Real Science
"A Vial of Knowledge" ( Biologist & Arachnologist) (#706)
Biologist and Arachnologist: Scientists get out their syringes to learn about animal stress and venom! First, it's a boat ride to Gull Island, Alaska where biologists monitor stress hormones in birds affected by an oil spill. Then, it's time to capture orb weaver spiders near Tucson, Arizona to determine the reason spiders have different types of venom.
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Program Description: From alligator-infested waters to quiet sleep labs--from the top of the San Francisco Bay Bridge to under the sea in a submarine--Real Science takes students behind the scenes into the real world of today's scientists and engineers.
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Past Episodes
These episodes of Real Science aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- "Product Design" (Product Design Engineer & Industrial Mineralogist) (#713)
- "Power to the People" (Plasma Physicist & Plant Genetisist) (#712)
- "Smashing Electrics!" (Physicist & Manufacturing Engineer) (#711)
- "Seeing The Sea" (Marine Ecologist & Aquarist) (#710)
- "Dig It" (Archaeologist & Geologist) (#709)
- "Mystical Creatures" (Paleontolgist & Marine Biologist) (#708)
- "Snowy Secrets" (Glacial Geologist & Civil Engineer) (#707)
- "A Vial of Knowledge" ( Biologist & Arachnologist) (#706)
- "Fish Power" (Aquaculturist & Marine Biologist) (#705)
- "Insect Carriers" (Entomologists) (#704)
- "Water Rescue" (Limnologist & Veterinarian) (#703)
- "Frog Study" (Wildlife Biologists) (#702)
- "Web of Life" (Software Test Engineer & Zoology Educator) (#701)
- Alien Invasion (#605)
- Animal Tracks (#604)
- Guardians of Nature (#603)
- Up A Creek (#602)
- It's in the Water (#601)
