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Dr. Kiki's Science Hour is an in-depth exploration of scientific topics ranging from climate change to nanotech. Every week neurophysiologist Dr. Kirsten Sanford talks with leading experts in all areas of scientific research.Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
Dr. Kiki takes you from new-couch smell to the chemicals settling in your dust.
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A practical final-hour discussion of open access, membership, and the incentives that keep peer review working.
Open access publishing gets a grounded, practical hearing as Dr. Kiki's Science Hour sets aside its usual one-expert format for a final hour with Peter Binfield and Jason Hoyt from PeerJay.
A friendly, observant tour of solar rotation, flares, and the satellites extending the sun's visible story.
Sunspots, solar rotation, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory give this single-episode review a clean center of gravity: how the sun behaves, and how scientists find ways to see more of it.
A Kepler signal survives careful scrutiny, turning discovery into a patient process of elimination.
A fluctuation in a star's light becomes a study in scientific patience, as Kepler mission researchers work out whether the signal can be trusted.
A new carpet or couch smell, and the dust beneath it, anchor a clear account of household chemical exposure.
Household exposure becomes easier to grasp as Dr. Arlene Bloom ties the smell of a new carpet or couch to the dust that gathers on the floor. Her explanation separates volatile organic compounds, which remain in the air and can be smelled, from semi-volatile organic compounds,…
A neuroscientist, a science enthusiast, and plenty of tangents.
Researchers explain their work, from exoplanets to lunar duckweed.
Peter Binfield says PeerJ is charging "$99" for a lifetime membership that covers one article a year.
"Honey is nature's antibiotic," and the Wound Warriors test it against school bacteria and planaria.
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John Jenkins explains how Kepler turned 95 million pixels into 156,000 stars and a 1-in-10,000 transit signal.
Blum says the same Tris removed from children's pajamas is now used in furniture and baby products, sometimes at "5%" to "12%" by weight.
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