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Science Podcast Episodes

A composite list of episodes from the past 90 days of general science podcasts. Also see episode list for physics, math, and astronomy podcasts.

Episodes

2024-Apr-26 • 70 minutes Science is in Our DNA What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Computerized CRISPR, Gut Microbiota, Lava Lakes!, Diabetes, Synthetic Living Cells, Chickadee Memory, Artificial Sweetener, Consciousness for All, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Apr-26 • 28 minutes Imposter Syndrome: Stories about not feeling good enough Featuring Sarah Demers and Kevin Smiley (@storycollider)

2024-Apr-25 • 19 minutes Fighting Banana Blight | Do Birds Sing In Their Dreams? America’s most-consumed fruit is at risk from a fungal disease. Researchers in North Carolina are on a mission to save Cavendish bananas. Also, birds move their vocal organs while they sleep, mimicking how they sing. Scientists have translated those movements into synthetic birdsong. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-25 • 26 minutes An armada for asteroid Apophis? Friday, April 13th 2029 – mark it in your calendar...an asteroid is coming (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Apr-25 • 43 minutes The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series On this week’s show: Researchers try to identify effective loneliness interventions, making the Sandmeyer safer, and books that look to the future and don’t see doom and gloom (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Apr-25 • 28 minutes Inside Your Microbiome A look into the unregulated world of home gut microbiome testing. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Apr-25 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 25, 2024 University of Michigan geology professor, Nathan Niemi, delves into the university's yearly summer geology field camp here in the western U.S., or what they like to call the best field trip ever. (0:57)Then, University of Utah Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Jessica Swanson, shares her research on using biological methods to remove excess methane from the atmosphere. (24:58) (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Apr-25 • 8 minutes Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump. | Read this story here. | Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-25 • 35 minutes What Does Milk Do for Babies? Milk is more than just a food for babies. Breast milk has evolved to deliver thousands of diverse molecules including growth factors, hormones and antibodies, as well as microbes. | Elizabeth Johnson, a molecular nutritionist at Cornell University, studies the effects of infants’ diet on the gut microbiome. These studies could hold clues to hard questions in public health for children and adults alike. In this episode of “The Joy of Why” podcast, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews Johnson about the microbia... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Apr-25 • 37 minutes Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language In the 1970s, a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Apr-25 • 31 minutes S3 Ep 8 - Haixin Dang on 'Disagreement in Science' We have a very special episode today with guest host Dr Joshua Eisenthal interviewing fellow philosopher of science, and good friend, Dr Haixin Dang on the fascinating subject of Disagreement in Science.It might seem like scientists should always aspire to achieve consensus, and therefore any disagreement in science is a mark of failure. However, as Haixin points out, disagreement is in fact a vital part of healthy scientific practice. Disagreement helps scientists be reflective about their work, challengin... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Apr-25 • 15 minutes From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? As bird flu is confirmed in 33 cattle herds across eight US states, Ian Sample talks to virologist Dr Ed Hutchinson of Glasgow University about why this development has taken scientists by surprise, and how prepared we are for the possibility it might start spreading among humans (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-24 • 18 minutes Why Is Solving The Plastic Problem So Hard? Plastics are everywhere, in packaging, clothing, and even our bodies. Could they be made less integral to manufacturing and more recyclable? (@scifri)

2024-Apr-24 • 29 minutes How gliding marsupials got their 'wings' Researchers find the genetic mutations that allow some marsupials to soar, and an ultra-accurate clock is put through its paces on the high seas. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Apr-24 • 5 minutes No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused By Cloud Seeding Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those pointing the finger at cloud seeding are misguided. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-24 • 35 minutes Episode 4: This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster To Be Right, You Have to Be Open to Being Wrong (@sciam)

2024-Apr-24 • 22 minutes The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… The Gods Examining the evidence on the difficult relationship between science and religion. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Apr-24 • 26 minutes How did Earth get its water? Life as we know it needs water, but scientists can’t figure out where Earth’s water came from. (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Apr-24 • 63 minutes Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 2 with Rosemary Mosco The thrilling conclusion of PIGEONS, with Columbidologist and author Rosemary Mosco of Bird and Moon comics. It’s wall-to-wall listener questions and you’ll hear all about bonded pairs, the fate of the extinct passenger pigeon, the best cinematic pigeons, how to help their nubby feet, gender reveals gone very wrong, Las Vegas mysteries to boil your blood, and so much more. Also: did I just see a wedding bird escapee? (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Apr-24 • 14 minutes Beavers Can Help With Climate Change. So How Do We Get Along? NPR's Tom Dreisbach is back in the host chair for a day. This time, he reports on a story very close to home: The years-long battle his parents have been locked in with the local wild beaver population. Each night, the beavers would dam the culverts along the Dreisbachs' property, threatening to make their home inaccessible. Each morning, Tom's parents deconstructed those dams — until the annual winter freeze hit and left them all in a temporary stalemate.As beaver populations have increased, so have these ... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-23 • 18 minutes What Worsening Floods Mean For Superfund Sites Superfund sites contain extreme pollution. Flooding—made worse by climate change—could carry their toxic contaminants into surrounding areas. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-23 • 235 minutes From Quarks to Galaxies: A tour through the forefront of modern physics with Frank Wilczek I have had the privilege of working closely with Frank Wilczek for over 40 years, on and off, and we have written perhaps a dozen scientific papers together over that time. Our collaborations together were always a source of joy, and often of wonder, and I am pleased to say that a number of them had significant impact on our fields of study. While I have had the privilege of working with many talented scientists during my career, Frank is unique. He is one of the most broadly read, deep, and creative sc... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Apr-23 • 8 minutes Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-23 • 34 minutes Are there insects in Antarctica? Looking for an escape? Join Molly and co-host Julian as they explore Antarctica! They’ll learn about Antarctica’s massive ice sheets and active volcanoes — plus they’ll meet the largest land animal on the continent! (Hint: it’s black, shiny, and can perch on a pencil eraser!) Then they’ll chat with scientist Dr. Jennifer Mercer about what it’s like to live and work in one the coldest places on the planet and explore what Antarctica was like 90 million years ago. (Hint: It was a lot like a beach resort!) And... (@Brains_On)

2024-Apr-23 • 20 minutes Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity? Labradors are known for being greedy dogs, and now scientists have come up with a theory about the genetic factors that might be behind their behaviour. Science correspondent and labrador owner Nicola Davis visits Cambridge University to meet Dr Eleanor Raffan and Prof Giles Yeo to find out how understanding this pathway could help us treat the obesity crisis in humans (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-23 • 36 minutes ADHD explained What is ADHD, and how is it treated? (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-22 • 28 minutes Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence How much faith should we be putting in artificial intelligence? As large language models and generative AI have become increasingly powerful in recent years, their makers are pushing the narrative that AI is a solution to many of the world’s problems.But Meredith Broussard says we’re not there yet, if we even get there at all. Broussard is the author of More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. She coined the term “technochauvinism,” which speaks to a pro-technology bias humans... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-22 • 28 minutes CultureLab: Meredith Broussard on trusting artificial intelligence How much faith should we be putting in artificial intelligence? As large language models and generative AI have become increasingly powerful in recent years, their makers are pushing the narrative that AI is a solution to many of the world’s problems.But Meredith Broussard says we’re not there yet, if we even get there at all. Broussard is the author of More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. She coined the term “technochauvinism,” which speaks to a pro-technology bias humans... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-22 • 26 minutes Wild Inside: The Sea Lion Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin (and blubber) of the California sea lion. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-22 • 18 minutes The Global Mental Health Toll Of Climate Change | Capturing DNA From 800 Lakes In One Day An explosion of research is painting a clearer picture of how climate change is affecting mental health across the globe. Also, a citizen science project aims to find species that have gone unnoticed by sampling the waters of hundreds of lakes worldwide for environmental DNA. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-22 • 9 minutes Measuring Poverty Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings... (@PNASNews)

2024-Apr-22 • 29 minutes Bonus: What On Earth's Earth Day special The climate is changing. So are we. On What On Earth, you’ll explore a world of solutions with host Laura Lynch and our team of journalists. In 1970, 20 million people showed up to fight for the environment on the first Earth Day. More than five decades later, is it time for this much tamer global event to return to its radical roots? OG organizer Denis Hayes recounts how – amidst other counterculture movements at the time – his team persuaded roughly one in ten Americans to take to the streets. As he ... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Apr-22 • 79 minutes 273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory I talk with intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos about the stories we tell ourselves about our prehistoric humanity. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-22 • 9 minutes Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run riot, this can kick the immune system into overdrive. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-22 • 43 minutes 757: Developing Molecular Biotechnology Tools for Neural Dynamics Research and Novel Therapeutics - Dr. Lin Tian Dr. Lin Tian is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Clinical Professor at the University of California, Davis. The main goal of Lin’s lab is to develop, leverage, and also share novel optical and molecular... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Apr-22 • 15 minutes Sustainable Seafood Is All Around You — If You Know Where To Look Roughly 196 million tons of fish were harvested in 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The organization also notes that the number of overfished stocks worldwide has tripled in the last century. All of this overfishing has led to the decline of entire species, like Atlantic cod. Enter the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch. It and other free guides give consumers an overview of the world of fish and seafood, helping people to figure out the most sustainable f... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-22 • 54 minutes De-Permafrosting* Above the Arctic Circle, much of the land is underlaid by permafrost. But climate change is causing it to thaw. This is not good news for the planet. | As the carbon rich ground warms, microbes start to feast… releasing greenhouse gases that will warm the Earth even more. | Another possible downside was envisioned by a science-fiction author. Could ancient pathogens–released from the permafrost’s icy grip–cause new pandemics? We investigate what happens when the far north defrosts. | Guests: | Jacquelyn Gi... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Apr-21 • 88 minutes Daniel Dennett: Do We Have Free Will? Welcome everyone to a fascinating deep dive with the late Daniel Dennett! (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-20 • 54 minutes Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish Two inspirational books for younger readers show an intruiging world and the thrill of chasing a dream. (@ABCscience)

2024-Apr-20 The Skeptics Guide #980 - Apr 20 2024 What's the Word: Anhedonia; News Items: New Scams, Reconductoring, ISS Space Junk, Zombie Cicadas, Death by Wellness; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail: AI Drug Development Correction; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Apr-20 • 54 minutes Why this Indigenous researcher thinks we can do science differently, and more… This researcher wants a new particle accelerator to use before she’s deadPhysicists exploring the nature of reality need ever more capable particle colliders, so they’re exploring a successor to the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. But that new machine is at least decades away. Tova Holmes, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is one of the physicists calling for a different kind of collider that can come online before the end of her career – or her life. This device would use a... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Apr-19 • 26 minutes Are our coastlines being washed away? What is coastal erosion and why is it a problem? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Apr-19 • 25 minutes Clean Energy Transition Progress | Avian Flu In Cattle And Humans Has Scientists Concerned Global temperature increases are slowing, electric vehicle sales are growing, and renewable energy is now cheaper than some fossil fuels. Also, in a recent outbreak of avian flu, the virus has jumped from birds to cows, and to one dairy worker. A disease ecologist provides context. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-19 • 33 minutes Weekly: Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream? #246Our best climate models for helping limit global warming to 1.5oC may have wildly overestimated our chances. To reach this goal, models are relying heavily on geological carbon storage, a technology that removes carbon from the atmosphere and places it underground. But it may not be nearly as effective as models have suggested, making the task of decarbonising much more difficult. Do we need to rethink our approach?Intel has announced it has constructed the world’s biggest computer modelled on the human... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-19 • 33 minutes Carbon storage targets ‘wildly unrealistic’; world’s biggest brain-inspired computer; do birds dream? #246Our best climate models for helping limit global warming to 1.5oC may have wildly overestimated our chances. To reach this goal, models are relying heavily on geological carbon storage, a technology that removes carbon from the atmosphere and places it underground. But it may not be nearly as effective as models have suggested, making the task of decarbonising much more difficult. Do we need to rethink our approach?Intel has announced it has constructed the world’s biggest computer modelled on the human... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-19 • 65 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [October 20, 2023] Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | Questions include: Is it possible that individual particles have a halo of dark matter, like galaxies have?​ - ​How is antimatter made in the lab, and what makes it so difficult to produce?​ - ​I am curious about your perspective on the recent unveiling of smart glasses equipped with AI assistants (LLMs) by Meta. ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-19 • 59 minutes Small Potatoes An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives. Most of our stories are about the big stuff: Important or dramatic events, big ideas that transform the world around us or inspire conflict and struggle and change. But most of our lives, day by day or hour by hour, are made up of … not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call “small potatoes.” This week on Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the every... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Apr-19 • 75 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (October 4, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa | | Questions include: What do you think is the most important aspect to focus on or dedicate the most effort to when running a business? - You were a speaker at the All-In Summit 2023, which was a conference aimed mostly at venture capital folks. What were your impressions of this summit and its ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-19 • 38 minutes Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith join us to discuss their book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Apr-19 • 12 minutes The Rise of the Carbon Farmer Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-19 • 49 minutes Computer memories and quantum futures From silicon chips behind the Iron Curtain to quantum computing in the cloud. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-19 • 9 minutes An 11-Year-old Unearthed Fossils Of The Largest Known Marine Reptile When the dinosaurs walked the Earth, massive marine reptiles swam. Among them, a species of Ichthyosaur that measured over 80 feet long. Today, we look into how a chance discovery by a father-daughter duo of fossil hunters furthered paleontologist's understanding of the "giant fish lizard of the Severn." Currently, it is the largest marine reptile known to scientists.Read more about this specimen in the study published in the journal PLOS One. Have another ancient animal or scientific revelation you want us... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-19 • 30 minutes Britain's smoking ban, and bumper sea beasts Plus, a tribute to pilot Eric Moody... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-19 • 107 minutes Put More Science In Video Games What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Bright Burst, Blackholes, Genetic Material, Neanderthal Woodshop, Gamer Games, Asteroid Games, Human Evolution, Going Ape, Bacterial Vampires, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Apr-19 • 26 minutes Facing Death: Stories about confronting one's mortality Confronting death can lead to personal growth, newfound appreciation for life, and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share their experiences of grappling with the fragility of life. Part 1: On a flight to St. Louis, the plane Brad Lawrence is on, needs to make an emergency landing. Part 2: While Keven Griffen is doing field work in Sierra Nevada a wildfire breaks out. Brad Lawrence is a story producer for the RISK! Podcast, a storyteller, a... (@storycollider)

2024-Apr-18 • 18 minutes A Cheer For The Physics Of Baseball When you watch a baseball game, you’re also enjoying a spectacular display of science—from physics to biomechanics. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-18 • 31 minutes Unexpected black hole in our galaxy Unexpected black hole in our galaxy; Ancient Horse DNA; the mechanisms of addiction (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Apr-18 • 38 minutes Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut A different source of global warming, signs of a continentwide tradition of human sacrifice, and a virus that attacks the cholera bacteria First up on the show this week, clearer skies might be accelerating global warming. Staff Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how as air pollution is cleaned up, climate models need to consider the decrease in the planet’s reflectivity. Less reflectivity means Earth is absorbing more energy from the Sun and increased temps. Also from the news team t... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Apr-18 • 36 minutes Our Accidental Universe Professor and presenter Chris Lintott talks about his new book, Our Accidental Universe. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Apr-18 • 23 minutes S3 Ep 7 - Sophie Ritson on 'Collaboration in Science' Today's episode features one of our favourite philosophers of physics, Dr Sophie Ritson. Sophie's research focuses on the way contemporary physicists – of both the experimental and theoretical kind – work together to develop reliable knowledge and find creative ways to expand our fundamental understanding of the universe.Sophie is unafraid to dig in where others fear to tread. She began her career examining the string theory controversy and, more recently, has studied first-hand the high stakes e... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Apr-18 • 53 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 18, 2024 Professor Jeff Karp, teaches biomedical engineering at Harvard Medical School and MIT joins the show to talk about the brain's neuroplasticity and how he adapted his brain to tackle his early learning disabilities and ADHD and shares how you can too.Then, biomedical engineer and blunt trauma specialist, Rachel Lance, explores how a team of scientists during World War II made science history by discovering how to breathe underwater, a crucial element in an eventual victory for Allied forces. (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Apr-18 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: How do you land on an asteroid? In The Asteroid Hunter, Dante Lauretta chronicles the quest to retrieve a sample from Bennu, which is one of the large asteroids that is most likely to collide with the Earth. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Apr-18 • 8 minutes US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Plan to Fix It WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants to fix ancient roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure before it’s too late. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-18 • 31 minutes The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age Melba Phillips co-authored a paper with J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1935 that proved important in the development of nuclear physics. Later, she became an outspoken critic of nuclear weapons. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Apr-18 • 17 minutes Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope. Ian Sample talks to chief sports writer Barney Ronay about where the idea came from and how it’s being sold as an anti-establishment underdog, and to Dr Peter Angell about what these usually banned substances are, and what they could do to athletes’ bodies (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-17 • 19 minutes Carbon Cost Of Urban Gardens And Commercial Farms | Why There's No Superbloom This Year Some food has a larger carbon footprint when grown in urban settings than on commercial farms, while for other foods the reverse is true. Also, what’s the difference between wildflowers blooming in the desert each spring, and the rare phenomenon of a “superbloom”? (@scifri)

2024-Apr-17 • 34 minutes Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory Brain areas work in tandem to temporarily store important information, and an aurora on a cool brown dwarf. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Apr-17 • 21 minutes Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Apr-17 • 11 minutes The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-17 • 30 minutes Episode 3: When Uncertainty Hides in the Blindspot of Overconfidence Today’s episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how “just-so stories” can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And sometimes studies get misleading results because of random error or weird samples or study design. But sometimes science gets things wrong because it’s done by humans, and humans are fallible and imperfect. (@sciam)

2024-Apr-17 • 20 minutes The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Talking to Aliens Searching for alien life in the Monkey Cage back catalogue. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Apr-17 • 28 minutes Is Earth alive? A cell is alive. So is a leaf and so is a tree. But what about the forest they’re a part of? Is that forest alive? And what about the planet that forest grows on? Is Earth alive? Science writer Ferris Jabr says: Yes. For show transcripts, go to bit.ly/unx-transcripts For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable Vox is also currently running a series called Home Planet, which is all about celebrating Earth in the face of climate change: http://vox.com/homeplanet And please email us! [email protected] We ... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Apr-17 • 62 minutes Columbidology (PIGEONS? YES) Part 1 with Rosemary Mosco You love pigeons. You might not know it yet. Espionage! Fancy breeds! Internal GPS! Weird feet! Should you be afraid of them? Should you adopt one? Pigeon advocate, comic artist and author of “A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching,” Rosemary Mosco finally joins to answer all of our questions in a beautifully mellow and melodious wall-to-wall pigeon exploration. I loved every minute of making this one and if you stick around for the secret, I’ll take you behind-the-scenes. Listen, then sit on a bench and watch y... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Apr-17 • 13 minutes The Nightmarish Worm That Lived 25 Million Years Longer Than Researchers Thought 500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. During this period of time, known as the Cambrian period, basically all life was in the water. The ocean was brimming with animals that looked pretty different from the ones we recognize today — including a group of predatory worms with a throat covered in teeth and spines. Researchers thought these tiny terrors died out at the end of the Cambrian period. But a paper published recently in the journal Biology Letters showed examples of a new specie... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-16 • 18 minutes Inside The Race To Save Honeybees From Parasitic Mites Varroa destructor mites are killing honeybees and their babies at alarming rates. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-16 • 8 minutes The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-16 • 27 minutes How can you tell when food is expired? Have you ever taken a big ol’ whiff of rotten milk? It probably smelled like dirty socks or stinky garbage. Blech! But why does food go bad, and how can we be sure that something is fresh and safe to eat?Join Molly and co-host Rachel as they explore the world of food expiration dates — those little numbers and dates on food packages that help us figure out how old food is! Together, they’ll find out why food goes bad, listen to a rotten egg sing about the power of the sniff test, and learn about the history... (@Brains_On)

2024-Apr-16 • 67 minutes Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) An interview with Bobby Cherayil (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Apr-16 • 47 minutes Turtles Devotees of the testudines rejoice! Whether you have one as a pet, admire them at the zoo, or giggle with the rest of the internet when they rock each other off logs, chances are high, we think, that you like turtles. We like turtles! And conveniently for us, turtle science is also extremely cool, so this was basically an ideal episode to make. Enjoy! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Apr-16 • 16 minutes Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about her visit to Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire, where ecologist Richard Broughton has witnessed the decline of the marsh tit population over 22 years, and has heard the impact on the wood’s soundscape (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-16 • 27 minutes Hunting Higgs bosons: A tribute to Peter Higgs by Lyn Evans A tribute to the great theoretical physicist, who has passed away aged 94. (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-15 • 25 minutes Dead Planets Society: How to Destroy A Black Hole How do you destroy a black hole? Turns out they're pretty tough cookies.Kicking off a brand new series of Dead Planets Society, Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane take on the universe's most powerful adversaries. With the help of their cosmic toolbelt and black hole astronomer Allison Kirkpatrick at the University of Kansas, they test all the destructive ideas they can think of.Whether it’s throwing masses of TNT at it, blasting it with a t-shirt gun full of white holes, loading it up with a multiverse worth of m... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-15 • 26 minutes Wild Inside: The Aphid Explorations in the world of science. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-15 • 16 minutes The Brain’s Glial Cells Might Be As Important As Neurons These lesser-known nervous system cells were long thought to be the “glue” holding neurons together. They’re much more. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-15 • 68 minutes 272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People I talk with computer scientist Leslie Valiant about learning and educability in computers and people. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-15 • 8 minutes Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies? To pull off this classic Hollywood stunt, you gotta know your physics! Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-15 • 50 minutes 756: Passionately Pursuing Projects on the P53 Tumor Suppressor Protein - Dr. Maureen Murphy Dr. Maureen Murphy is a Professor and Program Leader in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program of the Wistar Institute Cancer Center in Philadelphia. She is also the Associate Vice president for Faculty Affairs and Associate Director For... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Apr-15 • 14 minutes How The Brain Experiences Pleasure — Even The Kind That Makes Us Feel Guilty We've all been there: You sit down for one episode of a reality TV show, and six hours later you're sitting guiltily on the couch, blinking the screen-induced crust off your eyeballs. Okay. Maybe you haven't been there like our team has. But it's likely you have at least one guilty pleasure, whether it's playing video games, reading romance novels or getting swept into obscure corners of TikTok. It turns out that experiencing – and studying – pleasure is not as straightforward as it might seem. And yet, ple... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-15 • 54 minutes For the Birds* Birds have it going on. Many of these winged dinosaurs delight us with their song and brilliant plumage. Migratory birds travel thousands of miles in a display of endurance that would make an Olympic athlete gasp. We inquire about these daunting migrations and how birds can fly for days without rest. And what can we do to save disappearing species? Will digital tracking technology help? Plus, how 19th century bird-lovers, appalled by feathered hats, started the modern conservation movement. Guests: Scott We... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Apr-14 • 52 minutes Does Time Really Exist and How Can We Measure It w/ Chad Orzel (#406) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today on Into the Impossible, we’re exploring the fascinating realm of time with none other than the timekeeper himself – Chad Orzel. Chad is a professor of physics and science communicator renowned for his popular science books, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, Breakfast with Einstein, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. He is also a regular contributor to ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-14 • 69 minutes Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023) Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (Cambridge University Press, 2023) explores historical practices, investigates current trends, and imagines future work in genetic research to answer persistent, political questions about human diversity. Readers are guided through fascinating thought experiments, complex measures and metrics, fundamental evolutionary patterns, and in-depth treatment of exciting case studies.... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Apr-13 • 54 minutes The science of friendship Friendship led ancient humans to cooperate and gain an edge over predators. Compassion is seen among 25 primates and other animals. Today we explore these qualities and meet scientists investigating the role of friendship in our evolution and our lives in the modern world. (@ABCscience)

