David Corcoran, a science editor, explores the topics addressed in this week's Science Times.

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Sciencetimes

New York Times Science Update

Category: Science

Last update: Sun Oct 12 01:25:24 -0700 2008

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David Corcoran, a science editor, explores the topics addressed in this week's Science Times.

Episodes

This week: Presidential politics meets preventive medicine, beautiful birds, and "red fish, blue fish".

This week: A special edition of the Science Times podcast on decoding your health.

This week: Surprising news about breast cancer treatment, reassuring news about climate change, and good news about an endangered monkey.

This week: Leaving the Emergency Room in the dark, tracking climate changes since 1896 and creatures that can survive in space.

This week: Science and the art of conversation, Evolution: a video game and a new way to keep your bread fresh.

This week: friendly invaders, watching the brain as it relives memories and traveling Mammoths.

This week: a new sub for studying the deep frontier; fishy stories from restaurants and markets; and kamikaze microbes.

This week: What a short-lived lizard tells us about life on earth, surprising news about older runners and a visit to an aircraft carrier 70 feet underwater.

This week: the link between magic and neuroscience, the ethics of engineering of the job site is the planet, and how chili pepper plants fight off fungus attacks.

This week: the link between magic and neuroscience, the ethics of engineering of the job site is the planet, and how chili pepper plants fight off fungus attacks.

This week: War wounds and how to heal them, searching for antibiotics in a polluted old canal and fish that get their way by deception.

This week: Doctors, patients and glass, the very strange physics of glass and animal that can drink and drink and not get drunk.

This week: drugs that may or may not extend your life, a new route to innovation and an unlikely iceberg hazard.

This week: Emailing your psychiatrist, fixing a spaceship with explosives and a tiny microscope that fits under your skin.

This week: The new old age, George Washington's boyhood home and underwater volcanoes.

This week: Man meets hook worm, why Mars is lopsided and how birds sleep.

This week: The secrets of sediment and streams, how to measure your mileage and listening to crocodile eggs.

This week: The World Wide Web before computers, the pros and cons of coffee and frogs with claws.

This week: The social lives of plants, how cell phone users get around and the wildest ring of Saturn.

This week: Caught in a hail storm, darkness at the heart of the universe and monkeys using just their thoughts to move an artificial arm.

This Week: Mindfulness meditation therapy, building safer schools in earthquake zones and glacial melting that might be releasing DDT into the environment.

This Week: The world of the Walrus, a mission to Mars and birds find a another way to defy gravity.

This Week: Electric powered cupcake cars and other cutting edge inventions, zapping invasive creatures with microwaves and decoding the platypus.

This Week: A new way of looking at diseases, why animals aren't smarter and babbling baby birds.

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