Science Talks

08/27/2025

New episode out today! Here we discuss the evolution of venom in populations of rattlesnakes in the Gulf of California!

Venom... it is a substance that many animals produce, including rattlesnakes, that helps them to survive by assisting with capturing their prey. Here, you will learn all about how ecology can influence the evolution of venom in rattlesnake populations from the Gulf of California. We interview lead a...

08/15/2025

Episode 3 drops today! Listen in to learn about plant/fungal interactions!

In this episode, Dr. Liz Bowman describes the importance of fungi in the lives of plants. We focus particularly on the invasive plant - Buffelgrass - and how fungal communities differ between populations in their native (African) and non-Native (Texas & Arizona) ranges. Surprisingly, fungus play...

05/30/2025

Episode 2 is out today! Want to learn more about how we know how hot the Earth was or what the CO2 levels were before humans had technology to measure it? Click here!

This episode addresses how we know what temperatures and concentrations of atmospheric gases were long before humans could record it with modern instrumentation. Ice tells a story about what the environment was like tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. Here we interview Dr. Dr. Kaden Martin,....

02/14/2025

Episode 1 has launched! Listen now to "What is antibiotic resistance?"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mrE2CdmBUk6wwLIflKV1F?si=lgCMZklfTamyVrwS70jYqw

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02/11/2025

Episode 1 will be dropping soon! Stay tuned!