Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Unanswered scientific questions • Climate change • Animal behavior • Space exploration • Neuroscience • Technology and AI • Environment and ecology • Health and medicine • Evolution and genetics • Physics and cosmology
This podcast, titled "Unexplainable," invites listeners to explore the fringes of human knowledge and understanding. Hosted by an inquisitive team from Vox, the show investigates scientific mysteries and unanswered questions that challenge the boundaries of current understanding. The episodes often delve into various fields such as geology, biology, physics, and environmental science, showcasing topics that are both diverse and intriguing.
A recurring theme in these episodes is the exploration of natural phenomena and how they intersect with humanity's quest for knowledge. Episodes examine phenomena like rogue waves, towering ice sheets, and the impact of moon phases on life forms. Additionally, the podcast frequently addresses broad scientific questions, such as the impact of climate change on natural disasters, or the potential sensory experiences of artificial intelligence.
Human innovation and its unintended consequences also feature prominently, with discussions about the role of plastics in modern life and the complexities of AI development. The podcast gives space to explore the interface between biology and technology, including gene editing, the mysteries locked within deep-sea life, and the legacy of diseases like tuberculosis.
Some episodes take a speculative approach, pondering the future of animal evolution or the potential for communicating with extraterrestrials. The show tackles these speculative subjects with a scientific lens, contemplating how current understandings might evolve.
Overall, "Unexplainable" places science-driven narratives at the forefront, focusing on topics that pique curiosity and provoke deeper thought about both the known and the unknown aspects of our world and beyond.
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Episodes:
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The Vagina Voyages
2025-Sep-15
39 minutes
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A rabbi and the Lorax walk into a bar...
2025-Sep-10
22 minutes
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Is a little alcohol bad for you?
2025-Sep-08
28 minutes
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Ice Sheet Time Machine
2025-Aug-27
31 minutes
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Animals in the year 20202025
2025-Aug-25
27 minutes
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Nightmare at the end of the universe
2025-Aug-18
26 minutes
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Life in plastic — not fantastic?
2025-Aug-13
29 minutes
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When waves go rogue
2025-Aug-06
28 minutes
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Good news for people who love bad news
2025-Aug-04
28 minutes
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12 tiny worlds
2025-Jul-30
35 minutes
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How good was Michael Jordan, really?
2025-Jul-28
45 minutes
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One weird trick to get unlimited clean energy
2025-Jul-23
23 minutes
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Who taught beavers to build dams?
2025-Jul-21
29 minutes
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The disease we let win
2025-Jul-16
32 minutes
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Science! Tell me what to eat!
2025-Jul-14
58 minutes
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A magical world at the ocean’s edge
2025-Jul-02
36 minutes
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Ruff translation
2025-Jun-30
31 minutes
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Sick of “morning” sickness
2025-Jun-25
31 minutes
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Your bug roommates
2025-Jun-23
26 minutes
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Why I left the NIH
2025-Jun-18
38 minutes
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Mostly dead is slightly alive
2025-Jun-16
18 minutes
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We don't understand yogurt
2025-Jun-11
18 minutes
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The musical structure of the universe
2025-Jun-09
53 minutes
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How to beat roulette
2025-Jun-04
19 minutes
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Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?
2025-Jun-02
20 minutes
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Are we sure about fluoride?
2025-May-21
29 minutes
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The man who walked butterflies on a leash
2025-May-19
24 minutes
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Imagine a sunset, now imagine you can't
2025-May-14
23 minutes
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An imaginary planet that feels extremely real
2025-May-12
24 minutes
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The view from inside a volcano
2025-May-07
23 minutes
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Who are you calling a Neanderthal?
2025-May-05
18 minutes
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Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
2025-Apr-30
33 minutes
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Blood farm
2025-Apr-23
25 minutes
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Moon genes
2025-Apr-16
24 minutes
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How to stop your hiccups
2025-Apr-09
30 minutes
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A new way to listen
2025-Apr-07
2 minutes
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Intraterrestrials
2025-Apr-02
24 minutes
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How to talk to aliens
2025-Mar-26
24 minutes
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Good Robot #4: Who, me?
