May 23rd, 2025
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This Week: CRISPR, Government-Sanctioned Mass Extinction, Bugs in Space, Shrinking Clownfish, Bees Sleep, Dolphins Talk, Blocking Cell Death, Toothy Origins, and Much More Science!
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When lie after lie makes you question the sky,
And wonder what truth even is,
Remember to find the people
Who question themselves,
And don’t try to sell
You on certainty
Or their life-changing supplements.
Snake oil is greasy
And easily slips past the lips
Of the charlatans & cheats.
Remember to think about
The source of that link
Before clicking your way
Past the brink.
You hold the tools in your head
To parse the good from the bad.
And, when you need more,
Remember This Week in Science.
Quick Science News!
New & Improved CRISPR
What makes CRISPR even more useful? Maybe using another enzyme?
Redefining the ESA could mean mass extinction
By redefining the word “harm,” the Trump administration has eliminated key protections for endangered species and their habitats. The public has submitted 345758 comments.
Bugs In Space
What happens to bacteria from Earth when they go to space?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Shrinking Clownfish
Does getting smaller help you respond to climate woes?
Bees sleep!
And their brains look just like ours! Well, kind of…
Dolphins Talk!
What do dolphin whistles mean?
Brainy stories with Kiki!
Blocking Cell Death
What happens when programmed cell death is stopped?
Toothy Origins
When did teeth get their start?
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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed NASA Moonshot Research, Cere’s White Spots, Crazy Clouds, Artificial Neurons, Under-reporting People, Clean Up Man, Snake Orgies, Bat Beams, Anti Bac Babies, Chicken Snouts, Drugs For Cleverness, Chocolate Or Friend, And Much More!
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May 15th, 2025
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This Week: Science, Knowledge, & Power, Forever Chemicals, AI Exaggeration, Internal Inference, Prey Trapping, Labile Language, Librarians Saving Democracy, and Much More Science!
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What do you do when the system is broken?
When you watch your contributions set to the side,
a token,
a motion that others are going through around you,
so many words unspoken.
Do you stay where you are and hope that the fight,
is worth the capitulations,
keeping you up at night?
when others are silent,
potentially to become,
a sign of the violence,
they say that people like you,
are getting up to.
When you do,
are you silent underground?
Or, do you use your moment as a beacon,
for others,
for sisters and brothers,
who know you did what you could.
That you stood for science & knowledge
and working for the good of society?
Like we do here on This Week in Science.
A Democracy of Science News!
Science, Knowledge, & Power
Another dramatic week in Washington at usually fairly humdrum institutions.
Forever Chemicals For Longer
What does delaying protection mean?
AI Exaggeration
How much do AI chatbots love to exaggerate scientific findings?
Internal Inference
How are astronomers measuring the insides of moons?
Prey Trapping
Different strokes for different species still lead to full bellies.
Labile Language
How fixed is chimpanzee language?
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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed NASA Moonshot Research, Cere’s White Spots, Crazy Clouds, Artificial Neurons, Under-reporting People, Clean Up Man, Snake Orgies, Bat Beams, Anti Bac Babies, Chicken Snouts, Drugs For Cleverness, Chocolate Or Friend, And Much More!
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May 9th, 2025
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This Week: Tiny Life, Human Fungus, Honeyguides, Survey Says, Vaccines and Menstruation, Art with Porpoise, Cuttlefish, Shrimp, Brain Computer Interface, Neanderthals, Tiny Town, On Being, and Much More Science!
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The following hour of programming contains scientific material
While currently still legal at the time of this recording,
Who even knows anymore!
Regardless of what weirdness is yet to come
Science! Will continue.
Here on This Week in Science!
Quick Science News!
Tiny Life?
What is alive even anyway?
Human Gut
Liver fungus
Honeyguides
With a score to settle
Survey Says!
People like science, but what about the weather?
Menstrual Patterns
Do vaccines change menstrual patterns
Art With Porpoise
How can ancient poems help us understand ecological history?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Cuttlefish
Waving cuttlefish say hey, or maybe they don’t
Shrimp Carbon
Where shrimp get their carbon, and it isn’t where you think
Some Stories with Justin!
Brain computer
Computer interface
Striking Neanderthals
Middle Paleolithic stone tool technology
Brainy stories with Kiki!
Tiny Town
How do we learn to navigate our world?
On Being
How does consciousness work? Do we even know?
This Week in Science Questions!
This week we have some comments from listeners like you!!
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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Hologram Or No?, Nasty Politicses, One In Six, DIY IQ?, Warm-Hearted Fish, Bad Birdfeeders, NASA Tech, Far Away Galaxy, Tooth-Dragging Penis Worm, Phosphorus For All, Bridging A Gap, Birds Are Older, Ethanol Smog, Beardpooplegate, And Much More!