2024-Apr-13 • 25 minutes Smologies #42: TREES with J. Casey Clapp Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? Which trees can you use to make syrup? Do bananas really grow on trees? Possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp, explains what makes coastal redwoods the coolest trees, how roots communicate with each other, and why a tree is like a cup of tea. Plus: bonus guest appearance by our friends (and the trees’), fungi. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Apr-12 • 33 minutes How do my ears sense direction? How can we hear a sound and immediately know where it’s coming from? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Apr-12 • 26 minutes Limits On ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water | An Important Winter Home For Bugs | Eclipse Drumroll A long-awaited rule from the EPA limits the amounts of six PFAS chemicals allowed in public drinking water supplies. Also, some spiders, beetles, and centipedes spend winter under snow in a layer called the subnivium. Plus, a drumroll for the total solar eclipse. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-12 • 69 minutes Future of Science & Technology Q&A (September 29, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: What can you say about the future of physics? - Something practical: do you think pens and pencils still have room for improvement, or has writing technology been perfected? - ​Should we prioritize adding new senses to ourselves (a magnetic north sense with some device, for example) to ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-12 • 41 minutes The Distance of the Moon In an episode we last featured on our Radiolab for Kids Feed back in 2020, and in honor of its blocking out the Sun for a bit of us for a bit last week, in this episode, we’re gonna talk more about the moon. According to one theory, (psst listen to The Moon Itself if you want to know more) the moon formed when a Mars-sized chunk of rock collided with Earth, the moon coalesced out of the debris from that impact. And it was MUCH closer to Earth than it is today. This idea is taken to its fanciful limit in Ita... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Apr-12 • 63 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [September 22, 2023] Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: If human reaction speed were faster, would that be helpful? How much faster could it be? Is the limiting factor the nerve signal relays or brain processing time?​ - Do you find it weird that on Earth, animals with bigger brains are considered the more intelligent species, but in technology, t... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-12 • 29 minutes The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms #245The multiverse may be bigger than we thought. The idea that we exist in just one of a massive collection of alternate universes has really captured the public imagination in the last decade. But now Hugh Everett’s 60-year-old “many worlds interpretation”, based on quantum mechanics, has been upgraded.The northern white rhino is on the brink of extinction but we may be able to save it. Scientists plan to use frozen genes from 12 now dead rhinos to rebuild the entire subspecies. But how do you turn skin c... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-12 • 29 minutes Weekly: The multiverse just got bigger; saving the white rhino; musical mushrooms #245The multiverse may be bigger than we thought. The idea that we exist in just one of a massive collection of alternate universes has really captured the public imagination in the last decade. But now Hugh Everett’s 60-year-old “many worlds interpretation”, based on quantum mechanics, has been upgraded.The northern white rhino is on the brink of extinction but we may be able to save it. Scientists plan to use frozen genes from 12 now dead rhinos to rebuild the entire subspecies. But how do you turn skin c... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-12 • 6 minutes Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-12 • 50 minutes Beyoncé, banjos and dancing chemistry Beyonce's reappraisal of who can do country music spurs an Unexpected Elements hoedown (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-12 The Skeptics Guide #979 - Apr 13 2024 Live from Dallas with special guest Dustin Bates of Starset; Eclipse Science; News Items: AI Designed Drugs, AI Music, Music Getting Simpler, Aphantasia Spectrum, Nova and Comet Compete with Eclipse; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Apr-12 • 13 minutes What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency announced new drinking water standards to limit people's exposure to some PFAS chemicals. For decades, PFAS have been used to waterproof and stain-proof a variety of consumer products. These "forever chemicals" in a host of products — everything from raincoats and the Teflon of nonstick pans to makeup to furniture and firefighting foam. Because PFAS take a very long time to break down, they can accumulate in humans and the environment. Now, a growing body of res... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-12 • 30 minutes Artificial platelets, and angry primates Plus, a bluetooth pancreas that could change thousands of lives (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-12 • 54 minutes COVID-19’s “long tail” includes a range of impacts on the brain and more… Old canned salmon provides a record of parasite infectionTo study marine ecosystems from the past, scientists picked through canned salmon dating back more than four decades to measure levels of parasites in the fish. Natalie Mastick, a postdoctoral researcher in marine ecology at Yale University, said she found the parasite load in two species of salmon increased in their samples between 1979 - 2021. She says this suggests their ecosystems provided more of the hosts the parasites needed, including marine m... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Apr-12 • 36 minutes Full Circle: Stories about going back to the start In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share tales that illuminate the transformative power of returning to their roots. Part 1: Gregor Posadas joins the army to pursue his dreams of becoming an engineer and fulfill his father’s wish of “fixing” their home country of the Philippines. Part 2: After losing his father as a young child, Nandhu Balakrishnan feels compelled to use his school savings to buy a life saving drug for a patient at the hospital he’s working at. Gregor Posadas is a Civil Engine... (@storycollider)

2024-Apr-11 • 18 minutes Investigating Animal Deaths At The National Zoo When an animal dies at Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo, a pathologist gathers clues about its health and death from a necropsy. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-11 • 31 minutes Bird flu in Antarctica Highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected along the Antarctic coast (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Apr-11 • 33 minutes Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene ]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and what it takes to turn a symbiotic friend into an organelle First up on the show this week, clinical trials of new and old treatments for Long Covid. Producer Meagan Cantwell is joined by Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel and some of her sources to discuss the difficulties of studying and treating this debilitating disease. People in this segment: · Michael Peluso · Sara Cherry · Shelley Hayd... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Apr-11 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Can a personal creed help young people connect in a rapidly changing world? The young adults who comprise Generation Z live in a world of far less violent crime relative to the generation before them. So, why are so many of them struggling? Educator John Creger thinks he has part of the answer: They often need help understanding who they are in this world. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Apr-11 • 28 minutes World’s oldest forest fossils Oldest forest fossils found in Somerset show how our world looked 390 million years ago. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Apr-11 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 11, 2024 Thomas Mullaney explains the complex task of developing a typing keyboard for the Chinese language which has thousands of characters but no alphabet.Then Dr. Keith Coper (co-per) talks about the University of Utah’s Seismograph Stations and the important work they do monitoring earthquakes in our area. (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Apr-11 • 9 minutes Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it’s happening at an uneven rate. That’s bad news for its sprawling public transportation system. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-11 • 29 minutes Can Information Escape a Black Hole? Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes can “evaporate,” with some particles evading gravitational oblivion. That phenomenon, now dubbed Hawking radiation, seems at odds with general relativity, and it raises an even weirder question: If particles can escape, do they preserve any information about the matter that was obliterated? | Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University, found himself at odds with Ha... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Apr-11 • 30 minutes Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Nearly 100 years ago, a young astronomer named Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin told us what stars are made of and turned the world on its head. No one believed her at first. Later, she was proven right. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Apr-11 • 27 minutes S3 Ep 6 - Kirsten Walsh on 'Rethinking Isaac Newton through his Archive' Today's guest is Dr Kirsten Walsh, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter.Kirsten’s research primarily focuses on Isaac Newton and his methodology, but she is careful to consider philosophical issues alongside a sensitivity and consideration for historical contexts.In today’s episode Kirsten gives us a sense of how our historical understanding of Newton has changed over time, and the role various archival practices have played in what knowledge is developed. Kirsten’s lively discussion gives... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Apr-11 • 16 minutes The senior Swiss women who went to court over climate change, and won The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland’s weak climate policy had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life. Ian Sample and Ajit Niranjan discuss why the women brought the case and what the ruling could mean for climate policy (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-10 • 53 minutes Field Trip: I Chased the 2024 Eclipse with Umbraphiles Come along like a frog in my pocket for an adventure to see an eclipse. After last week’s Heliology episode on the Sun, I rushed out of state to see what the fuss was about and to witness my first ever total eclipse of the Sun. Did it go as planned? Of course not? Did it work out? You’ll have to listen. We’ve got: a rollercoaster of emotions, last-minute pivots, chats with strangers, highway scenery, hope, anxiety, awe, and tears as we see if my seven-year wait for totality pans out. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Apr-10 • 19 minutes Eating More Oysters Helps Us—And The Chesapeake Bay In the ever-changing and biodiverse Chesapeake Bay, conservation and food production go hand in hand. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-10 • 17 minutes Remembering physicist Peter Higgs The Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. Higgs theorised the existence of the Higgs boson particle, part of an attempt to explain why the building blocks of the universe have mass, five decades before its existence was confirmed in 2012. Ian Sample and Madeleine Finlay look back on the life and legacy of a giant of science (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-10 • 41 minutes Multiple worlds, containing multitudes In the final episode of this season, we hear from a NASA researcher whose expertise spans from studying samples in deep, untouched regions of our planet all the way to organic chemistry happening in space. We consider the possibility of other, past origins of life on Earth and look at the rich potential to learn from sample return missions, including the recent OSIRIS-REx mission that retrieved samples of the asteroid Bennu. Abha also sits down with Chris to hear his perspective on the podcast as a research... (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Apr-10 • 23 minutes The 'ghost roads' driving tropical deforestation Researchers find that a huge number of roads that don’t appear on official maps, and the protein that could determine whether someone is left-handed. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Apr-10 • 7 minutes He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working Researchers think a combination of genetic edits and an experimental immunosuppressive drug could make the first pig kidney transplant a long-term success. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-10 • 34 minutes Episode 2: Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again In this episode, we’ll talk with two researchers whose work probes the uncertainty surrounding how we perceive the world around us. It turns out that what we see may not always be a perfect reflection of reality. (@sciam)

2024-Apr-10 • 18 minutes The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Gardening Digging deep into the Monkey Cage archive for scientific surprises about flora and fauna. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Apr-10 • 41 minutes The alpha myth The researcher who popularized the idea of the alpha wolf has spent decades trying to take it back. Our friends over at Pablo Torre Finds Out try to uncover how science got it wrong. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Please take a second to help us learn more about you... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Apr-10 • 12 minutes The Order Your Siblings Were Born In May Play A Role In Identity And Sexuality It's National Siblings Day! To mark the occasion, guest host Selena Simmons-Duffin is exploring a detail very personal to her: How the number of older brothers a person has can influence their sexuality. Scientific research on sexuality has a dark history, with long-lasting harmful effects on queer communities. Much of the early research has also been debunked over time. But not this "fraternal birth order effect." The fact that a person's likelihood of being gay increases with each older brother has been f... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-09 • 13 minutes How Trees Keep D.C. And Baltimore Cool Satellite technology—and community outreach—can help harness trees’ cooling power for city residents. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-09 • 6 minutes Why the East Coast Earthquake Covered So Much Ground Friday morning's earthquake was felt from New York City all the way to Washington, DC. Blame ancient fault lines and bedrock for the jolt. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-09 • 24 minutes How does ibuprofen help stop pain? Ouch! If you’ve ever stubbed your toe, gotten a paper cut or fallen off your bike, you know that getting hurt is no fun. Sometimes we can take medicine to help feel better, like ibuprofen. But how does that medicine know where to go in our bodies to stop the pain? In this episode, Molly and kid co-host Skylar explore where pain comes from and chat with expert Dr. Amanda C de C Williams about why it’s useful. Then they’ll eavesdrop on an ibuprofen pill on its first day of work to find out how it does its job... (@Brains_On)

2024-Apr-09 • 31 minutes Global warming vs global farming The fight to keep our food and save our planet (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-09 • 17 minutes Horny tortoises and solar mysteries: what scientists can learn from a total eclipse For scientists a total solar eclipse can be a fleeting chance to understand something deeper about their field of research. Madeleine Finlay meets professors Huw Morgan and Adam Hartstone-Rose to find out what they hoped to learn from 8 April’s four minutes of darkness (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-08 • 39 minutes Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation Half of the human population undergoes the menstrual cycle for a significant proportion of their lifetimes, yet periods remain a taboo topic in public and private life. And that makes it harder both to prioritise necessary scientific research into conditions like endometriosis and for people to understand the basics of how their bodies work.Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation is gynaecologist Jen Gunter’s latest book. In this practical guide, she dispels social, historical and medica... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-08 • 39 minutes CultureLab: Jen Gunter on the taboo science of menstruation Half of the human population undergoes the menstrual cycle for a significant proportion of their lifetimes, yet periods remain a taboo topic in public and private life. And that makes it harder both to prioritise necessary scientific research into conditions like endometriosis and for people to understand the basics of how their bodies work.Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation is gynaecologist Jen Gunter’s latest book. In this practical guide, she dispels social, historical and medica... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-08 • 26 minutes Wild Inside: The Bearded Vulture Explorations in the world of science. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-08 • 18 minutes Predicting Heart Disease From Chest X-Rays With AI | Storing New Memories During Sleep Dr. Eric Topol discusses the promise of “opportunistic” AI, using medical scans for unintended diagnostic purposes. Also, a study in mice found that the brain tags new memories through a “sharp wave ripple” mechanism that then repeats during sleep. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-08 • 54 minutes Fungi Fear* The zombie eco-thriller “The Last of Us” has alerted us to the threats posed by fungi. But the show is not entirely science fiction. Our vulnerability to pathogenic fungi is more real than many people imagine. Find out what human activity drives global fungal threats, including their menace to food crops and many other species. Our high body temperature has long kept lethal fungi in check; but will climate change cause fungi to adapt to warmer temperatures and threaten our health? Plus, a radically new wa... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Apr-08 • 12 minutes The Science and Wonder of Solar Eclipses: 4/8/24 (#405) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! On April 8th, 2024, the USA will be treated to a rare celestial phenomenon—a total solar eclipse. During a total solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow that temporarily darkens parts of the Earth. Astronomers and enthusiasts eagerly await the chance to witness this remarkable event and delve deeper into the mysteries of our solar syst... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-08 • 143 minutes When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation Stephen reads a recent blog from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers. | Read the blog along with Stephen: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024... | Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7Eqhd34ytoc | | (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-08 • 6 minutes Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole? Here’s a cool way to watch the eclipse—and learn about the weird physics of light while you’re at it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-08 • 6 minutes How a small fish makes big sounds How a small fish makes big sounds Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of... (@PNASNews)

2024-Apr-08 • 194 minutes AMA | April 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for April 2024. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-08 • 35 minutes 755: Designing, Creating, and Testing Novel Materials with Unique Properties - Dr. Carlos Portela Dr. Carlos Portela is the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Carlos’s research involves designing, making, and testing new types of materials that have unconventional properties. To do this, they... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Apr-07 • 12 minutes How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball It's baseball season! And when we here at Short Wave think of baseball, we naturally think of physics. To get the inside scoop on the physics of baseball, like how to hit a home run, we talk to Frederic Bertley, CEO and President of the Center of Science and Industry, a science museum in Columbus, Ohio. He also talks to host Regina G. Barber about how climate change is affecting the game. Interested in the science of other sports? Email us at [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.Learn more about s... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-07 • 42 minutes How Our Moon Shaped the Course of Human History and Humankind w/ Rebecca Boyle (#404) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today on Into the Impossible, we're joined by the renowned cosmic journalist Rebecca Boyle. As a lifelong lunar enthusiast, Rebecca has extensively studied how the Moon has shaped human history and life on Earth. Rebecca's new book, aptly titled ‘Our Moon,’ explores the mysteries of the Moon, from its crucial role in stabilizing Earth's orbit and shaping our climate to it... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-06 The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Rooy; Quickie with Bob: Silicon Spikes; News Items: Havana Syndrome, Robo Taxis in New York, Rebellions - Cultural Memory - and Eclipses, Gravitational Waves and Human Life; Your Questions and E-mails: Evolution of Gullibility; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Apr-06 • 54 minutes The amazing world of alpine plants Today we meet the people at the forefront of studying alpine plants - including how trees and plants survive in deep snow and ferocious winds. We visit the mushroom lab to discovery why fungi are essential to life on earth and find out what seed collection in the Colorado mountains is teaching us how to adapt in a changing climate. And while we're talking plants - Professor Peter Bernhardt of Missouri describes the thrill when the seventh millionth species was revealed and listed at his own formidable herba... (@ABCscience)

2024-Apr-05 • 93 minutes Want to Hear About Science Junk? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Guest Host Dr. Jessica Hebert, Barcode Birds, Molecular Transistors, Legs Or Junk, Speed of Vision, Naked Hearts, Don’t Vent, Bacteri-leather, Robo-Mirror, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Apr-05 • 26 minutes How many people have ever existed? Listener Alpha in Sierra Leone asks us to count all the humans who have ever lived (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Apr-05 • 31 minutes Recipient Of Pig Kidney Transplant Recovering | Answering Your Questions About April 8 Eclipse A Massachusetts man who received a kidney from a genetically modified pig is recovering well. Also, on April 8, a total solar eclipse will plunge parts of North America into darkness. Scientists answer the questions you asked. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-05 • 49 minutes The Moon Itself There’s a total solar eclipse coming. On Monday, April 8, for a large swath of North America, the sun will disappear, in the middle of the day. Everywhere you look, people are talking about it. What will it feel like when the sun goes away? What will the blocked-out sun look like? But all this talk of the sun got us thinking: wait, what about the moon? The only reason this whole solar eclipse thing is happening is because the moon is stepping in front of the sun. So in today’s episode, we stop treating the ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Apr-05 • 77 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (September 20, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: ​Were the 70s truly the golden age of electronics? - What's the history of hacking? When did security risks become a prominent issue? - ​Did you get to know Carver Mead at Caltech? - What progress did the antigravity research movement gain in the 50s–60s, and why did research eventuall... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-05 • 90 minutes Future of Science & Technology Q&A (September 15, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Would an alien intelligence experiencing a different slice of the ruliad (a "ruster") close to ours likely experience black holes in a similar way? - ​Is rulial space bigger than branchial space? - Maybe it's a Gaussian distribution around a point in rulial space that makes hu... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Apr-05 • 31 minutes Weekly: Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure #244Researchers have successfully turned lymph nodes into miniature livers that help filter the blood of mice, pigs and other animals – and now, trials are beginning in humans. If successful, the groundbreaking medical procedure could prove life-saving for thousands of people waiting for liver transplants around the world. So far, no complications have been seen from the procedure, but it will be several months before we know if the treatment is working as hoped in the first of 12 trial participants with en... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-05 • 31 minutes Miniature livers made from lymph nodes in groundbreaking medical procedure #244Researchers have successfully turned lymph nodes into miniature livers that help filter the blood of mice, pigs and other animals – and now, trials are beginning in humans. If successful, the groundbreaking medical procedure could prove life-saving for thousands of people waiting for liver transplants around the world. So far, no complications have been seen from the procedure, but it will be several months before we know if the treatment is working as hoped in the first of 12 trial participants with en... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-05 • 16 minutes Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say Researchers are scrambling to explain why rates of multiple cancers are increasing among adults under the age of 50. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Apr-05 • 8 minutes ‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills:’ American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, more women have been crossing the border to Mexico for abortion medications and procedures. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-05 • 50 minutes Unexpected elections What do stickleback fish have to do with millions of people’s voting intentions? (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-05 • 9 minutes The "Barcodes" Powering These Tiny Songbirds' Memories May Also Help Human Memory Tiny, black-capped chickadees have big memories. They stash food in hundreds to thousands of locations in the wild – and then come back to these stashes when other food sources are low. Now, researchers at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute think neural activity that works like a barcode may be to thank for this impressive feat — and that it might be a clue for how memories work across species. Curious about other animal behavior mysteries? Email us at [email protected] more about sponsor messa... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-05 • 34 minutes Stem cells for spinal injury, and breast cancer breakthrough Plus, the special vision behind virtuoso sporting performance... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-05 • 54 minutes The dark side of LED lighting and more,,, Seeing a black hole’s magnetic personalityScientists using the Event Horizon Telescope have produced a new image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. And this image is a little different: it captures the powerful magnetic fields that are acting as the cosmic cutlery feeding mass into the singularity. Avery Broderick is part of the Event Horizon Telescope team, he’s also a professor at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, and associate faculty at the Perime... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Apr-05 • 33 minutes This Is Why We Play: Stories about motivation In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers give us behind the scenes glimpses into why they do what they do. Part 1: While constantly staring at Mercury’s craters for NASA's MESSENGER mission, a picture of the Galapagos Islands captures Paul Byrne’s attention. Part 2: While serving in the navy to get his engineering degree, David Estrada is struck by the level of poverty he witnesses on the tiny island of East Timor. Paul Byrne received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in geology from Trinity Co... (@storycollider)

2024-Apr-04 • 18 minutes Our Inevitable Cosmic Apocalypse We revisit a 2020 interview with cosmologist Katie Mack about how the universe could end. Plus, remembering psychologist Daniel Kahneman. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-04 • 27 minutes Earthquake in Taiwan A powerful earthquake in Taiwan demonstrates the country’s preparedness. (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Apr-04 • 31 minutes When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor? Tracing the arrival of rats using bones, isotopes, and a few shipwrecks; and what scientists have learned in 50 years about our famous ancestor Lucy First on the show: Did rats come over with Christopher Columbus? It turns out, European colonists weren’t alone on their ships when they came to the Americas—they also brought black and brown rats to uninfested shores. Eric Guiry, a researcher in the Trent Environmental Archaeology Lab at Trent University, joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how tiny slices of... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Apr-04 • 28 minutes How pure is the water from your tap? We look at the quality of water from your kitchen tap and check out some clever bees. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Apr-04 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 4, 2024 Immaculata De Vivo, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, discusses her book, "The Biology of Kindness: Six Daily Choices for Health, Well-Being, and Longevity," co-written with mindfulness and meditation expert Daniel Lumera.Then, Joshua Glenn talks about his collection of science fiction stories and books from 1900-1935 and his efforts to preserve these forgotten classics and to discover the origins of enduring tropes like ber... (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Apr-04 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Why do people police language? Anne Curzan might seem like a strange sort of English teacher. The veteran professor doesn’t believe in “right” and wrong” when it comes to grammar. Rather, she wants people to be able to make informed choices about language. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Apr-04 • 6 minutes How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person Here’s some advice for safely experiencing the total solar eclipse on April 8 as the moon casts a slender shadow across Mexico, the United States, and eastern Canada. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-04 • 31 minutes The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses Annie Maunder was an astronomer who expanded our understanding of the sun at the turn of the 20th century. Her passion was photographing eclipses. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Apr-04 • 29 minutes Throwback Thursday - Greg Radick on 'Counterfactual History of Science' This week the team at The HPS Podcast are taking a mid-semester break!To celebrate we are reposting one of our favourite episodes from Season 1 featuring Professor Greg Radick, a leading historian of biology at the University of Leeds.In the podcast Greg discusses the use of counterfactuals in history of science - the term we use for asking ‘What if?’ questions about history - and their potential to subvert our conventional thinking. In Greg’s research, a central counterfactual question is: “What might biol... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Apr-04 • 19 minutes The science of ‘weird shit’: why we believe in fate, ghosts and conspiracy theories Psychologist Chris French has spent decades studying paranormal claims and mysterious experiences, from seemingly-impossible coincidences to paintings that purportedly predict the future. Ian Sample sits down with French to explore why so many of us end up believing in, what he terms, ‘weird shit’, and what we can learn from understanding why we’re drawn to mysterious and mystic phenomena (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-03 • 18 minutes The Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind And Right Whales Officials say offshore wind turbines aren’t killing North Atlantic right whales. So why do so many people think otherwise? (@scifri)

