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September 30, 2022
How Bangladeshi farmers found a way to save massive amounts of water. Plus, how (and why) NASA successfully caused a collision between a small spacecraft and an asteroid. And how do you vaccinate a wild racoon? Hint: Fish-flavored candy, and a few helicopters.
4:22
Saturn’s Rings Might Be Made From A Missing Moon
A new theory suggests that Saturn’s gravity shredded up a moon and flattened it, giving us the planet’s iconic rings.
11:00
Sperm Swim Together To Help Each Other Reach The Egg
Researchers created a simulation of the female reproductive tract and, rather than compete, sperm may cooperate to swim upstream.
17:15
Mars Rover, Move Over: Making A Rover To Explore The Deep Sea
The Benthic Rover trawls an abyssal plain, 4000 meters below the ocean surface, for vital data about carbon dioxide on a warming planet.
7:44
Ukraine’s Ongoing Tragedy Inspires Teenage Inventor To Locate Landmines
There are 100 million unexploded landmines around the world. Igor Klymenko’s invention uses a drone to help find them.
8:57
Getting The Dirt On The World Of Competitive Soil Judging
In this international competition, contestants compete to analyze, identify, and describe the layers of soil in a landscape.
16:52
Diving Into The Biggest Ideas In The Universe
Can mere mortals learn real physics, without all the analogies? Spoiler: A professor of natural philosophy says yes, but there may be math.
12:09
Why The Owner Of Patagonia Gave Away The Whole Company
All the money went to a trust and nonprofit to fund climate change and conservation efforts.
15:44
Understanding Metabolism Genes Might Improve Depression Treatment
A professor of psychiatry studies the genes responsible for metabolizing medication to predict if patients will respond to depression treatment.
11:57
Pulling Water From Thin Air? It’s Materials Science, Not Magic.
A new material being developed by scientists at UT Austin can rapidly absorb liters of water from dry desert air.
9:18
An AI Partnership May Improve Breast Cancer Screenings
A longtime researcher in the field of breast imaging dives into the benefits and limitations of AI cancer screenings.