Description (podcaster-provided):
Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know … and then keeps on going. Host Noam Hassenfeld and an all-star team of reporters — Byrd Pinkerton, Meradith Hoddinott, and Mandy Nguyen — tackle scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and everything we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes drop every Wednesday.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Scientific mysteries • Unanswered questions • Exploration of unknowns • Unconventional science topics • Interviews with expertsThis podcast, titled "Unexplainable," delves into scientific mysteries and unanswered questions across a wide array of subjects. Hosted by Noam Hassenfeld, the podcast features insightful reporting and contributions from a talented team, exploring themes which captivate listeners by edging into the unknown. Key topics include scientific conundrums and phenomena that challenge conventional ideas. From the intricacies of mental health treatments involving psychedelics, to the enigmatic nature of microbial life and its potential influence on emotions, the podcast seeks to uncover the unknown.
Environmental challenges are a recurring theme, with episodes examining the implications of climate change on insurance, exploring the production of "dark oxygen" in the ocean, and evaluating the controversial notion of placing an economic value on nature. The podcast does not shy away from the mysterious and speculative, offering discussions on extraterrestrial life and the possibility of living on the moon. Listeners can also find episodes that tackle philosophical questions about life's origins and the essence of being, such as inquiries into whether Earth itself could be considered alive or pondering the enigmatic history of water on our planet.
By addressing both the tangible and the theoretical, the podcast brings together science, curiosity, and speculation, weaving them into a narrative that spans the breadth of human inquiry. Each episode provides a narrative that is both educational and thought-provoking, often featuring experts from diverse fields such as ecology, medicine, and microbiology. Whether discussing the latest scientific discoveries or ancient biological mysteries, "Unexplainable" offers a rich array of content for those fascinated by the intersection of science and the unknown.
Episodes: |
Why is horror so fun? 2024-Oct-30 21 minutes |
Are psychedelics breaking science? 2024-Oct-23 26 minutes |
Your gut’s feelings 2024-Oct-16 30 minutes |
Is insurance doomed? 2024-Oct-09 30 minutes |
My animal heart 2024-Oct-02 27 minutes |
How hot could the world get? 2024-Sep-25 25 minutes |
Should you be eating poison oak? 2024-Sep-18 30 minutes |
Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history 2024-Sep-11 25 minutes |
You're lost in the wilderness. Now what? 2024-Aug-28 24 minutes |
Viral dark matter 2024-Aug-21 25 minutes |
The good virus 2024-Aug-14 21 minutes |
Ecstasy therapy 2024-Aug-07 32 minutes |
What did dinosaurs sound like? 2024-Jul-31 40 minutes |
Do we live inside an enormous black hole? 2024-Jul-24 25 minutes |
Is good posture actually good? 2024-Jul-17 21 minutes |
Why do we yawn? 2024-Jul-10 36 minutes |
Embracing economic chaos 2024-Jul-03 26 minutes |
We still don’t really know how inflation works 2024-Jun-26 30 minutes |
Can you put a price on nature? 2024-Jun-19 23 minutes |
The deepest spot in the ocean 2024-Jun-12 28 minutes |
What’s the tallest mountain in the world? 2024-Jun-05 28 minutes |
Did trees kill the world? 2024-May-22 26 minutes |
Can we stop aging? 2024-May-15 37 minutes |
Who's the daddy? There isn't one. 2024-May-08 20 minutes |
Itch hunt 2024-May-01 18 minutes |
How did Earth get its water? 2024-Apr-24 25 minutes |
Is Earth alive? 2024-Apr-17 28 minutes |
