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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

2023-Oct-04 • 6 minutes The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution. | Read this story here. | Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Oct-04 • 67 minutes Donald Hoffman Has Proof That Reality is an ILLUSION! Is reality real, or are we actually just living in a simulation? (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Oct-04 • 8 minutes A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work. What Does? A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work. What Does? (@sciam)

2023-Oct-04 • 34 minutes Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac Our game show is back! (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Oct-04 • 51 minutes Witchology (WITCHES & WITCHCRAFT) Part 1 with Fio Gede Parma IT’S HERE. Witches. Not just a witch expert, but also a witch. Author Fio Gede Parma has been a practicing witch and highly respected writer, speaker and teacher, and they cover witch history, different types of witches, intersectional witchcraft, forest covens, teen movies, witch trials, witch fashion, midnight myths, lunar pratfalls, spells, cheerful nudists, awkward Uber rides and more. Also: how does one… become a witch? And just a warning: we touch on some stigmas and physical and emotional harm suff... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Oct-04 • 23 minutes The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Strawberries Robin Ince and Brian Cox are still struggling to decide when a strawberry dies as they trawl through the archive to ponder where we should draw the line between life and death. Katy Brand kicks the debate off with her thoughts on whether strawberries have souls, which leads her to wonder whether it might be possible for people to be resurrected? While it’s theoretically possible to bring someone back to life, it’s not looking likely any time soon. Instead, Rufus Hound talks us through how he’d commit the pe... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Oct-03 • 9 minutes Why It’s Too Soon to Call It Covid Season Covid seems to spike twice a year—but unlike with flu season, not in a predictable pattern. That could be due to the virus, the environment, or the people it is infecting. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Oct-03 • 29 minutes Going Viral: What is a Computer Virus? Ah-CHOO! We know viruses make us sick, but what happens when a virus infects your computer? This episode, go digital with Molly and co-host Chloe as they track down a pesky computer virus infecting Brains On Headquarters. Catch our special guests, podcasting viruses Kara and Gilly, and meet a mysterious hacker named Shark Manchez. Plus, a brand new mystery sound!This episode is sponsored by:Indeed (Indeed.com/BRAINS) - Claim your $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post. Terms and conditions apply.... (@Brains_On)

2023-Oct-03 • 50 minutes Trick or Treat Month: Tombs with Siobhan Thompson! Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared! This year's ghastly Grand Guignol of science and screams begins where most human lives end: the tomb! And we dug up an old friend, Dimension 20's Siobhan Thompson, to guide us deep into the cursed catacombs of knowledge! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Oct-03 • 21 minutes Everything you need to know about the menopause Madeleine Finlay meets menopause expert Dr Louise Newson to find out about some of the myths surrounding the menopause, how women can prepare for this stage in life, and why information and support can be so difficult to access (@guardianscience)

2023-Oct-03 • 26 minutes Titans of Science: Sally Davies The former Chief Medical Officer in England talks vocations, being CMO, and antibiotic resistance (@NakedScientists)

2023-Oct-02 • 26 minutes CultureLab: Surviving the climate crisis – Michael Mann’s hopeful lessons from Earth’s deep history Our planet has gone through a lot. If we peer into the deep history of Earth’s climate, we see ice ages, rapid warming events and mass extinctions. All of which led to the advent of humankind. But as today’s climate warms at a pace we’ve never seen before, can these past climate events tell us anything about our future?University of Pennsylvania climate scientist and activist Michael Mann explores this in his new book Our Fragile Moment, which looks at how climate change has shaped our planet and human soci... (@newscientist)

2023-Oct-02 • 27 minutes Metamorphosis: Bee brains and the cockroach Erica McAlister on the bee intellect and whether bigger brains are always better. Plus cockroaches may be reviled by many people, but Erica discovers the extraordinary flexibility of their simple nervous system led to the birth of neuroendocrinology. (Photo: A cockroach. Credit: Aymen Jemli / Getty Images) (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Oct-02 • 10 minutes A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called “sesquiterpenes.” Scientists are learning more—and it’s making climate models hazy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Oct-02 • 11 minutes The State of Large Language Models We present the latest updates on ChatGPT, Bard and other competitors in the artificial intelligence arms race. (@sciam)

2023-Oct-02 • 76 minutes 252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive I talk with Hannah Ritchie about working to save the environment without minimizing the threats to it. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Oct-02 • 49 minutes The Evidence: Is the world becoming more allergic? What are allergies and what is the purpose of them? What can we do to try and prevent them? And what are the best ways of accurately and safely diagnosing them? (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Oct-02 • 60 minutes Stuart Hameroff: Is the Human Brain a Quantum Computer? Is the human brain a quantum computer? What is the Orch OR model of consciousness? And is there an afterlife for our quantum souls? Here today to answer these questions and take us on a wild tour through consciousness, imagination, and the human brain is Dr. Stuart Hameroff! Stuart is a professor of anesthesiology and psychology at the University of Arizona and director of The Center for Consciousness Studies. In this interview, we dive deep into Stuart’s research and his passion for everything consciousn... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Oct-02 • 40 minutes 728: Researching Risk Factors and Therapies for Blood Clots in the Lungs and Legs - Dr. Alex Spyropoulos Dr. Alex Spyropoulos (“Dr. Spy”) is a Professor of Medicine at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine as well as System Director of Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services for the multi-hospital Northwell Health System. In addition, Dr.... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Oct-02 • 13 minutes Seaweed is piling up on beaches. This robot might be its match A new robot is designed to sink sargassum before the stinky seaweed comes ashore. Blooms of sargassum, a leafy brown seaweed, have increased in size and number over the past decade. As the blooms have grown, so too has their impact on coastal communities. The stinky seaweed can wreck local economies and ecosystems — and even threaten human health, some research suggests. But the creators of the AlgaRay say that their robot might do more than halt this damage. It could also fight climate change.This week NPR... (@NPR)

2023-Oct-02 • 14 minutes Introducing… Uncharted with Hannah Fry Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. Mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them. (@AdamRutherford • @FryRsquared)

2023-Oct-02 • 57 minutes How Hot is Too Hot? Extreme heat is taking its toll on the natural world. We use words like “heat domes” and “freakish” to describe our everyday existence. These high temperatures aren’t only uncomfortable - they are lethal to humans, animals, and crops. In search of an answer to our episode’s question, we discuss the dilemma of an ever-hotter world with an author who has covered climate change for more than twenty years. | Guest: | Jeff Goodell – author of “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.” ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Oct-01 • 11 minutes The creatures in the ocean's twilight zone Diving into the "twilight zone", there's some amazing aquatic creatures. | | These fish fascinate today's speaker Yi-Kai Tea. He's even named a few. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Oct-01 • 32 minutes Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023) An interview with Kevin J. Mitchell (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Sep-30 • 54 minutes Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common? Researchers have found school curriculums are missing the contributions of female scientists. Why is it so important we know the people behind the discoveries? (@ABCscience)

