Tiny Matters
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Episodes: 140
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Science shapes every part of our lives, but so much of its influence is overlooked or buried in the past. Tiny Matters is an award-winning podcast about tiny things — from molecules to microbes — that have a big and often surprising impact on society. From deadly diseases to forensic toxicology to the search for extraterrestrial life, hosts and former scientists Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti embrace the awe and messiness of science and its place in history and today, and how it could impact our world’s future. New episodes every Wednesday. Tiny Matters is brought to you by the American Chemical Society, a non-profit scientific organization based in Washington, D.C., and is produced by Multitude.
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[BONUS] Fluorescent milk, ‘liquid’ glass, and studying ripples in spacetime: Tiny Show and Tell Us #33
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Introducing Curiosity Weekly
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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How stunning 19th century dyes led to today's drugs
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Wasp versus beetle and blood iron recycling: Tiny Show and Tell Us #32
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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De-extinction: Genetics, conservation, and lessons from 'dire wolves'
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Woolly mammoth mice and filtering microplastics out of your water: Tiny Show and Tell Us #31
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Zircon: How this tiny, ancient mineral is upending what scientists believed about early Earth
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Biodegradable super glue and a severe greenhouse gas that lowers your voice: Tiny Show and Tell Us #30
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Is ‘mom brain’ … forever?
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Birds breathing with their butts and reducing food waste to combat climate change: Tiny Show and Tell Us #29
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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How domesticated is a domestic cat? From the wild to ancient Egyptian tombs to now
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Diamond rain on Saturn (maybe) and UV rays breaking down harmful dyes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #28
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The strange science and history of quantum computing and how it could transform chemistry
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Squirrel pox and did tin buttons cause the downfall of Napoleon's army?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #27
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Making labs safer: A heavy metal poisoning, a deadly protein exposure, and their aftermath
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Fetuses ‘listening’ to different languages and climate change affecting psychiatric meds: Tiny Show and Tell Us #26
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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How NASA scientists are monitoring and predicting wildfires from space
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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[BONUS] The FDA’s ban of Red Dye No. 3 and the surprising science of winter roads: Tiny Show and Tell Us #25
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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How a Mars mission from the 1970s shaped the search for extraterrestrial life today
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Babies leaving cells behind in mom and rethinking the Big Bang: Tiny Show and Tell Us #24
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Ozempic: The science behind this blockbuster drug and its untapped potential
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May 28, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Marfan syndrome and plant pathogens eating DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #23
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May 21, 2025 |
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How a little-known vaccine project and decades of HIV research made "Operation Warp Speed" possible
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May 14, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Time limits for anesthesia and stunning bioluminescence: Tiny Show and Tell Us #22
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May 07, 2025 |
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The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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[BONUS] An inspiring pharmacist grandma and orcas wearing dead salmon hats: Tiny Show and Tell Us #21
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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How glaciers safeguard Earth’s future and hold clues to our ancient past
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Evolutionary adaptations to high altitudes and e-cigs vs. dry herb vaporizers: Tiny Show and Tell Us #20
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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How 18th and 19th century 'race science' still has deadly medical consequences today
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Crocheted wasp nests and sewage in reefs: Tiny Show and Tell Us #19
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The rape kit: From controversial 1970s invention to ending the backlog today
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Double rainbows and mysterious chromosomes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #18
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Not just a ‘royal disease’: Hemophilia’s devastating past to recent advances
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Fungus farming ants and disappointing orange juice: Tiny Show and Tell Us #17
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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How plants shaped our world: Rising oxygen, blocky bones, and other pivotal moments in evolution
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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[BONUS] 'Night soil' recycling and could viruses be the new antibiotics?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #16
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Can evolution go backwards?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Four armadillos in a trench coat and does pregnancy boost your sense of smell?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #15
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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'A cage of ovulating females': The development and testing of the oral birth control pill
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Submit a Tiny Show and Tell Us — first 40 people get a coffee mug!
