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SciFri 021712 Hour 1: Military Solar, Sugar and Health, Air Pollution, Find the Cuttlefish
February 17, 2012 10:40 am Podcasts CommentsA potential for seven gigawatts of solar power farms, the health effects of large quantities of fructose, the health effects of smog exposure, and cuttlefish camouflage.
SciFri 021012 Hour 2: A Guitar Zero Learns Music, Audio Science
February 16, 2012 2:40 am Podcasts CommentsWhy it may not be to late to learn how to play a musical instrument, and two experts explain the audio science behind the music.
Philips Vital Signs Camera app
February 12, 2012 8:43 am | by Philips Videos CommentsThe Vital Signs Camera app from Philips (http://www.vitalsignscamera.com) performs a contactless measurement of your heart rate and breathing rate, simply by using the camera of your iPad 2. This breakthrough technology allows you to measure your vital signs in an easy and unobtrusive way...
SciFri 020312 Hour 2: Drone Technology, Decoding Speech From Brain Signals
February 12, 2012 8:42 am Podcasts CommentsExperts discuss the military and commercial applications of increasingly sophisticated drones, and a study details how researchers decoded brain electrical activity to reconstruct speech.
SciFri 021012 Hour 1: Experimental Alzheimers Drug, The Science of Yoga, Supercontinets, The Look of Love
February 12, 2012 8:41 am Podcasts CommentsA drug given to mice with Alzheimers quickly improved symptoms, NYT science writer William Broad investigates popular health claims about yoga, theories on where the next supercontinent will form, and a look at the pupil.
SciFri 012712 Hour 1: Magnetic Soap, Space Weather, Mobile Wallet, Ice
February 5, 2012 11:47 am Podcasts CommentsScientists have created a soap containing iron, solar flares and their effects, mobile payment options, and the coolness of ice.
Easy ways 3 - Development of the General Peritoneal Cavity - Episode notes
February 5, 2012 11:47 am Podcasts CommentsThese are the episode notes from the third in our series on easy ways of remembering tricky areas of anatomy, covering the Development of the General Peritoneal Cavity - see www.instantanatomy.net for more details
Easy ways 3 - Development of the General Peritoneal Cavity
February 5, 2012 11:47 am Podcasts CommentsThis is the third in our series on easy ways of remembering tricky areas of anatomy, covering the Development of the General Peritoneal Cavity - see www.instantanatomy.net for more details
SciFri 012712 Hour 2: Stem Cell Eye Therapy Trial, Open Science, Dog Domestication
February 5, 2012 11:47 am Podcasts CommentsAn early trial of stem cell therapy, making scientific research more open, and what an ancient skull find can tell us about our history with domesticated dogs.
SciFri 020312 Hour 1: IBEX, The Psychology of Disgust, Alzheimers Research, Blue Marble
February 5, 2012 11:46 am Podcasts CommentsStudying the composition of the Milky Way, why people find things disgusting, tracking the progression of Alzheimers in mouse brains, and a video about the making of the iconic Earth-from-space images.
SciFri 010612 Hour 1: Placebo Effect, Flu Research, Levitating Fruit Flies
January 24, 2012 9:49 pm Podcasts CommentsNew research suggests placebos may have the power to heal in certain applications, a microbiologist and a biosecurity expert debate publishing two studies, and a video about flies in zero G.
SciFri 010612 Hour 2: Bee Parasite, Wintertime Science
January 24, 2012 9:49 pm Podcasts CommentsA parasitic fly may threaten honey bees, and a panel of experts discusses the science of the winter season.
Podcast 35- Surface Anatomy 2
January 24, 2012 9:49 pm Podcasts CommentsPodcast 35 is the second of two parts covering surface anatomy - see www.instantanatomy.net for more details
SciFri 011312 Hour 1: AAS Meeting, Cosmology, Super-TB, Computing Bubbles
January 24, 2012 9:49 pm Podcasts CommentsAmerican Astronomical Society meeting, Lawrence Krauss on modern cosmology, a strain of tuberculosis that thwarts all antibiotics, and a video about computing with bubbles.
SciFri 011312 Hour 2: Science Tattoos, Surgery, HuffPost Science
January 24, 2012 9:49 pm Podcasts CommentsTattoos of the science obsessed, a surgeon takes readers behind the operating room doors, and Arianna Huffington discusses a new science section at The Huffington Post.
