Dr. Eleanor Dishes about Ants!
Looking for a new podcast to listen to while waiting for the next season of Serial? Check out Under The Microscope -- available for free on iTunes -- [...]
Urban Cicada Safari
On September 2, as the 9-5ers emptied out of downtown Raleigh, we gathered near the State Legislature Building to embark on an urban insect adventure. [...]
#KidsDoScience reprise
School may be out for the summer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be thinking about next year’s science fair project. Today, Adam Hochberg reported [...]
Carpe Cicada!
As a kid, I never could sleep well on Christmas Eve. The anticipation of Santa’s visit (and the pile of wrapped presents he [...]
Scaredy Cats
For the last 100,000 years, big critters have been hunting (and haunting) our human ancestors. Think saber-tooth cats, giant kangaroos and big snakes. This evolutionary [...]
Right Under Our Noses
Arthropods! In your house! Ok, you shouldn’t be surprised. We’ve been talking about the arthropods – insects, spiders and their kin – co-habitating with us [...]
Not All Pits Are Equal
Yesterday, Dr. Julie Horvath introduced you to our Armpit Microbe Pilot Study, known as #PitStart to those of you following along in real time on [...]
Arthropod Update
*Today post-doc Matt Bertone gives us an update on some of the wild, wonderful and wacky finds the Arthropods of Our Homes team has made [...]
Wild Life of Our Bodies on The People’s Pharmacy (Podcast)
Thousands of years ago (and more), human beings co-existed with a wide range of other species that lived around us and even on our skin [...]
Scientific American Podcast
Think of the weirdest creatures you’ve even seen in a sci-fi film. Now think of this: there are far stranger, albeit smaller, critters living in [...]