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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Big Brain Bestfriends, Mars Exploration Fleet, Brain Unpain

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Discover how our brains physically reflect how social we are, a new proposal for Mars exploration vehicles, and patterns in our brain that reveal how we process pain!

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Some People Can’t Recognize Faces, Weight-Lifting Strengthens Your Nerves Too, and Why Earth’s Core Doesn’t Melt

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Learn about why you might feel stronger after just one workout; why the Earth’s core doesn’t melt, even though it’s so hot; and prosopagnosia, the surprising neurological condition of face blindness.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pablo Escobar's Hippos Overtaking Colombia, More Phytoplankton Is Good for the Planet, and Seeing Climate Change in Daily Weather

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Learn about why a predicted increase in phytoplankton is good news for our environment; how researchers can detect evidence of climate change from just one day of global weather conditions; and how Pablo Escobar's hippos became an invasive species in Colombia.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Passion for Your Job Can Backfire, Ancient Greeks Knew Earth Was Round, and Hair in Food

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Learn about how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round; why being passionate about your job can backfire; and why you shouldn’t worry if you find a hair in your food.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Rice TV Screen, Satellite Warfare, Unraveled DNA

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Do you want to know about a new environmentally friendly way to make TV Screens, what future space warfare might look like, and how we have finally completely unraveled the human genome?

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Saturated Fat Could Kill Your Focus, Animals Have Regional Accents, and Rings Around Mars

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Learn about how saturated fat can make it harder for you to focus; why it matters that animals have regional accents; and why Mars used to have rings.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Mars Opportunity Rover Update, Sunscreen SPF Meanings, Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Thanksgiving Food from the ISS

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Josh Gates got his hands on what the astronauts on their way to the International Space Station are bringing with them for Thanksgiving dinner. Learn about their turkey and all the fixings -- and even a dessert!

Will Sending Aliens Nudes Lure Them to Us? NASA Thinks so.

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NASA scientists want to send naked pictures of humans to space in hopes of potentially making contact with aliens.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Personalities Associated with Certain Names, Working Less to Save the Earth, and Superbolts

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Learn about the big impact we could have on our planet by cutting work hours; the strange behavior of superbolts of lightning; and, which personalities people associate with the sounds of certain names.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why You’d Choose Your Biases Over Money, Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth, and Dark Fluid

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Learn about why your biases are so strong, you’d choose them over making money; a new theory that “dark fluid” might mean that dark matter and dark energy are the same weird substance; and Oymyakon, one of the coldest places on Earth where people continuously live.

NASA HQ to be Named in Honor of Mary W. Jackson

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NASA announced Wednesday, June 24th that NASA's Washington, D.C. headquarters will now be named for Mary W. Jackson, the first black, female engineer at NASA.

Launch of SpaceX’s Starlink: A “Mega-Constellation” of Internet Satellites

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Starlink is a growing network of satellites capable of providing high-speed internet access across the globe. On August 7 at 1:12 AM EDT, a new batch of satellites will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Roses Smell Different in Space

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Learn about emotions in online reviews; how flowers smell in space; and how water efficiency affected human evolution.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Ways Black Holes Can Kill You (w/ Katie Mack), Rituals to Improve Self-Control, and Ice Cream Types

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — and talk to astrophysicist Katie Mack about black holes — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pee Pee Concrete, Black Diamond from Space, Electric Plane

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Today, you’ll learn about an unusual proposal to use human tinkle to make buildings on Mars, a billion-year-old black diamond with an interstellar history, and what it’s going to take for airplanes to become totally electric.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Soft Drinks Taste Different Out of Cans, Why Housecats Are Dangerous for Wildlife, and 100 Minor Planets Discovered Beyond Neptune

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Learn about why housecats are deadlier for local wildlife than wild predators; why soft drinks taste better from a can than they do from a plastic bottle (especially when it comes to Cody and his Mountain Dew habits); and how astronomers just found 100 new minor planets beyond Neptune.

The First Full-Color Image From the James Webb Telescope is Here

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The $10 billion space telescope's first images of deep space are finally here. Watch this historic event unfold on JAMES WEBB LIVE: FIRST IMAGES REVEALED Tuesday, July 12 at 10:30a on Discovery.