supernovae and chemical explosions have a lot in common, video reveals
Mechanisms for both are surprisingly similar".
How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes
On this week’s show: How the measles virus induces immune amnesia, making later infections with other diseases more likely, and detecting a small black hole in a binary pair with a red giant star".
Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology
On this week’s show: Archaeologists are digging up buttons and beads in the Caribbean to better understand the lives of enslaved Africans, and economists are unraveling how the early Roman Catholic Church has influenced psychology today".