2024-Apr-03 • 25 minutes Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg We roundup some recent stories from the Nature Briefing. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Apr-03 • 6 minutes Teaser: Big vs. Small Patreon Bonus Episode A wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Big vs. Small and answering even more questions that we didn't get to in the episode. You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head over to Patreon.com/scishowtangents and join in all the learning and shenanigans! Thank you so much to all our Patrons - we genuinely would not get to do this with... (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Apr-03 • 22 minutes Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Fire Water” by Saidbysed. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Apr-03 • 8 minutes This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People Donor livers are in short supply for transplants. A startup is attempting to grow new ones in people instead. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-03 • 26 minutes Episode 1: Uncertainty is Science's Super Power. Make It Yours, Too Welcome to Uncertain, a five-part podcast miniseries from Scientific American. Here we will dive head first into the possibilities of the unknowing. Over the next five episodes, I’ll be talking with people like her: explorers who work in the realm of uncertainty. Through them, we’ll discover the ways that uncertainty can spark curiosity and scientific breakthroughs. But we’ll also find out how uncertainty can bite us in the butt and make science really hard. We’ll see how neglecting uncertainty can lead to ... (@sciam)

2024-Apr-03 • 20 minutes The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Love Embracing the best Infinite Monkey Cage episodes about love and desire. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Apr-03 • 20 minutes The eclipse chasers Solar storms can wreak havoc on power grids, satellites, even astronauts — but scientists still struggle to predict them. One possible way forward? Chasing eclipses. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Apr-03 • 96 minutes Heliology (THE SUN/ECLIPSES) with India Jackson and Michael Kirk Sunset flimflam! Auroras! Eclipse tips! Let’s get to know the center of our solar system, the Sun, as the April 8th eclipse approaches. What is it made of? How big is it? Will it explode soon? Why can’t I stare at it? And why is it wearing sunglasses? Dr. Michael Kirk and almost-Dr. India Jackson are brilliant and charming Heliologists who have both worked with NASA’s heliophysics departments. Get to know them and also the giant hot plasma ball we revolve around. You’ll never (not look at it) the same. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Apr-03 • 13 minutes How To Make The Most Of Next Week's Solar Eclipse On April 8, the moon will slip in front of the sun, blocking its light and creating an eerie twilight in the middle of the day. Stars will come out, the air will get cold, colors will dance around the horizon. It's a full-body experience born from the total solar eclipse that will be visible from North America. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber talks to NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce about why some people say this experience is one of the most beautiful celestial events you can see – and h... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-02 • 18 minutes The Bumpy Road To Approving New Alzheimer’s Drugs After a controversial Alzheimer’s medication was discontinued, a new anti-amyloid drug receives extra scrutiny from the FDA. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-02 • 26 minutes Wild Inside: The Red Kangaroo Explorations in the world of science. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Apr-02 • 9 minutes Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot Afshin Mehin has helped design some of the most futuristic neurotech devices. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-02 • 26 minutes Everything you need to know before the 2024 solar eclipse On April 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible on a path that crosses North America, from the west coast of Mexico to the east coast of Canada. In this episode, Molly and co-host Aminah cover all your eclipse essentials: What causes an eclipse? What’s it like to experience one? How do you watch one safely? (Spoiler alert: Don’t stare at the sun without special eyewear. Really. Please. Don’t do it.) Plus, indigenous science educator Nancy Maryboy tells us about Navajo and Cherokee traditions during an ecl... (@Brains_On)

2024-Apr-02 • 69 minutes Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Guru Madhavan, Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs at the National Academy of Engineering, about his recent book, Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024). In Wicked Problems, Madhavan draws on a rich body of literature from the humanities and social sciences to think through how engineers can do a better job working on problems that include complex social and technical realities. The pair also... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Apr-02 • 29 minutes Nitazenes move the needle for drug death distress New synthetic opioids, many times stronger than heroin, have appeared in the UK illicit supply... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Apr-02 • 45 minutes Textiles From expressing ourselves through fashion to protecting ourselves from the elements, textiles seem to be self-evidently significant to the human experience. But it's our goal on Tangents to always poke holes in the obvious, tear through distraction, and weave humor with knowledge - and the facts this episode will blow your cotton-poly blend socks off. (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Apr-02 • 14 minutes Short Cuts: Drawn Onward As a treat for the first palindrome date of the calendar year 2024, 4/2/24, (for those who use U.S. formatting of dates anyway), we are releasing a special audio palindrome. A piece that plays the same forward and backward. It’s called “Drawn Onward” and it comes from the producers Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt. It originally aired on the wonderful BBC show Short Cuts which curates fresh, experimental, adventurous audio journeys. Special thanks to Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt, Josie Long, Eleanor McDowa... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Apr-02 • 15 minutes Hypermobility: a blessing or a curse? Being more flexible than the average person can have its advantages, from being great at games such as Limbo to feeling smug in yoga class. But researchers are coming to understand that being hypermobile can also be linked to pain in later life, anxiety, and even long Covid. Madeleine Finlay hears from the science correspondent Linda Geddes about her experience of hypermobility, and finds out what might be behind its link to mental and physical health (@guardianscience)

2024-Apr-01 • 19 minutes Escape Pod: #8 Escape from predators and escape from the planet This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in March 2021.From beetle explosions to the deep dark depths of the ocean, this episode is all about escape.The team discusses the amazing (and sometimes disgusting) way bombardier beetles escape predators.They explain what it takes for an object to reach escape velocity, celebrating the mathematical mind of Katherine Johnson while they’re at it.And they explore the daunting realms of free-diving, and the lengths people will go to for a bit of peace and q... (@newscientist)

2024-Apr-01 • 23 minutes ‘3 Body Problem’ And The Laws Of Physics | In Defense Of ‘Out Of Place’ Plants Particle accelerators, nanofibers, and solar physics: The science advisor for the Netflix adaptation breaks down the physics in the show. Also, in her new book, Jessica J. Lee looks at how humans have moved plants around the globe–and how our migrations are intertwined with theirs. (@scifri)

2024-Apr-01 • 82 minutes 271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity I talk with physicist Claudia de Rham about cosmologically interesting ways to modify Einstein's theory of general relativity. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-01 • 8 minutes The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows New heat pumps easily fit over window sills, meaning they could replace clunky apartment air-conditioning units. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Apr-01 • 69 minutes Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023) A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (Mariner Books, 2023) tells two fascinating stories. One is the evolution of nervous systems. It started 600 million years ago, when the first brains evolved in tiny worms. The other one is humans' quest to create more and more intelligent systems. This story begins in 1951 with the first reinforcement learning algorithm trying to mimic neural networks. Max Bennett is an AI entrepreneur and neuroscience researche... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Apr-01 • 51 minutes Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024) Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth's pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity's irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein's general theory of relativity. In The Beauty of Falling: A Li... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Apr-01 • 42 minutes 754: Hooked on Researching Marine Coastal Ecosystems and Fish Abundance - Dr. Joel Fodrie Dr. Joel Fodrie is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Marine Sciences and Department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joel studies estuaries which are habitats where freshwater from rivers and streams... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Apr-01 • 16 minutes The Two Sides Of Guyana: A Green Champion And An Oil Producer For Guyana the potential wealth from oil development was irresistible — even as the country faces rising seas. Today on the show, host Emily Kwong talks to reporter Camila Domonoske about her 2021 trip to Guyana and how the country is grappling with its role as a victim of climate change while it moves forward with drilling more oil. (encore)For more of Camila's reporting and pictures from her visit, check out "Guyana is a poor country that was a green champion. Then Exxon discovered oil."Want to more about... (@NPR)

2024-Apr-01 • 54 minutes Coffee of the Future Drinking a cup of coffee is how billions of people wake up every morning. But climate change is threatening this popular beverage. Over 60% of the world’s coffee species are at risk of extinction. Scientists are searching for solutions, including hunting for wild, forgotten coffee species that are more resilient to our shifting climate. Find out how the chemistry of coffee can help us brew coffee alternatives, and how coffee grounds can be part of building a sustainable future. Guests: Christopher Hendon - ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Mar-31 • 143 minutes (Audio) Katherine Brodsky: Speaking Out in an Age of Outrage I first stumbled upon the journalist Katherine Brodsky, who has been a commentator and writer for various media outlets, when I heard about her new book, No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage. The title intrigued me but I admit I was a bit skeptical. Having written and spoken about co-called cancel culture in the academic world, I expected I might find nothing new in her book, but I was wrong. Katherine was motivated to write her book after her own experience of being mobbed ... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Mar-31 • 51 minutes Chris Hayward: Lerner and Gupta Are WRONG About the Big Bang (#403) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! When the JWST captured the first images of the earliest galaxies in our universe, scientists were shocked. The galaxies appeared to be way too bright, way too big, and way too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang. This discovery has, rightfully so, sparked a massive debate among astrophysicists. Some even started to question the standard model of cosmology. ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-30 The Skeptics Guide #977 - Mar 30 2024 AI Created Music; News Items: Sweetened Drinks and Atrial Fibrillation, One Degree, Birth Control Misinformation, Iridology; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mel's Mystery Hole, Positive Thinking; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Mar-30 • 25 minutes Smologies #41: PELICANS with Juita Martinez Spine mysteries, face purses, limericks, flim flam, flags, dive bombs, sibling rivalries, and more! The warm and wonderful pelicanologist Juita Martinez studies these glorious dinosaurs and shares what it’s like to hold a floofy baby sea bird, how these birds’ ecosystems are being restored, and what she loves about being in nature. Also: How much fish can they fit in there, anyway? (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-30 • 54 minutes Meet the man who changed the world forever Sir Mark Oliphant of Adelaide was the main person missing from the film Oppenheimer. It was Sir Mark who carried the letter from European scientists to New York to convince the American President that Hitler was trying to make an atomic bomb and needed to be beaten to the chilling quest. It led to the Manhattan Project.Mark also gave us microwave power, initially to equip planes, later to give us microwave ovens; he helped establish the ANU; was the first President of the Australian Academy of Science and b... (@ABCscience)

2024-Mar-30 • 36 minutes Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024) Listen to this interview of Emma Frances Bloomfield, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. We talk about her novel analytical tool for helping you narrativize research! Bloomfield's new book is Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators (U California Press, 2024) Emma Bloomfield : "I'd love to see more direct incorporation of communication studies and communication skills into the science curriculum but also into a researcher's overall tra... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Mar-29 • 27 minutes Could climate change lead to more volcanic eruptions? We head to New Zealand to ask how a hotter planet will affect volcanoes. (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Mar-29 • 20 minutes Baltimore Bridge Collapse | Mapping How Viruses Jump Between Species We look into the engineering reasons why the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed after a ship crashed into it. Also, a new analysis finds that more viruses spread from humans to animals than from animals to humans. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-29 • 26 minutes Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous #243As we age our immune systems do too, making us less able to fight infections and more prone to chronic inflammation. But a team of scientists has been able to reverse these effects in mice, rejuvenating their immune systems by targeting their stem cells. But there’s a long road to trying the same thing in humans.Have you seen the incredible new black hole image? Just a couple of years since the Event Horizon Telescope’s first, fuzzy image of Sagittarius A* – the black hole at the centre of our galaxy – ... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-29 • 26 minutes Weekly: Immune system treatment makes old mice seem young again; new black hole image; unexploded bombs are becoming more dangerous #243As we age our immune systems do too, making us less able to fight infections and more prone to chronic inflammation. But a team of scientists has been able to reverse these effects in mice, rejuvenating their immune systems by targeting their stem cells. But there’s a long road to trying the same thing in humans.Have you seen the incredible new black hole image? Just a couple of years since the Event Horizon Telescope’s first, fuzzy image of Sagittarius A* – the black hole at the centre of our galaxy – ... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-29 • 84 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (September 6, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa | | Questions include: Is writing the same as thinking? - After reviewing your Wikipedia page, I noticed that you left undergraduate/postgraduate study before graduation for whatever reason. My question pertains to how you found the application process and background study for being accepted into ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-29 • 98 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 30, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: ​Do you believe we had an exploration age? Sometimes the hype feels exponential, but maybe it's just linear. What are your thoughts? - When was it that we learned about weather being essentially mathematics and physics, which could be utilized to create weapons that can control weather... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-29 • 7 minutes The Real Reason Why Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER The abortion pill mifepristone went in front of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday. Antiabortionists say an increase in emergency room visits shows it’s unsafe. Medical experts disagree. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-29 • 13 minutes The Shy Rodents Lost To Science Historic numbers of animals across the globe have become endangered or pushed to extinction. But some of these species sit in limbo — not definitively extinct yet missing from the scientific record. Rediscovering a "lost" species is not easy. It can require trips to remote areas and canvassing a large area in search of only a handful of animals. But new technology and stronger partnerships with local communities have helped these hidden, "uncharismatic" creatures come to light. Have other scientific gray ar... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-29 • 30 minutes Climate change slowing Earth's rotation, and hotels in space Plus, a fascinating feat of animal memory (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-29 • 134 minutes Science for our Future Fossils What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview W/Michael Garfield, Broken Memories, Bigger Brains, Machine Learns Beer, Teens are the Goat, Tardii-people?, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Mar-29 • 33 minutes Disgust: Stories about feeling revulsion Disgust, often seen as a primal and universal emotion, can reveal a lot about our values, boundaries, and cultural norms. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers are confronted with something that grosses them out. Part 1: While on a school trip in Russia, Cassandra Hartblay’s vegetarian dietary restrictions keep getting tested. Part 2: As a meat lover, Jenny Kleeman has high hopes for the world’s first lab-grown chicken nugget. Dr. Cassandra Hartblay is an Assistant Professor at the University of ... (@storycollider)

2024-Mar-28 • 27 minutes Star for a day A star on the brink of explosion will be visible from Earth. But not for long. (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Mar-28 • 18 minutes The Legacy Of Primatologist Frans de Waal In a conversation from 2019, Dr. Frans de Waal tells the story of a female chimp who didn’t produce enough milk to feed her young. The prominent primatologist, who died this month, helped humans understand the emotional lives of our closest living animal relatives. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-28 • 40 minutes How Is Flocking Like Computing? Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors of animals differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies that only recently became available, researchers have been able to study these patterns of behavior more closely than ever before. | In this episode, the... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Mar-28 • 30 minutes Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters section First on this week’s show, a robot that can predict your smile. Hod Lipson, a roboticist and professor at Columbia University, joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how mirrors can help robots learn to make facial expressions and eventually improve robot nonverbal communication. Next, we have Margaret Handley, a professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics and medicine at the University of California San... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Mar-28 • 33 minutes Dimming the Sun Should we even consider solar geoengineering? (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Mar-28 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | March 28, 2024 Authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert share where our data is going, and what is being done with it in their new book, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance."Then, FIRST, a global robotics community helps prepare students for the future through their programs, competitions, and fun. (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Mar-28 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: How long can apes remember each other’s faces? Laura Lewis met a bonobo named Louise as part of a study on the capacity of bonobos to remember the faces of apes they’d spent time with decades earlier. And Louise remembered. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Mar-28 • 58 minutes Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics (@BBCInOurTime)

2024-Mar-28 • 50 minutes G.O.A.T The greatest baseball player of all time and the greatest science to boot! (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-28 • 6 minutes The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space Injectable immunotherapy drugs can be made, in theory, but gravity prevents them from crystallizing correctly. A startup thinks the solution could be right above us. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-28 • 26 minutes Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures Two sisters made significant contributions to botany and entomology but their stories were erased – accidentally and by design – from the history of early American science. Catherine McNeur tells us how she rediscovered them. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Mar-28 • 16 minutes The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS On 28 March it’s the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other ill... (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-28 • 28 minutes S3 Ep 4 - Dan Hicks on 'Public Scientific Controversies' In today’s episode we have assistant professor and philosopher of science, Dan Hicks, taking us through better understanding public scientific controversies.‘Public scientific controversies’ is a term Dan uses to capture a broad variety of controversies that involve both science and the public. This would include controversies around vaccines, genetically modified foods, medical research and climate change.In studying why controversies like these arise and persist, Dan has found our common explanations are ... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Mar-28 • 54 minutes An Australian Atlantis and other lost landscapes, and more... Archaeologists identify a medieval war-horse graveyard near Buckingham Palace We know knights in shining armor rode powerful horses, but remains of those horses are rare. Now, researchers studying equine remains from a site near Buckingham Palace have built a case, based on evidence from their bones, that these animals were likely used in jousting tournaments and battle. Archeologist Katherine Kanne says the bone analysis also revealed a complex, continent-crossing medieval horse trading network that s... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Mar-27 • 34 minutes How human history shapes scientific inquiry In this episode, we examine how the course of human history has shaped our scientific knowledge, why the physics community prioritizes some questions over others, and why progress in complex systems research is especially difficult. Academia continues to operate within set boundaries and students are taught certain concepts as fundamental and to skirt others completely. However, the history of science demonstrates that such concepts aren’t always set in stone. It’s possible that blowing open the “shackles o... (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Mar-27 • 19 minutes The ‘Asteroid Hunter’ Leading The OSIRIS-REx Mission In a new memoir, planetary scientist Dr. Dante Lauretta takes readers behind the scenes of a mission to secure a sample from the asteroid Bennu. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-27 • 27 minutes How climate change is affecting global timekeeping Melting polar-ice could delay major time adjustment, and the strange connection between brain inflammation and memory. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Mar-27 • 10 minutes Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed so Quickly Steel structures aren’t as strong as you might think—and the immense power of a container ship shouldn’t be underestimated. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-27 • 21 minutes The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Murder A trawl through the Monkey Cage archive for clues to committing the perfect murder. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Mar-27 • 28 minutes The Yips Think about the thing you’ve practiced more than anything else in the world. Maybe it’s painting. Or writing. Or playing the piano. Now imagine you wake up one day and you just can’t do it. You’re not sick. You’re not injured. But that one thing is impossible. It’s called the yips, and even the most talented people in the world experience it. What could cause them to lose their superpowers? And is there anything they can do to get them back? For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Mar-27 • 89 minutes Disgustology (REPULSION TO GROSS STUFF) with Paul Rozin Taboos. Intolerable foods. Sad songs. Sexy kinks. Candy that looks like poo. Let’s get a little gross, shall we? The foremost expert in disgust, Dr. Paul Rozin, chats about the emotions related to revulsion – and BOY HOWDY do we cover some ground. Why do some things gross us out and others don’t? Can we change that? Learn how research psychologists study disgust, from butterflies to bigotry, and from pranks to power dynamics. Maybe don’t eat lunch while you listen, but definitely tune in to learn how to con... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-27 • 13 minutes Shots Are Scary. But They Don't Have To Be. According to the CDC, about one in four adults has a fear of needles. Many of those people say the phobia started when they were kids. For some people, the fear of needles is strong enough that they avoid getting important treatments, vaccines or tests. That poses a serious problem for public health. Researchers have helped develop a five step plan to help prevent what they call "needless pain" for kids getting injections or their blood drawn. Guest host Tom Dreisbach talks with Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf of... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-26 • 18 minutes Swimming Sea Lions Teach Engineers About Fluid Dynamics Understanding how sea lions move through water could help engineers design better underwater vehicles. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-26 • 34 minutes Alzheimer's: the fight back The costs of Alzheimer's, and the hope for future treatments (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-26 • 8 minutes A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time A 62-year-old Massachusetts man with failing kidneys is the first living patient to receive a genetically-altered kidney from a pig. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-26 • 37 minutes Are UFOs real? We love a good mystery, and UFOs are magnificently mysterious! But are they real? In this episode, Marc and Sanden take over the Brains On feed with a new episode of their radio show, Hoax Hunters. They’ll look into the myths and hoaxes surrounding UFOs (which stands for unidentified flying objects). Plus, they’ll talk about what kinds of things often get mistaken for UFOs and how you can stay smart and skeptical when hearing shocking information. And of course, an episode about mystery will have an all-new... (@Brains_On)

2024-Mar-26 • 15 minutes What could a severe solar storm do to Earth, and are we prepared? The sun is currently ramping up to hit the peak of its 11-year activity cycle. In the past few days, powerful solar eruptions have sent a stream of particles towards Earth which are set to produce spectacular auroras in both hemispheres. But these kinds of geomagnetic storms can also have less appealing consequences. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Lisa Upton, a solar scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, about how the mysterious inner workings of the sun create space weather, how solar events can si... (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-26 • 33 minutes Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign Fish you wear like a gas mask, moss that turns a robot sentient and critters that will eat your rash – all these oddities and more cohabit on the planet Vesta, the setting for the animated miniseries Scavengers Reign, where a group of human space travellers must innovate with what they find in the landscape to survive. While all this sounds fantastical, there are many parallels with Earth’s ecosystem and the way we regularly borrow technology from the natural world. New Scientist physics reporter Karme... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-26 • 33 minutes CultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers Reign Fish you wear like a gas mask, moss that turns a robot sentient and critters that will eat your rash – all these oddities and more cohabit on the planet Vesta, the setting for the animated miniseries Scavengers Reign, where a group of human space travellers must innovate with what they find in the landscape to survive. While all this sounds fantastical, there are many parallels with Earth’s ecosystem and the way we regularly borrow technology from the natural world. New Scientist physics reporter Karme... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-25 • 27 minutes Uncharted: Access denied What happens when a system designed to help people harms them instead? (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-25 • 18 minutes Botanical Rescue Centers Take In Illegally Trafficked Plants The U.S. Botanic Garden is one of 62 locations across the United States that rescue endangered species poached in the wild. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-25 • 129 minutes 270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives I think through some of the ways that technology is changing the world, exploring the possibility of an upcoming singularity marking the shift to a new equilibrium of human existence. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-25 • 10 minutes History of flight in dinosaurs Dinosaur feathers hint at flight history Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes... (@PNASNews)

