4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About -- Episode 42

Collection of petri dishes 'painted' with colorful bacterial strains

Study suggests at least 11 fish species are capable of walking

Lightning strikes a field near Iowa City

Waves produced by iceberg calving near terminus of Hansbreen glacier

Surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri

Tracking the movements of finback whales

Optical image of a mosquito

Can a weather system in East Asia help predict hurricane frequency in the U.S.?

FloodBot: Using sensors and social media to alert residents of dangerous flash floods.

Turmeric -- the spice -- can help a puppy dog's eyes...and maybe ours too

Signals from most massive gravitational wave source yet

Artificial intelligence may help predict earthquakes and volcanoes

Secure Quantum Communication -- Sorry, spies and hackers

NHERI Wall of Wind (WOW!)

Topological magnet exhibits exotic quantum effects

A pod of hunting Ankylorhiza tiedemanis

Nano-optical probe investigating strained nanobubble of tungsten diselenide

Radio/optical composite image of edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4217

Multi-frequency composite image of the galaxy TXS 0128+554

Pinacate beetle wearing tiny wireless camera

Inspired by nature's inventions of claws and scales, this new tech could be a real "shoe-in"

Sunlight reflecting on ice-free water of Canada Basin

Chukchi Sea during research cruise

Melting ice in the Arctic Ocean

Icebreaker during research expedition

Complex and diverse bacterial ecology

Sunflowers increase foraging habitats for bees

Dancing electrons

You're going to live in a quantum future