2023-Sep-30 The Skeptics Guide #951 - Sep 30 2023 Discussion about Misinformation; News Items: Zoom Backgrounds, Manifesting Fails, Tong Test of AGI, Looking for Service Worlds, NASA Recovers Asteroid Sample; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Natural Gas vs Coal; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Sep-30 • 20 minutes Smologies #28: AGING with Caleb Finch How long can we live? How much of aging is genetics vs. environment? How old are your cells? What can we learn from the world’s oldest people? World-renowned aging expert and biogerontologist Dr. Caleb "Tuck" Finch takes a quick break from his prolific research at USC to answer Alie's sometimes basic questions about everything from molecules to Blue Zones. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Sep-29 • 37 minutes What is consciousness? It's pretty obvious to each of us that we are conscious, as we go about our days and feel the experience of just ‘being ourselves'. But how do we know that someone else is conscious? It’s something we lose during dreamless sleep, under anaesthesia or in a coma. But what exactly is consciousness? On the one hand, it’s pretty obvious - it’s what we all feel as we go about our daily lives. It's the experience of 'being you'. On the other hand, it gets pretty tricky when we try to pin down the science of it ... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Sep-29 • 48 minutes Placebo Effect, Technoableism, Florida Citrus, Neuroscience Music. Sept 29, 2023, Part 2 Researchers are learning that placebos might be more effective when patients are told they’re receiving them. Plus, a new book argues that cutting-edge technology is not always a needed solution. And a food scientist explains how an invasive insect is turning oranges sour. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-29 • 48 minutes Vision and the Brain, Jellypalooza. Sept 29, 2023, Part 1 A neuroscientist discusses how your brain filters visual inputs. Plus, two stories about jellyfish -- tracking a freshwater jelly that’s spreading across the US, and the surprising finding that one species of jelly may be able to learn. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-29 • 96 minutes What We've Learned from NKS 20 Years Later: The Making and Current State of NKS [Part 3] In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is celebrating the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a look at the making of and current state of NKS in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-29 • 103 minutes What We've Learned from NKS 20 Years Later: The Making and Current State of NKS [Part 2] In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is celebrating the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a look at the making of and current state of NKS in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-29 • 107 minutes What We've Learned from NKS 20 Years Later: The Making and Current State of NKS [Part 1] In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is celebrating the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a look at the making of and current state of NKS in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-29 • 25 minutes Weekly: Antimatter falls down; Virtual healthcare comes with a price; What’s causing Europe’s insect apocalypse? #217Antimatter is the counterpart to regular matter, but with an opposite electric charge, as well as other differences. So if it’s the opposite of normal matter, does it fall up instead of down? Studying antimatter is notoriously difficult, but scientists at CERN have scraped together just enough to take a closer look at its behaviour under gravity – their results are consistent with Albert Einstein’s predictions. With remote school and work during the covid-19 pandemic, it’s no wonder telehealth star... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-29 • 20 minutes Audio long read: These animals are racing towards extinction. A new home might be their last chance Researchers are testing a controversial strategy to relocate threatened animals whose habitats might not survive climate change. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Sep-29 • 93 minutes Celebrating 150K YouTube Subscribers: Q&A with Brian Keating I've recently hit a huge milestone on my YouTube channel, which is currently at a whopping 150k subscribers... And counting! I could not be more grateful to you for tuning in, subscribing, and especially for commenting and leaving questions for me to answer. So, to thank you, I've prepared a very special bonus episode in which I answer ALL your questions! Buckle up! Today, we’re diving deep Into the Impossible. — Additional resources: 🥗 Thanks, HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/50impossible and use c... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-29 • 36 minutes Poison Control Originally aired in 2018, this episode features reporter Brena Farrell as a new mom. Her son gave her and her husband a scare -- prompting them to call Poison Control. For Brenna, the experience was so odd, and oddly comforting, that she decided to dive into the birth story of this invisible network of poison experts, and try to understand the evolving relationship we humans have with our poisonous planet. As we learn about how poison control has changed over the years, we end up wondering what a place devo... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Sep-29 • 10 minutes DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare Police are hosting events to collect DNA samples that can help solve missing persons cases. But when people put their DNA in a commercial database, it can used for other purposes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-29 • 40 minutes How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time On Christmas Day, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit a million miles from Earth—a huge and insanely ambitious machine, billions of dollars over budget and 14 years past deadline. Now, as the telescope completes its first year of capturing astonishing images of the universe as it was just after the Big Bang, its creators discuss why so many things went right. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my..... (@Pogue)

2023-Sep-29 • 10 minutes Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. They wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos. (@sciam)

2023-Sep-29 • 15 minutes The Tiny Worm At The Heart Of Regeneration Science A tiny worm that regenerates entire organs. A South American snail that can regrow its eyes. A killifish that suspends animation in dry weather and reanimates in water. These are the organisms at the heart of regeneration science. But exactly how they do these things is still a mystery to scientists. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber talks to microbiologist Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado about this mystery. They get into what regeneration looks like, why humans can't do it (yet) and where the science may lead... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-29 • 28 minutes COVID variant vaccines, and sinking antimatter Plus, are mammals really halfway through their time on Earth? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-29 • 120 minutes Don't Be Afraid to Ask Stupid Questions! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: IgNobel Prize Winners!, Scams, Fresh Water, Physical Life of Cells, Old Wooden Structures, Weed, Worm Emotions, Loss Brain, Baby Learning, And Many More Questions! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Sep-29 • 54 minutes Trilobite’s last meal, Antimatter falls down, C. difficile in hospitals, African cows and cowboys in the Americas and appreciating ugly babies What a trilobite ate and what ate it; Antimatter falls down, much to the relief of physicists; Hospitals have controlled C. difficile outbreaks — but people are bringing their own; Some early cows – and cowboys – in the Americas came from Africa; Ugly babies: A new book looks at cute-challenged but fascinating baby animals. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Sep-29 • 31 minutes Reclamation: Stories about setting something right Featuring Barbara Todd and Nina Christie (@storycollider)