2024-Mar-25 • 9 minutes Are You Noise Sensitive? Here's How to Tell Every person has a different idea of what makes noise “loud,” but there are some things we all can do to turn the volume down a little. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-25 • 36 minutes 753: Getting a Glimpse into the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe - Dr. Taylor Hutchison Dr. Taylor Hutchison is an astrophysicist and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Taylor uses large telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope to study the most distant galaxies that we can detect in the universe. Her... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Mar-25 • 12 minutes What's It Like To Live In Space? One Astronaut Says It Changes Her Dreams Few humans have had the opportunity to see Earth from space, much less live in space. We got to talk to one of these lucky people — NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara. She will soon conclude her nearly seven month stay on the International Space Station. Transmitting from space to your ears, Loral talks to host Regina G. Barber about her dreams in microgravity, and her research on the ISS: 3D-printing human heart tissue, how the human brain and body adapt to microgravity, and how space changes the immune systems o... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-25 • 54 minutes When the Moon Hits Your Eye The Great North American Solar Eclipse will trace a path of shadow across Mexico and 13 U.S. States on April 8th. Phil Plait, also known as The Bad Astronomer, joins the show for an extended interview covering a wide-range of topics, such as his excitement about the eclipse, the Pentagon’s most recent UFO report, and some of the most persistent moon landing conspiracy theories. Guest: Phil Plait – aka the Bad Astronomer, former astronomer on Hubble, teacher, lecturer, and debunker of conspiracy theories. He... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Mar-24 • 69 minutes Why ChatGPT Can’t Tell Compelling Stories (Yet) w/ John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne (#402) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! “What is it about Artificial Intelligence driving tech giants like Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman? Why are they racing to develop and own these thinking machines while unsure of the harm they could cause us? Can we trust nation-states and NGOs to use their totalitarian strategies when they don’t truly understand the problems we face?... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-23 • 54 minutes Big things The Iter Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor is due for completion next year. In the US, a smaller cheaper reactor is also gearing up. (@ABCscience)

2024-Mar-23 The Skeptics Guide #976 - Mar 23 2024 Interview with Dante Lauretta of the Osiris Rex mission; Quickie With Steve: Treating HIV with CRISPR; News Items: Starship's Third Launch, Extinct Flu Virus, Keeping Voyager 1 Going, Death by Exorcism, Energy Demand Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fighting Lions; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Mar-22 • 27 minutes Do animals have anxious habits like us? Why do we bite our nails - and do animals share similar habits? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Mar-22 • 25 minutes 2023 Was Hottest Year On Record | The NASA Satellite Studying Plankton The World Meteorological Organization’s report confirms last year had the highest temperatures on record and predicts an even hotter 2024. Also, NASA’s new PACE satellite will study how these tiny creatures could affect Earth’s climate, and how aerosols influence air quality. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-22 • 151 minutes Stephen Wolfram Readings: Can AI Solve Science? Stephen reads a recent blog from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers. | | Read the blog along with Stephen: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024... | Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/goYaSkxG8LA (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-22 • 27 minutes How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics #242Human population growth is coming to an end. The global population is expected to peak between 2060 and 2080, then start falling. Many countries will have much lower birth rates than would be needed to support ageing populations. These demographic projections have major implications for the way our societies function, including immigration and transportation, and what kinds of policies and systems we need. Remember Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons? Humanoid robots capable of many different tasks ma... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-22 • 27 minutes Weekly: How declining birth rates could shake up society; Humanoid robots; Top prize in mathematics #242Human population growth is coming to an end. The global population is expected to peak between 2060 and 2080, then start falling. Many countries will have much lower birth rates than would be needed to support ageing populations. These demographic projections have major implications for the way our societies function, including immigration and transportation, and what kinds of policies and systems we need. Remember Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons? Humanoid robots capable of many different tasks ma... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-22 • 89 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 25, 2023] Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Could we be inside of a black hole? Can biological life survive?​ - Would something trapped in the liminal space between the event horizon and "singularity" eventually be able to escape?​ - ​In a black hole, does time stop? Is this a case for string theory?​ - What are the implicati... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-22 • 93 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 23, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa | | Questions include: Just saw your new blog about Ed Fredkin–what an interesting read! What was writing the blog like? Do you enjoy these more biographical pieces vs. more purely technical pieces you've written? - ​When you first created Wolfram Language and the other products around it (Mathema... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-22 • 39 minutes Finding Emilie This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad and Robert about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again. Then, at the end of the ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Mar-22 • 84 minutes Is Earth the Plastic Placenta Planet? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview W/Dr. Jessica Hebert, Earthly Solutions, A Plastic Problem, Making Babies, Hair From Where?, Blood In Space, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Mar-22 • 7 minutes Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears A fatal bear attack in Slovakia reignited accusations that conservationists are protecting the animals at the expense of human safety. Experts argue it's a people problem, not a bear problem. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-22 • 10 minutes The Evolutionary Mystery Of Menopause ... In Whales Across the animal kingdom, menopause is something of an evolutionary blip. We humans are one of the few animals to experience it. But Sam Ellis, a researcher in animal behavior, argues that this isn't so surprising. "The best way to propagate your genes is to get as many offspring as possible into the next generation," says Ellis. "The best way to do that is almost always to reproduce your whole life." So how did menopause evolve? The answer may lie in whales. Ellis and his team at the University of Exeter ... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-22 • 29 minutes Whooping cough cases surge, and looking for life on Europa Plus, using CRISPR to fight HIV... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-22 • 54 minutes The future of freshwater — will we have a drop to drink, and more. How animals dealt with the ‘Anthropause’ during COVID lockdowns (1:04)During the COVID lockdowns human behaviour changed dramatically, and wildlife scientists were interested in how that in turn changed the behaviour of animals in urban, rural and wilderness ecosystems. In a massive study of camera trap images, a team from the University of British Columbia has built a somewhat surprising picture of how animals responded to a human lockdown. Cole Burton, Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservat... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Mar-22 • 26 minutes Taking You With Me: Stories about precious memories Memories are the threads that weave together the tapestry of our lives, each one a cherished treasure that shapes who we are and where we've been. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share stories about memories that altered their lives. Part 1: After constantly living in the shadow of her older sister, RJ Millena isn’t sure how to carve her own path. Part 2: When Jasmine Anenberg finds out her high school friend overdoses while she’s working in the field, she starts to see the world differentl... (@storycollider)

2024-Mar-21 • 47 minutes Field Trip: Alie’s Mystery Surgery! Where have I been? What surgery did I have? Am I going to die? I took you along for the whole wacky, sometimes scary process in hopes it might help someone and urge you all to draft up your wills and call your doctors if anything seems weird. If you think this thing has *nothing* to do with your own life, you’ll learn why it very much indeed does. Cryptic! What am I, a princess? Tune in for the journey of the last few months behind the scenes at Dadward HQ. And thank you for all of the support, for reals. O... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-21 • 33 minutes Out of Africa A rare glimpse into the lives of the ancestors moving from Africa to the whole world. (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Mar-21 • 18 minutes A Strange-Looking Fish, Frozen In Time A group of fish called gar, dubbed “living fossils,” may have the slowest rate of evolution of any jawed vertebrate. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-21 • 36 minutes Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests when a conventional and organic farm are neighbors First up on this week’s show, a new treatment to stave off prion disease goes into clinical trials. Prions are misfolded proteins that clump together and chew holes in the brain. The misfolding can be switched on in a number of ways—including infection with a misfolded prion protein from an animal or person. Staff Writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah C... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Mar-21 • 28 minutes Laboratory-Grown Meat Is it a solution to global emissions or a distraction? And, will people actually eat it? (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Mar-21 • 23 minutes UnDisciplined: What is it like to leave an evangelical church? Like many Americans, Sarah McCammon grew up in a deeply evangelical family, where she was plagued by fears and deep questions about her belief system, but scared to leave. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Mar-21 • 49 minutes The Evidence: The science of the menopause How is the menopause viewed around the world? Claudia Hammond unpacks the latest science (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-21 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | March 21, 2024 As a total eclipse approaches on April 8, 2024, solar eclipse enthusiast and former science correspondent for National Public Radio, David Baron, tells about the earliest eclipse chasers in 1878 in his book "American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World." Then, Ann Burg talks about her new young adult biography on the life of Rachel Carson, "Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson." (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Mar-21 • 9 minutes The World's E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point A new UN report finds that humanity is generating 137 billion pounds of TVs, smartphones, and other e-waste a year—and recycling less than a quarter of it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-21 • 50 minutes Ancient water, modern solutions With water shortages and melting ice caps making the news we look at unexpected solutions (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-21 • 17 minutes The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language Ursula Bellugi became fixated on the question of how we learn language. Her research on sign language in particular had a major impact on our understanding of how language skills and biology are interconnected. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Mar-21 • 16 minutes Havana syndrome: will we ever understand what happened? In late 2016, US officials in Cuba’s capital began experiencing a mysterious and often debilitating set of symptoms that came to be known as Havana syndrome. Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian’s Julian Borger and consultant neurologist Prof Jon Stone about what could be behind the condition (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-21 • 28 minutes S3 Ep 3 - Anna Alexandrova on 'Philosophy of Well-Being Science' Today's episode features Professor Anna Alexandrova from the University of Cambridge discussing a field she has pioneered - the Philosophy of Well-Being Science.As Anna points out, well-being and happiness are now established phenomena for scientific research, particularly in the disciplines of psychology and economics. But does current scientific research produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What kind of well-being? Should the goal be a single concept and single theory of well-being?An... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Mar-20 • 18 minutes What We Know After 4 Years Of COVID-19 Four years ago this week, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Experts say it’s far from over. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-20 • 30 minutes AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs Machine learning detects song differences too subtle for humans to hear, and physicists harness the computing power of the strange skyrmion. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Mar-20 • 21 minutes Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Mar-20 • 7 minutes DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner A soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more or less likely. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-20 • 43 minutes Higgs Boson Brian Cox and Robin Ince go to the Large Hadron Collider in search of the Higgs Boson. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Mar-20 • 24 minutes The bleeding edge, part two Diagnosing diseases such as endometriosis can require difficult steps, like surgery. But researchers are hoping to use menstrual fluid to make detecting the condition much easier. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Mar-20 • 13 minutes Syphilis Cases Are Rising In Babies. Illinois Has A Potential Solution The number of newborns born with syphilis – a serious sexually transmitted infection – has skyrocketed 755% from 2012 to 2021. These babies have congenital syphilis, which is when the infection is passed from mother to baby during pregnancy. It can have dire consequences if left untreated. The surge has left medical professionals and public health leaders scrambling for solutions to stop the spread. Today on the show, Chicago based journalist Indira Khera talks to Emily Kwong about what's behind this myster... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-19 • 18 minutes Science Unlocks The Power Of Flavor In ‘Flavorama’ In her new book, Dr. Arielle Johnson explains how and what we taste with chemistry. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-19 • 9 minutes The Global Danger of Boring Buildings Unloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick tells WIRED why cities need to prioritize human health and joy in architecture. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-19 • 44 minutes Feathers It may be well-known that hope is the thing with feathers, but how much is known about feathers themselves? Turns out, plenty! From shrub grouses to shuttlecocks and all the pea-babies (diminutive for peacocks, definitely for sure) in between, come soar on the delightfully complex wings of knowledge with us! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Mar-19 • 17 minutes Should forests have rights? A growing movement of ecologists, lawyers and artists is arguing that nature should have legal rights. By recognising the rights of ecosystems and other species, advocates hope that they can gain better protection. Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, about where this movement has come from and why the UK government has dismissed the concept, and hears from Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito of NYU School of Law about how he is finding creative ways to give rights to na... (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-19 • 30 minutes Tackling the uptick in ticks How can we deal with the potential expansion of tick populations? (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-19 • 16 minutes Escape Pod: #7 Speed: From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in March 2021.From the quickest animal in the world to the fastest supercomputer, this episode is all about speed.Opening with the cries of the peregrine falcon, the team finds out how the bird has evolved to endure flying at more than 200mph.Then they explain how scientists, starting from Galileo, attempted to measure the speed limit of the universe, the speed of light, and how Einstein understood what it meant.And they explore the mind-blowing capabilit... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-18 • 27 minutes Uncharted: The gossip mill Gossip and rumour can affect morale but can the science of networks explain why? (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-18 • 18 minutes Abortion-Restrictive States Leave Ob-Gyns With Tough Choices Post-Dobbs, ob-gyns and medical students alike must navigate the risk of criminal prosecution associated with patient care in some states. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-18 • 7 minutes A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease Your pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes and kills ticks has shown positive results in a small human trial. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-18 • 71 minutes 269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics I talk with Sahar Heydari Fard about viewing social change through the lens of complex-systems theory. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-18 • 54 minutes Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023) Listen to this interview of Brandon Brown, Professor of Physics at the University of San Francisco. We talk about factoring in both message-sender and -receiver to your writing for STEM. Brown is the author of Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM (MIT Press, 2023). Brandon Brown : "I've seen so many different scientists and communicators, including Nobel Laureates, all the way to grad students who are struggling with the English — and it's just apparent to me that some people do have a much bett... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Mar-18 • 25 minutes Smologies #40: HAIR with Valerie Horsley Peach fuzz. Chin hairs. Mammalian ponytails. WHY DO THEY HAPPEN. Yale researcher and associate professor Dr. Valerie Horsley stops by California to chat with Alie about the nature of hair and what it has to do with skin and nails, stem cells, how it grows, why some of us have curly hair or straight hair or thin hair or thick hair, and why we love and hate and need our hair as animals. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-18 • 51 minutes 752: The Science Behind the Survival Skills of Cells Under Stress - Dr. Ken Dawson-Scully Dr. Ken Dawson-Scully is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. Ken uses the fruit fly as a model to understand how animals have adapted to different kinds of changes in the environment and how... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Mar-18 • 13 minutes A Tale Of Two Bengali Physicists When Shohini Ghose was studying physics as a kid, she heard certain names repeated over and over. "Einstein, Newton, Schrodinger ... they're all men." Shohini wanted to change that — so she decided to write a book about some of the women scientists missing from her grade school physics textbooks. It's called Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe. This episode, she talks to Short Wave host Regina G. Barber about uncovering the women physicists she admires — and ho... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-18 • 54 minutes Skeptic Check: Asteroid Mining Asteroids are rich in precious metals and other valuable resources. But mining them presents considerable challenges. We discuss these, and consider how these spinning, rocky resources might be the key to a space-faring future. But an economist points out the consequences of bringing material back to Earth, and a scientist raises an ethical question; do we have an obligation to keep the asteroids intact for science? Guests: Jim Bell - Planetary scientist in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Ariz... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Mar-17 • 202 minutes Sam Harris: God Did NOT Write the Bible! (#401) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today’s guest needs no introduction… Meet Sam Harris. Neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of Making Sense, creator of Waking Up, and one of the most thought-provoking intellectuals of our time. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett, he fearlessly navigates e... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-16 • 117 minutes A Conversation with Irwin Shapiro: Scientist Extraordinaire from the Earth to the Stars, and at 94, still going strong. Irwin Shapiro is a remarkable human being by almost any standard. Following his education in physics at Cornell and Harvard, he had a job at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory working on various problems in planetary dynamics, and radar ranging, when he went to a lecture and realized that a completely new phenomenon could occur in General Relativity that no one had proposed in the half-century since Einstein first proposed it. For objects traveling near a massive object like the Sun, the travel time to go from one ... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Mar-16 • 54 minutes US National Center for Atmospheric Research Join Robyn Williams and meet scientists at one of the world’s centres for the study of climate and weather. (@ABCscience)

2024-Mar-16 The Skeptics Guide #975 - Mar 16 2024 Tax Scams; News Items: Pentagon UFO Report, Microplastic Risks, Parasite Cleanse, Gut Microbe Communication, Interstellar Meteorite; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thou, Mach Effect Drive; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Mar-15 • 29 minutes Is the BMI fatphobic? How useful is the Body Mass Index? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Mar-15 • 25 minutes Nasal Rinsing Safely | How Your Brain Constructs Your Mental Health A recent study looked into life-threatening Acanthamoeba infections, and a few deaths, linked to the use of tap water with devices like neti pots. And, in ‘The Balanced Brain,’ Dr. Camilla Nord explores the neuroscience behind mental health, and how our brains deal with life’s challenges. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-15 • 26 minutes Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis #241More than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face widespread hunger, disease and injury as the war quickly becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in modern memory. Even once the war ends, the devastating physical and emotional health consequences will be felt for many years to come, especially by children. And aid groups like UNICEF and the World Health Organization have no long-term plans to meet the post-war health needs of the population.Gravity on Mars may occasionally be strong enough to stir up the oce... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-15 • 26 minutes Weekly: Gaza’s impending long-term health crisis #241More than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face widespread hunger, disease and injury as the war quickly becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in modern memory. Even once the war ends, the devastating physical and emotional health consequences will be felt for many years to come, especially by children. And aid groups like UNICEF and the World Health Organization have no long-term plans to meet the post-war health needs of the population.Gravity on Mars may occasionally be strong enough to stir up the oce... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-15 • 54 minutes How animals eating, excreting and expiring is like the world's bloodstream, and more Why a detective is studying blood spatters in zero-gravityThere hasn’t been a murder on the International Space Station — yet. But Crime Scene Investigator Zack Kowalske has been studying how blood spatters in microgravity so that when someone does commit the first astro-cide, he’ll be able to use science to figure out whodunit. Kowalske sent a blood substitute for a ride on a parabolic microgravity flight to study how the absence of gravity changes how it moves, and discovered that surface tension takes ov... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Mar-15 • 79 minutes Future of Science & Technology Q&A (August 18, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Do you think houses are going to change much in the future? Will we reach the age of true "smart houses"? - Within the next 20 years, will "artificial intelligent" image recognition and/or image segmentation systems equal the accuracy of expert humans? For example, w... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-15 • 41 minutes Throughline: Dare to Dissent On today’s show, we’re excited to share an episode from our friends at the podcast Throughline. Sometimes, the most dangerous and powerful thing a person can do is to stand up not against their enemies, but against their friends. As the United States heads into what will likely be another bitter and divided election year, there will be more and more pressure to stand with our in-groups rather than our consciences. So the Throughline team decided to tell some of the stories of people who have stood up to ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Mar-15 • 81 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 16, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Do you know the history of the invention of OCR (Optical character recognition)? - With recent developments, can you talk about the history of theories of extraterrestrial life and search for extraterrestrial life? - Who do you think is the most undervalued scientist in the last 100 ye... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-15 • 9 minutes Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are Rising temperatures are a threat regardless of where you live on the planet—they’re just dangerous in different ways. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-15 • 13 minutes Are We On The Brink Of A Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough? Nuclear fusion could one day change the world by producing energy at lower costs than we generate it now — without greenhouse gas emissions or long-term nuclear waste. If we can get it to work. People have been promising nuclear fusion as a new, clean source of power for decades without much tangible success. But lately, billions of dollars from venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs have flowed into the field. Science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel shares his reporting on some of the companies racing tow... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-15 • 32 minutes COVID retrospective, space security, and car brake particles Plus, we look back on the life of Paul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-15 • 30 minutes Checking On You: Stories about concern for others There are many ways you can ask someone “Are you okay?” In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers navigate the complexities of human connection and how we show concern for those we love. Part 1: Dave Kalema keeps lying to his sick mother about how bad his knee injury is. Part 2: Dionne C. Monsanto doesn’t know how to help her daughter with her mental illness. Dave Kalema is a Ugandan-American documentary filmmaker who tells stories of belonging, identity, and personal transformation. He got his start... (@storycollider)

2024-Mar-14 • 29 minutes Impacts of global warming Will 2024 be another record-breaking year for the climate? (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Mar-14 • 18 minutes A New Book Puts ‘Math in Drag’ Do you think math is boring? Drag queen Kyne is on a mission to make math fun and accessible for all. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-14 • 29 minutes Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain This week we have two neuroscience stories. First up, freelance science journalist Sara Reardon looks at why infants’ memories fade. She joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss ongoing experiments that aim to determine when the forgetting stops and why it happens in the first place. Next on the show, Hui-Quan Li, a senior scientist at Neurocrine Biosciences, talks with Sarah about how the brain encode... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Mar-14 • 28 minutes The Gulf Stream’s tipping point Will the Gulf Stream collapse? A new modelling study suggests it could. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Mar-14 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Is there more undiscovered life in the Great Salt Lake? Until recently, nematodes weren’t known to live in the Great Salt Lake. And, in fact, very little lives there — because the lake’s salinity makes most life untenable. But, as it turns out, these tiny worms were doing just fine. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Mar-14 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | March 14, 2024 Plasma physicist Sierra Solter talks about the effects of decaying space junk on Earth’s ionosphere. As satellites and other orbital objects decay and burn up in the atmosphere, they are leaving a layer of conductive, electrically charged particles around the planet and the dangerous effects this could have on the Earth's ionosphere, and life as we know it.Evidence-based explanations and critical thinking can help us all better understand paranormal beliefs and why we have them. Chris French, author of the ... (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Mar-14 • 9 minutes Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap Sex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of the time, it’s sexism. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-14 • 50 minutes Fandom: The next generation K-Pop fans send us on a journey into fandom through Star Trek, football and physics (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-14 • 30 minutes What Is Quantum Teleportation? Quantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry from beaming people through space. In some ways, it’s even more astonishing. | John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, is one of the leading theoreticians of quantum computing and information. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin interviews him about entanglement, teleporting bits from coast to coast... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Mar-14 • 23 minutes Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create Days after Oppenheimer won big at the Oscars, we look at the life and scientific contributions of nuclear physicist Kay Way, who worked on the Manhattan Project but ended up rallying fellow scientists to oppose the use of nuclear weapons. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Mar-14 • 19 minutes A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new theory challenging the existence of dark matter to an alarming study about the possible impact of microplastics on our health and a glimpse of a ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ deep in space (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-14 • 24 minutes S3 Ep 2 - Kate Lynch on 'Causal Explanation in Science' Today's guest is Dr Kate Lynch, who will discuss the topic of 'causal explanation in science'. Kate is a philosopher of biology and a lecturer in HPS at the University of Melbourne. In this episode Kate introduces us to the difference between 'causation' and 'causal explanation', as well as difficulties involved in assessing what makes a good causal explanation. Some of Kate's research looks at medical explanations of death, including the complications that can be inv... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Mar-13 • 17 minutes With This Rare Disorder, No Amount Of Sleep Is Enough A new book explores idiopathic hypersomnia, which causes overwhelming daytime sleepiness despite ample sleep. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-13 • 34 minutes Ep 4: The physics of collectives How do groups solve problems? Are there conditions that create a pathway to innovation and groundbreaking inventions? In today’s episode, we look at the science of collectives to learn about the patterns that emerge as human societies grow, the importance of a collective structure to foster ideas and create impact, and – from collectives like ants and immune systems – the importance of veering off the beaten path to become better at exploring and discovering. (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Mar-13 • 27 minutes Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why Data suggests menopause evolved to enable older female whales to help younger generations survive, and how researchers made a cellular map of the developing human heart. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Mar-13 • 6 minutes So You Want to Rewire Brains When everyone's hooking their brains up to computers, we'll need surgeons to install the hardware. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-13 • 42 minutes Cats v Dogs Brian Cox and Robin Ince claw through the science to find out if cats are better than dogs (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Mar-13 • 19 minutes The bleeding edge Periods and menstrual fluid have long been overlooked by scientists. Now, researchers are starting to suspect they might be sources of medical treasure. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Mar-13 • 13 minutes What We Know About Long COVID, From Brain Fog to Fatigue "Long COVID has affected every part of my life," said Virginia resident Rachel Beale said at a recent Senate hearing. "I wake up every day feeling tired, nauseous and dizzy. I immediately start planning when I can lay down again." Beale is far from alone. Many of her experiences have been echoed by others dealing with long COVID. It's a constellation of debilitating symptoms that range from brain fog and intense physical fatigue to depression and anxiety. But there's new, promising research that sheds light... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-12 • 19 minutes How Election Science Can Support Democracy | The Genetic Roots Of Antibiotic Resistance The Union of Concerned Scientists has unveiled an election science task force led by experts from across the country. Also, a survey of soil and animal poop samples from around the world identified 18 new species of Enterococcus bacteria. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-12 • 35 minutes CultureLab: Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are There’s no moon like our moon. A celestial body twinned with Earth, the moon guides the tides, stabilises our climate, leads the rhythms of animal behaviour and has long been a source of wonder and awe. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are, is a new book from science journalist Rebecca Boyle. In it she takes an intimate look at our satellite and how it’s influenced everything from our species’ understanding of long cycles of time to ... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-12 • 35 minutes Rebecca Boyle on how the moon transformed Earth and made us who we are There’s no moon like our moon. A celestial body twinned with Earth, the moon guides the tides, stabilises our climate, leads the rhythms of animal behaviour and has long been a source of wonder and awe. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are, is a new book from science journalist Rebecca Boyle. In it she takes an intimate look at our satellite and how it’s influenced everything from our species’ understanding of long cycles of time to ... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-12 • 10 minutes Get Ready to Eat Pond Plants Meet the amazing azolla, a nutritious fern that grows like crazy, capturing carbon in the process. Could it be a food—and fertilizer and biofuel—of the future? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-12 • 34 minutes Why do we laugh? Laughter is like a language and humans are really good at understanding it. In this episode, Molly and co-host Milla decode different kinds of laughs, from uncontrollable goofy laughter to chuckles that make others feel good. They’ll meet laugh experts Sophie Scott and Adrienne Wood and test their knowledge in three rounds of the game show: Laugh Attack! Plus, a new mystery sound for you to guess!Come see Brains On live in Washington, DC, Princeton, NJ, and Brooklyn, NY! Get tickets here: brainson.org/event... (@Brains_On)

