17:35
Sorting Out Your Recycling Questions
Darby Hoover from the Natural Resources Defense Council answers your blue and green bin questions.
17:11
The Health Costs Of Racism
Research suggests that even hearing about racist incidents can cause mental and physical health problems for people of color.
12:20
Tracking Online Terrorist Networks With Mathematical Models
Researchers tracked the growth and decline of online extremist networks through models typically used to map complex systems in the natural world.
17:38
Will Pokémon Go Push Augmented Reality Forward?
Tracking the ways that augmented reality could transform how we interact with the digital world.
7:49
Sex Differences in Pain Perception, and More
In this week’s news roundup, Buzzfeed’s Virginia Hughes talks about how the sexes may perceive pain differently, and how one scientist is calling for more female mice in pain studies.
The Big Sort: An Insider’s Tour Of A Recycling Plant
Every day at the Sims Municipal Recycling facility in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, roughly 800 tons of recyclables meander through a tangle of machines, scanners, and conveyor belts.
Hr2: Heat Waves, Blocking Cell Phone Cameras, Building Better Violins
Self-taught scientist and luthier Carleen Hutchins brought new scientific rigor to violin-making. Plus Apple patents a technology that could stop our phones from recording concerts, and an epidemiologist looks at how many deaths extreme heat could cause, and how we can prevent them.
Hr1: News Roundup, Medical Samples, Space Archaeology, Flyover Country, Biodesign Summit
How could historically significant satellites, spacecraft, and landing sites be preserved in space? Plus how Flyover Country, a new app, will help you spot geological features during your next long-haul flight.
6:12
The Art, and Science, of the Biodesign Challenge
A competition challenges art and design students to face the brave new world of biotechnology.
17:29
Building Better Violins…With Science
Self-taught scientist and luthier Carleen Hutchins brought new scientific rigor to violin-making.