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S5 E9
What’s Actually in the Pfizer and Moderna Coronavirus Vaccines?
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Published on 2/10/2021 at 1:48 PM
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccine ingredients, explained.
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The Surprising Reason Why You Talk in Your Sleep
Some of us will sleep soundly without uttering a whisper; others will deliver entire speeches while sawing our logs.
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Meet the First Spider-Like Robot to Explore Lava Caves on the Moon
Hidden beneath the moon's layers of dusty regolith are lava caves—caves that scientists hope could one day support lunar colonies.
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S5 E72
Does Zinc Actually Work to Fight the Flu and Cold?
Zinc: A wonder trace mineral for staving off the common cold?
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Can Soil Actually Capture Carbon? Maybe Not
Researchers may have miscalculated soil’s ability to capture carbon...meaning our current global climate models might be off.
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S5 E71
How Are We Going to Feed the Next Billion People?
By 2050, there will be one billion more people on the planet.
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S5 E69
Google Made a Time Crystal That Defies Physics
Google's quantum computer has been used to create a time crystal, a newly defined phase of matter that defies the laws of scientific physics.
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S5 E68
Inside the James Webb Space Telescope’s Orbit Around the Sun
NASA spent billions on the James Webb Space Telescope and now we’re going to launch it really far away.
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The Next Generation of Nuclear Power Is Here
After a decade of research and development, China is ready to test its first-ever thorium-powered molten salt reactor.
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S5 E66
Is the Solar System Missing a Planet?
Most of us are pretty familiar with the eight planets in our Solar System.
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S5 E65
How James Webb Will Give Us Our Best View Yet Of the Universe
Space is actually FULL of dust—we're talking about pillars of dust extending over a BILLION kilometers in size.
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S5 E64
Carbon Credits Don’t Really Work, But Could They?
In theory, carbon credits are a way for individuals and companies to offset their emissions from carbon-intensive activities, like flying.
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S5 E63
Why Your Next Lover, Therapist, and Friend Could Be a Robot
Advanced AI’s that humans can form a strong emotional bond with are a staple of science fiction.
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S5 E62
The Threat to Our Food Supply You Never Knew Existed
The European honey bees are crucial to our food systems, but they may soon be under threat from a microscopic pest.
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S5 E61
The Wild Plan To Bring Back Woolly Mammoths
Woolly Mammoths could soon make a comeback.
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S5 E60
Why James Webb’s Infrared Vision is a Gamechanger
Once it's launched, the James Webb Space Telescope will look way back in time to right after the universe formed.
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S5 E59
How Long Can We Live? We May Finally Know the Answer
What if you could live forever?
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S5 E58
Noise Is Slowly Killing You
Have you ever stopped and realized just how noisy the world is?
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S5 E57
Viruses Have Shaped Life on Earth as We Know It, Here’s How
There are approximately ten nonillion viruses on our planet, but that's no reason to panic.
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S5 E56
Could This Elusive Particle Reshape the Standard Model?
Physicists are on the hunt for a mysterious particle that could totally change our understanding of the universe.
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S5 E55
You’re Breathing in Microplastics. What Does That Mean for Your Health?
Microplastics are everywhere—in our food, water, and now even the air we breathe.
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S5 E54
Could Parallel Realities Really Exist?
With the popularity of Marvel's multiverse, you might low-key be wondering how parallel world's could actually work.
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S5 E53
How Close Are We to a Malaria Vaccine?
Several promising vaccines are in development or trials for malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest infectious diseases — here’s what we know.
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S5 E51
Bacteria Can Tell Time...Wait, What?!
Bacteria have a biological clock just like humans, animals, and plants.
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S5 E52
Why Scientists Recreated the Northern Lights in a Lab
For decades, scientists have been unable to prove how auroras form — so one team recreated the Northern Lights in a lab to debunk the mystery.
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S5 E50
Why Isn’t U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Good Enough?
Cyberattacks around the world have been on the rise.
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S5 E49
These Rare Elements Are Key to Renewable Energy, What If They Run Out?
Green technologies might not be so green.
