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Do whales fart?

Wildlife expert Vanessa Pirotta talks whale digestion on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
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What came before the Big Bang?

Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear astronomer Michael Lam on what theories scientists have for what came before the Big Bang.
An Ebola victim is prepared for burial in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo during the ongoing outbreak. EPA

Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine

The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola causing the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently has no vaccine. The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to two researchers working to develop one.
The U.S. stores its strategic oil reserves in subterranean salt caverns along the Gulf Coast, like this one in West Hackberry, Louisiana, photographed on June 1, 1980. Robert Nickelsberg/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled

Geologist Scott Montgomery tells The Conversation Weekly podcast how strategic oil reserves work and why the U.S. keeps oil in underground salt caverns.

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