2024-Mar-12 • 93 minutes Oikology (DECLUTTERING) Encore with Jamie & Filip Hord + Joe Ferrari Why does clutter happen? How can we get rid of it and how will it affect us psychologically if we do? Buckle up for an encore that will lift your spirits and quite possibly change your life. We all have unfolded piles of laundry, that closet we don’t want to open, a tornado of papers on our desk that seems impossible to sort through. Enter: Oikology, the science of keeping things contained. Alie hunted down world-famous professional organizers, Jamie & Filip Hord of Horderly to chat about -- FIRST OFF-- the... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-12 • 18 minutes Why do we lose our hair as we age, and what can we do about it? – podcast Madeleine Finlay speaks to one man about how it affected him and to hair specialist Dr Sharon Wong about what is going on when our hair thins and what treatments are available to help (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-12 • 33 minutes Should we stop calling it Long COVID? Probing the pathologies behind long term COVID symptoms (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-11 • 15 minutes Uncharted: The happiness curve Do orangutans, or humans, experience a midlife crisis? And, why happiness is U shaped (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-11 • 31 minutes Triple Feature: Dune, Mars, And An Alien On Earth On the heels of the Oscars, we dive into three films that take us to other worlds: A planetary scientist compares Arrakis from 'Dune' to real planets and analyzes whether life could exist on such a sandy, scorching-hot world. And, in a new documentary, NASA psychologists try to find solutions for the mental health challenges of a three-year trip to Mars. Finally, in the movie “65,” an alien crashes on Earth during the Jurassic era, shocked to discover dinosaurs. An astrobiologist has questions. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-11 • 236 minutes AMA | March 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for March 2024. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-11 • 9 minutes Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real? BetaVolt’s nuclear battery lasts for decades, but you won’t see one in your next iPhone—powering a mobile device would require a cell the size of a yak. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-11 • 37 minutes 751: Timely Research on Circadian Clocks and Rhythmic Reorientation in Plants - Dr. Stacey Harmer Dr. Stacey Harmer is a Professor of Plant Biology in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Stacey studies different biological rhythms and the circadian clocks within organisms that create and maintain those... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Mar-11 • 12 minutes The Science Of Atomic Bombs At The Heart Of 'Oppenheimer' Coming down from the buzz of the Oscars, we're taking a look at Christopher Nolan's award-winning film 'Oppenheimer.' It chronicles the life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the so-called "Father of the Atomic Bomb." The movie does not shy away from science — and neither do we. We talked to current scientists at Los Alamos about the past and present science of nuclear weapons like the atomic bomb.Read more about the Manhattan Project.Have other hi... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-11 • 54 minutes Feet Don't Fail Me Standing on your own two feet isn’t easy. While many animals can momentarily balance on their hind legs, we’re the only critters, besides birds, for whom bipedalism is completely normal. Find out why, even though other animals are faster, we’re champions at getting around. Could it be that our upright stance made us human? Plus, why arches help stiffen feet, the argument for bare-footin’, and 12,000-year old footprints that tell a story about an Ice Age mother, her child, and a sloth. Guests: Daniel Lieb... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Mar-10 • 64 minutes Why Are People Protesting Against a Telescope? | Robert Kirshner (#400) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today, we’re joined by a real hero of mine and mentor to millions around the world – dr. Robert Kirshner! Robert is an astronomer of great renown. He is the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University and executive director of the Thirty Meter Telescope. This remarkable international scientific endeavor will radically change our understanding of the univers... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-10 • 48 minutes Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023) In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports, 2023), Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, delves into the 350-year history of one of the most elusive communities of all: the “scientific community.” For the apparent simplicity and relative ubiquity of the expression hides in fact a complex and constantly evolving reality. As Daston puts it to open her book, “The scientific community is by any measure a very strange kind... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Mar-09 • 54 minutes Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts Microplastics are everywhere and impacting ecosystems. (@ABCscience)

2024-Mar-09 The Skeptics Guide #974 - Mar 9 2024 Quickie with Bob: Colliding Neutron Stars; News Items: Sinking Cities, Hypervaccination, Conspiracy Theories and Disease X, Celebrities and Flat Earth, Superconducting Magnets and Fusion; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: IVF, Moon's Orbit; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Mar-08 • 29 minutes Do we all see the same colour? Caroline Steel investigates what affects the way we see the colours of the world (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Mar-08 • 13 minutes Could This Be The End Of Voyager 1? Voyager 1 has been sending incoherent data back to Earth, possibly marking the beginning of the end of its decades-old mission. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-08 • 54 minutes How disabled primates thrive in the wild and more… Nature’s nurturing side — disabled primates thrive in the wild with community supportSurvival of the fittest for primates in the wild often includes them going out of their way to accommodate those with physical disabilities. In a study in the American Journal of Primatology, scientists reviewed 114 studies of a wide range of non-human primates that spanned more than nine decades. Brogan Stewart, a PhD candidate from Concordia was part of the team that found that more often than not, the physical disabiliti... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Mar-08 • 28 minutes Weekly: Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture #240A major step has been made toward bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction – sort of. The company Colossal has the ambitious goal of bringing its first baby mammoth into the world by 2028. And its newest advance, announced this week, is in turning adult Asian elephant cells into stem cells. But it’s still a long way from here to the company’s vision of cold-adapted elephants fighting climate change in the Arctic – or even that 2028 baby mammoth. When did humans begin to affect the Earth’s syst... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-08 • 28 minutes Woolly mammoth breakthrough?; The Anthropocene rejected; Bumblebee culture #240A major step has been made toward bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction – sort of. The company Colossal has the ambitious goal of bringing its first baby mammoth into the world by 2028. And its newest advance, announced this week, is in turning adult Asian elephant cells into stem cells. But it’s still a long way from here to the company’s vision of cold-adapted elephants fighting climate change in the Arctic – or even that 2028 baby mammoth. When did humans begin to affect the Earth’s syst... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-08 • 63 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 9, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa | | Questions include: What are the challenges of working in interdisciplinary fields? - What do you make of one-person businesses? They seem to be trendy these days. - How do I become "world class" in a subject? It might be mathematics or computer science etc. - Who are some young peopl... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-08 • 31 minutes Staph Retreat What happens when you combine an axe-wielding microbiologist and a disease-obsessed historian? A strange brew that's hard to resist, even for a modern day microbe. In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. The antibiotics we once wielded like miraculous flaming swords seem more like lukewarm butter knives. But today we follow an odd couple to a storied land of elves and dragons. There, they uncover a 1000-year-old secret that makes us reconsider our most basic assumptions abou... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Mar-08 • 65 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 4, 2023] Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: What would a bio-computer look like?​ - ​Interesting to think whether John Conway's Life is a kind of life. Can you grow life from a computer program?​ - ​Why are there different colors of flowers but not trees?​ - What causes a four-leaf clover? Why are they so rare?​ - ​The mantis shrimp has 12 typ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-08 • 6 minutes Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea-Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking Coastal land is dropping, known as subsidence. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-08 • 40 minutes Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023) Why do we sleep? How can we improve our sleep? A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist and his assistant spent a month in the depths of a Kentucky cave, making nationwide headlines and thrusting sleep science to the forefront of our consciousness. In the 1920s, Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world’s first dedicated sleep lab at the University of Chicago, where he subjected research participants (including... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Mar-08 • 9 minutes The "Shocking" Tactic Electric Fish Use to Collectively Sense the World Neuroscientist Nathan Sawtell has spent a lot of time studying the electric elephantnose fish. These fish send and decipher weak electric signals, which Sawtell hopes will eventually help neuroscientists better understand how the brain filters sensory information about the outside world. As Sawtell has studied these electric critters, he's had a lingering question: why do they always seem to organize themselves in a particular orientation. At first, he couldn't figure out why, but a new study released this ... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-08 • 34 minutes Greedy labradors, a dead galaxy, and telepathic fish Plus, a new AI tool which improves projections of prostate cancer... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-08 • 31 minutes Pi vs. Pie: Stories about Pi Day Happy Pi Day! In honor of upcoming Pi Day on March 14, this week’s episode features two stories about the nerdy celebration. Both of our storytellers will whisk you away on a journey filled with equal parts math and pastry, proving that whether you're calculating circumference or slicing into a sweet treat, there's always a story to be savored. Part 1: After her colleagues make fun of the pie she brings on Pi Day, Desiré Whitmore decides she will never again celebrate Pi Day. Part 2: Math teacher Theodore C... (@storycollider)

2024-Mar-07 • 17 minutes What It Takes To Care For The US Nuclear Arsenal The book “Countdown” looks at why the US is modernizing its arsenal, and what it means to exist with nuclear weapons. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-07 • 30 minutes The first stars in the universe Astronomers think they have seen glow the first generation of stars after the Big Bang (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Mar-07 • 93 minutes Mr. Watson, Come Here! It's Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: RNA, Hydrogen energy, Mammoths, Forever Chemicals, Light Chemistry, Old Humans of Ukraine, Origins of India, Chilling Science, Star Influence, Bee Friends, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Mar-07 • 30 minutes A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticity First up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk about a large genome sequencing project in India that reveals past migrations in the region and a unique intermixing with Neanderthals in ancient times. Next on the show, producer Kevin McLean chats with Matthew Tierney, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, about how vitamin A and stem cells work together ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Mar-07 • 28 minutes Ancient Roman writings revealed Thanks to AI, scientists can now read charred scrolls from Herculaneum for the first time. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Mar-07 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: What’s ‘fair’ when it comes to climate action? When humans debate climate policy, the questions asked are often posed in terms of what will work best. Fairness isn’t always, or even often, taken into account. But Stacia Ryder thinks that needs to change. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Mar-07 • 8 minutes A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound An experimental device developed by Cognito Therapeutics seeks to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients using light and sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-07 Some news about Ockham's Razor and introducing Quick Smart If you've been wondering where we've been – Ockham's Razor is going on hiatus for a little while.But don't worry, we've got your pod needs covered with Tegan Taylor's other excellent and informative shows, Quick Smart and What's That Rash?Find more episodes of Tegan's podcasts here:Quick SmartWhat's That Rash?Presenter:Tegan TaylorProducer:Tegan Taylor, Rose KerrSound engineer:Bethany Stewart (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2024-Mar-07 • 50 minutes Hormones Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work (@BBCInOurTime)

2024-Mar-07 • 50 minutes Unexpected Oscars As award season reaches its climax, Unexpected Elements holds its own glitzy ceremony. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-07 • 39 minutes How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane In 1910, an Anglo-Irish women named Lilian Bland built a plane, with little to no encouragement from her family or aviation enthusiasts. Shortly after the plane took off, she quit flying, moving on to her next challenge. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Mar-07 • 14 minutes What’s behind the rapid rise of cancer in the under-50s? Ian Sample speaks to health editor Andrew Gregory about the worrying global rise in cancers in under-50s, and hears from Yin Cao, an associate professor in surgery and medicine at Washington University in St Louis, who is part of a team conducting a huge study into why young people are developing bowel cancer at record rates (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-07 • 31 minutes S3 Ep 1 - Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison on 'Scientists and History' Today's episode is dedicated to the often complex, sometimes fraught relationship between practicing scientists and the history of science. To discuss this topic, we are joined by two of the most distinguished scholars in the history of science, Lorraine Daston and Peter Harrison, who recently co authored an article for Aeon, urging for a fresh dialogue between scientists and historians. In the interview we cover the history of these tensions, tracing them back to the science wars of the 1990s, as well... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Mar-07 • 20 minutes S3 - Samara & Carmelina on 'Seeing Science Differently' Welcome to Season 3 of the HPS podcast!It's so great to be back.Kicking off our third season, we have a new addition to the team, Carmelina Contarino.Carmelina is an Honours student in HPS at the University of Melbourne and will be joining Samara in producing the podcast, as well as hosting several of the episodes.In today's episode, Samara and Carmelina dive into what has become a bit of a theme of the podcast, 'Seeing Science Differently'. Science isn't always as neat or as steri... (@TheHPSPodcast)

2024-Mar-06 • 18 minutes A Young Scientist Uplifts The Needs Of Parkinson’s Patients Neuroscience graduate student Senegal Alfred Mabry is looking at effects of Parkinson’s disease beyond the most visible body tremors. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-06 • 37 minutes These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment Elephantnose fish share electric pulses to extend their senses, and the bumblebees that show a uniquely human trait. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Mar-06 • 21 minutes Tiny Language Models Come of Age To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Mar-06 • 52 minutes Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024) What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness? In The Elephant and the Blind. The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports (MIT Press, 2024)," influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness, brings together more than 500 experiential reports to offer the world's first comprehensive ac... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Mar-06 • 42 minutes Poison Brian Cox and Robin Ince unbottle the history of poison. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Mar-06 • 27 minutes Aliens from Earth? Was there a technologically advanced species living on Earth long before humans? And if one had existed, how would we know? (Updated from 2022) For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Mar-06 • 12 minutes The Recent Glitch Threatening Voyager 1 The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different languages, dogs barking, and the sound of two people kissing, to name but a few examples. The idea with this record was that someday, Voyager 1 might be our emissary to alien life – an audible time capsule of Earth's beings. Since its launch, it also managed to complete missions to Jupiter and Saturn. In 2012, it ... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-05 • 25 minutes Snakes Are Evolutionary Superstars | Whale Song Is All In The Larynx In the trees, through the water, and under the dirt: Snakes evolve faster than their lizard relatives, allowing them to occupy diverse niches. Also, researchers are working to understand just how baleen whales are able to produce their haunting songs. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-05 • 118 minutes Cal Newport: Want to Be More Productive? Do LESS (#399) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! What if I told you that you could be more productive… by doing less? Sounds crazy, but as per today’s extraordinary guest, it’s true! Meet Cal Newport, associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and bestselling author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and other books that offer a refreshing departure from the hustle culture that pervades modern societ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-05 • 25 minutes How do satellites work? Satellites are like robots in the sky: they monitor the weather, make GPS possible, and take stunning pictures of outer space! But how exactly do they work? When a satellite named Meep Moop gets delivered to Brains On HQ by mistake, Molly and co-hosts Tessa and Fallyn learn all about satellite solar panels, thrusters, and radio waves! Then, they chat with Dr. Moriba Jah about satellite space junk and the importance of keeping space pristine. Plus, a stumper of a mystery sound!Featured expert:Dr. Moriba Jah,... (@Brains_On)

2024-Mar-05 • 73 minutes Functional Morphology (ANATOMY) Encore with Joy Reidenberg Ever poked at roadkill? Watched videos of whales exploding? Drooled over a curio cabinet full of claws & bones? Peered into a jar with a pickled toad? Then this one is for you. Whether you’ve heard it before or are new to this classic ep, you’re sure to be delighted by this Ologist’s storytelling. Arguably the world's most famous comparative anatomist (and pretty-much-also functional morphologist) Dr. Joy Reidenberg pulls up a chair at Mt. Sinai Hospital to talk about her fascinating backstory, exploding wh... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-05 • 45 minutes Garbage Trash, rubbish, waste, refuse...we have a lot of words for the gunk that goes on the truck, because whether we like it or not, humans make a lot of garbage. Get comfy with some grossness as we root around in garbage's past, present, and future. We're all on a path, you guys! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Mar-05 • 17 minutes Classic older child? What the science says about birth order and personality Madeleine Finlay meets Dr Julia Rohrer, a personality psychologist at the University of Leipzig, to unpick the science behind our intuition about birth order (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-05 • 31 minutes Cyber crimes in cyber times Who are the perpetrators, and how can you protect yourself? (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-05 • 17 minutes Escape Pod: #6 All About Warmth: Emotional, Physiological and Geological This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.Keeping you cosy this week is an episode all about warmth - emotional, physiological and geological.We have an unexpected start to the show, with bees taking the spotlight, but it turns out these cold-blooded little insects can generate immense warmth when necessary.The team then takes a much bigger view of warmth, discussing the heat of the planet, and of the many uses of geothermal energy.Finally they wrap up by finding out what it take... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-04 • 27 minutes Uncharted: The doctor will see you now Two couples brought together by a tragedy and a tatty piece of paper with a serial number (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Mar-04 • 18 minutes What’s Behind The Measles Outbreak In Florida? Two pediatricians discuss the outbreak, vaccine hesitancy, and unraveling public health measures in Florida and beyond. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-04 • 17 minutes Bee communication in a changing world Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings... (@PNASNews)

2024-Mar-04 • 13 minutes My conversation with Elon Musk: Cosmology, AI, and Dying on Mars (#398) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Katherine Brodsky recently hosted an interview with the one and only Elon Musk. I had the privilege of joining them and used my opportunity to confront Elon about Starlink, AI, and his plan to colonize Mars! Enjoy. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:44 Starlink and Cosmic Microwave Background Research 00:06:57 A True Turing Test 00:09:54 Can We Break Physics? 00:11:24 ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-04 • 90 minutes 268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality I talk with physicist Matt Strassler about fundamental physics and the ways that we often talk about it. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-04 • 12 minutes A Tragic Tower Block Fire Exposes the World's Failing Fire Regulations A deadly tower block blaze in Spain has focused attention on notorious flammable building materials—but around the world, there's little momentum to stop using them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-04 • 60 minutes Lady Parts** The Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe has ignited fierce debate about bodily autonomy. But it’s remarkable how little we know about female physiology. Find out what studies have been overlooked by science, and what has been recently learned. Plus, why studying women’s bodies means being able to say words like “vagina” without shame ... a researcher who is recreating a uterus in her lab to study endometriosis … and an overdue recognition of medical pioneer Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. Guests: Melody T. McCloud - Ob... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Mar-04 • 41 minutes 750: Studying How Cells Control Energy Use and Storage in Response to Hormones and Nutrients - Dr. Alan Saltiel Dr. Alan R. Saltiel is Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Maryam Ahmadian Endowed Chair in Metabolic Health, Director of the Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health at UC, San Diego, and Director of the UCSD/UCLA Diabetes... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Mar-04 • 14 minutes The Evolution Of Cancer Treatment Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind cancer therapy to treat aggresive forms of skin cancer. It has us thinking of the long history of cancer. One of the first recorded mentions of cancer appears in an ancient Egyptian text from around 3000 B.C. And although we now know much more about how cancer begins — as a series of mutations in someone's DNA — it's a disease people are still grappling with how to cure cancers today. This episode, cancer epidemiologist Mariana Stern... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-02 • 54 minutes Supernova! A supernova has been observed in great detail just 3.5 light years from Earth… and that’s close! (@ABCscience)

2024-Mar-02 The Skeptics Guide #973 - Mar 2 2024 News Items: First Private Landing on the Moon, Sex Difference in the Brain, Bee Venom for Breast Cancer, Learning Empathy, Brightest Object; jWho's That Noisy; Quotation Game; Your Question and E-mails: Correction; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Mar-02 • 25 minutes Smologies #39: ANCIENT ROME with Darius Arya Classical Archaeologist and TV host Dr. Darius Arya is back for a smologized version of this classic episode to dish about priceless garbage piles, pottery graveyards, tomb discoveries, what's under European cities, ancient spa days, ingenious construction methods, and unlikely laundry techniques. Plus, what did ancient romans use before toilet paper - and perhaps more importantly, WHY?? (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Mar-02 • 15 minutes The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue The prologue to our new series about Artificial Intelligence, Black Box (@guardianscience)

2024-Mar-01 • 27 minutes How bad is our data for the planet? What's the environmental impact of all the data we use? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Mar-01 • 19 minutes Pythagoras Was Wrong About Music | Biochar's Potential For Carbon Capture The Greek philosopher Pythagoras had specific ideas about the mathematical ratios behind music. It turns out that he was wrong. Also, the charcoal-like substance known as biochar packs carbon into a stable form, making it less likely to escape into the atmosphere. (@scifri)

2024-Mar-01 • 70 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 2, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Do we know what the first piece of technology was? - ​If Alan Turing had not died at age 41, what might he have worked on during the remainder of his life? - What if von Neumann lived longer? Would computation and cellular automata have any potential? - ​Who was the first who used stat... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-01 • 26 minutes Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing #239Two decades ago, following the Human Genome Project’s release of a first draft in 2001, genetic testing was set to revolutionise healthcare. “Personalised medicine” would give us better treatments for serious conditions, clear pictures of our risks and individualised healthcare recommendations. But despite all the genetic tests available, that healthcare revolution has not exactly come to fruition. Amid news that genetic testing poster child firm 23andMe has hit financial troubles, we ask whether person... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-01 • 79 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (July 26, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa | | Questions include: Did you see the Oppenheimer movie? If so, what were your thoughts? - What are the things one should do to prepare oneself to become a scientist regarding education path, ideas, tools in the upcoming age of computation and AI? - Can "Kelly Criterion", aka calculatin... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Mar-01 • 26 minutes Weekly: Is personalised medicine overhyped?; Pythagoras was wrong about music; How your brain sees nothing #239Two decades ago, following the Human Genome Project’s release of a first draft in 2001, genetic testing was set to revolutionise healthcare. “Personalised medicine” would give us better treatments for serious conditions, clear pictures of our risks and individualised healthcare recommendations. But despite all the genetic tests available, that healthcare revolution has not exactly come to fruition. Amid news that genetic testing poster child firm 23andMe has hit financial troubles, we ask whether person... (@newscientist)

