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Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

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GLP-1 targets beyond obesity, and misusing brain data 2026-11-05 · 46m
Destroying forever chemicals, hyperlocal pollution sensing, and an experiment in queer parenthood 2026-10-29 · 50m
Birds make decisions faster than we do, rewriting DNA’s history, and combining science and poetry 2026-10-22 · 44m
Cheese history, redating the Inca empire, and the source of the breath’s rhythm 2026-10-15 · 57m
A moon heist, lava fountains, and predicting doomsday 2026-10-08 · 49m
Stimulating the brain for women’s health, and the long-term implications of menopausal symptoms 2026-10-01 · 37m
Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss 2026-09-24 · 49m
Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science 2026-09-17 · 40m
Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education 2026-09-10 · 33m
Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease 2026-09-03 · 28m
Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas 2026-08-27 · 50m
Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome 2026-08-20 · 29m
A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding 2026-08-13 · 27m
Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA 2026-08-06 · 38m
AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography 2026-07-30 · 47m
Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters 2026-07-23 · 37m
Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere 2026-07-16 · 42m
Owl wars and the immune system’s memory 2026-07-09 · 35m
How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic 2026-07-02 · 33m
Cracking color vision, U.S. science policy changes, and a trailblazing biography 2026-06-25 · 45m
An electronic nose that detects spoiled chicken, and wolves make a spectacular comeback in Europe 2026-06-18 · 47m
How childhood environments shape the brain, and how susceptible is the Atlantic Ocean’s current to climate change? 2026-06-11 · 32m
Will AI replace astronomers, how healthy are ultraprocessed foods, and a peek behind the scenes of ‘The Normals’ 2026-06-04 · 50m
Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time 2026-05-28 · 45m
USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world 2026-05-21 · 41m
Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body 2026-05-14 · 32m
A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment 2026-05-07 · 54m
Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame 2026-04-30 · 47m
Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer 2026-04-23 · 31m
The normals | Episode 3 2026-04-21 · 33m
How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting 2026-04-16 · 51m
The Normals | Episode 2 2026-04-14 · 27m
A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion 2026-04-09 · 42m
The Normals | Episode 1 2026-04-07 · 24m
Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction 2026-04-02 · 34m
Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI 2026-03-26 · 37m
Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back 2026-03-19 · 33m
What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills 2026-03-12 · 43m
An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon 2026-03-05 · 38m
Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery 2026-02-26 · 32m
Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting 2026-02-19 · 41m
Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form 2026-02-12 · 34m
Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses 2026-02-05 · 40m
Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels 2026-01-29 · 39m
Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes 2026-01-22 · 32m
Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface 2026-01-15 · 30m
The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows 2026-01-08 · 28m
Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too 2026-01-01 · 43m
This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories 2025-12-18 · 34m
Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat 2025-12-11 · 28m
Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics 2025-12-04 · 38m
When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat 2025-11-27 · 26m
A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research 2025-11-20 · 33m
Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink 2025-11-13 · 28m
Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse 2025-11-06 · 35m
Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends 2025-10-30 · 45m
The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish 2025-10-23 · 27m
Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease 2025-10-16 · 27m
How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine 2025-10-09 · 37m
A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh 2025-10-02 · 35m
Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world 2025-09-25 · 46m
Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery 2025-09-18 · 35m
An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor 2025-09-11 · 35m
Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket 2025-09-04 · 33m
A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead 2025-08-28 · 55m
New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America 2025-08-21 · 32m
Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing? 2025-08-14 · 32m
Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live 2025-08-07 · 28m
Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead 2025-07-31 · 52m
Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives 2025-07-24 · 35m
Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria 2025-07-17 · 37m
A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes 2025-07-10 · 26m
Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars 2025-07-03 · 31m
Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia 2025-06-26 · 45m
How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy 2025-06-19 · 37m
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change 2025-06-12 · 37m
Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science 2025-06-05 · 42m
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research 2025-05-29 · 53m
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’ 2025-05-22 · 40m
A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes 2025-05-15 · 30m
Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science 2025-05-08 · 33m
Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’ 2025-05-01 · 32m
A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series 2025-04-24 · 46m
Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander 2025-04-17 · 27m
The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH 2025-04-10 · 29m
Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy 2025-04-03 · 32m
Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots 2025-03-27 · 33m
Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea 2025-03-20 · 38m
Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH 2025-03-13 · 43m
Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker 2025-03-06 · 55m
Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home 2025-02-27 · 36m
Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability 2025-02-20 · 42m
Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants 2025-02-13 · 39m
How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth 2025-02-06 · 27m
Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration 2025-01-30 · 27m
Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine 2025-01-23 · 33m
Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters 2025-01-16 · 34m
Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints 2025-01-09 · 33m
On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals 2025-01-02 · 29m
Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds 2024-12-19 · 38m
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates 2024-12-12 · 45m
Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech 2024-12-05 · 31m
Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted 2024-11-28 · 27m
Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity 2024-11-21 · 37m
Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains 2024-11-14 · 31m
Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers 2024-11-07 · 25m
The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity 2024-10-31 · 39m
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination 2024-10-24 · 46m
How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete 2024-10-17 · 39m
Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water 2024-10-10 · 31m
Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms 2024-10-03 · 28m
Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins 2024-09-26 · 48m
Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat 2024-09-19 · 44m
Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound 2024-09-12 · 28m
Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost? 2024-09-05 · 33m
A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism 2024-08-29 · 53m
Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote 2024-08-22 · 31m
The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise 2024-08-15 · 28m
The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine 2024-08-08 · 28m
Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy 2024-08-01 · 28m
Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots 2024-07-25 · 46m
New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game 2024-07-18 · 31m
How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations 2024-07-11 · 35m
What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer 2024-07-04 · 31m
Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money 2024-06-27 · 49m
The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution 2024-06-20 · 33m
How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice 2024-06-13 · 42m
Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up 2024-06-06 · 38m
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials 2024-05-30 · 45m
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud 2024-05-23 · 34m
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters 2024-05-16 · 33m
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects 2024-05-09 · 30m
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice 2024-05-02 · 25m
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series 2024-04-25 · 43m
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut 2024-04-18 · 38m
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene 2024-04-11 · 33m
When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor? 2024-04-04 · 31m
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career 2024-03-28 · 30m
Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture 2024-03-21 · 36m
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain 2024-03-14 · 29m
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair 2024-03-07 · 30m
The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change 2024-02-29 · 30m
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all 2024-02-22 · 48m
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication 2024-02-15 · 46m
A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators 2024-02-08 · 31m
A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs 2024-02-01 · 30m
A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior 2024-01-25 · 28m
Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw 2024-01-19 · 36m
The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth 2024-01-11 · 44m
The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease 2024-01-04 · 34m
The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender 2023-12-22 · 40m
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins 2023-12-14 · 32m
Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives 2023-12-07 · 38m
Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots 2023-11-30 · 35m
Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy 2023-11-23 · 55m
AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills 2023-11-16 · 22m
The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics 2023-11-09 · 35m
Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs 2023-11-02 · 39m
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science 2023-10-26 · 30m
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science 2023-10-26 · 33m
Dealing with the consequences of removing the world largest dam, and building a quantum computer using sound waves 2023-10-19 · 28m
The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves 2023-10-19 · 30m
Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors 2023-10-13 · 42m
Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors 2023-10-12 · 39m
How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty? 2023-10-05 · 33m
How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty? 2023-10-05 · 36m
Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’ 2023-09-28 · 51m
Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall 2023-09-21 · 37m
Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions 2023-09-14 · 34m
Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid 2023-09-07 · 33m
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell 2023-08-31 · 38m
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender 2023-08-24 · 52m
What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated 2023-08-17 · 48m
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh 2023-08-10 · 27m
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum 2023-08-03 · 36m
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa 2023-07-27 · 49m
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones 2023-07-20 · 39m
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo 2023-07-13 · 30m
Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero 2023-07-06 · 31m
Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction 2023-06-29 · 48m
A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes 2023-06-22 · 29m
Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course 2023-06-15 · 23m
Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry 2023-06-08 · 29m
How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals 2023-06-01 · 29m
Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females 2023-05-25 · 41m
The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves 2023-05-18 · 33m
Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands 2023-05-11 · 43m
Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes 2023-05-04 · 41m
The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable 2023-04-27 · 32m
Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep 2023-04-20 · 39m
More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series 2023-04-13 · 42m
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants 2023-04-06 · 32m
How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille 2023-03-30 · 30m