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May 1st, 2025
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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Black Start, Bird Flu, Zoo Life, Blonde Beer, Anti-Microbiotic, Hippie Spiders, Real Pokemon, NIH, Musically Speaking, Screaming Trees, Electrome Eclipse, and Much More Science Power!
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There are some really interesting things happening in the world of science.
Discoveries that could change everything for the better or point out dangers before they change things for the worse.
But the critical findings in research are currently in jeopardy of being silenced.
Anti-science political actions are dismantling research in America.
To the far right everything is part of a left-wing agenda including vaccines, research, science, math, and even muppets.
It is unclear if American science will survive the next few years. There is a real and frightening danger.
That we may not only lose our place as global leaders in research, but that it might be replaced by something far worse
Agenda-driven fake research will certainly be next put forward as if it were science
When that time comes, and it will be coming soon…
We will be here to hold the line
between the world of biased beliefs
And This Week in Science
Power through quick science news!
Black Start
Why is it hard to jump-start a power grid without power?
Hidden Transmission
Bird flu’s bovine biohazard
Zoo Life
Living the zoo life has its benefits!
Blonde Beer Beginnings
Where did Patagonia get its beer?
Anti-microbiotic
Short-term antibiotic use linked to long-lasting resistance in gut bacteria.
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Hippie spiders with personality might not be so interesting
Researchers weren’t watching them for long enough…??
Real-life Pokémon wear remains of dead animals
And they look so cute!
Some Science stories with Justin!
Slashing misinformation research
Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader
NIH under siege
U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
Science stories with Kiki!
Musically Speaking
Will understanding the musicality of language make for better chatbots?
The Screaming Trees
Do plants make sounds to be heard by other plants?
Electrome Eclipse
What is the electrome & how do trees use it?
This Week in Science Questions!
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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Editing Peeps, Himalayan Shakes, A Batwinged Dino, Better-Off Neanderthal, Mammoth Sequences, Winey Vino, The Beetle Field, Meds Muck Fish, African Gut Swap, MS Remyelination?, World Penguin Day, Marine Light Pollution, Cave-Climbing Catfish, and much more!
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April 25th, 2025
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This Week: Interview W/Natan Shahar, Carbon Capturing, Gator Biting, Fur Babies, Cow Burps, Climate Change Cost, Canceling Women Studies, Life in Spce, Deathbots, And Much More Science!
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The end of research funding in America will bring about a golden age,
The likes of which we have not seen in the post-industrial era,
No longer will we waste money on unlocking the secrets of the universe,
The wanton fraud of innovation,
The political bias of technology,
The unholy hubris of the human genome,
The pure grift of therapeutics based on science ends now,
For America…
Science will, of course, continue elsewhere in the world…
As America returns to its golden age of… not doing science?
But fear not, America!
We will continue to bring you the latest science news,
from whatever country is doing it
Right here on
This Week in Science!
The Interview!
We want to welcome our guest, Natan Shahar, to TWIS. You can find him on his Standard Carbon website.
Natan Shahar is the Chief Strategy Officer and Founder of Standard Carbon’s Carbon Bridge technology. The development has the potential to allow fossil fuel use to become carbon neutral through CO2 emission capture & conversion back to fuel for storage. He has an MS in Environmental Engineering and believes in human innovation to solve the climate challenges facing us.
Dr. Kiki and Justin get all the interesting details from Natan in this interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
Why is this gator biting me??
Well, did you ask for it, Steve??
Is your dog really your fur baby?
New research suggests, not quite, but close.
Less Cow Burps for the win!
New cow feed could reduce methane output from cows. That is one way to fight heat-trapping gases!
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Some Science stories with Justin!
The high cost of climate change
In USD
Canceling women studies
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
Some Quick stories with Kiki!
Will Webb Find Life?
Probably not.
Deathbots & Us
Will Deathbots change our understanding of life?
This Week in Science Questions!
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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Etching For Energy, Placebo Yo!, Read Science, Mountain Man Microbes, Urban Bird-an, See-through Wings, Circadian Color, Interview w/ Scott Lewis re: #Hubble25, World Robot Domination, Girl Power, Neonics Not Nice, Twins Get Bit, Life Un-Remembered,And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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April 17th, 2025
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This Week: Scalable Meat, Marriage, Gorillas, Crpws, Gowanus Canal, Fiddler Crabs, Bird Song, Cats, Healthcare, Sensory, and Much More Science you can trust!
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A university that has been operating in the United States since before there was a United States just lost billions of dollars in government funding.
Much of it was heading to fund ongoing scientific research
Including cancer and genetic therapies for a host of diseases.
All because Harvard refused to give in to political demands
The retaliation has not stopped there, as the government is now attempting to revoke the university’s tax-exempt status and bar it from hosting international students.