2024-Mar-01 • 48 minutes Hold On Two years ago, the United States did something amazing. In response to the mental health crisis the federal government launched 988 - a nationwide, easy to remember phone number that anyone can call anytime and talk to a counselor. It was 911 but for mental health and they hoped that it would save lives. However, if you call 988 today the first thing you hear isn’t a sympathetic counselor. What you hear is hold music. Today, the story of the highest stakes hold music in the universe, the three men who crea... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Mar-01 • 8 minutes US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day With better infrastructure and “spongy” green spaces, urban areas have made progress but should be soaking up way more free stormwater. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Mar-01 • 14 minutes Could Dune Really Exist? What Scientists Think of Our Favorite Sci-Fi Worlds The sci-fi film Dune: Part Two is out in theaters now. The movie takes place on the harsh desert planet, Arrakis, where water is scarce and giant, killer sandworms lurk just beneath the surface. But what do planetary scientists and biologists think about the science of these worms, Arrakis and our other favorite sci-fi planets? Today on the show, Regina G. Barber talks to biologist (and Star Trek consultant!) Mohamed Noor and planetary scientist Michael Wong about Dune, habitable planets and how to make fan... (@NPR)

2024-Mar-01 • 39 minutes The UK rejoins Horizon programme, and how we lost our tails Plus, a breakthrough in better battery building (@NakedScientists)

2024-Mar-01 • 54 minutes The boreal forest is on the move, and we need to understand how, and more... Speedy ocean predators change their skin colour to signal they’re going in for the kill (1:02)Marlin are predatory fish that can reach tremendous speeds in pursuit of food, making collisions between them potentially deadly. A new study has shown that the fish display bright and vivid skin colours to signal to other marlin when they’re attacking prey, so as to avoid butting heads. Alicia Burns and her team from the Science of Intelligence Cluster, Humboldt University used drones to capture video footage... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Mar-01 • 25 minutes Temperature Rising: Stories about forest fires Wildfires can impact so many things, from ecosystems to the air quality, to even the economy. But in this week’s episode, both of our storytellers take a look at the more personal impacts of forest fires. Part 1: In college, Nick Link almost burns down the entire neighborhood when he and his friends set some Christmas trees on fire. Part 2: After moving to America from Mumbai, Urvi Talaty feels like she has finally escaped the heavily polluted air that choked her as a kid. Nick Link is a second year PhD stu... (@storycollider)

2024-Feb-29 • 18 minutes As Space Exploration Expands, So Will Space Law A new generation of space lawyers will broker deals and handle disputes between countries as the world enters a new era of space exploration. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-29 • 27 minutes One million genomes in two dimensions US researchers aim to sample genomes from one million diverse people but concerns raised (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Feb-29 • 30 minutes The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the body First up this week, a new approach to slowing climate change: dehydrating the stratosphere. Staff Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the risks and advantages of this geoengineering technique. Next on the show, Science Robotics Editor Amos Matsiko gives a run-down of papers in a special series on magnetic robots in medicine. Matsiko and Crespi als... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Feb-29 • 74 minutes Leaping Into Science Leaves a Mark! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: JWST, Life on the Moon?, Human Tales, Ancient Meat Substitute, Fluorescent Fingerprints, Brain Circuitry, Seeding the Stratosphere, Chemical Behavior, No Longer Vestigial?, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Feb-29 • 27 minutes When brains and computers meet A look at the science and ethics behind the companies driving brain-computer interface. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Feb-29 • 49 minutes Cool Science Radio | February 29, 2024 Longtime National Public Radio science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce talks about her new book about the intersection of life and science, "Transient and Strange." Then, Lisa Thompson, exhibit developer and interpretive planner at the Natural History Museum of Utah, developed the "Nature All Around Us" exhibit. She has just released her new book, "Wild Wasatch Front," an urban nature guide. (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Feb-29 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Are food companies responsible for the epidemic in diabetes, cancer and dementia? Ultra-processed food and the companies that produce them contribute significantly to the epidemic in diabetes, cancer, dementia, and other chronic disease. Is it time to regulate these products like tobacco? And will it take a class action suit to make that happen? Erik Peper believes so. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Feb-29 • 50 minutes Leaping in Sync As the leap year helps keep us in sync, we explore nature’s ways of staying in rhythm (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-29 • 31 minutes What Is the Nature of Time? Time seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next. But why is it that way, and could time ultimately be a kind of illusion? In this episode, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek speaks with host Steven Strogatz about the many “arrows” of time and why most of them seem irreversible, the essence of what a clock is, how Einstein changed our definition of time, and the unexpected connection between time and o... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Feb-29 • 28 minutes Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels Black nurses worked through unsanitary conditions and racial prejudice to help patients through the debilitating disease TB before a cure was found—with their help (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Feb-29 • 19 minutes The debilitating impact of tinnitus, and how a new app could help It’s thought that about 15% of us are affected by tinnitus, and despite its potentially debilitating impact on mental health and quality of life, there isn’t any cure for the condition. Madeleine Finlay speaks to John, who has used CBT techniques to learn to live well with his tinnitus, and Dr Lucy Handscomb, a tinnitus researcher who is involved in trialling a new app that could hold promise for sufferers. (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-28 • 29 minutes Why is life so diverse? In the first two episodes of this season, we’ve examined how fundamental rules like scaling laws constrain evolution for all forms of life. But if everything is bound to these core rules, then why do we see exceptions? In this episode, Abha and Chris get into the incredible diversity of plants and animals on this planet, where that diversity comes from, and if it’s possible to make forecasts about the biosphere, just like we do for the weather. And, what happens when biodiversity is threatened? (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Feb-28 • 18 minutes Blood In The Water: Shark Smell Put To The Test Despite their reputation as super-smellers, sharks don’t have a better sense of smell than other fish. One researcher investigates. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-28 • 26 minutes Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol? Regulating gene expression lowers blood cholesterol in mice, and how the Universe’s cosmic fog was lifted. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-28 • 11 minutes Alabama IVF Patients Are Running Out of Time “I feel so powerless in this state.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-28 • 42 minutes Asteroids Brian Cox and Robin Ince journey through the asteroid belt and beyond to chat space rocks. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Feb-28 • 17 minutes How scientists are searching for aliens They’re not looking for UFOs or decoding government secrets. They’re doing something much simpler. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Feb-28 • 70 minutes Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 2 with Ronald Gamble, Jr. Part 2! Black hole suns, black hole movies, wormholes, time travel, matter evaporation, scientists being bitches, risk-taking advice, Italy’s favorite pastry, and more await you. NASA Goddard Theoretical Astrophysicist and Black Hole Theory Cosmologist Dr. Ronald Gamble, Jr. is back for the conclusion of black hole basics and how theories get made and what’s on the (event) horizon for future astrophysicists to solve. Also: what do we do with our space anxiety?! (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Feb-28 • 11 minutes Is It Possible To Feed The World Sustainably? According to the United Nations, about ten percent of the world is undernourished. It's a daunting statistic — unless your name is Hannah Ritchie. She's the data scientist behind the new book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. It's a seriously big thought experiment: How do we feed everyone on Earth sustainably? And because it's just as much an economically pressing question as it is a scientific one, Darian Woods of The Indicator from Planet Money jo... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-27 • 25 minutes How Trivia Experts Recall Facts | One Ant Species Sent Ripples Through A Food Web How can some people recall random facts so easily? It may have to do with what else they remember about the moment they learned the information. Also, in Kenya, an invading ant species pushed out ants that protected acacia trees. That had cascading effects for elephants, zebras, lions, and buffalo. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-27 • 10 minutes What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump Getting these climate superheroes into more US homes would massively cut emissions, and it would be cost-effective. Here’s how the revolution would play out. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-27 • 26 minutes How does a match make fire? Have you ever seen someone strike a match? The match rubs against a scratchy strip and a split second later – poof! It makes fire! But how does a match work, anyway?Join Molly and co-host Maxwell as they get all fired up about matches! They’ll explore the three things a fire needs to ignite and learn how lighting a match is just a super fast chemical reaction that sometimes smells like farts. Plus, we’ll hear your hot new names for matches and of course, a new mystery sound!Do you have your Smarty Pass yet?... (@Brains_On)

2024-Feb-27 • 27 minutes How pothole misery is driving a digital roads revolution Will science hold the solution to the bane of all motorists... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-27 • 16 minutes How green are electric cars? Electric cars might seem like a no-brainer on a warming planet, but there are plenty of people who remain sceptical about everything from their battery life to their carbon impact and the environmental and human rights costs of their parts. Madeleine Finlay consults Auke Hoekstra, known as the internet’s ‘EV debunker in chief’, to unpick the myths, realities and grey areas surrounding electric cars (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-27 • 46 minutes CultureLab: What would life on Mars be like? The science behind TV series For All Mankind Freezing temperatures, dust storms, radiation, marsquakes – living on Mars right now would be hellish. And getting there remains a multi-year journey. But what if we could make it habitable? Could we one day build settlements on the Red Planet or send human scientists to search for life?That’s the premise of the TV series For All Mankind, which explores a future where the space race continued after the moon landing and humanity kept spreading out across space. But in the name of a good story, real science o... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-26 • 27 minutes Uncharted: The returning soldier Uncharted with Hannah Fry (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-26 • 17 minutes OpenAI’s New Product Makes Incredibly Realistic Fake Videos A security expert weighs in on Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, and the risks it could pose, especially during an election year. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-26 • 25 minutes Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them Endangered apes are increasingly being put at risk by human diseases. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-26 • 73 minutes 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia I talk with historian Benjamin Breen about Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and their involvement with psychedelics. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Feb-26 • 8 minutes A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber Americans eat too much sugar. Food tech company Zya is developing a substance to add to sweet foods that can convert some of that sugar into fiber in the digestive system. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-26 • 54 minutes Tomb with a View* A century ago, British archaeologist Howard Carter opened the only surviving intact tomb from ancient Egypt. Inside was the mummy of the boy king Tutankhamun, together with “wonderful things” including a solid gold mask. Treasure from King Tut’s crypt has been viewed both in person and virtually by many people since. We ask what about Egyptian civilization so captivates us, thousands of years later. Also, how new technology from modern physics allows researchers to “X-Ray” the pyramids to find hidden chambe... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Feb-26 • 57 minutes 749: Progressing Towards an Understanding of the Genes Contributing to Cancer Malignancy - Dr. Erica Golemis Dr. Erica Golemis is a Professor, Deputy Chief Science Officer, Co-Leader of the Molecular Therapeutics Program, and Director of the High Throughput Facility at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. In addition, Erica is an adjunct faculty... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Feb-26 • 13 minutes In Light of The Alabama Court Ruling, A Look At The Science Of IVF An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos can be considered "extrauterine children" under state law has major implications for how in vitro fertilization, commonly called IVF, is performed. Since the first successful in vitro fertilization pregnancy and live birth in 1978, nearly half a million babies have been born using IVF in the United States. Reproductive endocrinologist Amanda Adeleye explains the science behind IVF, the barriers to accessing it and her concerns about fertility treatment in ... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-25 • 101 minutes Bringing Astrophysics to Life Through Art with Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran (#397) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 What do you get when you combine the minds of a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and an outstanding artist? The Warped Side of Our Universe by Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran! A remarkable book that explores Thorne's astrophysical discoveries through poetic verse and otherworldly paintings. Today, Kip and Lia will guide us through the process of creating their wonderful book. Tune in! Kip Thorne is a theoretica... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-24 • 54 minutes The Science Show They’ve lived since the time of the dinosaurs. But the outlook is grim for Tasmania’s Maugean skate. (@ABCscience)

2024-Feb-24 The Skeptics Guide #972 - Feb 24 2024 Interview with Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists; News Items: Pesticides in Oats, AI Video, University Rankings Flawed, Mewing and Looksmaxxing, Titan Uninhabitable; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Feb-23 • 29 minutes Why do we have wisdom teeth? Answering your questions about life, Earth and the universe (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Feb-23 • 19 minutes Private Spacecraft Makes Historic Moon Landing | New Cloud Seeding Technique The Odysseus lander, made by Intuitive Machines and launched by SpaceX a week ago, is the first commercial mission to soft-land on the moon. Also, scientists try swapping silver iodide for liquid propane to keep long-running cloud seeding programs effective in warmer temperatures. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-23 • 95 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (July 19, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | Questions include: Can you discuss a bit of your personal history with AI? When did you first become interested in the idea? - Have you seen Oppenheimer yet or do you plan to? What can you say about the history it's based on? - Have new scientific discoveries historically initiated out of myths? | | (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-23 • 88 minutes Future of Science and Technology Q&A: Live from the Wolfram Summer School (July 7, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Can you comment on the future of LLMs being running in the cloud vs. being run on one's local machine? - Does the NANOGrav discovery spark ideas for experimental validation of the Physics Project? - Can you discuss the next evolution for AI models? So far we have: language models, image... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-23 • 24 minutes Weekly: ADHD helps foraging?; the rise of AI “deepfakes”; ignored ovary appendage #238ADHD is a condition that affects millions of people and is marked by impulsivity, restlessness and attention difficulties. But how did ADHD evolve in humans and why did it stick around? Through the help of a video game, a study shows that these traits might be beneficial when foraging for food. In 2023, we hit record after record when it comes to high temperatures on Earth, including in the oceans and seas. From the surface to 2000 metres down, it was hard to find a part of the ocean not affected. ... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-23 • 83 minutes Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023) C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the underlying mechanism not just for walking or jumping, but also for breath or chewing. The book emphasizes the evolutionary perspective. It demonstrates how the basi... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Feb-23 • 14 minutes How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved Baleen whales sing using a modified larynx, but this leaves them them unable to escape human noise (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-23 • 9 minutes Didn't Get A Valentine's Love Song? These Skywalker Gibbons Sing Love Duets In the green tree canopies of forested areas in Myanmar, you might wake up to the sounds of gibbons singing love songs. Gibbons start their day with passionate duets and, though these love songs may sound a little different than the ones in your playlists, they just helped researchers figure out that Myanmar has the largest population of an endangered gibbon species on Earth. They're called skywalker gibbons, and until recently, scientists thought there were fewer than 200 of them – all living in southweste... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-23 • 90 minutes This Is Possible Thanks To A Virus What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Life & SATURN, Dainish Bog Body, Bulls & Balls, ADHD, Propagandist AI, Authoritarian Science, Gazeboed, Viral Brains, Meaning & Melody, And Much More! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Feb-23 • 29 minutes Blood clot breakthrough, and a fossil forgery Plus, the oldest documented case of Down syndrome... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-23 • 19 minutes What Is Dark Matter Really Made Of? (#396) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Remastered from our interview in 2022. There are few concepts in physics as frequently discussed but as poorly understood as dark matter. After all, we don’t even know what it’s made of! However, there are many potential candidates, and I had the pleasure of explaining them in my interview with Arvin Ash. We also talked about the fascinating possibility of detecting gravitational waves from the polarization of the CMB... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-23 • 54 minutes Icelanders reap the costs and benefits of living on a volcanic island and more… We now know what happened to a supernova discovered by a Canadian 37 years ago (0:58)A mystery about the ultimate fate of an exploding star has been solved. Canadian astronomer Ian Shelton discovered the new bright light in the sky back in February 1987, and recognized it as the first supernova to be visible to the naked eye in 400 years. In a new study in the journal Science, astrophysicist Claes Fransson from Stockholm University, confirmed that the remaining cinder collapsed into a super-dense neutron st... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Feb-23 • 30 minutes Am I The Problem?: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)'s Rare As One Network brings together rare disease patients and advocates in their quest for cures. Both of this week’s stories are from Rare As One grantees who are sharing their stories and experiences navigating diagnoses and organizing their communities to accelerate research, identify treatments, and change the course of their diseases. Part 1: When Riley Blevins’ son gets diagnosed with a rare disease, it changes his life. Part 2: Heidi Wallis becomes completely ob... (@storycollider)

2024-Feb-22 • 17 minutes Making Chemistry More Accessible To Blind And Low-Vision People Scientists are working to make chemical research more accessible to blind and low-vision students through 3D-printed models and modified equipment. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-22 • 29 minutes Largest ever covid safety study A monumental study of 99 million vaccinated people shows how rare adverse effects are. (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Feb-22 • 48 minutes What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting First up on the show this week, news from this year’s annual meeting of AAAS (publisher of Science) in Denver. News intern Sean Cummings talks with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the sustainable use of orbital space or how space exploration and research can benefit everyone. And Newslett... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Feb-22 • 28 minutes Hydrogen and the race to net zero A look at the role of hydrogen in the UK’s future energy economy with Prof Mark Miodownik. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Feb-22 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Why do humans use the past to inform the future? Memory is not a rigid, static picture of what came before. Rather, it’s a nebulous, ever-changing conceptualization of who we were, what we believed, what happened to us, and what was happening around us. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Feb-22 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | February 22, 2024 Thanks to the work of researchers, including guest Sian Harding, and other scientists, we are beginning to understand more about the vital and exquisite organ - the heart. Sian Harding, Professor Emeritus of Cardiac Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, discusses her new book, “The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart.”Then, in order for humans to survive, it begins with us starting to act with the rest of the biosphere, and each other, in accordance wi... (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Feb-22 • 11 minutes Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft It’s a multibillion-dollar global problem, and in a rapidly electrifying world, the profits—and ease—of stealing metals are only going to increase. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-22 • 50 minutes Going the distance A tribute to marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum and the science behind his record performances (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-22 • 19 minutes Mistakes, fakes, and a giant rat penis: why are so many science papers being retracted? A record 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023. To find out what’s driving this trend, Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, whose organisation Retraction Watch has been monitoring the growing numbers of retractions for more than a decade, and hears from blogger Sholto David, who recently made headlines when he spotted mistakes in research from a leading US cancer institute. (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-21 • 18 minutes Understanding And Curbing Generative AI’s Energy Consumption As the environmental costs of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E mount, governments are demanding more clarity from tech companies. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-21 • 18 minutes Escape Pod #5 Sound: Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed, in the space of 20 minutes This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.Prepare to feel relaxed, tingly and amazed all in the space of 20 minutes. This episode is all about sound.We start with the musical tones of an elephant trumpeting, followed by a recording from Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project, showing how they communicate at an infrasonic frequency, which humans can’t ordinarily detect.The team then attempts to send shivers down your spine by recreating ASMR, explaining why some people en... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-21 • 49 minutes Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 1 with Ronald Gamble, Jr. How big are black holes? Is time elastic? What is spacetime foam? Why is there a place called “elsewhere?” Enjoy this dazzling two-parter that starts with the absolute basics with NASA’s Goddard Theoretical Astrophysicist and Black Hole Theory Cosmologist Dr. Ronald Gamble, Jr. We talk busting of flim-flam, how do we image them, what's the most giant dense book you can buy about them, where do trad goths fit into this episode, does my dog exist, how astrophysics is like drawing, and the greatest gift he c... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Feb-21 • 31 minutes Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test Research suggests a combination of behaviours underlie the evolution of human cooperation, and researchers make an optical disc with enormous storage capacity. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-21 • 22 minutes Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Feb-21 • 43 minutes Could it be magic? Brian Cox and Robin Ince conjure up scientific explanations for magical goings on. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Feb-21 • 24 minutes A universal virus-killer? Airborne diseases kill millions of people a year, despite available antibiotics and vaccines. But scientists think there might be another solution to fighting these diseases, one that harnesses the power of light. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Feb-21 • 12 minutes When The Sun Erupts We are at the height of the Sun's activity in its eleven year cycle, known to astronomers as the solar maximum. This means that over the next several months there's going to be a lot of solar activity. It's got us thinking back to 1859. That's when astronomer Richard Carrington was studying the Sun when he witnessed the most intense geomagnetic storm recorded in history. The storm, triggered by a giant solar flare, sent brilliant auroral displays across the globe causing electrical sparking and fires in tel... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-20 • 23 minutes Which Feathered Dinosaurs Could Fly? | Some French Cheeses At Risk Of Extinction Researchers found that a specific number and symmetry of certain feathers can indicate whether a bird (or dinosaur) could fly. Plus, a lack of diversity in the microbes that make Camembert, brie, and some blue cheeses could mean we bid adieu to some French varieties. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-20 • 8 minutes Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-20 • 25 minutes How deep does the sand go on the beach? Sand! We use it to make all kinds of things, from spectacular sandcastles to roads and bridges. But where does it come from? And why is the sand on so many beaches disappearing?In this episode, Molly and co-host Leon head to the beach to explore the secrets of sand. They run into the ultimate sand STAN Sanden Totten and discover what it's made of. Then, they chat with producer Nico Gonzalez Wisler about why beaches are running out of sand. All that, plus a stumper of a new mystery sound!Do you have your Sma... (@Brains_On)

2024-Feb-20 • 43 minutes Hormones Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through fundamental puzzles about humanity: what makes us, us, and if it is hormones, does that make us cocktails or cauldrons? (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Feb-20 • 17 minutes Nitazenes and xylazine: what’s behind the rise of dangerous synthetic drugs? Social affairs correspondent Robert Booth tells Madeleine Finlay why a class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, first developed in the 1950s, is leading to a worrying number of fatal overdoses in the UK. And she hears from toxicology and addiction specialist Dr Joseph D’Orazio about a tranquilliser called xylazine that has been showing up in alarming volumes in the US illegal drug supply and is now starting to appear in toxicology reports in the UK (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-20 • 33 minutes Microplastics and forever chemicals: here to stay? What are the effects of these pervasive and invasive substances? (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-19 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Michael Wooldridge Michael Wooldridge, professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, talks AI (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-19 • 18 minutes Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins Defamation Case Michael Mann discusses what the victory means for the public understanding of climate science—and for bad-faith attacks on scientists. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-19 • 80 minutes 266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology I talk with physicist/biologist Chris Adami about how to use information theory to understand biology. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Feb-19 • 10 minutes Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War Millions of Ukrainians are suffering the mental health implications of two years of Russian bombs and shells. The country’s recovery depends on building systems to help treat the trauma. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-19 • 55 minutes Lithium Valley The discovery of a massive amount of lithium under the Salton Sea could make the U.S. lithium independent. The metal is key for batteries in electric vehicles and solar panels. But the area is also a delicate ecosystem. We go to southern California to hear what hangs in the balance of the ballooning lithium industry, and also how we extract other crucial substances – such as sand, copper and iron– and turn them into semiconductors, circuitry and other products upon which the modern world depends. Guests: Ed... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Feb-19 • 39 minutes 748: Figuring Out the Functional Organization and Development of Cortical Circuits in the Brain - Dr. David Fitzpatrick Dr. David Fitzpatrick is Chief Executive Officer, Scientific Director, and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience. The brain is important for so many aspects of our daily experiences, including what we perceive,... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Feb-19 • 14 minutes The Life And Death Of A Woolly Mammoth Lately, paleoecologist Audrey Rowe has been a bit preoccupied with a girl named Elma. That's because Elma is ... a woolly mammoth. And 14,000 years ago, when Elma was alive, her habitat in interior Alaska was rapidly changing. The Ice Age was coming to a close and human hunters were starting early settlements. Which leads to an intriguing question: Who, or what, killed her? In the search for answers, Audrey traces Elma's life and journey through — get this — a single tusk. Today, she shares her insights on ... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-18 • 75 minutes Why There’s No Such Thing as Free Will w/ Robert Sapolsky (#395) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Whether or not there is free will has tortured scientists from many fields since philosophers in ancient Greece started wondering about it. But for one scientist, there’s no question about it… Meet neuroendocrinology researcher, bestselling author, and Stanford University professor – Robert Sapolsky! Sapolsky’s journey has led him from studying stress and neuronal degeneration in wild baboons in Kenya to exploring the r... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-17 • 54 minutes How Chinese science was revealed to the world A great range of scientific and technical achievements were made in China hundreds of years earlier than in Europe. (@ABCscience)