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S5 E48
The Hidden Pattern Behind Earth’s Biggest Disasters
Scientists analyzed 89 major geological events from the past 260 million years, and it turns out, Earth has a pulse..?
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S5 E47
The Space Junk That Threatens Future Space Missions
There are about 7,000 artificial satellites in orbit right now, with many more on the way.
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S5 E46
These Rediscovered Ice Cores Could Help Predict Earth's Future Climate
Long forgotten ice samples from the Cold War were finally rediscovered in Greenland.
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S5 E45
Could Mars’ Extinct Volcanoes Reawaken?
Mars might not be as dead as it seems.
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S5 E44
Why NASA Wants to Head Back to Venus After 30 Years
NASA is heading back to Venus after 30 years — here's what they're looking for.
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S5 E43
Jupiter’s Polar Winds Create a Vortex Way Bigger Than Earth Itself
For the first time, scientists were able to directly measure winds in Jupiter’s stratosphere, and the results were astonishing.
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S5 E42
What You Need To Know About the COVID-19 Delta Variant
The Delta variant has been linked to a resurgence of COVID infections and is on track to become the dominant variant worldwide — here's what sets this so-called super spreader variant apart from the rest.
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S5 E41
5G Just Got Here, But Where Is 6G?
In 2019, 5G wireless networks and devices finally became a reality, but now people are wondering, when are we getting 6G?
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S5 E40
Meet the Interstellar Comet Helping Map the Solar System’s Evolution
In 2019, a mysterious comet named 2I/Borisov whizzed by Earth.
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S5 E39
Atomic Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere Could Hold Clues to Climate Crisis
The airborne observatory SOFIA discovered the first molecule in the universe back in 2019 — now, it’s starting to reveal insights that could change our understanding of Earth’s atmosphere.
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S5 E38
Scientists Discovered Mysterious Life Forms Hiding Beneath Antarctica
Half a mile beneath the harsh ice sheets of Antarctica, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found something surprising: stationary life.
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S5 E36
Could We Control the Weather to Solve Extreme Droughts?
As severe droughts threaten regions across the world, scientists have proposed a solution that sounds like science fiction: What if we just make it rain ourselves?
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S5 E37
Scientists Are in a Race Against Time and Earth’s Rotation
Earth is spinning faster than it has in the last half-century, igniting a fiery debate about what we should do to keep the world on track.
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S5 E35
Why Insects May Just Be the Food of the Future
Insects may be our key to a sustainable food future.
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S5 E34
What Are the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19?
Early studies indicate that some people who had just mild to moderate COVID symptoms are still exhibiting impaired attention and focus months after infection — here’s what we know about post-COVID syndrome.
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S5 E33
The World’s First “Living” Robots Just Got an Upgrade, Meet Xenobot 2.0
In 2020, the world saw its first glimpse of a living robot that could move, self-heal, and work with other bots to meet a common goal.
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S5 E32
Why Scientists Might Drop the 14-Day Limit on Human Embryo Research
Scientists are currently limited to stopping human embryo growth at 14 days — but now, the International Society for Stem Cell Research wants to rethink that limit.
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S5 E31
Scientists Want To 3D Print Bones in Your Body
A team at UNSW Sydney has figured out a way to 3D print bones using living cells.
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S5 E30
This Fusion Fuel Experiment Will Bring Us One Step Closer to Ignition
Scientists are set to test the fuel that will eventually power the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, ITER.
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S5 E29
COVID-19 Has a Big Plastic Problem, Here’s What’s Being Done To Fix It
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in plastic waste — now, scientists are exploring ways to reuse protective plastics without compromising public safety.
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S5 E28
How a Doomsday Vault on the Moon Could Save Earth’s Life From Extinction
Storing Earth’s DNA on the moon could be humanity's backup plan — here's how it would work.
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S5 E27
How Airlines Are Racing to Clean Up the Skies With “Green” Fuels
Airlines are racing to clean up the skies — here's how sustainable aviation fuel could help the airline industry meet ambitious emissions reduction goals.
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S5 E26
The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Almost Here
The next generation of computing is on the horizon, and two nations are neck and neck in the race.
