Exploradio Origins
Exploradio Origins ponders the biggest questions in the universe in 90 seconds.
Each episode highlights the work of one of the more than 200 fellows at the Institute for the Science of Origins at Case Western Reserve University. Their research examines the origins of life, the universe, and the strands that connect all of science.
Exploradio Origins is a collaboration between WKSU and the Institute for the Science of Origins.
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When we think about it, we usually remember to breathe when we’re awake. But who’s at the controls when we’re sleeping?“We’re still continuing to… -
To live and function, we know cells have to eat and reproduce. But, they also have to take out the trash. What seems like a simple chore to us is actually… -
Humans have had to live with malaria for a long time. So long, in fact, that we even see changes in our genome that protect us from the disease."Sickle… -
It seems our brains are never truly quiet. We dream when we are asleep, and in sensory deprivation experiments, participants start hallucinating within 15… -
When we cool things down, classically, we can think of the atoms moving around inside the material getting slower and slower until they stop moving. That… -
“People always want to know where they came from, right? They get excited by new discoveries of dinosaurs, but they become curious by the discovery of… -
Each time our cells grow and divide, they have to perfectly copy out almost a billion elements of genetic code. Of course, perfect almost never happens.… -
In order to function, the cells in our bodies need to coordinate and pass information, say, if we need a burst of energy to flee a threat. But, without… -
Scientists have spent centuries studying how matter works. They’ve boiled it, they’ve frozen it, and they’ve even thrown it into particle colliders and… -
When Dr. Robert Brown started teaching physics at Case Western Reserve University, he had no idea he’d be using his expertise in magnetic fields to hunt…
