#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Honored in 2007, Frances E. Allen was the first woman to win the Turing Award for work in this science computer science |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $400: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire (Mary Baker) Eddy |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEELING SCIENCE-"E" $600: Langerhans cells are found in this layer of the skin epidermis |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEELING SCIENCE-"E" $1000: It's hibernation, but in summer estivation |
#8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $800: One of the letters in a BSEE degree Science |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: "m" represents this in Einstein's equation E=mc2 mass |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | SCIENCE CLASS $1200: This climate event occurs in an unusually warm E. Pacific every 2 to 7 years & can change winds, currents & rain patterns El Niño |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE $400: "Queen of Carbon Science" Mildred Dresselhaus was the first female National Medal of Science winner in this "E" in STEM engineering |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $800: This branch of zoology that focuses on insects emerged as a distinct field of study in the early 19th century entomology |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $800: In science talk, it's a gamete an egg |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | SCIENCE FRICTION $2,800 (Daily Double): In a 19th c. spat in this field, O.C. Marsh won a round when it turned out E.D. Cope had put an elasmosaurus skull on the tail paleontology |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | GENERAL SCIENCE $400: George Beadle & E.L. Tatum's studies of the Neurospora crassa mold on this food helped launch molecular genetics in 1941 bread |
#7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) Keeping satellites safe is the goal of the STARE project, which can predict the orbit of thousands of pieces of space junk to within 100 meters using tiny satellites positioned in "L.E.O.", short for this low Earth orbit |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: (I'm Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Spacex) My belief in the importance of space travel & planetary colonization for the survival of the human species was influenced in part by the epic depiction of the rise & fall of civilizations in this author's "Foundation" series Isaac Asimov |
#6848, aired 2014-05-28 | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) At the heart of the Neutron Science Center is a powerful linear accelerator that accelerates protons to 84% of this, the "c" in E = mc2 the speed of light |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $400: This sleep stage during which most dreams occur was discovered in 1953 R.E.M. sleep |
#6676, aired 2013-09-30 | HEY, LAD-"E" $800: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire Mary Baker Eddy |
#6593, aired 2013-04-24 | ALL SCIENCE "E" $800: Physicist J.J. Thomson discovered this subatomic particle in 1897 an electron |
#6593, aired 2013-04-24 | ALL SCIENCE "E" $1200: The gas-exchanging tissues of the lungs are destroyed in this lung disease emphysema |
#6593, aired 2013-04-24 | ALL SCIENCE "E" $2000: Adrenaline is another name for this hormone secreted in response to stress or fear epinephrine |
#6308, aired 2012-02-08 | YAY, PHYSICS! $400: Physics has been defined as "the science of matter, motion, and" this, the "E" in a 1905 equation energy |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $400: Term for a substance that can't be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means element |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $800: Abnormal electrical activity in the brain causes this seizure-inducing neurological disorder epilepsy |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $1200: It's defined as the capacity or power to do work energy |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $1600: Marine invertebrates like starfish & sand dollars are this type of animal, from the Latin for "urchin skin" echinoderms |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $2000: Chemical formula C10H15NO, it's used to treat asthma ephedrine |
#5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches some trapeze artists rehearse at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.) At the start of the trick, the trapeze artist has maximized her P.E., this; at the moment of the catch, she wants to maximize it again so she's not moving potential energy |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | SCIENCE FACTION $1200: The "S" in UNESCO is for "scientific"; this is what the "E" is for & remember, it's an adjective, not a noun educational |
#5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: All 5 elements of the salt-producing halogen group end in these 3 letters (one element purifies drinking water) -I-N-E |
#5131, aired 2006-12-25 | SAVE THAT E-MAIL ADDRESS! $600: jharris@quincy.ca contacts this type of "scientist" defined as using science in the service of law enforcement forensic scientist |
#4687, aired 2005-01-11 | FILM CRITICISM $800: Though one critic dubbed it "Lassie in science fiction drag", this 1982 flick fared well at the box office anyway E.T. |
#3374, aired 1999-04-15 | SCIENCE $400: A satellite in a retrograde orbit around the Earth heads in this direction West/or opposite to the Earth's rotation |
#1738, aired 1992-03-04 | COLLEGE DEGREES $600: An M.S. in C.E. is a Master of Science in Civil Engineering; an M.S. in Ch.E. is this Chemical Engineering |
#1685, aired 1991-12-20 | COLLEGE DEGREES $300: An M.S. in M.E. is a Master of Science in this kind of engineering mechanical |
#1289, aired 1990-03-22 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: Developed by astronomer A.E. Douglass, dendrochronology determines age in this way counting tree rings |
#1207, aired 1989-11-28 | SCIENCE $600: In the formula E=mc2, c represents this the speed of light |
#845, aired 1988-04-15 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1000: What the E, m, & c stand for in Einstein's famous equation energy, mass & the speed of light |
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