2024-Feb-17 The Skeptics Guide #971 - Feb 17 2024 Quickie with Bob - Metalenses; News Items: Flow Batteries, Green Roofs, LEGO MRI scanner, The Future Circular Collider, Mayo Clinic and Reiki; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Feb-17 • 25 minutes Smologies #38: CARNIVORES with Rae Wynn-Grant Ah, charismatic megafauna! Teeth, claws, fur, poop, hibernation, hiking, nature preserves, and living your childhood dreams with Alie’s longtime -ologist crush, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. The large carnivore ecologist, researcher and TV presenter tells us all about her field work, what it’s like to stuff a baby bear in your coat, carnivore microbiomes, how well carnivores can taste and smell their food (and yours), how smart the average bear really is and more. Also: Is there such thing as a vegetarian carnivore?!... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Feb-17 FQxI February 17, 2024 Podcast Episode The Universal Constructor: A Conversation with David Deutsch (@FQXi)

2024-Feb-16 • 27 minutes What time was the first clock set to? From sundials to atomic clocks via Big Ben, a quest into the history of timekeeping. (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Feb-16 • 21 minutes Odysseus Lander Heads To The Moon | Ohio Chemical Spill, One Year Later If successful, Odysseus will be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo mission. And, in East Palestine, Ohio, the stream that flows under residents’ houses is still polluted following a train derailment and chemical spill. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-16 • 169 minutes A Dialogue with Label-Defying Journalist Jonathan Kay I first became aware of Jonathan Kay through his writing for the online magazine, Quillette. And for full disclosure, I got to know him better because he is one of their editors, and he has edited several of my own pieces for that magazine. Before that, however, I had been a fan of his writing, and was happy to be able to have an extended conversation with him about writing, journalism, false news, and politics, to name a few of the topics we discussed. Our dialogue occurred shortly after the appearance o... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Feb-16 • 24 minutes Weekly: Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages #237Glaucoma, which can cause blindness by damaging the optic nerve, may be reversible. Researchers have managed to coax new optic nerve cells to grow in mice, partly restoring sight in some. How the treatment works through an eyeball injection and why, for humans, prevention and early detection are still the best options.Black holes, just like planets and stars, spin. But they may be spinning a lot slower than we thought. When black holes gobble up matter around them, they start spinning faster and we’ve l... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-16 • 61 minutes Future of Science & Technology Q&A (June 16, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: What's there to say about the future of neural nets? - Neural nets could evolve to be able to be trainers? What are the limits? - It seems like every decade I've been alive scientists keep saying "We just realized that brains/DNA are actually a lot more complicated than we realized, ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-16 • 81 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (June 14, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa | | Questions include: How do you balance work and life? Do you have advice for maintaining a healthy lifestyle while working? How do you find time for socializing and exercising? - When will you retire and devote all of your time to your Physics Project, or is retiring out of the question? - Have... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-16 • 50 minutes G: The World's Smartest Animal This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber - a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart ... not the animals we intend to study. Dan’s rant got us thinking: What is the smartest animal in the world? And if we threw out our human intelligence rubric, is there a fair way to figure it out? Obviously, there is. And it’s a live game sho... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Feb-16 • 54 minutes A post valentine’s look at humpback mating songs and a marsupial that’s sleepless for sex Atlantic ocean circulation edging closer to potentially catastrophic climate tipping pointThe stability of much of the world’s climate depends on ocean currents in the Atlantic that bring warm water from the tropics north and send cool water south. New research in the journal Science Advances confirms what scientists have long feared: that we are on course to this tipping point that could cut off this important circulation pattern, with severe consequences. René van Westen from Utrecht University, said if w... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Feb-16 • 7 minutes The Leading Lab-Grown-Meat Company Just Paused a Major Expansion Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated-meat factory on hold and laying off staff to focus on its existing plant. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-16 • 24 minutes Reversing blindness; power beamed from space; animal love languages #237Glaucoma, which can cause blindness by damaging the optic nerve, may be reversible. Researchers have managed to coax new optic nerve cells to grow in mice, partly restoring sight in some. How the treatment works through an eyeball injection and why, for humans, prevention and early detection are still the best options.Black holes, just like planets and stars, spin. But they may be spinning a lot slower than we thought. When black holes gobble up matter around them, they start spinning faster and we’ve l... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-16 • 13 minutes The U.N.'s First-Ever Analysis Of World's Migratory Species Just Dropped Every year, billions of animals across the globe embark on journeys. They fly, crawl, walk or slither – often across thousands of miles of land or water – to find better food, more agreeable weather or a place to breed. Think monarch butterflies, penguins, wild Pacific salmon. These species are crucial to the world as we know it. But until this week, there has never been an official assessment of the world's migratory animals. So today on the show, correspondent Nate Rott shares the first-ever report on sta... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-16 • 82 minutes What's Love Got to do with Science? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview W/Dr. Allison Coffin, Be Irresistible, Unexpected Love Songs, Female Freedom, Erecting Erections, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our scien... (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Feb-16 • 28 minutes Dengue, decaying dead bodies, and a stone age deer trap Plus, teasing orangutans reveal potential insights into why we like monkeying around... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-16 • 25 minutes Love Story: Stories with a happily ever after In honor of Valentine’s Day, this week’s episode features two stories where love finds a way. Part 1: Scientist Bruce Hungate yearns to find someone who cares about the tiny details as much as he does. Part 2: Science reporter Ari Daniel and his wife are at odds when it comes to moving their family to Lebanon, but the pandemic changes things. Bruce Hungate conducts research on microbial ecology of global change from the cell to the planet. His research examines the imprint of the diversity of life on the cy... (@storycollider)

2024-Feb-15 • 18 minutes One Crisis After Another: Designing Cities For Resiliency The leaders of a global architecture and design firm discuss how design can help communities adapt to global crises. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-15 • 26 minutes Climate scientist wins defamation case Will this serve as a warning against politically motivated attacks on climate scientists? (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Feb-15 • 46 minutes What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp about the state of scholarly publishing, better ways to communicate science, plus a few myths Savage still wants to tackle. Next on the show, making blueberries without blue pigments. Rox Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dresden University of Technology and honorary research associate ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Feb-15 • 28 minutes A New Volcanic Era? Are we entering a new volcanic era in Iceland? (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Feb-15 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | February 15, 2024 Karim Aly of NOZE, a medical technology company that identifies, captures, and interprets odors released from our breath and skin to detect disease, shares how they use “digital odor perception” technology.Then, Reuters journalist Ernest Scheyder, who has written extensively about the green energy transition, discusses his newly released book "The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives." (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Feb-15 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Robots, AI and the future of human connection There is precedent for humans connecting with other living things, like getting attention, love, and companionship from dogs and cats and a few other animals that have been domesticated to provide partnership. Now, there’s a new option for meeting this need — social robots — who may end up being even better at fulfilling the human desire for connection. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Feb-15 • 5 minutes Why Fake Caviar Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution An alternative to environmentally harmful plastic is already within reach: seaweed. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-15 • 50 minutes Not so random acts of kindness Are African spiders behind the ultimate act of kindness in nature? (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-15 • 34 minutes How Did Altruism Evolve? We often talk about evolution in terms of competition, as the survival of the fittest. But if it is, then where did the widespread (and widely admired) impulse to help others even at great cost to ourselves come from? In this episode, Stephanie Preston, a professor of psychology and head of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, talks about the evolutionary, neurological and behavioral foundations for altruism with our new co-host, the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin. (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Feb-15 • 13 minutes The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask Sara Little Turnbull used material science to invent and design products for the modern world. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Feb-15 • 15 minutes What apes can tell us about the origins of teasing Ian Sample talks to prof Erica Cartmill about her work on apes and teasing and asks, given how annoying teasing is, why do apes, and humans, do it? (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-14 • 34 minutes How do we identify life? In this episode, Chris and Abha explore how life originated here on earth and how we might identify it in other parts of the universe. They ask two researchers about the signature characteristics of life and what common dynamics we might see among organisms outside our planet. They’ll also delve into assembly theory, a recent concept that looks at the construction of objects as a way to universally quantify life, which has ignited debate within the scientific community. (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Feb-14 • 18 minutes Using Sound To Unpack The History Of Astronomy A new podcast series examines sonified space data to explore pivotal moments throughout the history of astronomy. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-14 • 77 minutes Hydrochoerology (CAPYBARAS) with Elizabeth Congdon CAPYBARAS! Blocky faces. Chill vibes. Spa days. Finally. Hydrochoerologist, Dr. Elizabeth Congdon, leads us into the muddy pond of Rodents of Unusual Size, weird feet, pet questions, interspecies snuggles, capybara cafes, natural habitats, escaped capybara, a fossil record that will rock you, and what the Pope thinks of them. An instant classic that you’ll want to enjoy on repeat. Y’all, CAPYBARAS. I repeat: Capybaras. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Feb-14 • 22 minutes Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting The lingering effect of cigarettes on T cell responses, and the Solar System's new ocean. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-14 • 10 minutes Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People Farmers and scientists are getting better at growing more crops on less land, but they’re not focusing on plants that people eat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-14 • 42 minutes Egyptian Mummies Brian Cox and Robin Ince unwrap the science of Egyptian mummies. (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2024-Feb-14 • 24 minutes Why do we cry? Humans seem to be the only animals that cry from emotion. This Valentine’s Day, we’re wondering: What makes our tears so special? (Updated from 2022) For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Feb-14 • 12 minutes Celebrate Valentine's Day With These Queer Animals In a Valentine's Day exclusive report, NPR has learned there is currently a gay anteater couple at Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C.But this couple is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to queerness in the animal world – it's been documented in hundreds of species. We spoke with wildlife ecologist Christine Wilkinson of the "Queer is Natural" TikTok series to uncover the wildest, queerest animals of the bunch. Questions, comments or thoughts o... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-13 • 24 minutes Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising In Young People | What An AI Learns From A Baby Colorectal cancer is becoming increasingly common among adults in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Plus, associating images and sounds from a child’s daily life helped teach a computer model a set of basic nouns. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-13 • 48 minutes Should We BELIEVE In Science? DemystifySci & Brian Keating (#394) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Should we believe in science? Is there any room to scrutinize the scientific method? And does Eric Lerner have a point? Recently, my dear colleagues, Dr. Anastasia Bendebury and Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay joined me at UCSD to discuss how scientists come to conclusions about the world, the role of belief in science, and what we can learn from modern controversies in cosmology. Dr. Anastasia Bendebury and Dr. Michael Shilo D... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-13 • 10 minutes Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible? A slalom skier just achieved a remarkable result in the Alpine Ski World Cup—coming from last place to win. As mountains get warmer and conditions less predictable, expect more freak occurrences like this. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-13 • 20 minutes CultureLab: Where billionaires rule the apocalypse: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’ Real tech billionaires are reportedly building secret bunkers in case of post-apocalyptic societal collapse. It’s a frightening prospect, a world where only the super rich survive catastrophe. But it’s a world one author is exploring in her latest novel.Naomi Alderman is the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Power. Her latest book The Future imagines a world where billionaires survive a world-shaking cataclysm, only to find out they’re not as in charge of events as they think they are. The F... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-13 • 30 minutes Is hypnosis real? Hypnosis. You’ve seen it in movies, cartoons, and maybe even on stage! But is it real? And if so, what is it? Join Molly and co-host Jasmine as they uncover the truth about hypnosis and its power to heal. They’ll hear from pediatrician and hypnosis expert, Dr. Daniel Kohen, about what it is and isn’t. (Spoiler alert – it isn’t mind control!) They’ll also chat with 13-year-old Joshua who uses hypnosis to overcome anxiety! Plus, a special appearance from the ghost of Franz Mesmer, a famous practitioner and th... (@Brains_On)

2024-Feb-13 • 56 minutes Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023) Listen to this interview of Christopher Reddy, environmental chemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. We talk about his book Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide (Routledge Earthscan 2023). Christopher Reddy : "Communication definitely teaches us scientists things that we hadn't knows or appreciated, even in our own research. I mean, when you have to rethink about how and why you're doing something and what the outcomes mean, that is a serie... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Feb-13 • 15 minutes Retinol, acids and serums for kids? A dermatologist’s guide to age appropriate skincare Dermatologists warn children as young as eight years old are using potentially damaging anti-ageing skin care products. Madeleine Finlay discusses this trend, and alternative skincare, with Dr Emma Wedgeworth (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-13 • 31 minutes Healing war wounds Both physical and mental... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-12 • 18 minutes A Black Physician’s Analysis Of The Legacy Of Racism In Medicine In a new book, Dr. Uché Blackstock reflects on her experiences as a Black physician and the structural racism embedded in medicine. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-12 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Mercedes Maroto-Valer Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-12 • 205 minutes AMA | February 2024 Monthly Ask Me Anything episode. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Feb-12 • 10 minutes Adult talk and children’s speech Alex Cristia and Elika Bergelson explain the factors influencing speech in children. (@PNASNews)

2024-Feb-12 • 8 minutes Why Is Our Solar System Flat? It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Get the true story using fake forces. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-12 • 55 minutes Alien Says What? Whales are aliens on Earth; intelligent beings who have skills for complex problem-solving and their own language. Now in what’s being called a breakthrough, scientists have carried on an extended conversation with a humpback whale. They share the story of this remarkable encounter, their evidence that the creature understood them, and how the experiment informs our Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. After all, what good is it to make contact with ET if we can’t communicate? Guests: Brenda McCowan – ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Feb-12 • 40 minutes 747: Conducting Research to Conserve Colorado's Rare Plants - Dr. Jennifer Ramp Neale Dr. Jennifer Ramp Neale is Director of Research and Conservation at the Denver Botanic Gardens. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Colorado Denver. The Denver Botanic Gardens is an... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Feb-12 • 13 minutes The Shared History Of The Chinese And Gregorian Calendars Happy Lunar New Year! According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the new year began Saturday. For many, like our host Regina G. Barber, this calendar and its cultural holidays can feel completely detached from the Gregorian calendar. Growing up, she associated the former with the Spring Festival and getting money in red envelopes from relatives, and the other with more American traditions. But the Chinese calendar has a deep, centuries-long shared history with the Gregorian calendar. To learn more about t... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-10 • 54 minutes Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields More efficient molecules inside plants could bring a big increase in crop yields. (@ABCscience)

2024-Feb-10 The Skeptics Guide #970 - Feb 10 2024 What's the Word: Cardinal; News Items: New Virus-Like Microbes Found, SLIM Lunar Lander, Misinformation and Wellness Influencers, Super Earth in Habitable Zone, Climate Change and Storms; Who's That Noisy, Name That Logical Fallacy, Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Feb-10 • 67 minutes Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023) What makes a species a species? Aristotle answered the species question by positing unchanging essences, properties that all and only members of a species shared. Individuals belonged to a species by possessing this essence. Biologists and philosophers of biology today are either not essentialists at all, or if they are think there are essences they are relational, historical properties. In his provocative book Biological Essentialism (Oxford UP, 2023), Michael Devitt argues for a new form of biological es... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Feb-09 • 27 minutes When will the next earthquake hit? Will we ever be able to predict earthquakes? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Feb-09 • 20 minutes Faraway Planets With Oceans Of Magma | The Art And Science Of Trash Talk Hycean planets were thought to be covered by oceans of water, but a new study suggests it could be magma instead. And, author Rafi Kohan explains the psychological and physiological responses to trash talk, ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-09 • 15 minutes Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer Naming metastatic cancers after parts of the body could be holding up research and preventing people from accessing the best treatment (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-09 • 42 minutes Cheating Death In this episode, Maria Paz Gutiérrez does battle against the one absolute truth of human existence and all life… death. After getting a team of scientists to stand in for death (the grim reaper wasn’t available), we parry and thrust our way through the myriad ways that death comes for us - from falling pianos to evolution’s disinterest in longevity. In the process, we see if we can find a satisfying answer to the question “why do we have to die” and find ourselves face to face with the bitter end of everyth... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Feb-09 • 23 minutes Weekly: Record-breaking fusion experiments inch the world closer to new source of clean energy #236This week marks two major milestones in the world of fusion. In 2022 a fusion experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created more power than was required to sustain it – now, the same team has improved this record by 25 per cent, releasing almost twice the energy that was put in. Meanwhile, the UK’s JET reactor set a new world record for total energy output from any fusion reaction, just before it shut down for good late last year. Why these two milestones inch us closer to practical, ... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-09 • 77 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [June 9, 2023] Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: Could the expansion of the universe affect biological evolution? - ​How much does the sky weigh? How much does the Earth weigh? - What would happen if gravity on Earth changed to that of the Moon? What if gravity suddenly got stronger? - So a full data memory card vs. a new, empty data memory... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-09 • 69 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (June 7, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | | Questions include: How did scientific disciplines originate and evolve through the centuries? - Do you think Apple's new VR headset will be much different than previous releases of other VR headsets? What do past releases of similar products predict? - VR kind of reminds me of video game systems. Your pr... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-09 • 108 minutes Michael Saylor: The Thermodynamics of Bitcoin EXPLAINED (2021) (#393) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Remastered from our interview in 2021. There is a lot of talk about how to make money with Bitcoin… But how does it actually work? What are the physics behind it? And can Bitcoin replace the US dollar? Here today to answer all of these questions and more is Michael Saylor. Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive who co-founded and led MicroStrategy, which provides business intelligence, m... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-09 • 10 minutes NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future They may be tiny, but phytoplankton and aerosols power pivotal Earth systems. Scientists are about to learn a whole lot more about them at a critical time. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-09 • 9 minutes Clownfish Might Be Counting Their Potential Enemies' Stripes At least, that's what a group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University thinks. The team recently published a study in the journal Experimental Biology suggesting that Amphiphrion ocellaris, or clown anemonefish, may be counting. Specifically, the authors think the fish may be looking at the number of vertical white stripes on each other as well as other anemonefish as a way to identify their own species. Not only that — the researchers think that the fish are not... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-09 • 100 minutes Why Are Blueberries Blue? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Rewriting Astronomy, Curing Cancer, Building Highways, Concussion Protein Protocol, Blue Berries?, Ancient Swedish mystery grave, Sexy Psychedelics, Childlike Learning, Night Walkers, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Feb-09 • 31 minutes King Charles' cancer, and a new particle supercollider And how certain pollutants are hiding plants from pollinators (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-09 • 54 minutes Scientists explore which came first, the chicken or the egg, and more… Blue whales are genetically healthy but are breeding with fin whales, study suggests (1:03) Researchers have sequenced the genome of a blue whale that washed up in Newfoundland in 2014, and used it to do a comparative study of North Atlantic blue whales. A team led by Mark Engstrom, curator emeritus at the Royal Ontario Museum found that despite their small population, the whales are genetically diverse and connected across the north Atlantic, but that on average blue whales from this group are, genetically... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Feb-09 • 26 minutes Peer Review: Stories about other people's opinions In science, peer review plays a critical role in figuring out if research is good enough, robust enough. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers find themselves looking for outside feedback on if they’re good enough. Part 1: At her NASA summer internship, Kirsten Siebach feels completely out of place among the Mars mission scientists. Part 2: Alison Spodek’s need to be seen as smart takes over her life. Kirsten Siebach is an Assistant Professor in the Rice University Department of Earth, Environmen... (@storycollider)

2024-Feb-08 • 19 minutes Is Each Fingerprint On Your Hand Unique? | In This Computer Component, Data Slides Through Honey A new study uses artificial intelligence to show that each of our ten fingerprints are remarkably similar to one another. Plus, honey could be the secret ingredient in building a more eco-friendly “memristor,” which transmits data through malleable pathways. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-08 • 27 minutes Particle physics v climate change Should we spend $17 billion on a new atom smasher whilst the world literally burns? (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Feb-08 • 31 minutes A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators More than 200 materials could be “altermagnets,” and the impact of odiferous pollutants on nocturnal plant-pollinator interactions First up on the show this week, researchers investigate a new kind of magnetism. Freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about recent evidence for “altermagnetism” in nature, which could enable new types of electronics. Next on the show, producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Jeremy Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples F... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Feb-08 • 28 minutes Understanding Flood Forecasting Understanding how flood forecasting and warning systems work, plus a mission to Europa. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Feb-08 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | February 8, 2024 John Wells speaks with George Musser about his new book titled "Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI To Unravel The Mysteries of The Universe."Then, Eric Siegel, author of the new book “The AI Playbook, Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment," talks about how machine learning can enhance business operations. (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Feb-08 • 7 minutes These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump You need a heat pump, ASAP. Now nine states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of this climate superhero. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-08 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Should species be named after horrible people? When an Austrian bug collector discovered a new species of beetle in the 1930s, he bestowed upon it the name of a person he greatly admired. He called it Anophthalmus hitleri — and sent Adolf Hitler a note announcing the onomastic tribute. After nearly 90 years, should species still be named after horrible people? (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Feb-08 • 50 minutes Deep in thought News of a microchip implanted in a human brain sends our imagination running wild (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-08 • 29 minutes The Universe in Radio Vision Ruby Payne-Scott helped unlock a new way of seeing the universe, but to keep her job, Ruby had to keep a big secret. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Feb-08 • 16 minutes Why are we still waiting for a male contraceptive pill? Ian Sample speaks to bioethicist Prof Lisa Campo-Engelstein of the University of Texas and Prof Chris Barratt from the University of Dundee to find out why male contraceptives have been so difficult to develop, and what kind of options are in the pipeline (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-07 • 18 minutes The FDA Approved The First CRISPR-Based Therapy. What’s Next? The first CRISPR gene-editing treatment is a cure for sickle cell disease. Are we on the cusp of a gene therapy revolution? (@scifri)