2023-Sep-28 • 27 minutes UnDisciplined: How the Great Salt Lake is becoming hostile to life As the Great Salt Lake has shrunk in recent years, it has become an increasingly hostile place to life of all kinds. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Sep-28 • 27 minutes Trilobite dinner What did a 465-million-year-old trilobite eat for dinner? And how can we possibly know? Archaeologist Per Ahlberg has used x-ray to peer into the guts of one ancient scuttling creature and worked out what it what was munching on in its final moments. From life in ancient earth rocks to potential life in space rocks, mineralogist and astrobiologist Bob Hazen has been training AI to spot signatures of life on Earth. He now hopes to use this tool on space samples. We also ask experimental particle physic... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Sep-28 • 49 minutes Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’ A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how ancient Amazonians improved the soil | First up on this week’s show: the latest in our series of books on sex, gender, and science. Books host Angela Saini discusses Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home with ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee, professor of Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. See this year’s whole series here. | | Also th... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Sep-28 • 28 minutes How will climate change affect where we can live? Extreme weather is forcing communities to leave their homes and it's becoming a bigger and bigger issue. What can we do about it? In this edition of BBC Inside Science, Gaia Vince and her guests discuss what climate displacement means for people all over the world. We hear from Diwigdi Valiente, a member of the Guna Yala people of the San Blas Islands in Panama, where whole communities have already begun to evacuate. Closer to home the experts consider the impact of rising sea levels on British coastal c... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Sep-28 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | September 28, 2023 Cool Science Radio talks with Dinosaur National Monument Paleontologist, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, about the fascinating history and discoveries at the monument’s quarry, located in eastern Utah. Can you imagine being on horseback and spotting a massive dinosaur bone jutting out of the ground? (0:56)Then, Pratt Rogers, Assistant Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Utah, talks about Rare Earth Minerals and the extraction process. We need them, but how can we remove them from the earth in the best... (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Sep-28 • 17 minutes Could we end migraines for good? Dehenna Davison recently resigned as a UK minister, explaining that chronic migraines were making it impossible for her to do her job. Madeleine Finlay meets Prof Peter Goadsby, whose research underpins a new drug for acute migraines, to find out whether we might one day be able to wave goodbye to migraines for good (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-28 • 8 minutes How to Make a Pig Heart Transplant Last in a Person The first human to receive a genetically engineered pig heart survived two months. Surgeons are hoping this transplant will last longer. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-28 • 32 minutes Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an ex-slave’s daughter, becomes a celebrated doctor Born in 1850, Sarah Loguen found her calling as a child, when she helped her parents and Harriet Tubman bandage the leg of an injured person escaping slavery. When the Civil War ended and Reconstruction opened up opportunities for African Americans, Loguen became one of the first Black women to earn a medical license. But quickly, racist Jim Crow laws prevailed. At the urging of family friend Frederick Douglass, Loguen married and, with her new husband, set sail for the Dominican Republic where more was pos... (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Sep-28 • 50 minutes How inflation affects the entire cosmos This week on the show that brings you the science behind the news, there are lots of stories about inflation in economies across the world. When inflation happens your money doesn’t go as far, so what does psychology say about how much money you really need to make you happy? We humans aren’t the only ones experiencing inflation either, trees are suffering from it too. We find out what happens when the balance of supply and demand of nutrients between trees and fungi is disrupted by climate change. And t... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-27 • 31 minutes This isn't the Nature Podcast — how deepfakes are distorting reality The rise of AI-generated fakes, evidence of the earliest-known wooden structure, and how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought asteroid samples back to Earth. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Sep-27 • 18 minutes Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.” Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Who’s Using Who” by The Mini Vandals. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Sep-27 • 7 minutes How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample The OSIRIS-REx capsule containing a “treasure trove” of space rocks has now arrived at Johnson Space Center, where scientists will gingerly unpack it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-27 • 83 minutes Eric Weinstein On the Possibility of Nuclear War and the Twin Nuclei Problem Today, I have the honor to welcome back one of my favorite guests on the show, Eric Weinstein! Most of you are probably already very familiar with Eric and his work, but for those who don’t know him, Eric is a mathematical physicist, economist, podcaster, public speaker, and one of the most brilliant people I know. In this episode, we will again discuss the universe's current state, whether we are heading towards nuclear war, the twin nuclei problem of cell and atom, aliens, physics, and much more. Tun... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-27 • 10 minutes Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark (@sciam)

2023-Sep-27 • 68 minutes Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023) Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields “pseudo” is a far more complex issue. It has proved impossible to come up with a simple criterion that enables us to differentiate pseudoscience from genuine sci... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Sep-27 • 22 minutes The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Movies How important is it for movie producers to get the science right? Brian Cox and Robin Ince discover why some surprising movies have scientific advisers and ask if there is any science in The Simpsons. They question the existence of fictional wormholes, while comedian Ross Noble can’t believe there may actually be a space-time portal shaped like a pair of trousers. Some writers are even accurate by accident, as comic book author Alan Moore discovers when he tells Brian about one of his outlandish planetary p... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Sep-27 • 28 minutes Rogue waves Towering walls of water sometimes appear in the ocean without warning or apparent cause. What drives their terrifying power? 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)

2023-Sep-27 • 75 minutes Benthopelagic Nematology (DEEP SEA WORMS) with Holly Bik Weird little mouths! Hairy skin tubes! Demon nematodes! Antarctic explorer and Nematologist Dr. Holly Bik charms us into loving deep sea (benthopelagic) worms in a way you never thought possible. We also cover tiny worm brains, the smell of Antarctic mud, first-generation Ph.Ds, the research workhorse C. Elegans, deep sea mining machines, moisturizers, submersibles and more with a worm lady who has literally traveled to the ends of the Earth to ask: what’s in that mud? We love her. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Sep-27 • 12 minutes Osiris-REx and the quest to understand the solar system's origin In 2016, NASA launched a spacecraft to do something rarely attempted before: Collect space rocks from a potentially dangerous asteroid. The mission, named OSIRIS-REx, was successful. Tuesday, scientists opened a sealed canister containing the samples from the asteroid Bennu. Science correspondent Nell Greenfieledboyce talks to host Regina G. Barber about the mission's close calls and what NASA might learn from these space rocks that are older than our planet. Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts ... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-26 • 10 minutes NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles away. If it works, it will be only the third such retrieval in history. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-26 • 38 minutes Ancient beasts: A prehistoric game show! Prehistoric animals rock! How much do you know about these unusual beasts? Join Brains On! host Molly Bloom as she tests the prehistoric animal knowledge of co-hosts Samaya, Roscoe, Zana, and Arjun! The games begin in the Permian Era, almost 300 million years ago, when giant dragonflies buzzed through the skies. Play along and you’ll wind up in the most recent Ice Age, when saber-toothed cats prowled the California coasts! Plus, you’ll get to hear prehistoric animal haikus and a not-so-prehistoric mystery s... (@Brains_On)

2023-Sep-26 • 15 minutes Deja vu’s lesser-known opposite: why do we experience jamais vu? There’s a sensation many of us might have experienced: when something routine or recognisable suddenly feels strange and unfamiliar. It’s known as jamais vu, or ‘never seen’. Research into this odd feeling recently won an Ig Nobel prize, which is awarded to science that makes you laugh, then think. Ian Sample speaks to Ig Nobel recipient Dr Akira O’Connor about why he wanted to study jamais vu, what he thinks is happening in our brains, and what it could teach us about memory going right, and wrong (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-26 • 32 minutes Titans of Science: Robert Winston A pioneer of IVF, and a lover of the opera... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-26 • 28 minutes Quirks & Quarks presents White Coat Black Art A special bonus episode of CBC Radio's program looking at the world of medicine. | Pediatrician and vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez warns the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a dangerous anti-science force. In The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning, Hotez says failing to act now will threaten governments’ ability to fight serious infectious diseases. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Sep-25 • 21 minutes Dead Planets Society #6: Make Venus Earth Again Are the stresses of life getting too much? Fancy a relaxing getaway to a planet with stifling sulfuric acid clouds, choking quantities of CO2 and punishing amounts of atmospheric pressure? Yeah, neither do Chelsea and Leah. That’s why, with the help of planetary scientist Paul Byrne at Washington University in St. Louis, they’re reinventing Venus, our uninhabitable neighbour. Together, they attempt to clear the air, smash it senseless with asteroids and move it farther from the sun… all for a few quint... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-25 • 27 minutes Metamorphosis: Soldier fly and desert beetle Erica McAlister on the innocuous wasp-like black soldier fly, a crown jewel of a fast-growing insect farming industry that's addressing the urgent need to find cheap clean protein. And how Namib Desert beetles have evolved in a very special environment, where the only source of water exists in the air. (Image: Desert beetle in Namib desert. Credit: Martin Harvey/Getty Images) (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-25 • 10 minutes Motherese in bottlenose dolphins Laela Sayigh asks whether dolphins use "motherese" when communicating with their calves. (@PNASNews)