2025-Mar-22
49 minutes
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Good Robot #3: Let’s fix everything
2025-Mar-19
45 minutes
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Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome
2025-Mar-15
53 minutes
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Good Robot #1: The magic intelligence in the sky
2025-Mar-12
49 minutes
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A strange signal from space
2025-Mar-05
34 minutes
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Getting malaria on purpose
2025-Feb-26
26 minutes
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The problem with dreams
2025-Feb-19
28 minutes
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Is science in danger?
2025-Feb-12
23 minutes
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How umami blew up taste
2025-Feb-05
36 minutes
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What’s hiding under the Antarctic ice?
2025-Jan-22
23 minutes
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Biopiracy
2025-Jan-15
28 minutes
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Will AI ever ... feel?
2025-Jan-08
26 minutes
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New year, new diet, live forever?
2025-Jan-01
25 minutes
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Mysteries we can’t stop thinking about
2024-Dec-18
25 minutes
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Who let the wolves in?
2024-Dec-11
24 minutes
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Where to meet a Neanderthal
2024-Dec-04
29 minutes
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Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain
2024-Nov-20
20 minutes
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Why are there lefties and righties?
2024-Nov-13
27 minutes
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Placebos work. Why?
2024-Nov-06
25 minutes
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Why is horror so fun?
2024-Oct-30
19 minutes
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Are psychedelics breaking science?
2024-Oct-23
24 minutes
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Your gut’s feelings
2024-Oct-16
28 minutes
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Is insurance doomed?
2024-Oct-09
28 minutes
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My animal heart
2024-Oct-02
25 minutes
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How hot could the world get?
2024-Sep-25
23 minutes
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Should you be eating poison oak?
2024-Sep-18
28 minutes
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Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
2024-Sep-11
23 minutes
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You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
2024-Aug-28
22 minutes
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Viral dark matter
2024-Aug-21
23 minutes
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The good virus
2024-Aug-14
19 minutes
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Ecstasy therapy
2024-Aug-07
30 minutes
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What did dinosaurs sound like?
2024-Jul-31
38 minutes
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Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
2024-Jul-24
25 minutes
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Is good posture actually good?
2024-Jul-17
21 minutes
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Why do we yawn?
2024-Jul-10
36 minutes
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Embracing economic chaos
2024-Jul-03
26 minutes
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We still don’t really know how inflation works
2024-Jun-26
30 minutes
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Can you put a price on nature?
2024-Jun-19
23 minutes
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The deepest spot in the ocean
2024-Jun-12
28 minutes
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What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
2024-Jun-05
28 minutes
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Did trees kill the world?
2024-May-22
26 minutes
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Can we stop aging?
2024-May-15
37 minutes
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Who's the daddy? There isn't one.
2024-May-08
20 minutes
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Itch hunt
2024-May-01
18 minutes
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How did Earth get its water?
2024-Apr-24
25 minutes
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Is Earth alive?
2024-Apr-17
28 minutes
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The alpha myth
2024-Apr-10
40 minutes
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The eclipse chasers
2024-Apr-03
19 minutes
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The Yips
2024-Mar-27
27 minutes
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The bleeding edge, part two
2024-Mar-20
24 minutes
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The bleeding edge
2024-Mar-13
18 minutes
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Aliens from Earth?
2024-Mar-06
26 minutes
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How scientists are searching for aliens
2024-Feb-28
16 minutes
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A universal virus-killer?
2024-Feb-21
24 minutes
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Why do we cry?
2024-Feb-14
24 minutes
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Should you quit Diet Coke?
2024-Feb-07
25 minutes
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The case for cursing
2024-Jan-31
27 minutes
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The math problem that could break the internet
2024-Jan-24
38 minutes
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Garbage patch kids
2024-Jan-17
20 minutes
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A stethoscope for the rainforest
2024-Jan-10
26 minutes
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
2024-Jan-03
30 minutes
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Something weird near the beginning of time
2023-Dec-20
21 minutes
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The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
2023-Dec-13
19 minutes
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Weaponizing uncertainty
2023-Dec-06
25 minutes
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Can we live in space?