2024-Feb-07 • 35 minutes Cancer's power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells Genetic changes that help tumour cells thrive can be co-opted to improve immunotherapy’s effectiveness, and looking at the electric vehicle batteries of the future. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-07 • 24 minutes What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their timing. A suite of new findings suggests that cells use basic metabolic processes as clocks. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Feb-07 • 7 minutes Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science From data access to scientific merit, Dr. Norman is working to make astronomy—and all STEM fields—more inclusive. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-07 • 26 minutes Should you quit Diet Coke? Safety questions have haunted aspartame — the no-calorie sweetener used in many diet soft drinks and other low-calorie products — since its invention. Some answers exist, but should we trust them if they were influenced by the beverage industry? For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/gi... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Feb-07 • 57 minutes Theoretical & Creative Ecology (SCIENCE & ECOPOETRY) with Madhur Anand Environmental models! Poetry! Scientists who are poets! Novelists who are scientists! Art + science = an actual -ology. Creative Ecologist, climate scientist, theoretical ecologist, author and celebrated poet Dr. Madhur Anand sits on a porch with me on an island to chat about storytelling, narratives in science, forest beetles, carbon stability, human motives, hip waders, technology meets nature, absurdity, identity, overcoming writer’s or scientist’s' block, and how accepting ourselves can be contagious. ... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Feb-07 • 12 minutes After 20 Years, This Scientist Uncovered The Physics Behind The Spiral Pass If you've ever watched part of a professional football game, you've probably seen a tight spiral pass. Those perfect throws where the football leaves the player's hand and neatly spins as it arcs through the air. But those passes? They seem to defy fundamental physics. And for a long time, scientists couldn't figure out exactly why — until experimental atomic physicist Tim Gay cracked the case just a few years ago. His answer comes after two decades of hobby research and more than a couple late night shout... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-06 • 18 minutes Protecting The ‘Satan’ Tarantula | If Termites Wore Stripes, Would Spiders Still Eat Them? A team of scientists in Ecuador is on a mission to describe new-to-science tarantula species to help secure conservation protections. And, undergraduate researchers pasted striped capes onto termites’ backs to see if a well-known warning sign would fend off predators. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-06 • 45 minutes Discover the Joy of Science w/ Jim Al-Khalili (#392) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Remastered from our interview in 2022. What can science learn from poetry? Can you teach someone to become a scientist? And what’s the biggest source of hype in science right now? In 2022, I had the pleasure of discussing these topics with the amazing Jim Al-Khalili. Jim is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey, where he holds a Distinguished Chair in physics as well as a university chair in the public en... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-06 • 7 minutes I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away WIRED experimented with a new form of voice assistant that can browse the web and perform tasks online. Siri, Alexa, and other virtual helpers could soon be much more powerful. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-06 • 30 minutes Why do we get cavities? Your teeth are like a squad of superheroes inside your mouth. They help you crunch on carrot sticks, nibble popcorn and chew bubblegum. You’ve probably heard it’s important to brush your teeth to prevent cavities. But what is a cavity? And how do dentists fix them?Join Molly and cohost Aya on a terrifically toothy adventure, as they explore what causes these pesky little holes in our teeth. They’ll meet a group of rowdy, party-loving bacteria and find out how sometimes, troublemaker bacteria in our mouths c... (@Brains_On)

2024-Feb-06 • 48 minutes Cheese It's the long-awaited cheese-stravaganza! And it's every bit as melty, crumbly, stretchy, and stinky as hoped for. We dip into some fetamology, we stretch our nokkeledge of cheese applications, and we unwrap the shocking tartrutho about a cheese we thought we knew!* *Here are the real cheese names I butchered into puns: feta, nokkelost, tartuffo. All delicious, go try some! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2024-Feb-06 • 14 minutes What happens now bird flu has reached the Antarctic? The Guardian’s biodiversity reporter, Phoebe Weston, tells Ian Sample why the spread of bird flu through the Antarctic’s penguin colonies would be so catastrophic (@guardianscience)

2024-Feb-06 • 28 minutes Is it time to change the law on assisted dying? Weighing up the many strands of the debate... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-06 • 17 minutes Escape Pod: #4 Mass: from lightest creates on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos This is a re-airing of a podcast originally released in February 2021.From some of the lightest creatures on earth, to the heaviest things in the cosmos, this episode is all about mass.It’s a magical opening to the show as the team discusses a group of insects called fairy wasps which are so light it’s near impossible to weigh them.They then turn to matters of massive proportions, discussing a little thing called dark matter.Finally the team wraps up by looking at the surprising, and slightly hilarious ways... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-05 • 29 minutes The Life Scientific: Sir Harry Bhadeshia Sir Harry Bhadeshia on his work in metallurgy and choreographing crystalline structures. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-05 • 18 minutes Scientists Are Uncovering A World Of ‘Dark Matter’ Carcinogens New findings about how substances like air pollutants can trigger cancer may help reveal carcinogens we were unaware of. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-05 • 12 minutes Breaking Newsve About Zoozve Less than two weeks since we released Zoozve, and we have BIG NEWS about our quest to name the first-ever quasi-moon! And that’s only the half of it! *Listen to the episode “Zoozve” before you listen to this update! (https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve) E... CREDITS - Reported by - Latif Nasser with help from - Ekedi Fausther-Keeys Produced by - Sarah Qari Original music and sound design contributed by - Sarah Qari with mixing help from - Arianne Wack Fact-checking by - Diane Kelley and Edited by - Be... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Feb-05 • 80 minutes 265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers I talk with sociologist John Skrentny about how the post-graduation careers of STEM majors aren't generally what they were led to expect. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Feb-05 • 8 minutes A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin Houston-based rBIO has invented a new process to churn out insulin at higher yields using custom-made bacteria. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-05 • 60 minutes The Wrong Stuff By one estimate the average American home has 300,000 objects. Yet our ancient ancestors had no more than what they could carry with them. How did we go from being self-sufficient primates to nonstop shoppers? We examine the evolutionary history of stuff through the lens of archeology beginning with the ancestor who first picked up a palm-sized rock and made it into a tool. Guest: Chip Colwell - archeologist and former Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, editor-in-chief of the... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Feb-05 • 50 minutes 746: Investigating the Intersection of Nutrition and Bacterial Infection and Pathogenesis - Dr. Eric Skaar Dr. Eric Skaar is Director of the Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Director of the Division of Molecular Pathogenesis, the Ernest W. Goodpasture Chair in Pathology, and Vice Chair for Research and a University Distinguished... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Feb-05 • 14 minutes Wolves Are Thriving In The Radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, releasing radioactive material into northern Ukraine and Belarus. It was the most serious nuclear accident in history. Over one hundred thousand people were evacuated from the surrounding area. But local gray wolves never left — and their population has grown over the years. It's seven times denser than populations in protected lands elsewhere in Belarus. This fact has led scientists to wonder whether the wolves are genetically either resistant or resilien... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-04 • 17 minutes Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how Two experts lay out the steps that need to be taken, and the challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Feb-04 • 59 minutes How the Hypothesis Means Listen to Episode No.6 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The guests on today's episode are Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, professors at the University of Illinois, and today as well, Bradley Alger, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. In this episode of the Focus, our topic is How the hypothesis means. What does out knowledge mean after it’s been hypothesized and teste... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Feb-03 • 54 minutes Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG Failing crops and dwindling water supply are forcing change to the traditional lifestyles of PNG highlanders. (@ABCscience)

2024-Feb-03 The Skeptics Guide #969 - Feb 3 2024 Interview with Dustin Bates of Starset; News Items: Neuralink Implant, Love on the Brain, Amelia Earhart Plane Evidence, Hiding Sickness, Cicada Double Brood; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Moon Timeline, Long Acting Insulin; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Feb-03 • 25 minutes Smologies #37: PROTEINS + DNA with Raven “The Science Maven” Baxter This one’s got it all: teeny tiny cellular factories, mitochondrial relevancy, what big smelly vats of poop have to do with curing cancer, how many trips to the sun your unravelled DNA could make, and mysteries of the brain. Dr. Raven The Science Maven has a background in molecular biology and a Ph.D in Science Communication, which she puts to work while Alie generally does her best to suppress high pitched noises of excitement. Learn to appreciate your proteins and pick up some noodle analogies while you’r... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Feb-02 • 82 minutes A dialogue with Brian Keating, at the San Diego Air and Space Museum In mid October the Origins Project Foundation ran two public events in California. The second event was held at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego. I had asked my colleague Brian Keating, who teaches at UCSD and is a Trustee of that museum, whether he might be interested in doing a public dialogue together that we could later both broadcast on our respective podcasts. He and I have each appeared before on each other’s podcasts, and I knew that we could have the kind of comfortable, informative, and fu... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Feb-02 • 31 minutes Why do we daydream? Meandering into your wandering mind, why can’t we stay present? (@BBCScienceNews)

2024-Feb-02 • 25 minutes Syphilis Cases Up 80% Since 2018 | The Largest Deep-Sea Coral Reef In The World There has been a boom of syphilis cases, including a 180% increase in congenital syphilis cases, despite other STI levels staying stable. Also, the world's largest deep-sea reef stretches for hundreds of miles in near-freezing waters and total darkness, but it’s bustling with life. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-02 • 78 minutes Future of Science & Technology Q&A (June 2, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | Questions include: Do you think the latest electric car is worth buying these days? What is the future of cars? - With technology integration, would we be able to do away with having to sleep in the future? - As far as human evolution, do you believe the human race is still evolving or have we peaked as a sp... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-02 • 86 minutes Future of Science & Technology Q&A (May 19, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | Questions include: Aside from faster processing speeds, what are some other ways computers may be improved in the future? - Will we still use books in 5-10 years, or will they be replaced by chatting with an AI? - It's moving toward narrative-driven, AI-powered, procedural generated VR environments with metahu... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2024-Feb-02 • 22 minutes Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs #235In very rare cases, Alzheimer’s disease could be transmitted from person to person during medical procedures. This finding comes as five people have developed the disease after receiving contaminated human growth hormone injections in the late 1950s to early 1980s – a practice that is now banned. What this finding means for medical settings and why most people don’t need to be concerned.  Elon Musk’s mind-reading brain implant company Neuralink is carrying out its first human trial. The volunt... (@newscientist)

2024-Feb-02 • 75 minutes G: Relative Genius Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed away in the early morning hours of April, 18, 1955, his family knew his wishes. There was only one problem: the pathologist who did the autopsy had different plans. In the third episode of “G”, Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence, first aired back in 2019 we go on one of the strangest scavenger hunts for geniu... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2024-Feb-02 • 54 minutes An ancient tree’s crowning glory and more… Shark declines: finning regulations might have bitten off more than they can chew In recent years governments around the world have attempted to slow the catastrophic decline in shark numbers with regulations, including on the practice of shark finning. But a new study led by marine biologist Boris Worm and published in the journal Science suggests that these regulations have backfired and shark mortality is still rising. The reason is that shark fishers responded by keeping all of the shark, and developing... (@CBCQuirks)

2024-Feb-02 • 51 minutes New COLD WAR Over Computer Chips? w/ Chris Miller (#391) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 If there's one key factor securing America's economic prosperity and military superiority, it's not oil; it's chips. No, not the chips we all love to snack on during movies, but highly efficient computer chips. Chips that power pretty much everything from our military machinery to our iPhones. The United States held the top spot in crafting the fastest chips on Earth for a long time. But countries like Taiwan and China ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-02 • 10 minutes Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change kids’ perceptions of the industry. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-02 • 25 minutes Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia Aquaculture is the fastest-growing protein production industry globally, with Vietnam one of the top producers and exporters of seafood products. In Vietnam, aquaculture is seen as a means of protecting rural livelihoods threatened by the consequences of climate change on agriculture. But climate change also drives the emergence of marine bacterial pathogens, causing considerable losses to aquaculture production. Traditionally, pathogen blooms have been treated with antimicrobials – but this has resulted in... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Feb-02 • 13 minutes This Scientist Figured Out Why Your Appendix Isn't Useless Back in the day, many of us heard that the appendix is a vestigial organ — at best, a body part that lost its purpose all those many years ago. At worst, an unnecessary clinger-on to the human body that, when ruptured, could be life threatening. But what if that narrative is wrong?Heather Smith became obsessed with the appendix after hers was removed at age 12. After years of anatomy research, she's found that the appendix is not, in fact, useless. Reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin is in the host chair today t... (@NPR)

2024-Feb-02 • 79 minutes Why is The Ocean Venting? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview W/Sarah Treadwell, Genome Maps, Muscle Bots, Against The Light, Squeaky Mice, Laundry Recycling?, The Planetarium Show, Joides Resolution Ship, Ocean Vents, Scuba Diving, Mount Everest, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2024-Feb-02 • 29 minutes Neuralink implant, and a brief history of spine Plus, why fasting reduces inflammation in the body... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Feb-02 • 30 minutes Postpartum: Stories about postpartum depression CDC research shows about 1 in 8 women with a recent live birth experience symptoms of postpartum depression. In this week’s episode, our storytellers share their experience with postpartum depression. Part 1: With a new kid and her husband moving to Iowa for a job, Angie Chatman’s mental health begins to suffer. Part 2: Anna Agniel’s romantic notions of married life with a child are broken when her husband relapses and her son is born with a cleft palate. Angie Chatman is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer, ... (@storycollider)

2024-Feb-01 • 17 minutes Expanding Our Umwelt: Understanding Animal Experiences Writing about animals’ sensory experiences in ‘An Immense World’ changed author Ed Yong’s own worldview—and hobbies. (@scifri)

2024-Feb-01 • 29 minutes Unethical data gathering in China Papers containing DNA data gathered from Chinese ethnic minorities are under scrutiny. (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2024-Feb-01 • 30 minutes A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs A remote island may hold clues for the future of El Niño and La Niña under climate change, and how pressure in the blood sends messages to neurons First up, researchers are digging into thousands of years of coral to chart El Niño’s behavior over time. Producer Kevin McLean talks with Staff Writer Paul Voosen about his travels to the Pacific island of Vanuatu to witness the arduous task of reef drilling. Next on the show, host Sarah Crespi talks with Veronica Egger, a professor of neurophysiology at the... (@ScienceMagazine)

2024-Feb-01 • 29 minutes Space Exploration Inside Science explores the planned missions to the Moon in 2024. (@BBCRadio4)

2024-Feb-01 • 50 minutes Cool Science Radio | February 1, 2024 John Wells speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson who has co-written "To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery" with StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Walker. (0:45)Then, as much as you might think it’s just a craving – sugar is an addiction! We speak with neuroscientist Dr. Nicole Avena, who pioneered research on sugar addiction and has a new book on the subject called "Sugarless." (25:42) (@KPCWRadio)

2024-Feb-01 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Can you still travel the roads that Julius Caesar built? Long before Julius Caesar became one of the most powerful rulers in the world, he was a relatively unknown curator of the Via Appia, a road stretching from Rome on the Tyrrhenian Coast to the Salento Peninsula on the Adriatic Sea. Our guest John Keahey traversed the Via Appia, and he joins us to talk about it. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2024-Feb-01 • 62 minutes Neil Turok on the simplicity of nature Neil Turok is a professor at the University of Edinburgh where he holds the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics. He acted as the director of Perimeter Institute from 2008 to 2019 and now holds the Carlo Fidani Roger Penrose Distinguished Visiting Rese... (@Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin)

2024-Feb-01 • 8 minutes Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains “Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Feb-01 • 51 minutes How plankton made mountains The world’s largest cruise ship has set sail – but what stowaways are hiding onboard? (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Feb-01 • 36 minutes What Makes for 'Good' Math? We tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its usefulness and its workings are packed with nuance. So what is “good” mathematics? In 2007, the mathematician Terence Tao wrote an essay for the “Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society” that sought to answer this question. Today, as the recipient of a Fields Medal, a Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics and a MacArthur Fellowship, Tao is among the most prolific mathematicians alive. In this episode, he joins Steven Strogatz... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Feb-01 • 15 minutes From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate, which allowed objects to be detected at a distance. (@LostWomenofSci)

2024-Feb-01 • 17 minutes A fasting prime minister and a mind-reading billionaire: the week in science Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big science stories of the week – from news that Elon Musk’s Neuralink has implanted its first chip into a human, to research suggesting Alzheimer’s can pass between humans in rare medical accidents, and the revelation that Rishi Sunak begins each week with a 36-hour fast (@guardianscience)

2024-Jan-31 • 35 minutes What can physics tell us about ourselves? Humans can live up to age 100, and not 1000 – why? Are there limits in how much our brains can think and compute? The laws of physics can help explain a lot, both about our own human bodies and how we are connected to life all around us. (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Jan-31 • 18 minutes How Signing Characters Help Deaf Children Learn Language A lab at Gallaudet University is creating television shows with signing characters to increase literacy in both English and ASL. (@scifri)

2024-Jan-31 • 29 minutes Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools Analysis of stone tools and DNA reveals when modern humans reached northern Europe, and why human brain cells grow so slowly. (@NaturePodcast)

2024-Jan-31 • 5 minutes Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant Details are scarce, but Elon Musk says initial results are “promising.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Jan-31 • 61 minutes Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. We talk about how organizations shape people, and how people shape science. Natalie Aviles : "I think, in general, the more self-conscious that scientists can be about what motivates them, about what makes them happy, about what drives them — the more, then, they can try to imagine a future that satisfies not only their intellectual curiosity but helps them navigate, too, the very sort of prosaic conditions... (@NewBooksSci)

2024-Jan-31 • 28 minutes The case for cursing Can swearing make you stronger? For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2024-Jan-31 • 85 minutes Evolutionary Anthropology (METABOLISM) with Herman Pontzer Let’s explore our human machinery. And talk about Brazilian butt lifts. Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and metabolism researcher Dr. Herman Pontzer gives us the data on mitochondrial backstories, muscle mass and hormones, our expanding brains, the flaws of the Body Mass Index, humans’ relationships with nutrition, why crash dieting can change your metabolism, perspectives on sticky medical terms, isotope magic, how much exercise hunter gatherers get, carnivore diets, scales, and what to do if you're... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2024-Jan-31 • 15 minutes Murder, Mayhem At The Zoo: A Naked Mole Rat Succession War An all-out "naked mole rat war" has broken out at Smithsonian's National Zoo, after the queen of the colony was mortally wounded by one of her own children. Short Wave's Pien Huang and Margaret Cirino visit the battleground – a series of deceptively calm-looking plexiglass enclosures at the Zoo's Small Mammal House. There, the typically harmonious, eusocial rodents are now fighting their siblings with their big front teeth to determine who will become the new queen. Pien and Marge talk with zookeeper Kenton... (@NPR)

2024-Jan-30 • 18 minutes ‘Mysterious’ Canine Illness: What Dog Owners Should Know Veterinary experts discuss what is known about the potential respiratory pathogen—or pathogens—and which dogs are most at risk. (@scifri)

2024-Jan-30 • 26 minutes CultureLab: Earth’s Last Great Wild Areas – Simon Reeve on BBC series ‘Wilderness’ Very few places on our planet appear untouchedby humans, but in those that do, nature is still very much in charge – and the scenery is breathtaking. In the new BBC series Wilderness with Simon Reeve, journalist Simone Reeve takes us into the heart of Earth's last great wild areas, including the Congo Basin rainforest, Patagonia, the Coral Triangle and the Kalahari desert in Southern Africa.In this episode of CultureLab, TV columnist Bethan Ackerley asks Simon about the series and his many exciting expediti... (@newscientist)

2024-Jan-30 • 10 minutes Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space Right Now Welcome to the world’s foremost training ground for saving space from disasters, disputes, and—perhaps one day—colonizers named Musk. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Jan-30 • 29 minutes Decarbonising shipping, and the Ship of the Future The unseen sector that fuels our daily lives... (@NakedScientists)

2024-Jan-30 • 30 minutes How did ferns survive the dinosaur extinction? Listener Gideon sent in this brilliant question: “How did ferns survive the dinosaur extinction and are they the same ferns we see now?” Our search for the answer will introduce us to James Frond, international fern of mystery, and take us flying through the air on an airplane’s wing. We’ll also meet a scientist who’s trying to understand how ferns are such strong survivors — by recreating the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs! All that, plus a fern-tastic new mystery sound!Do you have your Smar... (@Brains_On)

2024-Jan-30 • 16 minutes Secrets of the microbiome: the skin Ian Sample meets professor in cutaneous biology Julie Thornton who tells him how it helps with everything from wound healing to immunity (@guardianscience)

2024-Jan-29 • 28 minutes The Life Scientific: Cathie Sudlow Jim Al-Khalili discusses population-wide health research with Professor Cathie Sudlow. (@bbcworldservice)

2024-Jan-29 • 18 minutes An App For People Of Color To Rate Their Birthing Experiences | How Different Animals See Irth is a “Yelp-like” app to help expectant parents make informed decisions by exposing bias and racism in healthcare systems. Also, a new video camera system shows the colors of the natural world as different animals see them. (@scifri)

2024-Jan-29 • 54 minutes Skeptic Check: Hypnosis* You are getting sleeeepy and open to suggestion. But is that how hypnotism works? And does it really open up a portal to the unconscious mind? Hypnotism can be an effective therapeutic tool, and some scientists suggest replacing opioids with hypnosis for pain relief. And yet, the performance aspect of hypnotism often seems at odds with the idea of it being an effective treatment. In our regular look at critical thinking, Skeptic Check, we ask what part of hypnotism is real and what is an illusion. Plus, we... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2024-Jan-29 • 10 minutes Modeling illuminates pitcher plant evolution Chris Thorogood and Derek Moulton explain how mathematical modeling of carnivorous pitcher plants can lend insights into their evolution. (@PNASNews)

2024-Jan-29 • 70 minutes 🎉 Celebrating 200K Subscribers: Q&A with Brian Keating 🥳 (#390) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 I can’t believe it. We’ve reached 200K subscribers! Thank you so much for joining me on this exciting journey. It is an immense pleasure to engage with all of you and to share my passion every day. In this celebratory episode, I'll answer all your questions from the comment section, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. So, buckle up! Today, we’re diving deep Into The Impossible. — Additional resources: 📢 Ow... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Jan-29 • 72 minutes 264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets I talk with planetary scientist Sabine Stanley about how we know what's inside planets in the Solar System and elsewhere. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Jan-29 • 9 minutes 6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection Several gene therapies aim to restore a protein necessary for transmitting sound signals from the ear to the brain. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2024-Jan-29 • 38 minutes 745: Astrophysicist Radiating Enthusiasm for Research on Plasma Physics and Cosmic Rays - Dr. Ellen Zweibel Dr. Ellen Zweibel is the W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics, and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ellen is a theoretical astrophysicist who specializes in plasma astrophysics. Her... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2024-Jan-29 • 12 minutes Choose Your Lightning Protection: Lasers, Rockets or Rods? Every year, lightning is estimated to cause up to 24,000 deaths globally. It starts forest fires, burns buildings and crops, and causes disruptive power outages. The best, most practical technology available to deflect lightning is the simple lightning rod, created by Benjamin Franklin more than 250 years ago. But lightning rods protect only a very limited area proportional to their height. In today's encore episode, we explore why a group of European researchers are hoping the 21 century upgrade is a high-... (@NPR)

2024-Jan-27 • 54 minutes The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists People know their sports stars, and their rock stars. Why don’t they know the stars of science who have helped shape our world? The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists hopes to generate discussion and raise the profile of Australia’s world class scientists. (@ABCscience)

2024-Jan-27 The Skeptics Guide #968 - Jan 27 2024 Swindler's List: Deep Fake Robot Call; News Item: Oxygen Bottleneck, NASA Opens Osiris Rex Canister, Learning and Longevity, DNA Directed Assembly, Bleach Peddler Sentenced; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nuclear Batteries; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2024-Jan-27 • 16 minutes Lessons on the limits of ecosystem restoration from the Everglades When the U.S. government and state of Florida unveiled a new plan to save the Everglades in 2000, the sprawling blueprint to restore the wetlands became the largest hydrological restoration effort in the nation's history. Two decades later, only one project is complete, the effort is $15 billion over budget and the Everglades is still dying. The new podcast Bright Lit Place from WLRN and NPR heads into the swamp to meet its first inhabitants, the scientists who study it and the warring sides struggling to f... (@NPR)