2023-Sep-25 • 71 minutes 251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity I talk with biologist Rosemary Braun about how to think about the collective behavior that defines biological organisms. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Sep-25 • 12 minutes A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-25 • 11 minutes Song of the Stars, Part 1: Transforming Space into Symphonies Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people who are blind or visually impaired. (@sciam)

2023-Sep-25 • 42 minutes 727: Investigating Insidious Insects in the Field of Agricultural Pest Management - Dr. Erin Hodgson Dr. Erin Hodgson is an Associate Professor and Extension Entomologist at Iowa State University. She specializes in insects in agriculture, often focusing on corn and soybean crops. Erin also works with people like farmers, crop consultants,... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Sep-25 • 13 minutes Itchy? Here's why Ever had an itch you can't scratch? It can be maddening. And even though itch has a purpose — it's one of our bodies' alert systems — it can also go very wrong. Dermatologist Dr. Shawn Kwatra talks to host Regina G. Barber about the science of why and how we get itchy, the mysteries behind chronic itch and how his own experience with eczema, hives and seasonal allergies helps him connect with his patients. (@NPR)

2023-Sep-25 • 56 minutes Skeptic Check: Near Death Experiences Near death experiences can be profound and even life changing. People describe seeing bright lights, staring into the abyss, or meeting dead relatives. Many believe these experiences to be proof of an afterlife. But now, scientists are studying these strange events and gaining insights into the brain and consciousness itself. Will we uncover the scientific underpinning of these near-death events? Guests: Steve Paulson - executive producer of To the Best of Our Knowledge for Wisconsin Public Radio Sebastia... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Sep-24 • 49 minutes Seth Godin On AI, Industrial Capitalism and Solving the Climate Crisis Is AI real or just magic pretending to be real? What’s the difference between education and learning? And what does global warming have to do with marketing?! Here today, to answer these questions, is one of my heroes, Seth Godin! Seth is an internationally renowned author and public speaker. His name is synonymous with marketing. For over 30 years, Seth has inspired countless individuals, teams, and tribes to think differently about marketing, leadership, and innovation. Today, Seth and I sit down to ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-24 • 11 minutes What fool's gold can tell us about the origins of life Do you have a favourite mineral? Maybe you love the gleam of a tiger's eye or the sparkle of an amethyst. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Sep-23 • 54 minutes What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet Mathematicians and their models might just be the world's most inconspicuous climate heroes. (@ABCscience)

2023-Sep-23 The Skeptics Guide #950 - Sep 23 2023 News Items: CAR-T Therapy, Martian Life, Oldest Wooden Structure, Mexican Alien Bodies, Signature of Life Found on Exoplanet; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Sep-22 • 47 minutes Ocean Climate Solutions, Florida Corals, Climate Video Games. Sept 22, 2023, Part 2 The ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink. We need to take better care of it. Plus, after this summer’s heat, marine biologists are scrambling to help protect the rapidly dying reef in the Florida Keys. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-22 • 27 minutes Can we grow a conscious brain? Philosophers have long pondered the concept of a brain in a jar, hooked up to a simulated world. Though this has largely remained a thought experiment, CrowdScience listener JP wants to know if it might become reality in the not-too-distant future, with advances in stem cell research. In the two decades since stem cell research began, scientists have learned how to use these cells to create the myriad of cell types in our bodies, including those in our brains, offering researchers ways to study neurologica... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Sep-22 • 47 minutes Our Fragile Moment, Climate Comedy. Sept 22, 2023, Part 1 Climate scientist Michael Mann talks about how important it is to take action now—before we see climate change’s worst consequences. Plus, research suggests that comedy is a powerful way to mobilize people. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-22 • 25 minutes Weekly: First ever RNA from an extinct animal; big news about small solar system objects; “brainless” jellyfish can still learn #216For the first time ever, a team has extracted RNA from an extinct animal. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, are carnivorous marsupials that went extinct in the early 20th century. While we’ve been extracting DNA from extinct animals for years, getting their RNA has been much more difficult. What can this breakthrough tell us about the lives they led?What is consciousness and how does it work? There’s a reason this is known as “the hard problem” of neuroscience. Everyone wants an answer but only a handful... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-22 • 42 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 30, 2022] 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: What causes snow? Why doesn't rain just turn into ice? - OK, Stephen really knows his stuff on this branch of physics... he's studied in detail. - Why is the density of solid water lower than liquid water? - Is there any other molecule that also expands when it is solid? - Why is the density of ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-22 • 75 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (December 28, 2022) 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: Was the invention of computers inevitable? Will evolution always stumble upon universal computers, given enough resources? What are the implications for the laws of physics and reality? - I don't think computing technology could have possibly been conceived until after the Industrial Revolut... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-22 • 32 minutes Smog Cloud Silver Lining Summer 2023 was a pretty scary one for the planet. Global temperatures in June and July reached record highs. And over in the North Atlantic Sea, the water temperature spiked to off-the-chart levels. Some people figured that meant we were about to go over the edge, doomsday. In the face of this, Hank Green (a long time environmentalist and science educator behind SciShow, Crash Course, and more), took to social media to put things in context, to keep people focused on what we can do about climate change. In... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Sep-22 • 15 minutes This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs--And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm. (@sciam)

2023-Sep-22 • 6 minutes The US Is Mobilizing an Army to Fight the Climate Crisis The American Climate Corps will employ tens of thousands to prepare the country for the pain ahead. But it'll need to get much, much bigger. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-22 • 9 minutes Can't Match The Beat? Then You Can't Woo A Cockatoo Today on the show, All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly joins Regina G. Barber and Maria Godoy for our bi-weekly science roundup. They talk through some of the latest eye-catching science news, including the percussion-intensive mating life of cockatoos, what pink diamonds today tell us about the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Nuna and the latest on the Nipah outbreak in India. (@NPR)

