Tag: npr
Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed
The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later.
Princeton Researchers Watch “Junk DNA” at Work
In “real time” they show the function of an enhancer in switching a gene from off to on.
“Optimism” and a Lonely Planet
Adam Frank (University of Rochester) interviewed fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb (Harvard) about the future possibility of detecting “techno-signatures” from space.
How Scott Turner Evolved
Turner is a really interesting case of a scientist who straddles design and evolutionary thinking.
“The Ultimate Bootstrap”
Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter.