Eureka!
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Eureka! explores real science, real discovery and real life at Mizzou and around the world.
- Website
- http://news.missouri.edu/category/eureka!/
- Description
- Eureka! explores real science, real discovery and real life at Mizzou and around the world.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2017-07-14 16:10
- last episode published
- 2022-05-25 04:00
- publication frequency
- 147.96 days
- Contributors
- Karen Pojmann
- Owner
- Stak
- Author
- Stak Production
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 17
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Higher Education Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2022-05-25 | Michael’s absolutely beside himself, because this week we’re diving into the world of physics! We talk about the limitations of rockets, how technology could change the way we’re exploring space and whether warp drives could be in our future… Special t... | |
| 2022-05-18 | In a time where global poverty rates are rising, your knee jerk reaction to billionaires might be that they shouldn’t exist, but could they play a fundamental role in solving global crises? In this episode we’re exploring how billionaires could be tax... | |
| 2022-05-11 |
In an age of science, why do people still believe in ghosts? Today, we’re examining ghosts through the lens of science and asking why someone might believe in the paranormal! With the help of Professor Chris French, we discuss the evolutionary advantages of getting spooked, why haunted houses feel so creepy and ... |
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| 2022-05-04 | Rick’s got a cold, so we’ve enlisted immunologist Professor Sheena Cruickshank to tell us all about the immune system! She’s unpacking what it does, the impact your diet has and she’s debunking some common myths about home remedies and enemas. There’s ... | |
| 2022-04-27 | They’re plastered across pop culture and we’ve all wondered at some point if somebody we know could be a psychopath, but what makes somebody psychopathic in the eyes of science? Today we’re speaking to Dr Mark Freestone about the psychopathy checklist ... | |
| 2022-04-20 | Rick’s sleep pattern is all over the place! He’s desperate to hear from one of the UK’s leading sleep experts, Dr Maja Schaedel. She’s sharing a fascinating insight into what makes a good kip - including how sex can affect your sleep and whether techn... | |
| 2022-04-13 |
Will we ever have safe, legal and ethical recreational drugs? Since records began, humans have been finding ways to intoxicate themselves - but that doesn’t always come without a cost. Today, we’re exploring how recreational drugs affect the brain, whether alcohol is more harmful to society than heroin, and the s... |
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| 2022-04-06 | Bloody hell, it’s a big one this week! We’re doing a deep dive on all things blood, as we ponder whether we could live without it. We’re going back in time to learn about a gruesome, blood-sucking tradition in ancient Rome and the very first blood tran... | |
| 2022-03-30 | The more we learn about the universe, the harder it is to believe we’re alone. But if aliens do exist, how likely are they to pay us a visit? And if they did, would it be such a bad thing? The answer to this week’s question is either going to be a grea... | |
| 2022-03-23 | This week we’re getting under the skin of one of Rick’s pet peeves: people being proud to say they’re bad at mathematics! We’re discovering if some people are just born bad at numbers, whether gender has any effect on our ability to manage sums and if ... |