2023-Sep-22 • 32 minutes Spinal injury repair, and embryo editing ethics Plus, the mission to bring an asteroid sample back to Earth... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-22 • 106 minutes You SHOULD Be Skeptical of This Show! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Justin’s audio isn’t great, Interview with Brian Dunning, UFOs, Biosignatures, UAP, NASA, Hominins, Research Behavior, Crash Propensity, Time Travel, End of the World Cult, Ancient Aliens, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Sep-22 • 54 minutes Studying the holes in an asteroid, Great Slave lake life, stone-age wood, finding the right homes for bats, understanding marine heat waves and aurorae on other planets Vatican scientist will be among the first to study space rocks delivered from the heavens; The base of the food chain in Great Slave Lake has been altered as climate changed; The stone age was probably also the wood age; Investigating what makes a good bat-condo; Climate change is making marine heat waves more frequent and intense – and that's changing life in the ocean; Listener question:What impact do solar flares have on the planets closer to the Sun than Earth? (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Sep-22 • 31 minutes Mortified: Stories about embarrassing situations In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers experience the most humbling of human experiences: being embarrassed. Part 1: Emma Yarbrough feels in control of her future after undergoing an egg retrieval operation until a burning sensation sends her for a loop. Part 2: When the doctor finds blood in Carlos Kotkin’s urine, he ends up having to undergo some deeply humiliating procedures. Emma Yarbrough is a storyteller, actor, playwright, arts administrator and silly billy from beautiful (and tiny) Eufaula... (@storycollider)

2023-Sep-21 • 28 minutes More likely, more intense Storm Daniel devastated the city of Derna in Libya after heavy rainfall broke a dam, causing extreme flooding downstream. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) reports that severe flooding in Libya and across the Mediterranean has been made more likely and more intense due to human induced climate change. WWA scientist Friederike Otto gets into the report. Back in 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx scooped up rock and dust samples from asteroid Bennu and on Sunday September 24th, 2023 the sample capsule will finally b... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Sep-21 • 34 minutes Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall The key to shrinking cartels is cutting recruitment, and a roundup of books, video games, movies, and more | | First up on this week’s show: modeling Mexico’s cartels. Rafael Prieto-Curiel, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how modeling cartel activities can help us understand the impact of potential interventions such as increased policing or reducing gang recruitment. | | Lisa Sanchez, executive director of México Unido Contra l... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Sep-21 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | September 21, 2023 Writer Keith Houston explores the rise and reign of an oft-overlooked invention that is the entertaining story of the pocket calculator in his new book, "Empire of the Sum." Then, Ken Golden, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah, talks about the importance of STEM careers in the U.S. to meet the needs of our climate and the economy. (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Sep-21 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: How to protect yourself and your home from wildfires Under climate warming, the risk of wildfires is increasing. So, we're all going to need to adapt. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Sep-21 • 36 minutes What makes a healthy river? River health has captured the public imagination, particularly as overspills from sewers have been getting more attention in the media. But the condition of a river is so much more complicated than what flows into it from our water treatment systems. Agriculture, roads, how we use our drains, what we buy and even the medicines and drugs we take can all have an impact on our rivers and the plants and animals that call them home. So how are UK rivers doing? And what needs to happen to help those waterways t... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Sep-21 • 7 minutes A Pair of Sun Probes Just Got Closer to Solving a Solar Enigma The solar corona is hotter than expected, and scientists are using European Space Agency and NASA spacecraft to figure out why. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-21 • 35 minutes A Flair for Efficiency: The Woman Who Redesigned the American Kitchen In the late 1920s, Lillian Gilbreth enlisted her children — she had 11— in an experiment: bake a strawberry shortcake in record time. Kitchens at the time tended to have haphazard configurations—pots and pans could be at one end of the kitchen, the stove in another, and the utensils in another room altogether—but Lillian figured that with a well-designed kitchen, she could slash baking time dramatically and make cooks’ lives easier. And if anyone was going to hack the kitchen, Lillian Gilbreth was the woman... (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Sep-21 • 51 minutes Can technology read our mind? How does our brain process language? We speak to an expert who is using technology to turn narrative thoughts into text. Also on the show, what is happening in our brains when we switch languages? And what are the positives and perils of technology and translation? Also on the show, we look at internet connectivity in incredibly remote areas, whether carbon capture is realistic, and we continue to explore different foods from around the world. (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-21 • 15 minutes The mystery of Europe’s heat death hotspot Ian Sample hears from the Guardian’s Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, about the reporting he has been doing for the launch of our new Europe edition. He talks about Osijek, a Croatian city that has the highest heat mortality rate in Europe … but no one knows why (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-20 • 157 minutes Hakeem Oluseyi: An unexpected life in Science, and unpopular truths I confess that Hakeem Oluseyi had not really risen on my radar screen until the last year or two. I was aware of the National Society of Black Physicists, having sometimes gotten notices about is meetings, but, being generally unsupportive of current efforts to compartmentalize scientists by their identity, I hadn’t really paid much notice to it. Then, in one of those ironies that periodically makes one feel better about the vicissitudes of fortune, I learned more about him only after people had attempt... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-Sep-20 • 24 minutes Why does cancer spread to the spine? Newly discovered stem cells might be the key A stem cell vital for vertebral growth also drives spine metastases, and the use of MDMA in the treatment of PTSD. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Sep-20 • 98 minutes Noam Chomsky on AI, Neural Networks, and the Future of Linguistics Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential and highly cited scholars of our time. He is a pioneer in the fields of linguistics and cognitive science. He has deep thoughts about communicating with aliens, meditation, Elon Musk, and free speech. Chomsky is a prolific author and known political activist. We avoided politics, as is the custom for my interviews. Our conversation also covers the Turing Test, neural nets, and artificial intelligence, including why he expects Elon Musk’s Neuralink project to fail... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-20 • 9 minutes Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-20 • 9 minutes Should You Get a Blood Test For Alzheimer's? Should You Get a Blood Test For Alzheimer's? (@sciam)

2023-Sep-20 • 21 minutes The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... Space Travel Astronauts and explorers including Brian Blessed, Sir Patrick Stewart, Nicole Stott and Charlie Duke reveal the wonders, and challenges, of traveling into space. Brian Cox and Robin Ince have delved into the Monkey Cage back catalogue to hear from astronauts and some very well known would-be space explorers about their passion for space travel. Brian Blessed has been dreaming of visiting Mars since the age of six, but will he ever reach the red planet? Sir Patrick Stewart has warp sped across the galaxy as... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Sep-20 • 31 minutes Does garlic break magnets? What would an episode of Unexplainable have sounded like if it had been made in 100 CE? 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)

2023-Sep-20 • 70 minutes Gustology (TASTE) with Gary Beauchamp Sweet! Salty! Umami? What’s up with MSG? Why do you like your coffee black? Come down to flavortown and let’s talk tongues. Gustologist Dr. Gary Beauchamp is a chemosensory scientist and an expert in taste. We chat about tastebud flim-flam, celebrity grade hot wings, MSG research, excitotoxins, weaning off sugar, the worst soup on the market, what countries have salt restrictions, why you lost your taste with Covid, how much taste is smell, artificial sweeteners, acquiring a taste for foods, and how a sweet... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Sep-20 • 14 minutes Why Sustainable Seafood Is A Data Problem The last several decades have taken a toll on the oceans: Some fish populations are collapsing, plastic is an increasing problem and climate change is leading to coral bleaching — as well as a host of other problems. But marine biologist and World Economic Forum programme lead Alfredo Giron says there's room to hope for the seas. He works to create systems that governments and the fishing industry can use to make sure fishing is legal and sustainable so oceans thrive for years to come. In this encore episod... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-19 • 46 minutes Hygiene A big part of being a human is that you get progressively more gross as the day goes on. Various parts start stinking, hair grows all over your face, you're touching who-knows-what... luckily for all of us, someone a long time ago decided to invent hygiene! Otherwise we'd have to lick ourselves like cats! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Sep-19 • 9 minutes This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It The UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-19 • 29 minutes How do animals build their homes? People are really good at building homes out of everything from wood and concrete to mud and ice. But when it comes to animal homes, creatures can be more inventive than humans!In this creatively constructed episode, Molly and cohost Marama renovate Brains On HQ with the help of some clever critter contractors. They talk to animal experts and navigate demolition disasters to build a delicious new food hall for Brains On. Plus, a super spiffy Mystery Sound!This episode was sponsored by:Indeed (Indeed.com/BRA... (@Brains_On)

2023-Sep-19 • 31 minutes Titans of Science: Anthony Fauci Charting a commendable career of public service, saving millions of lives during the HIV and Covid crises... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-19 • 17 minutes Will our bees survive the Asian hornet invasion? Asian hornets have been spotted in the UK in record numbers this year, sparking concern about what their presence could mean for our native insects, and in particular bee populations. Madeleine Finlay speaks to ecologist Prof Juliet Osborne about why this species of hornet is so voracious, how European beekeepers have been impacted by their arrival, and how scientists and the government are attempting to prevent them from becoming established here (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-18 • 22 minutes CultureLab: Real Life Supervillains - John Scalzi on the science of volcano lairs and sentient dolphin minions You’re in the volcano lair of an evil supervillain, hellbent on taking over the world. In anger, he hurls one of his minions into the molten lava bubbling beneath them, as the unfortunate lacky swiftly sinks into the river of molten rock. If you’ve ever watched a James Bond-esque film, you’ll be able to picture the scene. The problem is - the science doesn’t stack up.John Scalzi is an American science fiction author, and in his new book ‘Starter Villain’ he injects a dose of realism into many classic tropes... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-18 • 27 minutes Metamorphosis: Blowflies and dazzling disguise Blowflies may be some of the most reviled insects on the planet, but as Erica McAlister discovers, they are central to the surprisingly long tradition of forensic entomology and how there's more than meets the eye in the distinctive structural colour of the morpho butterfly wing, whose dazzling sheen is a key for camouflage and commerce. (Photo: A fly on a leaf. Credit: Christina Bollen/Getty Images) (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-18 • 58 minutes 250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem I talk with political scientist Brendan Nyhan about information, misinformation, and how to deal with them both. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Sep-18 • 13 minutes NASA Didn’t Find Aliens—but if You See Any UFOs, Holler The agency assembled a panel of experts to figure out how to handle future sightings, in case the truth is out there. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-18 • 14 minutes Ada Limón's Poem for Europa, Jupiter's Smallest Galilean Moon Ada Limón's Poem for Europa, Jupiter's Smallest Galilean Moon (@sciam)

2023-Sep-18 • 40 minutes 726: Mechanical Engineer Making Miniature Mobile Robots - Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. Sarah’s research involves building and conducting experiments... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Sep-18 • 13 minutes The James Webb Space Telescope Is Fueling Galactic Controversy We're entering a new era of astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists test existing ideas and models of how the universe was created—on a whole new level. This telescope is sending back images of galaxies forming under a billion years after the Big Bang—way earlier than astronomers had previously expected. Not only that, scientists had anticipated that later—but still very early—galaxies would be small, barely formed blobs; instead, the galaxies in these images have spiral arms. So,... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-18 • 54 minutes Into the Deep* Have you ever heard worms arguing? Deep-sea scientists use hydrophones to eavesdrop on “mouth-fighting worms.” It’s one of the many ways scientists are trying to catalog the diversity of the deep oceans — estimated to be comparable to a rainforest. But the clock is ticking. While vast expanses of the deep sea are still unexplored, mining companies are ready with dredging vehicles to strip mine the seafloor, potentially destroying rare and vulnerable ecosystems. Are we willing to eradicate an alien landscape... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Sep-17 • 54 minutes Ashlee Vance Shares Crazy Stories from Elon Musk to the Billionaire Space Race Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Peter Beck? Who's winning the billionaire space race? And who will take care of all their space junk? Here today to answer all of these questions and more is none other than Ashlee Vance! Ashlee is a writer at Bloomberg, bestselling author, filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated host and writer of the tech series Hello World. Among his most well-known books are Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future and When The Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racin... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-17 • 11 minutes A peek into the future of glaucoma treatment Flora Hui's hope for the future is that blindness from glaucoma no longer exists. | | And as an optometrist and researcher, she's at the forefront of finding better treatments. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Sep-16 • 54 minutes A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air What happens when two theories are pitted against one another? Are we any closer to knowing where consciousness arises? (@ABCscience)

2023-Sep-16 The Skeptics Guide #949 - Sep 16 2023 Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; DragonCon 2023 Highlights; Robots of the Future; News Items: Exploding Batteries and Deorbiting Satellites, Dark Stars, AI Drone Racing, Settling Mars, Stress Patches; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Sep-16 • 36 minutes Inside Elon Musk's Brain People use all kinds of words to describe Elon Musk, from “genius” to “megalomaniac,” from “visionary” to “erratic”—but now there’s less reason to call him “enigmatic,” thanks to Walter Isaacson’s new 688-page biography. Isaacson hung out with Musk for two years, attending meetings, witnessing meltdowns, taking Musk’s 3 a.m. phone calls. In this special “Unsung Science” episode, Isaacson describes the man behind Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and the social-media site once known as Twitter. See Privacy Poli... (@Pogue)