The alpha myth 2024-Apr-10 40 minutes |
The eclipse chasers 2024-Apr-03 19 minutes |
The Yips 2024-Mar-27 27 minutes |
The bleeding edge, part two 2024-Mar-20 24 minutes |
The bleeding edge 2024-Mar-13 18 minutes |
Aliens from Earth? 2024-Mar-06 26 minutes |
How scientists are searching for aliens 2024-Feb-28 16 minutes |
A universal virus-killer? 2024-Feb-21 24 minutes |
Why do we cry? 2024-Feb-14 24 minutes |
Should you quit Diet Coke? 2024-Feb-07 25 minutes |
The case for cursing 2024-Jan-31 27 minutes |
The math problem that could break the internet 2024-Jan-24 38 minutes |
Garbage patch kids 2024-Jan-17 20 minutes |
A stethoscope for the rainforest 2024-Jan-10 26 minutes |
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 2024-Jan-03 30 minutes |
Something weird near the beginning of time 2023-Dec-20 21 minutes |
The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground? 2023-Dec-13 19 minutes |
Weaponizing uncertainty 2023-Dec-06 25 minutes |
Can we live in space? 2023-Nov-29 32 minutes |
The ice cream effect 2023-Nov-15 29 minutes |
The data vigilantes 2023-Nov-08 31 minutes |
Trouble on Pickles Reef 2023-Nov-01 26 minutes |
Redefining death 2023-Oct-25 33 minutes |
The Orcanizing 2023-Oct-18 22 minutes |
Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac 2023-Oct-04 34 minutes |
Rogue waves 2023-Sep-27 28 minutes |
Does garlic break magnets? 2023-Sep-20 30 minutes |
How to decode a thought 2023-Sep-13 31 minutes |
It’s getting harder to see 2023-Aug-30 20 minutes |
Jumping the gun 2023-Aug-23 33 minutes |
Can we talk to animals? 2023-Aug-16 34 minutes |
Unexplainable or Not: Beach day! 2023-Aug-09 29 minutes |
Who let the wolves in? 2023-Aug-02 24 minutes |
Why do we have a moon? 2023-Jul-26 27 minutes |
The Black Box: In AI we trust? 2023-Jul-19 30 minutes |
The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it 2023-Jul-12 34 minutes |
Do animals grieve? 2023-Jun-28 26 minutes |
Why do we dream? 2023-Jun-21 23 minutes |
Cracking the Indus code 2023-Jun-14 24 minutes |
Awestruck 2023-Jun-07 24 minutes |
Expecting: Weed and pregnancy 2023-May-24 30 minutes |
Expecting: Baby brain 2023-May-17 27 minutes |
Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs 2023-May-10 36 minutes |
The tornado problem 2023-May-03 24 minutes |
How to resurrect a mammoth 2023-Apr-26 32 minutes |
Live show, dead dinosaurs 2023-Apr-19 37 minutes |
Talking trees 2023-Apr-12 23 minutes |
Your questions, unexplained 2023-Apr-05 28 minutes |
What's so funny? 2023-Mar-22 20 minutes |
Origins: The meaning of “life” 2023-Mar-15 26 minutes |
Origins: The first living thing 2023-Mar-08 29 minutes |
Origins: How did Earth get its water? 2023-Mar-01 27 minutes |
What is love? 2023-Feb-15 34 minutes |
Why we hiccup 2023-Feb-08 29 minutes |
We booped an asteroid 2023-Feb-01 22 minutes |
Your creepy, crawly roommates 2023-Jan-25 27 minutes |
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe 2023-Jan-18 32 minutes |
Plants with eyes? 2023-Jan-11 28 minutes |
Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates 2023-Jan-04 30 minutes |
Your gut's feelings 2022-Dec-21 28 minutes |
Nuclear fusion breaks through 2022-Dec-14 30 minutes |
Basic instinct 2022-Dec-07 28 minutes |
Why we cry 2022-Nov-30 24 minutes |
Can we live in space? 2022-Nov-16 31 minutes |
Holding on to power 2022-Nov-09 31 minutes |
Redefining death 2022-Nov-02 34 minutes |
Talking to ghosts 2022-Oct-26 31 minutes |
Why is everyone getting food allergies? 2022-Oct-19 26 minutes |
Introducing The Gray Area 2022-Oct-15 54 minutes |
Let’s play Unexplainable or Not 2022-Oct-05 30 minutes |
The math problem that could break the internet 2022-Sep-28 38 minutes |
Jumping the gun 2022-Sep-21 33 minutes |
An Alzheimer's uproar 2022-Sep-14 37 minutes |
Salamander search party 2022-Aug-31 28 minutes |
