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Join Dr. Universe and her friends at Washington State University as they investigate science questions from kids around the world. Know a kid with a curious science question? Help them submit it at askDrUniverse.wsu.edu for a chance to be featured on a future episode.
Washington State University hosts Ask Dr. Universe, a kids show with 64 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I investigated belly buttons—thanks to WSU nursing professor Cindy Brigham-Althoff . Learn more about the placenta with Operation Ouch and Scientific American Check out all the belly buttons wi
Send us Fan Mail Join me and some new friends as we shrink down and travel through a cell, checking out organelles along the way. It's a cell biology adventure! This episode was written and performed by the 6th graders i
Send us Fan Mail WSU apple breeder, Kate Evans, told me all about out how apples work and what it's like to be a scientist who makes new apples—like the Cosmic Crisp®. Learn more about the Cosmic Crisp® appleSee all thes
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I learned all about cat anatomy and how feline friends like us climb so well. Thanks to WSU vet med's Steve Lampa for the expert info. Learn more about joints with NemoursFind out about connect
Send us Fan Mail Today Cosmo and I learned all about fingerprints—and how they give primates dexterity and grip. Learn more about primates from PBSFind out how gecko feet work with ACSCheck out your fingerprints with Sci
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I found out why our tallest animal friends have long, dark tongues—and what melanin does for humans, too. Thanks to Cynthia Cooper, who studies animal pigments at WSU Vancouver. Find out more a
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I learn about all kinds of life cycles: holometabolous (big change), hemimetabolous (small change), and ametabolous (no change). Check out how a caterpillar makes the big change with Deep LookA
Send us Fan Mail Today I'm talking with Julie Ménard, a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me about the terrestrial planets in our solar system, how we're about to visit Mars—and could even set
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I learn about shots—and new technology our friend WSU's Roland Chen is working on to make painless vaccines. Learn more about microarray patches Find out how vaccines work with the Amoeba Siste
Send us Fan Mail Today Cosmo and I learned all about dog paws from our friend, WSU veterinarian Dr. Natasha Hottmann. Learn more about being a veterinarian with Nat Geo KidsFind out how to check your dog's pawsCan dogs c
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I learn how cell phones send texts, images and calls from phone to phone—thanks to our friend, electrical engineer Ben Belzer. Resources you can use: Learn more about binary code with Crash Cou
Send us Fan Mail Love veggies? Me, too. And so does my friend Tim Waters, regional vegetable specialist at WSU Extension. In this episode, you'll hear: What Extension isWhat it was like for Extension agents back in 1918H
Send us Fan Mail Today Cosmo and I learn about turtles and how they grow their amazing shells —all thanks to my friend, Ryan Wagner, wildlife biologist at Washington State University (and former turtle pedicurist). Art a
Send us Fan Mail Dooooo-doo, Dooooo-doo. 🦈 Today Cosmo and I learn about sharks and their rad digestive systems—all thanks to my friend, Dr. Nora Hickey, fish veterinarian at Washington State University. Want to learn m
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I learn all about wildlife biology from my friend, Ryan Wagner. He told me about clipping turtle toenails and bathing froglets—all for science. And he recounted his recent adventure back
Send us Fan Mail Cosmo and I learn about microbes, thanks to Eric Lofrgren, an infectious disease expert at WSU. Resources you can use: hear what microbes arewhere they live in the environmenthow some skin bacteria help
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I learn all about what it means to be a pharmacist with my friend, Damianne Brand-Eubanks. She's a pharmacist and professor at Washington State University. Hear about: different kinds of
Send us Fan Mail What happens if you need your third molars removed? Cosmo and I find out, after talking to our friend David Carsten. He's a dentist anesthesiologist who studied at Washington State University and now tea
Send us Fan Mail Can Cosmo and I help a cool kid like you face their fear of bugs? Join us—and our friend Paul Strand, psychologist at Washington State University—as we dig into why things freak us out and how to beat-le
Send us Fan Mail Today I'm talking with Von Walden, an atmospheric scientist at Washington State University. Hear about Earth's bubble of gases AKA the atmosphereLearn why clouds can be weird in the polar regionsFind out
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