2023-Nov-29
32 minutes
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The ice cream effect
2023-Nov-15
29 minutes
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The data vigilantes
2023-Nov-08
31 minutes
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Trouble on Pickles Reef
2023-Nov-01
26 minutes
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Redefining death
2023-Oct-25
33 minutes
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The Orcanizing
2023-Oct-18
22 minutes
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Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac
2023-Oct-04
34 minutes
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Rogue waves
2023-Sep-27
28 minutes
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Does garlic break magnets?
2023-Sep-20
30 minutes
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How to decode a thought
2023-Sep-13
31 minutes
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It’s getting harder to see
2023-Aug-30
20 minutes
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Jumping the gun
2023-Aug-23
33 minutes
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Can we talk to animals?
2023-Aug-16
34 minutes
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Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!
2023-Aug-09
29 minutes
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Who let the wolves in?
2023-Aug-02
24 minutes
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Why do we have a moon?
2023-Jul-26
27 minutes
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The Black Box: In AI we trust?
2023-Jul-19
30 minutes
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The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it
2023-Jul-12
34 minutes
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Do animals grieve?
2023-Jun-28
26 minutes
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Why do we dream?
2023-Jun-21
23 minutes
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Cracking the Indus code
2023-Jun-14
24 minutes
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Awestruck
2023-Jun-07
24 minutes
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Expecting: Weed and pregnancy
2023-May-24
30 minutes
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Expecting: Baby brain
2023-May-17
27 minutes
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Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs
2023-May-10
36 minutes
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The tornado problem
2023-May-03
24 minutes
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How to resurrect a mammoth
2023-Apr-26
32 minutes
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Live show, dead dinosaurs
2023-Apr-19
37 minutes
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Talking trees
2023-Apr-12
23 minutes
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Your questions, unexplained
2023-Apr-05
27 minutes
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What's so funny?
2023-Mar-22
19 minutes
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Origins: The meaning of “life”
2023-Mar-15
25 minutes
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Origins: The first living thing
2023-Mar-08
28 minutes
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Origins: How did Earth get its water?
2023-Mar-01
26 minutes
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What is love?
2023-Feb-15
33 minutes
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Why we hiccup
2023-Feb-08
29 minutes
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We booped an asteroid
2023-Feb-01
22 minutes
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Your creepy, crawly roommates
2023-Jan-25
26 minutes
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Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
2023-Jan-18
31 minutes
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Plants with eyes?
2023-Jan-11
27 minutes
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Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates
2023-Jan-04
29 minutes
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Your gut's feelings
2022-Dec-21
28 minutes
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Nuclear fusion breaks through
2022-Dec-14
29 minutes
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Basic instinct
2022-Dec-07
28 minutes
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Why we cry
2022-Nov-30
23 minutes
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Can we live in space?
2022-Nov-16
31 minutes
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Holding on to power
2022-Nov-09
30 minutes
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Redefining death
2022-Nov-02
33 minutes
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Talking to ghosts
2022-Oct-26
31 minutes
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Why is everyone getting food allergies?
2022-Oct-19
25 minutes
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Introducing The Gray Area
2022-Oct-15
54 minutes
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Let’s play Unexplainable or Not
2022-Oct-05
28 minutes
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The math problem that could break the internet
2022-Sep-28
37 minutes
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Jumping the gun
2022-Sep-21
32 minutes
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An Alzheimer's uproar
2022-Sep-14
36 minutes
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Salamander search party
2022-Aug-31
27 minutes
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What did dinosaurs sound like?
2022-Aug-24
38 minutes
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Can ovaries make new eggs?
2022-Aug-17
28 minutes
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Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex?
2022-Aug-10
46 minutes
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Yawn baby yawn
2022-Jul-27
37 minutes
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What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?
2022-Jul-20
48 minutes
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Vitamin X
2022-Jul-13
34 minutes
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Lost Worlds: What killed Venus?
2022-Jun-29
28 minutes
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Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?
2022-Jun-22
30 minutes
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Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon?