2023-Sep-15 • 48 minutes New Covid Vaccine, Moroccan Earthquake, Native Bees. Sept 15, 2023, Part 2 The recent 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco left thousands of people dead, injured, or lost. Why was it so dangerous? Plus, three new vaccines will be available this fall to address COVID, the flu, and RSV. And the buzz on native bees in your neighborhood. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-15 • 28 minutes Why am I scared of bridges? Everyone has fears – but what makes a fear become a phobia? Why are some people scared of spiders (arachnophobia), buttons (koumpounophobia), or the colour yellow (xanthophobia)? Or why are others are scared of situations, like small spaces (claustrophobia), empty rooms (kenophobia) or heights (acrophobia)? This is a question which has been bothering Crowdscience listener Scott, who has a phobia of bridges. He gets anxious and panicky when driving over bridges and is scared he’ll lose control of the car. ... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Sep-15 • 47 minutes Radioactive Wildlife, Bus Stop Heat, Football Jersey Numbers. Sept 15, 2023, Part 1 Measuring cesium in wild boar and uranium in turtles sheds light on how radioactive materials travel through the environment. Plus, a new study explains why wide receivers on professional football teams feel slimmer and faster when they wear smaller numbers. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-15 • 106 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 23, 2022] 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 you discuss the importance and relevance of ChatGPT. I find it astonishing. I am also wondering the extent to which its principles might inform Wolfram|Alpha simplified input. I'd also love a Wolfram ChatGPT interface. - Is this livestream generated in realtime by a Stephen bot? - Wouldn'... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-15 • 29 minutes Weekly: Science that makes you laugh (and think); black holes behaving badly; drumming cockatoos #215A smart toilet with a camera inside that analyses your poop, plus a study of people who are fluent in speaking backwards – these are just two recipients of this year’s Ig Nobel prize. As the satirical sister to the Nobel prize, the Ig Nobels honour scientific achievements that make people laugh…then think. Prize founder Marc Abrahams on this year’s hilarious winners - and why even robots made from reanimating dead spiders can have a more serious side.As the winter approaches in the northern hemisphere, ... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-15 • 89 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (December 21, 2022) 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 your thoughts on operational systems and how they impact personal productivity? Have you ever used Microsoft Windows? Could you tell us a bit of your computer setup (OS, productivity tools, files sync systems, etc.)? - With consistent routines and self-tracking, have yo... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-15 • 41 minutes The BIGGEST Questions In the Universe! In this special edition of the Foundational Questions Podcast, physicist Brian Keating discusses his book Losing The Nobel Prize, which recounts the ill-fated BICEP2 announcement--and retraction--of the claimed discovery of primordial gravitational waves in 2014. Listen for the special treat at the end. A poetic ode to cosmic dust. https://fqxi.org/ 🥗 Thanks, HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/50impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months. 📝 With a MasterClass annual memb... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-15 • 41 minutes Driverless Dilemma Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are great for thought experimentation and conversations at a certain kind of cocktail party. Now, new technologies are fo... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Sep-15 • 8 minutes Libya’s Deadly Floods Show the Growing Threat of Medicanes Entire neighborhoods of the Libyan city of Derna have vanished following devastating floods wrought by Storm Daniel. Such storms are rare—but climate change will supersize them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-15 • 7 minutes How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Does Something Pretty Amazing to Survive the Winter How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Does Something Pretty Amazing to Survive the Winter (@sciam)

2023-Sep-15 • 13 minutes The Latest COVID Booster Is Here. Should You Get It? This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved new COVID vaccines this week. It comes at a time when COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise. It's also the first time that the federal government is not paying for the vaccines. Given this confluence of events, we huddled with our colleagues, intrepid health correspondents Maria Godoy and Rob Stein. They gave us the lowdown on the CDC's recommendations for who should get it, how protective the booster is, how to access it regardless of ... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-15 • 31 minutes Ban on cheap vapes, and farewell to Dolly's 'father' Plus, the molecule dubbed a 'slam dunk' sign of life is detected on a planet in our galaxy... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-15 • 102 minutes TWIS with a TWIST What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview with Dr. Carin Bondar, Atmospheric Discovery, Ultrasound Impacts, Cancer Recurrence, Sterile Gloves, Poor Robots, Moral Brains, Deadly Geometry, Pollinator Struggles, AI For Ecology?, Dirty Talk, And Much More TWIS with a Twist! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our […] | The post 13 September 2023 – Episode 943 – TWIS with a TWIST appeared first on This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast. (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Sep-15 • 54 minutes Birth of a baby sperm whale, a robot that runs on gas, ship pollution and clouds, octopus’s garden and can we prevent forest fires? Whale scientist see the birth of baby sperm whale for the first time; A robot that runs on gas is an explosive new innovation; Reduced pollution from ships led to a warmer climate; An octopus's garden off Costa Rica; Only we can prevent forest fires? It depends on location. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Sep-15 • 34 minutes Searching: Stories about trying to find something If you think about it, science is one big act of searching. There's always something to look for, whether it's the answer to a hypothesis or the next Goldilocks planet. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers find themselves looking high and low. Part 1: Comedian Sam Lyons is determined to not get involved with his partner’s feral cats, until one goes missing. Part 2: In an act of desperation, Bhaskar Sompalli goes on a hunt to find free lab equipment to make his graduate school experiment work. Sa... (@storycollider)

2023-Sep-14 • 27 minutes Deadly floods in Derna Earlier this week the deadly Mediterranean cyclone, Storm Daniel, swept through the small city of Derna in Libya, collapsing a 50-year-old dam in its wake, and triggering devastating floods which have killed over 5000 people. We speak to atmospheric scientist, Stavros Dafis, about the cyclone’s characteristics and to civil and structural engineer, Lis Bowman, about the dam collapse. Unsurprisingly, it all comes back to climate change. Far, far from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has set its site o... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Sep-14 • 31 minutes Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions Receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat, and using combustion to propel insect-size robots | | First up on this week’s episode, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about why despite originating from a dry, desert environment cats seem to love to eat fish. | | Next on the show, bugs such as ants are tiny while at the same time fast and strong, and small robots can’t seem to match these insectile feats of speed and power. Cameron Aubin, a postdoc at Cornell Uni... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Sep-14 • 28 minutes Why do we want to go back to the Moon? Two plucky spacecraft, one Russian and one Indian, are currently blasting towards the Moon’s South Pole. Both Russia’s Luna-25 and India’s Chandrayaan-3 are due to touch down next week. They’re heading to that particular region of the Moon in order to hunt for water, the presence of which could have huge implications for our further exploration of the Solar System. Victoria Gill talks to Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, to find out more. Victoria then heads to the Lake D... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Sep-14 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | September 14, 2023 Katrina Kmak and Elissa Aten from PC Reads joins to talk about the science of reading and how this basic human skill can have a positive effect on our minds, especially young minds. (1:03)John Wells talks with Dr. Jason Dworkin, project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission about the asteroid sample that returns to Earth on September 24. It is landing in Utah’s west desert. (27:33) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Sep-14 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: The economic evolution of an icon The top-grossing movie of 2023 is a movie about a doll that is known for creating toxic expectations about girls' bodies and also paving the way for girls to be anything they want. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Sep-14 • 8 minutes Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work The latest vaccines are designed to target XBB.1.5, the dominant variant throughout much of 2023—until now. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-14 • 26 minutes Part 2: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom? We continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom had been split. This is the second in a two-part series featuring new letters from and to Lise Meitner translated by author Marissa Moss, author of The Woman who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (2022). The letters show the fraught and complex relationship between Otto Hahn and Meitner and the role that antisemitism played in the decision to give the Nobel Prize in 1944 to Hahn and not Meitner. Afte... (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Sep-14 • 50 minutes Forgetful fish, telescopic worms and bad air days In a week where global heat records have melted, we find out how that can make fish life-threateningly stupid. We also dive a little deeper to find the part of the ocean where a little heat proves life-enhancing. And we bring you boring science… no, not in that way. Find out what tree rings can tell us about ancient civilizations and past climates. Also, a new Japanese mission aims to park nice and neatly on the moon – how different is that from the famous first effort from the Apollo 11 team? We hear ab... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-14 • 19 minutes Should American bully XLs be banned? The UK home secretary, Suella Braverman, is pushing for a ban on American bully XL dogs after an attack on an 11-year-old girl in Birmingham. Madeleine Finlay hears from Guardian Midlands correspondent Jessica Murray about how this relatively new breed became so popular, and from bioethicist Jessica Pierce about whether we need to reevaluate our expectations of dog ownership (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-13 • 17 minutes Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Hidden Agenda” by Kevin MacLeod. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Sep-13 • 34 minutes A mussel-inspired glue for more sustainable sticking A soya oil-derived adhesive matches the strength of conventional glues, and reassessing the extent and impacts of childhood malnutrition. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Sep-13 • 83 minutes Is Science in a Legitimacy Crisis? | Peter Boghossian Today, I sat down with someone who I respect greatly – Peter Boghossian. Peter is a former Portland State University professor, renowned philosopher, and best-selling author. His primary research areas are critical thinking and moral reasoning. He actually resigned from his position at Portland State University because he felt that ideology had taken over the institution and that he did not have enough freedom as a scholar to continue his work. So, there’s no one better to talk to about the current legit... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-13 • 10 minutes Blue-Green Algae Is Filling Rivers With Toxic Sludge Harmful algal blooms are taking over as the world warms and grows richer in carbon dioxide—and there’s no easy fix. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-13 • 6 minutes Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think (@sciam)

