Can jolts of electricity turn malignant cells back to healthy ones? University of Guelph researcher Samantha Payne shares the results of her breast cancer study. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

We interview Sally Adee, a journalist and the author of “We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds,” for this episode: Skeptic Check: The Body Electric bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

In this shocking episode, what the evidence says about the ability of electricity to heal wounds, improve Parkinson’s symptoms, treat chronic diseases, and disable cancer cells. It’s Skeptic Check: The Body Electric bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

Today we know that our bodies run on electrical impulses, but in the 18th century thee idea was so radical that it divided European scientists. Many refused to believe that the phenomenon they saw in lightning was also made the body tick. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

The vagus nerve connects your brain to your organs. It controls inflammation and plays a role in regulating your immune system. Why zapping it with electricity might cure what ails you: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

Many 19th-century claims about the curative powers of electricity were pseudoscience. Find out how the current thinking has changed and why bioelectricity may be a viable field of medicine. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

Biology uses electrical signaling to function. But could electricity also be used to treat disease and heal wounds? This week’s episode is “Skeptic Check: The Body Electric.” bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

Our bodies rely on electricity to function, but could electricity also be used to treat disease and heal wounds? The research may shock you. This week, it’s “Skeptic Check: The Body Electric.” bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

Scientists have measured in number of cells the smallest fragment of a sliced flatworm that can regenerate into an entire animal. Learn that number and how these worms skillfully use stem cells to regenerate those tubular bodies. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Planarian flatworms have amazing regenerative abilities. After being sliced in half, wounds close within minutes, new eyes appear in days, and by day seven, the regenerated body is behaving like a functioning flatworm. @stowersinstitute.bsky.social bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Following the idea that noisy soil is healthy soil, a scientist listens to earthworms. @peaseroland.bsky.social visits Jacqueline Stroud as she sticks a microphone in dirt to collect the underground "soundscape." Hear the munching, rustling sounds of worms. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Children sing about worms, but Charles Darwin played piano for them. The father of evolution put the wrigglers (in jars) on top of his piano and played music. Find out which notes prompted the worms to retreat quickly into their burrows. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Charles Darwin discovered that earthworms may be surprisingly choosy—and clever. He gave them paper triangles coated in vegetable fat, and they selected and dragged certain shapes into their burrows, suggesting they were making… intelligent decisions. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Science journalist Phil Ball discusses how Charles Darwin’s final book “The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, With Observations on Their Habits,” transformed our understanding about what until then was considered a marginal animal. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Darwin had a lifelong fondness and fascination for earthworms. Hear how his insights about the invertebrates became the backbone of modern ecology and why science journalist Phil Ball included them in his book, “Beautiful Experiments.” bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of “lowly” earthworms when he calculated that these mountain movers displace about eight tons of soil per acre every year and may have helped bury ancient monuments. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

They may be small and limbless, but worms are masters of survival and adaptation. Earthworms engineer their underground environment, navigate a world we can barely see, and may even communicate through vibrations. This week's episode is "Worms of Endearment" bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

Earthworms seem like nature's humblest creatures, but these mountain movers literally transform the world beneath our feet, while flatworms reveal extraordinary secrets about regeneration and stem cells. This episode is "Worms of Endearment" bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

With bilateral symmetry, the worm body plan makes it an efficient moving and eating machine. Many worms also self-regenerate. In this week's episode, a scientist listens to worms to monitor soil health, and flatworms teach about stem cell regrowth. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

They may be small, limbless, and blind, but earthworms play a critical role in soil ecology. These invertebrates are the backbone of modern ecology and scientists are even listening to worms to monitor soil health. This week, it's "Worms of Endearment" bigpicturescience.org/episodes/wor...

The word "Arctic" comes from the Greek arktikos, meaning "near the bear." We get as near to polar bears as we can in this interview with Dr. Andrew Derocher who has studied the region’s iconic and dangerous animals for four decades. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

Abrupt climate change and the halting of the powerful Atlantic Ocean current were the plot drivers of the climate thriller The Day After Tomorrow twenty years ago. But they are not science fiction, says a researcher studying the melting Greenland icesheet. buff.ly/zFYRsjr

Scientists from @bas.ac.uk aboard the RSS Sir David Attenborough are racing to understand the tipping point for Greenland’s melting glaciers. In areas too dangerous for humans, they send robotic vehicles beneath glaciers, 50–100 meters underwater. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

Dr. Andrew Derocher has studied polar bears for four decades. He began simply wanting to know more about the animals’ habits and biology. He didn't expect climate change to transform their world and his own research focus during his career. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

Dr. Andrew Derocher @aederocher.bsky.social has spent decades studying polar bears in West Hudson Bay. Join us as he shares extraordinary facts about the animals and how loss of sea ice is stressing their ability to regularly find food. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

The deepest point in the Arctic is more than 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) down. Polestern researchers are towing cameras capable of surviving 6,000 meters of pressure to watch life on the ocean floor. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

Global warming is reshaping life on the Arctic seafloor. Scientists are finding more sea cucumbers and other Atlantic species creeping north as the ocean warms, a phenomenon they call "Atlantification." bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

One of biologist Autun Purser’s most memorable Arctic moments is when a brilliantly colored king eider duck, a polar duck, followed his research ship for two weeks, feasting on tiny creatures churned up by the propellers. That story and more on "Arctic Dispatch" bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

Marine biologist Autun Purser of @awi.de has returned to the same stretch of the Arctic every year for 25 years and says the sea ice is thinner and more fragile. "The ice puts up less of a fight,” he told @peaseroland.bsky.social who reached him aboard the ship. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...

The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the planet. Scientists aboard @awi.de Polestern icebreaker near Greenland are watching changes unfold in real-time. Listen to @peaseroland.bsky.social’s ship-to-shore interview with a researcher on board. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/arc...