2022-Jun-15
26 minutes
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Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth?
2022-Jun-08
26 minutes
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Dropping like flies
2022-May-25
26 minutes
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Is telepathy real?
2022-May-18
25 minutes
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Why do we dream?
2022-May-11
23 minutes
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Should I take a DNA ancestry test?
2022-May-04
28 minutes
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My octopus friend?
2022-Apr-27
24 minutes
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Glow in the dark ocean
2022-Apr-20
30 minutes
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When reality broke
2022-Apr-13
25 minutes
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Making Sense: The sixth sense
2022-Apr-06
26 minutes
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Making Sense: Sight unseen
2022-Mar-30
24 minutes
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Making Sense: The Umami Mama
2022-Mar-23
37 minutes
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Making Sense: No one nose
2022-Mar-16
29 minutes
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Making Sense: The healing power of touch
2022-Mar-09
28 minutes
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Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing
2022-Mar-02
40 minutes
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The methane hunters
2022-Feb-16
22 minutes
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What is love?
2022-Feb-09
32 minutes
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A sonic tour of the solar system
2022-Feb-02
21 minutes
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Finding asteroids before they find us
2022-Jan-26
30 minutes
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Skeleton Lake
2022-Jan-19
28 minutes
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Are humans running out of sperm?
2022-Jan-12
27 minutes
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The quest to build a star
2022-Jan-05
28 minutes
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BONUS: The 2021 song
2021-Dec-31
5 minutes
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The building blocks of the universe
2021-Dec-22
53 minutes
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99% of ocean plastic is missing
2021-Dec-15
29 minutes
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How medicine mansplained women’s health
2021-Dec-08
25 minutes
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How Venus went to hell
2021-Dec-01
27 minutes
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Mind readers
2021-Nov-17
32 minutes
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A brainless yellow goo that does math
2021-Nov-10
25 minutes
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Why whales get beached
2021-Nov-03
21 minutes
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Talking to ghosts
2021-Oct-27
31 minutes
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Honey, we shrunk the birds
2021-Oct-20
27 minutes
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Nobel Prize 2.0
2021-Oct-06
25 minutes
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The James Webb Time Machine
2021-Sep-29
28 minutes
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The James Webb Space Telescope
2021-Sep-22
26 minutes
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What causes Alzheimer’s?
2021-Sep-15
30 minutes
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Havana syndrome
2021-Sep-01
28 minutes
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Getting to the bottom of butts
2021-Aug-25
25 minutes
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The mysteries of endometriosis
2021-Aug-18
30 minutes
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A 150-year-old human
2021-Aug-11
29 minutes
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How low can you go?
2021-Aug-04
27 minutes
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The tornado problem
2021-Jul-28
24 minutes
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Moon poop
2021-Jul-21
24 minutes
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Hot pink flying squirrels
2021-Jul-14
29 minutes
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Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
2021-Jun-30
31 minutes
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How do animals know where to go?
2021-Jun-23
27 minutes
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Invasion of the jumping worms
2021-Jun-16
25 minutes
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The many heights of Mount Everest
2021-Jun-09
28 minutes
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Unexplainable Flying Objects
2021-Jun-02
32 minutes
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The hunt for a new Pluto
2021-May-26
32 minutes
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Cloudy with a chance of chaos
2021-May-19
28 minutes
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A new force of nature?
2021-May-12
24 minutes
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Placebos work. Why?
2021-May-05
25 minutes
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A virus that could heal people
2021-Apr-28
23 minutes
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The Twilight Zone of the ocean
2021-Apr-21
26 minutes
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The viral ghosts of long Covid
2021-Apr-14
25 minutes
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Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong?
2021-Apr-07
29 minutes
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It’s ball lightning!
2021-Mar-31
26 minutes
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Skeleton Lake
2021-Mar-24
27 minutes
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Journey Toward the Center of the Earth
2021-Mar-17
28 minutes
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No one nose
2021-Mar-10
29 minutes
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Most of the universe is missing
2021-Mar-10
33 minutes
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Introducing Unexplainable
2021-Feb-19
2 minutes
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