Utah’s famous bridges and spires hum with a deep, earthly music, just below the threshold of human perception.
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Podcast: Mythical Monsters and Their Real-Life Inspirations
This Halloween season, explore the connections between mythical monsters like Bigfoot and the Kraken and the creatures on which they’re based.
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Final Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal explains how each NASA mission builds on previous discoveries and encourages scientists to take on difficult challenges to learn more about our home in the universe.
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Podcast: The Unusual Relationship Between Climate and Pandemics
Two recent studies show how climate affects human pandemics and how pandemics, in turn, alter the environment.
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Podcast: Putting Brains in Rock Machines
One geophysicist deviated from his usual work on paleomagnetism to study the magnetic remanence of human brains.
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Podcast: Escape from Thera
A colossal volcanic eruption at Santorini, Greece, 3,600 years ago sent the island’s Bronze Age population fleeing for their lives. Where did the people go?
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Podcast: Instruments of Unusual Size
Rumbling volcanoes act like giant musical instruments that researchers can study to better monitor eruptions.
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Podcast: Paradise Lost
Nuclear bomb tests conducted during the Cold War turned an idyllic tropical isle into a radioactive ship graveyard.
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Podcast: Et Tu, Etna?
Global environmental calamity followed the death of Caesar. The source may have been a volcano in Sicily.
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Podcast: Exhuming a Buried Piece of American History
Scientists are using grave soil to reconstruct the lives of enslaved Africans in colonial New York.