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Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. NASA's InSight lander on Mars is trying to use its robotic arm to get the mission’s heat ...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1751 Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and science in transition.  Today, conflict as s...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical co...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 2776 Isaac Asimov's fantastic worlds, robots that roam among us, and energy stora...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratclif...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note an oct...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. BBC and Netflix nature documentaries consistently shy away from showing viewers the true extent t...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. What can you see in the October sky?

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1747 Sonya Corvin-Krukovsky Kovalevsky: mathematician and author.  Today, strange...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1746 In which a water glass lets me know that things are not as bad as they seem....

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 2969 Regular or premium? Understanding octane rating.  Today, regular or premium?

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. A slight temperature difference at night between a surface losing heat and the surrounding air ca...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Homo erectus used hand axes to butcher elephants and other game. But a new study suggests they al...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Microplastic particles are everywhere, but in freshwater systems, 60 percent of particles are clo...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. A study finds no deleterious effects on mental health when kids spend their leisure time texting ...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 3112 Donald Barthelme: Creative Editor.  Today, a sheriff of an editor.

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. As the little structures grow, their constituents specialize into different types of brain cells,...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1745 Maglev: Riding on air at half the speed of sound.  Today, we ride a fast train.

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Squirrels constantly scan their surroundings for hawks, owls and other predators. But they also s...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. At the Kermadec Islands, humpbacks from all over the South Pacific converge and swap songs. Chris...