New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories 2023-03-23 · 27m
An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer 2023-03-16 · 24m
Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts 2023-03-09 · 41m
Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry 2023-03-02 · 31m
Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love 2023-02-23 · 34m
Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus 2023-02-16 · 30m
Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth 2023-02-09 · 32m
Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets 2023-02-02 · 29m
Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world 2023-01-26 · 26m
Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change 2023-01-19 · 39m
Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries 2023-01-12 · 34m
A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases 2023-01-05 · 27m
Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights 2022-12-22 · 33m
Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books 2022-12-15 · 32m
The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci 2022-12-08 · 36m
A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano 2022-12-01 · 29m
Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need? 2022-11-24 · 27m
Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus 2022-11-17 · 27m
Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators 2022-11-10 · 43m
Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy 2022-11-03 · 28m
Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction 2022-10-27 · 49m
Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet 2022-10-20 · 23m
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks 2022-10-13 · 30m
Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores 2022-10-06 · 42m
Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog 2022-09-29 · 40m
Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms 2022-09-22 · 28m
Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’ 2022-09-15 · 29m
Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars 2022-09-08 · 26m
Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry 2022-09-01 · 42m
Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age 2022-08-25 · 37m
Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing 2022-08-18 · 27m
Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose 2022-08-11 · 26m
Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity 2022-08-04 · 27m
Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition 2022-07-28 · 41m
Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus 2022-07-21 · 45m
The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy 2022-07-14 · 36m
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India 2022-07-07 · 33m
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis 2022-06-30 · 23m
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation 2022-06-23 · 45m
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits 2022-06-16 · 41m
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid 2022-06-09 · 32m
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning 2022-06-02 · 29m
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa 2022-05-26 · 40m
Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names 2022-05-19 · 44m
Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic 2022-05-12 · 30m
Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral 2022-05-05 · 24m
Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food 2022-04-28 · 45m
Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit 2022-04-21 · 40m
Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars 2022-04-14 · 27m
A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses 2022-04-07 · 26m
Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date 2022-03-31 · 28m
Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather 2022-03-24 · 30m
The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense 2022-03-17 · 31m
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic 2022-03-10 · 33m
A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists 2022-03-03 · 22m
Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction 2022-02-24 · 34m
COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts 2022-02-17 · 26m
Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media 2022-02-10 · 30m
Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions 2022-02-03 · 22m
Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels 2022-01-27 · 26m
A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships 2022-01-20 · 30m
Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths 2022-01-13 · 31m
Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines 2022-01-06 · 30m
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism 2021-12-23 · 45m
The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books 2021-12-16 · 33m
Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water 2021-12-09 · 25m
The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano 2021-12-02 · 27m
Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity 2021-11-25 · 45m
Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites 2021-11-18 · 22m
The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span 2021-11-11 · 27m
The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve 2021-11-04 · 31m
Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression 2021-10-28 · 42m
Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood 2021-10-20 · 44m
The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth? 2021-10-14 · 32m
Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia 2021-10-07 · 30m
Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM 2021-09-30 · 35m
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA 2021-09-23 · 45m
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap 2021-09-16 · 20m
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people 2021-09-09 · 26m
Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms 2021-09-02 · 30m
New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer 2021-08-26 · 39m
Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media 2021-08-19 · 29m
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning 2021-08-12 · 32m
A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry 2021-08-05 · 34m
Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms 2021-07-29 · 48m
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core 2021-07-22 · 26m
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood 2021-07-15 · 25m
Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books 2021-07-08 · 42m
Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure 2021-07-01 · 39m
Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science 2021-06-24 · 32m
Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement 2021-06-17 · 24m
Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families 2021-06-10 · 29m
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code 2021-06-03 · 38m
Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands 2021-05-27 · 28m
Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers 2021-05-20 · 24m
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning 2021-05-13 · 35m
Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects 2021-05-06 · 30m
Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys 2021-04-29 · 22m
Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel 2021-04-22 · 28m
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