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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[BONUS] A hedgehog doppelgänger and STEVE lighting up the sky: Tiny Show and Tell Us #14
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, wildlife is thriving
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Happy New Year! Bring on 2025
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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[BONUS] Pollen-food allergy syndrome and stepping on 116 snakes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #13
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Frostbite: From Napoleonic era treatments to the first FDA approved frostbite drug
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Xenobots and rethinking 'junk DNA': Tiny Show and Tell Us #12
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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In defense of plants: Pitfall traps, rancid aromas, and other wild pollination strategies with Matt Candeias
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Why we experience altitude sickness and a chirality mystery: Tiny Show and Tell Us #11
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Stories trapped in ancient teeth: Reconstructing megalodon’s diet and retracing the steps of woolly mammoths
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Mice aging in reverse and using origami to understand how a tiny organism captures prey: Tiny Show and Tell Us #10
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Ghosts and cyborgs: A specter skeptic and the promise (and perils) of biohybrid robots
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Algae in the clouds and colossal galaxy walls: Tiny Show and Tell Us #9
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Pesticides across history and learning from millions of years of plant-insect warfare
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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[BONUS] A shark’s ‘jelly-filled canals’ and deadly cyanide in clovers: Tiny Show and Tell Us #8
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Vaping vs. smoking: What does decades of research tell us?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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[BONUS] How the moon causes tides and ancient viruses lurking in your DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #7
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Extinction: Rethinking the dodo's demise, and could a supervolcano threaten humanity's future?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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[BONUS] We think your dog loves you and an intriguing molecule hitches a ride on space dust: Tiny Show and Tell Us #6
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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CTE: From ‘punch drunk’ to today, how this devastating disease is finally being taken seriously
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Cleaning up brain junk while you sleep and new neurons from exercise: Tiny Show and Tell Us #5
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Pig hearts in people: Xenotransplantation's history, promise, and the ethical use of people who are brain-dead in research
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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[BONUS] 1930s (inebriated) chemist poetry and a new organelle: Tiny Show and Tell Us #4
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Could most of our food, medication, and clothing come from...bacteria?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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[BONUS] A dark energy discovery and a thirsty hydrangea mystery: Tiny Show and Tell Us #3
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Sewage and the Seine: From Mesopotamia messes and the 1858 Great Stink to today's flush toilets and fatbergs
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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[BONUS] The disappearance of 10,000 skeletons and get those eyes outside: Tiny Show and Tell Us #2
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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It’s sporty (science) summer: Cutting edge monitoring of sweat, and how decades of labiaplasty inspired a new bike saddle
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Subscribe to the Tiny Matters newsletter!
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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[BONUS] Parrotfish poop beaches and an altitude adaptation: Tiny Show and Tell Us #1
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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‘Beef snow,’ sludge, and seafood fraud: How NIST standardizes everything from $1,143 peanut butter to house dust to keep us safe
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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From volcanoes and Swiftquakes to buzzing bees: How scientists use sound to understand our environment
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Long COVID: What we’re learning about pathogens and chronic illness goes beyond COVID-19
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May 29, 2024 |
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Mysteries in the museum: How textile conservators investigate and preserve historic clothing
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May 15, 2024 |
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The curable disease that kills someone every 20 seconds: Tuberculosis (ft. John Green)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Introducing 'Tiny show and tell us' (send us your stories!)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Arsenic, radium, and a locked room cyanide mystery: Poisons and the rise of forensic toxicology in early 1900s United States
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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IVF: The history, science and struggle that gave rise to a life-changing technology
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Win a Tiny Matters mug by filling out this survey!
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Who invented lawns? From Cretaceous grass to modern turf with That's Absurd Please Elaborate
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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What hibernating bears and 'couch potato' cavefish are teaching us about blood clots and fatty liver disease
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Listener Q&A: Methanol poisoning, quantum entanglement, biomimicry, sea foam snakes, tiny discoveries in 2023, and more!
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Let's talk about love: Is oxytocin really the 'love drug'? How do we stay in love? And how do our brains adapt to the deaths of people we love?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Did mating with Neanderthals make us morning people?: What ancient DNA tells us about the messiness of human evolution
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Win a Tiny Matters coffee mug ROUND TWO! Submit your questions!
