Start searching for podcasts to advance your language learning skills


Podcasts



Crystals: From Apocalypse to Absolute

Duration: 0:34:29

Oksana Reznichenko: Crystals are the most mysterious objects that scientists around the world are studying with interest . One of the popular scenarios of the apocalypse, written by the famous science fiction writer, a chemist by education, Kurt Vonnegut, is connected precisely with crystals. It is interesting that crystals can not only grow like living organisms, but also reproduce themselves .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceChemistryChinaKurt Vonnegut

The solar system in a local gas bubble. What do scientists know?

Duration: 0:35:00

In good weather we can see stars in the sky and it seems that there is nothing between them but emptiness . Scientists suggest individual star systems may be in the so-called "local bubbles" This is not the most important "trick" of our Universe .

Language: Russian
Topics: PhysicsMathematicsUniverseMathematical Sciencesthe Russian Academy of SciencesStars

Life and mysteries of a neutron star

Duration: 0:36:01

Astronomers have been studying neutron stars for decades, but there are still many blind spots in their nature . These are the densest and "gravitationally saturated" objects in the known universe . Their hypergravity is so strong that, for example, only one piece of sugar from the substance of a neutron star will weigh 100 million tons on our planet, which is approximately equal to

Language: Russian
Topics: SpaceScienceHypergravityAstronomy

Neuromarketing: The Master Key to the Buyer's Brain

Duration: 0:34:54

Neuromarketing is a study of the human brain in order to influence its consumerist habits and consumer behavior . By studying brain activity, uncontrolled human reactions, scientist sees true reaction of the consumer to certain stimuli . While neuromarkseting is actively used by large companies in the world, Latvian consumers have yet to experience these techniques .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceNeuromarketingMarketingBrain

Is artificial intelligence changing human nature?

Duration: 0:35:00

The Nature of Things is a program about everything that surrounds us. Today in the program we are talking about artificial intelligence and man with the doctor of engineering sciences, RTU employee Egons Lavendelis .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceEngineeringArtificial intelligence

Microwaves: helpers or pests?

Duration: 0:35:08

Anna Litvinenko is a leading researcher at the Institute of Radio Electronics of the RTU Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications . She talks about the transition to a new level of 5G Internet safe and is it worth protecting yourself from microwave radiation?

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceRadio electronicsTelecommunications5G

Linguistics. insidious words

Duration: 0:35:08

Each generation has its own actual vocabulary, and a social group may have its own vocabulary . Do we need to understand all the words that are found in literature? And what words can be called "insidious"? We are talking about this in the program "The Nature of Things" with a linguist, candidate of philological sciences .

Language: Russian
Topics: Linguisticsthe Russian Academy of SciencesWordsYandexGoogle

Bones. Can they be restored by learning from nature?

Duration: 0:26:44

Scientists from Riga Technical University and Riga Stradins University have created a joint project called the Baltic Center for Advanced Biomaterials . They study the properties of living bone and the possibility of healing fractures with the help of chemical compounds .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceMedicinethe Institute of Organic SynthesisChemistry
« Previous | Next »