The Discovery Files Podcast
1) The Importance of Bee-Ing Together
Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. This diversity plays a critical role in the health of flowers and farms. Scientists call it the "insurance effect," a great variety of bees working ...Show More
2) Power Grid Butterfly Effect
Events like floods, superstorms, wildfires, heat waves, fuel supply shortages and cyberattacks can cause a power outage in one section of the country, creating a "butterfly effect" that impacts much l...Show More
3) Computing Image Sensor
Vehicle accidents can happen in the blink of an eye. The time it takes camera systems in autonomous vehicles to process images is critical. Researchers are developing a first-of-its-kind technology th...Show More
4) Your Brain Is Always Listening
Even if you are sound asleep, your brain is always at work, listening to, making note of and interpreting sound. The listening brain performs like an orchestra of neurons that never stops encoding inc...Show More
5) Smart Streetscapes
How are you connected on the street where you live, the street where you do business, the street you share with neighbors? But how could a smarter street improve your life? Could technology help guide...Show More
6) Carbon Negative Cement
Cement is one of the most widely used industrial materials, essential in the construction of buildings and highways. The United Nations predicts that, by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population wil...Show More
7) What Weddell Seal Moms Sacrifice
What makes Weddell seals such excellent divers, routinely able to forage underwater for food as long as 20 minutes at a time? Did you know they have natural, internal scuba tanks? Weddell seal moms ma...Show More
8) Did Shipwrecked Horses Survive?
Off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, on the island of Assateague, a centuries-old mystery is coming to light. Folklore has it that a shipwrecked Spanish galleon had been carrying a herd of horses t...Show More
9) Shedding New Light on Dark Matter
Planets, interstellar gas, and stars that illuminate the night sky account for only 15% of the matter in the universe. So, how important is a “Cosmological Signature” and what is “Cosmic Microwave Bac...Show More
10) A Mega Predator Of Predators
Imagine! A prehistoric, megatooth shark that lived as recently as 3.6 million years ago, measuring almost 70 feet in length, and living at the very top of its food chain. While others focus on today’s...Show More