If these actions against higher education seem alarming,
Keep in mind the many institutions that have already allowed the government to take control to dictate how they educate and who they educate.
There are of course more cruel injustices being committed currently
By an administration that seems to mean and rueful of the American dream
Defunding, deporting, imprisoning and defying all that America stands for…
But Harvard stood up
For themselves, for their students, and for…
This Week in Science
Trust TWIS with this week’s science news!
Scalable Meat
What’s been holding lab-grown meat back???
1/2 of marriages end in divorce
The other half end in death
Gorillas love truffles!
And they don’t care that truffle fries are played out, Karen!
Shapely Crows
Crows can count, but can they do geometry?
Oh,
Gowanus Canal is teeming with extremophiles.
Trust In Science
Why don’t conservative Americans trust science, and AI avatars help?
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Blair’s Animal Corner!
When a fiddler crab tells you how big they are, you believe him!
The size and weight of their claw completely change the sound of hitting the sand, so the ladies really can tell.
Bird song is different depending on personality
So no, I can’t do it with more feeling!
Some Science stories with Justin!
Where do cats come from?
The complex origin story of domestic cats
How not to run healthcare
Preventable pregnancy deaths
Science stories you can trust with Kiki!
Touchy Feely
How does the sense of touch differ in people with autism?
It’s TWIS Mail Bag Time! ?
TWIS Minion MiLady Carol from Australia writes in about freezing Avocados in Australia, TWIS Minion Beth was inspired by Blair’s Animal Corner story in Eps. 983 about orb weaver spiders catching fireflies, and Matthew thanks us for the mention of the Ship of Theseus philosophical parable.
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April 10th, 2025
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This Week: Not Dire Wolves, Miso & Moonglass, Bad Dogs, Mouse Brains & Human Intelligence, Inflammation & Behavior, And Much More Science!
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We disclaim that we have no disclaimer this week!
Let’s just jump right in to This Week in Science!
Some quick science news!
Not Dire Wolves
Did Colossal de-extinct Dire wolves? No. No, they did not.
Miso & Moonglass
What will we be making in space?
Bad Dogs
How bad are dogs for the environment?
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Mouse Brains & Human Intelligence
How much can a mouse brain tell us about ourselves?
Inflammation & Behavior
Is there a link between the onset of inflammation & behavioral modulation?
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What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Guest Host Dr. Jessica Hebert, Barcode Birds, Molecular Transistors, Legs Or Junk, Speed of Vision, Naked Hearts, Don’t Vent, Bacteri-leather, Robo-Mirror, And Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Mixed Up Moon, Lunar Lava Tubes, Martian Glacier Belts, Baby Scientists, Blind Rat Nav, The Prostate Finger, Directional Bees, Bronto’s Back! , Interview w/ Zach Marshall about ATLAS and LHC, Hydraulic Tarantulas, Brown Fat Injection, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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April 4th, 2025
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This Week: Reverence for Youth, Venom, Fossils, Bird Disguises, Bats, Bird Road Rage, NDEs, Global Warming, Taxing Science, And Much More!
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Before we get into the science, let’s do a quick refresher on tariffs.
Tariffs aren’t typical science fair but in the general interest of factsplaining…
Let’s explain what they are. A tax.
Essentially a sales tax, but they work slightly differently.
A sales tax is applied to consumer goods when you buy a product.
A tariff is a tax on imported goods.
Typically applied to select goods in an effort to protect native manufacturing.
A blanket tariff is then essentially a sale tax on all imported consumer goods.
Blanket tariffs and sales taxes are specifically consumer burdens.
And nobody has ever suggested adding tariffs as a way to combat inflation
Blanket tariffs = more expensive goods = which is the definition of higher inflation.
They also tend to affect financially disadvantaged people more than wealthy ones…
As the wealthy tend to spend a much smaller percentage of their income on consumer goods,
And therefore contribute a smaller portion of their income to sales tax or tariff increases.
Tariffs are not necessarily a bad thing, they can make domestic products more competitive, protecting worker wages and industries… a common tactic of social democracies
They could be used to support social services, universal healthcare, education and scientific research… like in a social democracy
But to apply them after 40 years of outsourcing… in a post-manufacturing economy.
While dismantling government services, education, and investment in science…
The things those taxes could have contributed to?
And following that up with tax cuts for the wealthy who are, again, not personally affected by the sales tax increase… as it represents a small change to the margin of the margins to them.
Raising taxes on consumers while cutting spending on consumers, in order to cut taxes for the already wealthy…
Is wealth redistribution
from the poor, from the working class, from the middle class…
to the wealthiest investor class… exacerbating wealth inequality
But hey, maybe that’s the plan?
Tax your brain with this week’s science news!
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