What did dinosaurs sound like? 2022-Aug-24 39 minutes |
Can ovaries make new eggs? 2022-Aug-17 29 minutes |
Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex? 2022-Aug-10 47 minutes |
Yawn baby yawn 2022-Jul-27 38 minutes |
What’s the James Webb telescope searching for? 2022-Jul-20 49 minutes |
Vitamin X 2022-Jul-13 35 minutes |
Lost Worlds: What killed Venus? 2022-Jun-29 29 minutes |
Lost Worlds: Life on Mars? 2022-Jun-22 31 minutes |
Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon? 2022-Jun-15 27 minutes |
Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth? 2022-Jun-08 27 minutes |
Dropping like flies 2022-May-25 27 minutes |
Is telepathy real? 2022-May-18 26 minutes |
Why do we dream? 2022-May-11 24 minutes |
Should I take a DNA ancestry test? 2022-May-04 29 minutes |
My octopus friend? 2022-Apr-27 24 minutes |
Glow in the dark ocean 2022-Apr-20 30 minutes |
When reality broke 2022-Apr-13 26 minutes |
Making Sense: The sixth sense 2022-Apr-06 27 minutes |
Making Sense: Sight unseen 2022-Mar-30 25 minutes |
Making Sense: The Umami Mama 2022-Mar-23 38 minutes |
Making Sense: No one nose 2022-Mar-16 30 minutes |
Making Sense: The healing power of touch 2022-Mar-09 29 minutes |
Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing 2022-Mar-02 41 minutes |
The methane hunters 2022-Feb-16 23 minutes |
What is love? 2022-Feb-09 33 minutes |
A sonic tour of the solar system 2022-Feb-02 22 minutes |
Finding asteroids before they find us 2022-Jan-26 31 minutes |
Skeleton Lake 2022-Jan-19 29 minutes |
Are humans running out of sperm? 2022-Jan-12 28 minutes |
The quest to build a star 2022-Jan-05 29 minutes |
BONUS: The 2021 song 2021-Dec-31 5 minutes |
The building blocks of the universe 2021-Dec-22 54 minutes |
99% of ocean plastic is missing 2021-Dec-15 30 minutes |
How medicine mansplained women’s health 2021-Dec-08 26 minutes |
How Venus went to hell 2021-Dec-01 28 minutes |
Mind readers 2021-Nov-17 33 minutes |
A brainless yellow goo that does math 2021-Nov-10 26 minutes |
Why whales get beached 2021-Nov-03 22 minutes |
Talking to ghosts 2021-Oct-27 32 minutes |
Honey, we shrunk the birds 2021-Oct-20 28 minutes |
Nobel Prize 2.0 2021-Oct-06 26 minutes |
The James Webb Time Machine 2021-Sep-29 29 minutes |
The James Webb Space Telescope 2021-Sep-22 27 minutes |
What causes Alzheimer’s? 2021-Sep-15 31 minutes |
Havana syndrome 2021-Sep-01 29 minutes |
Getting to the bottom of butts 2021-Aug-25 26 minutes |
The mysteries of endometriosis 2021-Aug-18 31 minutes |
A 150-year-old human 2021-Aug-11 30 minutes |
How low can you go? 2021-Aug-04 27 minutes |
The tornado problem 2021-Jul-28 25 minutes |
Moon poop 2021-Jul-21 25 minutes |
Hot pink flying squirrels 2021-Jul-14 30 minutes |
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe 2021-Jun-30 32 minutes |
How do animals know where to go? 2021-Jun-23 28 minutes |
Invasion of the jumping worms 2021-Jun-16 25 minutes |
The many heights of Mount Everest 2021-Jun-09 29 minutes |
Unexplainable Flying Objects 2021-Jun-02 33 minutes |
The hunt for a new Pluto 2021-May-26 32 minutes |
Cloudy with a chance of chaos 2021-May-19 29 minutes |
A new force of nature? 2021-May-12 25 minutes |
Placebos work. Why? 2021-May-05 26 minutes |
A virus that could heal people 2021-Apr-28 24 minutes |
The Twilight Zone of the ocean 2021-Apr-21 27 minutes |
The viral ghosts of long Covid 2021-Apr-14 26 minutes |
Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong? 2021-Apr-07 30 minutes |
It’s ball lightning! 2021-Mar-31 27 minutes |
Skeleton Lake 2021-Mar-24 27 minutes |
Journey Toward the Center of the Earth 2021-Mar-17 29 minutes |
No one nose 2021-Mar-10 30 minutes |
Most of the universe is missing 2021-Mar-10 34 minutes |
Introducing Unexplainable 2021-Feb-19 2 minutes |