Our bodies need protein, and proteins contain nitrogen. The air we breathe has plenty of nitrogen to satisfy our needs. But-that nitrogen is not available to us directly from the air. The only way ...

A listener from Ontario, California wrote to A Moment of Science with a question her sons had asked her. The boys wondered why is it that when you get sunburned you often feel chilled. It really ...

If blood didn't circulate through our bodies, carrying oxygen and nutrients, people wouldn't be able to live. Blood is so important to life that the body constantly makes new blood. There are ...

Heat is a measure of molecular activity: the faster a thing's molecules move, the more heat that substance contains. And because everything is made of molecules, and molecules are in constant ...

Human beings have round pupils; cats have pupils shaped like vertical slits. What's the advantage for cats and people, respectively, in those different pupil shapes? Different pupil shapes seem ...

When you used to enter Dana, Indiana from the south, one of the first things you would see is a portrait of Ernie Pyle, the renowned WWII war correspondent. He was painted on a wall mural ...

What makes kitchen plastic wrap cling so maddeningly to itself, and so conveniently to the sides of bowls and plates? Plastic wrap clings for two reasons: it's elastic and it's sticky. That ...

Have you ever burnt a stack of papers? Maybe a few exams you didn't do so well on in that high school history class and you thought you'd avoid a load of grief from your folks by just burning the ...

Mark Hood is a professor of audio engineering at Indiana University, and he owns Echo Park Studios. He's worked with big stars like George Benson, James Taylor, and Bob Dylan, but before that he ...

The Monroe County Health Department will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines to those who are unable to leave their homes. Teams from the City of Bloomington Fire Department and Monroe ...

An amendment to a Senate bill would protect an industrial company from getting sued if its plans to put carbon emissions underground goes awry. The hydrogen production facility in Terre Haute is ...

You may already know that chocolate can be lethal to your pet, but did you know that onions can be toxic to your cats and dogs too? And I'm not just talking about their breath ...