Science Quickly

Geologists propose that Earth may have had water from the beginning. The chemical signature of Earth's water matches that of ancient asteroids, challenging the theory of meteorites bringing water to Earth. This suggests planets in the inner solar system could have been habitable earlier than believed.

Chimps strategically choose a sleeping location near a fig tree cafe to ensure a calorically dense breakfast.

Mexican free-tailed bats use jamming strategy to disrupt the echolocation of other bats, causing them to miss their prey. This technique is also used by insects. The podcast explores the implications of this jamming technique on hunting dynamics.

Explore the 50th anniversary of Mariner 3, America's first mission to Mars which failed due to a glitch in the unfurling of solar panels. Discover the subsequent success of Mariner 4 and its images of Mars' barren and cratered surface.

Researchers have developed a protective coating for button batteries to prevent children from ingesting them. Tests with pigs showed the coated batteries to be safe for the esophagus.

Discover how a soil microbe could be harnessed to reduce the spread of dengue virus and malaria parasite by shortening the mosquitoes' lifespan and killing their larvae.

Hibernation may have saved ancestral mammals from extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, according to a study on tenrecks, small Madagascar mammals, proposing that burrowing and extended hibernation played a crucial role in their survival.

Computer scientist Christo Wilson from Northeastern University discusses how online prices are personalized based on user data, highlighting the need for consumer awareness and privacy measures while shopping online.

Discover how fecal transplants can combat C. diff outbreaks by transferring healthy microbes, and the role of Clostridium syndins in inhibiting C. diff infection.

The podcast discusses how coyotes have adapted to urban environments and their ability to hunt and consume prey of various sizes.