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I’m from the west and I’m also from Texas, that makes me a west Texas, desert baby. We’re pretty freakin’ unique! I’ve been a ton of places and spaces but there’s still a draw, a Texas drawl, for the great unknown and unreal sunsets in the desert. Here are a few of my favorite Texas…

Cuttlefish bro down!

Cute, cuttlefish! Chillin’ cephalopods…or so we thought! For the first time ever, scientist captured an IRL fight over a female. Some of you humans might have witnessed similar behavior on a Friday night, in your local watering hole. Cuttlefish meets cuttlefish, a tale as old as time. Rival suitor challenges Male Cuttlefish 1 to a…

World Rat Day! Helping researchers lay the groundwork for a new tool in disaster relief

A Norway rat has many names: the brown rat, common rat, street rat, or sewer rat and is one of the best known rats.   This New Orleans rat is helping researchers lay the groundwork for a potentially powerful tool in disaster relief: a mathematical model that could simulate how environmental changes, natural or man-made,…

How does space weather impact us here on Earth?

Bob Clauer of Virginia Tech explains why space weather forecasts are so important and how he’s hoping to improve them — it’s all on “Weather or Not.”

Turn your eyes to the skies for the latest explorers

In this Super Science Show episode, head outdoors to show how National Science Foundation-supported researchers are finding new ways to use small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)–also known as drones–to gather data, improve communication and explore environments where humans and larger aircraft dare not go.

Geeking out: World’s first 1,000-processor chip

In this Super Science Show episode, Charlie and Jordan discuss the “KiloCore,” an energy efficient microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors. The KiloCore was designed by National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of California, Davis, making it the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university. Read the full release here and watch the science…

Get a clue: Biochemist studies fruit fly to understand Parkinson’s disease

In this Super Science Show episode, Jordan sends Charlie on a scavenger hunt for “clues” on how researchers at Kansas State are studying the way muscle diseases affect humans. The researchers are studying the fruit fly and a gene called clueless to understand its connection to the genes that cause Parkinson’s disease. Read the full…

Super Science Show: Future cruel, cruel summers

In this episode, penned by yours truly, we return from summer break to investigate the future of summers. According to research at National Center for Atmospheric Research, in 50 years, summers across most of the globe could be hotter than any other experienced by people, ever. Read the full release here and watch the science…

Super Science Show: Read between the lines

In this episode, Jordan and I take a look at new research about at how we read. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have come up with a way to observe brain activity during natural reading. This marks the first time researchers have been able to study the brain while reading actual texts, instead…

Super Science Show: Every dogs has its day

In episode 58, Jordan and Charlie talk about a customized suite of technologies that allow a computer to train a dog autonomously, with the computer effectively responding to the dog based on the dog’s body language. According to the research team at NC State University, this technology integrates basic principles of animal learning into a…