Treatment trials for Down Syndrome; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Editor’s Audio Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the February 26, 2014 issue

Since they didn’t blow up Neil’s office in Part 1, the MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are back to finish the job. Up for discussion: busted urban legends, Archimedes, Bigfoot and more.

Eavesdropping on ecosystems; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Editor’s Audio Summary by Edward H. Livingston, MD, Deputy Editor, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the February 19, 2014 issue

The MythBusters are in the house. In Part 1, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to discuss experiments, physics, urban legends and more.

Termite-inspired builder robots; why some mammalian cells have so many copies of their chromosomes.

Editor’s Audio Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the February 12, 2014 issue

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice tackle an eclectic mix of your questions that take us from the boiling surface of the Sun to the dark side of the moon and Earth’s distant past to the last moments of the universe.

Tackling the role of early fetal brain development in autism; daily news stories with David Grimm.