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Cosmic clues, shrinking transistors, debunking a Salem witch trials theory, and more! Faves from the second year of Tiny Matters
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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He was never there, but his DNA was: The history and debate surrounding forensic DNA profiling
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The rise and fall of a fake decongestant: What phenylephrine tells us about the history of the FDA
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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The opioid crisis: From pill mills to fentanyl. Are we now seeing glimmers of hope?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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We don't deserve dogs: The science behind the human-canine relationship
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The Salem witch trials LSD theory and the fascinating evolution of mummification in ancient Egypt
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx, and the Apollo 11 moon microbe scare: The challenge of bringing samples home from space
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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It’s flu season: Why do we need a shot every year? And should we be worried about the new avian influenza strain?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Listener Q&A: Plastic-eating mushrooms, allergy-curing hookworms, the end of the universe, making a career in scicomm, and more!
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Flavor is more than meets the taste buds: Health impacts, seltzer facts, and chocolate zucchini cake snacks
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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We’re not all in this together: How colonialist practices are shaping the impact of climate change
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Mad cow, 'zombie deer disease' and the science and spread of prions
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Combating misinformation in a crisis: Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Want to win a Tiny Matters mug? Send us your questions!
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Hurricane Katrina and the Ohio train derailment: Science, confusion, and human influence
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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A fungal pandemic is unlikely in humans. That’s not true for other species.
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Could psychedelics transform mental healthcare?
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May 31, 2023 |
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Treating depression: Then versus now, and the SSRI debate
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May 17, 2023 |
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The future of electronics: How small can we go?
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May 03, 2023 |
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Are we alone in the universe?
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Algae transformed Earth. Next stop: Mars?
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Shipworms, sponges and snail venoms: The search for marine medicine
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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"The Last of Us" fungi Q&A with mycologist Giuliana Furci
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Microplastics and PFAS (aka 'forever chemicals') are everywhere. What does that mean for our bodies and environment?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Detection dogs: Sniffing out explosives, invasive pythons and...disease?
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Hank Green on dad emails, the business of scicomm, and the value of niche
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The hunt for a rare microorganism
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Tell us what YOU want to learn about in 2023!
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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False memories, a surprising Civil War corpse, weekly dino fossil discoveries, and more! Faves from the first year of Tiny Matters
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Radiolab's Latif Nasser on his love of science history, storytelling, and Wikipedia rabbit holes
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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The Ig Nobel Prize: Levitating frogs, constipated scorpions, and other science that makes you laugh then think
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Does the microbiome deserve so much hype?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Lava bombs, the northern lights, ancient skull surgeries, and more! It's a vacation show & tell
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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What does it mean to 'age'? And will science ever stop us from aging?
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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It's spooky season! Using science to unravel vampire myths and survive a zombie apocalypse
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The rapid evolution of lactose intolerance (or, in fact, lactose tolerance)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Dreaming: Why we hallucinate while asleep (and do spiders do it too?)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Wastewater is helping us track disease outbreaks. Could it predict a future pandemic?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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If the Milky Way could talk, what would it tell us?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Regenerating a limb (or brand new body)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Preservatives: From ancient methods to today's plastic-wrapped Twinkies
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Smallpox is the only human infectious disease we've eradicated. Why?
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Why you should care about sharks (and why Sharknado wasn't totally wrong)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Decades later, people are still dying from the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The deadly London smog that changed pollution regulation forever
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Body farms: Anthropological research facilities are teaching us about life after death
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May 18, 2022 |
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What happened to Zika virus and the families affected?
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May 04, 2022 |
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Sugar: The addiction debate and an ancient mutation that’s killing us today
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Bioterrorism: Weaponizing science has been around for centuries
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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What is a memory? And how is it stored?
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Q&A with Tiny Matters hosts Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Typhoid fever didn't end with Typhoid Mary
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Could probiotics save coral reefs?
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Why don't we have an HIV vaccine?
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Dinosaur fossils: Informing Jurassic Park, inspiring new tech, and helping us predict Earth's future
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Welcome to Tiny Matters! A podcast about the small science underlying big things happening in our world
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Dec 10, 2021 |