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Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 2341 Richard Wagner conceives a sound, then invents an instrument to create it.  ...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Indigenous artists in what’s now British Columbia created pigments by cooking aquatic bacteria. C...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1789 Goethe's Farbenlehre: science and Romanticism.  Today, light and color.

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Recycled wastewater can be cleaner than bottled water, but people still avoid drinking it because...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Bots masquerading as humans in a game outperformed their human opponents—but the their superiorit...

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Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Researchers activated specific brain cells in zebra finches to teach them songs they'd ordinarily...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1781 Flora Haines Loughead, social change and airplanes.  Today, airplanes and Fl...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 1780 Radio Days -- a tribute to early radio.  Today, listen, with me, to an old  ...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 2988 Milton Humason's Quiet Persistence.  Today, quiet persistence.

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Hierakonpolis discovered five ceramic vats containi...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Pet dogs appeared more interested in videos of a bouncing ball when the motion of the ball matche...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Cats are clingier to their human owners than their reputation would suggest. Karen Hopkin reports...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Could Mars ever have supported life?

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 3215 What eats avocado seeds?  Today, we see through a seed.

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Study subjects with a gene variant that heightened their sensitivity to bitterness tended to eat ...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by Engines of Our Ingenuity. Episode: 2987 Gravity is Magic.  Today, we let go.

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. A measles-like virus is ricocheting through marine mammal populations in the Arctic—and melting s...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers witho...

Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. In an analysis of chess and tennis matches, players rising in the rankings did better than expect...