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How about one more Road Trip before the summer ends? 🚗 How about a Cave Road Trip? We’ll share some of our favorite Tumble caving stories as we venture forth into the darkness! Get ready for sights, stalagmites, and plenty of bats! 🦇 If you'd like to learn more about these caving stories, check out their blog posts below! You'll find transcripts, videos, articles, and more science fun on each page! The Journey to the Bat Cave Inside the Bat Cave [BONUS] The Cave of the Un

How do we find out what dogs are thinking? With a play, of course! 🎭 For our Season Eight finale, researcher Dr. Zachary Silver will reveal the secrets of dog science! 🐶 Be sure to tune in… it might get a little dramatic! Learn more about Zachary's interest in dogs in our bonus interview episode, available on Patreon ! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Zachary Silver is a researcher at the Yale Cognition Center - and soon to be at Occidental College. Z

Join us to explore the splendid sounds of our feathered friends! 🐦Birder Trevor Attenberg tells us of his journeys in the bird world so you can discover the secrets of their songs! Learn more about how Trevor recognizes birds by their songs in our bonus interview episode, available on Patreon ! This episode is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number # 2148711 - Engaging Blind, Visually Impaired, and Sighted Students in STEM with Story

Why are sloths so slow?? 🦥 Listen to our latest episode where we ask this question to Rebecca Cliffe, sloth scientist and founder of The Sloth Conservation! Put on your sloth backpack and try not to fall out of a tree, because we’re going to discover why being slow might be a good thing after all! Learn more about sloth conservation in our bonus interview episode, available on Patreon ! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Dr. Rebecca Cliffe is the founder a

Polar bears! Join us as we learn more about these white, fuzzy, and adorable-yet-dangerous bears of the Arctic! Biologist Andrew Derocher will take us on a polar bear adventure with helicopters, an angry cub, and super cool science. Tune in to learn more about these majestic creatures! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Expert Dr. Andrew Derocher is a biologist and professor at the University of Alberta. He studies ecology, conservation, and of course, polar bears

Are we the only ones out there? How likely is it that we’ll find intelligent alien life on other planets? And if we do, what will it be like? With help from astrobiologist Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen and zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, we’ll uncover the secrets of the universe! 🎧 Listen to the Episode 🔎About The Featured Experts Dr. Kaitlin Rasmussen is an astrobiologist at the University of Washington/Virtual Planet Laboratory , and author of forthcoming book, Life in Seven Nu

Halloween science podcast! Ever wonder what a mummy smells like? Or why millions of animals were mummified - including baboons?

Shirts made from spider silk? Leather made from fungi? In this episode, we're exploring how synthetic biology is pushing the future of fashion! Welcome to Life Lab! This is the fourth part of our five part series about how tiny life can change our world. In Life Lab, we explore the incredible power of synthetic biology to solve some of our biggest challenges - and asking how it could change our future. Life Lab is supported by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, a

Should we make the move to Mars? And how would we live there? Join us as we pack our bags for Mars with the help of synthetic biology. We’ll find out how astronauts could grow their own food, medicine, and even building materials on the Red Planet. But when Lindsay and Marshall start to disagree about moving to another planet, some tricky questions threaten the mission… This is the second part of our five part series about how tiny life can change our world. In Life Lab, we

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 3-LS3-2 Crosscutting Concept: Cause and Effect Why and how do cats purr? That’s what Reid wants to know. It sounds like a simple question, but it leads us to a deep challenge: Can we ever understand cats? To find out, we launch a full-scale cat purr investigation. You’ll hear from a puzzled veterinarian, a scientist who studied her cat’s annoying purr, and the author of purring.org, the premier cat purr research website. It’s a purr-fec