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S5 E25
This Ocean Lab Is Uncovering Mysterious Link Between Microbes and Climate
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have brought the complexity of the ocean into the lab to study marine aerosols.
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S5 E24
For the Very First Time, We Can See a Black Hole's Magnetic Fields
In 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first-ever image of a black hole.
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S5 E23
Why Billions of Cicadas Are About to Emerge After 17 years
One of the largest broods of cicadas is about to swarm the Midwest and Northeast of the United States for the first time in 17 years.
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S5 E22
Scientists Discovered Major “Hole” in Standard Model of Particle Physics
The long-awaited results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment confirm that the Standard Model — you know, the one that aims to explain the forces that shape our universe — may need some major reworking.
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S5 E21
The Hidden Environmental Costs of Electric Cars
Some estimates predict that one third of new vehicles sold by the year 2030 will be electric, so scientists are trying to develop new ways to recycle the lithium-ion batteries that power them.
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S5 E20
How Crystals Can Turn Any Surface Into a Solar Panel
Scientists are on the hunt for a more efficient solar panel cell, and perovskites show a lot of promise — but they face a few obstacles before becoming commercially viable.
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S5 E19
We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life
New research suggests we may have been wrong about the origin of life.
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S5 E18
Would You Sign Up For a COVID-19 Human Challenge Trial?
Researchers are deliberately infecting healthy human volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19 — would you sign up for a trial?
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S5 E17
Scientists Are Using Fuzziness To Solve the Mystery of Quantum Gravity
Gravitons could bridge the divide between general relativity and quantum mechanics, but how do we detect these hypothetical particles?
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S5 E16
This Is the Largest Map of Our Universe Ever Created
Scientists have mapped the largest amount of the night sky ever — and you can explore it online.
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S5 E15
NASA’s Next Lunar Rover Could Transform How We Study the Moon
NASA’s Artemis program has teamed up with Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency to create the next generation lunar vehicle — an 'RV for the moon’.
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S5 E14
What’s Different About the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine?
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been granted emergency use authorization by the US FDA — here’s what makes it different from the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
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S5 E11
NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket May Be One Step Closer to Launch
Destined to put the first woman on the moon, NASA’s Space Launch System was recently put to the test — but things didn’t go quite as planned.
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S5 E12
This Massive Super Earth Is Almost As Old As the Universe
Astronomers recently discovered that one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way actually hosts a hot, rocky ‘Super-Earth’.
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S5 E13
Scientists Just Proved the Existence of ‘Liquid Glass’
Scientists accidentally proved the existence of a new state of matter: ‘liquid glass’.
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S5 E10
NASA Is Getting New Spacesuits, Here’s What Makes Them So Special
NASA is aiming to return to the Moon by 2024, and this time with new and improved spacesuits.
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S5 E9
What’s Actually in the Pfizer and Moderna Coronavirus Vaccines?
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccine ingredients, explained.
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S5 E8
The U.S. Was Hacked for MONTHS, Here’s What We Know So Far
The U.S. was hacked at the end of 2020 — here's what we know so far and what it will take to recover.
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S5 E7
How Scientists Are Creating Diamonds From CO2 Emissions
This UK company is making synthetic diamonds from CO2 emissions.
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S5 E6
There May Be 300 Million Earths in Our Galaxy Waiting to Be Found
New research estimates there could be nearly 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy.
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S5 E5
How These Scientists Are Turning X-Ray Vision Into a Reality
Researchers at Stanford University might’ve cracked the code on x-ray vision.
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S5 E4
Why Overpopulation Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is
The idea that less people equals less climate change works in theory — but in practice, calculations show that’s not the case.
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S5 E3
What Happens to the Human Body in Space?
Thanks to a set of nineteen new studies, researchers are getting closer to understanding exactly how space affects the human body.
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S5 E2
What We Lost When the Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
The Arecibo telescope, an icon in radio astronomy, has collapsed — here's the legacy it leaves behind.
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What Exactly Is Fracking, and Is it Really That Bad?
Fracking is gaining popularity, but is this controversial method of natural gas extraction safe?
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