2023-Sep-13 • 19 minutes The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... The Apocalypse Brian Cox and Robin Ince take a deep dive into the Monkey Cage archive to find out how scared scientists and comedians are about the universe ending. Steve Martin says he’s happy to burn to a crisp when the sun explodes, but learns he might be more likely to die when galaxies tear each other apart during the ‘big rip’. And if the heat death of the universe really is inevitable, how come some people seem so jolly about it? Having studied this for years, astrophysicist Katie Mack wants to be there when everyt... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Sep-13 • 32 minutes How to decode a thought Can researchers decipher what people are thinking about just by looking at brain scans? With AI, they're getting closer. How far can they go, and what does it mean for privacy? To buy tickets to our upcoming live show in New York, go to http://vox.com/unexplainablelive 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 contri... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Sep-13 • 13 minutes Animal Crossing: The Destructive Nature of Roads 40 million miles of road unite us. They also cause mass destruction for many species. Today, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb and host Aaron Scott go on a tour of that destruction — the subject of Ben's new book Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. But don't worry, it's not all grim! Along the way, we learn why fewer insects are hitting our windshields, talk about the breakthrough that is highway overpasses, and how at least one bird has adapted to avoid 18-wheel semi-trucks... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-12 • 150 minutes A Conversation Between Jonathan Gorard and Stephen Wolfram (September 1, 2023) Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in an on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests. In this episode, Jonathan Gorard joins Stephen to discuss ongoing science research. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversation... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-12 • 9 minutes The Investigation of SpaceX’s Starship Explosion Is Complete—and Elon Musk Has More Work to Do Following a joint “mishap investigation” by SpaceX and the FAA, the federal agency listed 63 issues that must be addressed before launches can resume at the Texas site. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-12 • 31 minutes How do apples grow? Apples are a delicious treat! These crispy crunchy sweet snacks are everywhere: in our school lunches, at the farmers market, even covered in caramel at the fair. But as Molly and cohosts Jack and Penelope find out, growing an apple is a lot harder than it sounds. In this episode, we’ll learn how bears and horses helped the first wild apples grow (in their poop!) and meet the world’s biggest apple fan, Johnny Appleseed. Plus, even an apple a day can’t keep a brand new Mystery Sound away!This episode was spo... (@Brains_On)

2023-Sep-12 • 34 minutes A Better Way to Buy Books Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found a way to retain the convenience of online book shopping while also supporting independent bookstores that are the backbones of many local communities. Andy Hunte... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Sep-12 • 87 minutes Does Dr. Stephen C. Meyer Have Evidence for Intelligent Design? Is intelligent design a scientific possibility worth exploring? According to today’s guest, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, it is, and he claims he has scientific evidence to prove it! Dr. Stephen C. Meyer is a former geophysicist and college professor who received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. He directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He authored the bestselling books Darwin’s Doubt, Signature in the Cell, and most recently, Retur... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-12 • 39 minutes Cosmology (THE UNIVERSE) Part 2 Encore with Katie Mack Dr. Mack returns with a new introduction and updates on… listener questions! The universe, dimensions, asteroid bags and cosmic vertigo with the amazing Astro Katie, AKA Dr. Katie Mack. Part 1 was a primer on all things cosmological, from particle physics to black holes, so listen to that first then hop to this episode to get all your questions answered. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Sep-12 • 19 minutes Teen mental health and social media: what does the evidence tell us? Ian Sample talks to Dr Amy Orben, who leads the digital mental health programme at the Medical Research Council’s cognition and brain sciences unit (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-12 • 30 minutes Titans of Science: Helen Sharman - part 2 What is life like aboard a space station? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-11 • 22 minutes Dead Planets Society #5: The Return of Pluto Join Leah and Chelsea as they belatedly mourn the loss of Pluto as a planet. Back in 2006, Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet”, sparking widespread outrage… a decision the team is still determined to reverse.Special guests are Kathryn Volk of the University of Arizona and Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology, who discuss several approaches to boosting Pluto’s status, from helping it pack on the pounds, to dragging it into the inner solar system, to sabotaging one of its neighbours…De... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-11 • 27 minutes Metamorphosis: Drosophila melanogaster, hoverfly Dr Erica McAlister uncovers a treasure trove of remarkable insights from the insect world including the innocuous flies that are Drosophila melanogaster. More is known about these flies than any other animal on the planet, as a model for human genetics. And the hoverfly that arguably undergoes the biggest transformation of any animal and how insect metamorphosis could be a tool to track future climate change. Producer: Adrian Washbourne Presenter: Dr Erica McAlister (Photo: Drosophila melanogaster. Credit... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-11 • 10 minutes Racial disparities and climate policy Pascal Polonik and Kate Ricke explain why reducing greenhouse gas emissions does not always improve environmental equity. (@PNASNews)

2023-Sep-11 • 88 minutes 249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds I talk with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith about what we can learn about minds by thinking about cephalopods. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Sep-11 • 11 minutes Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats and Bees Using AI Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats and Bees Using AI (@sciam)

2023-Sep-11 • 9 minutes Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs Transplant organs are scarce. Could growing ones with human cells in pigs alleviate the shortage? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-11 • 42 minutes 725: Improving How We Diagnose and Treat Certain Blood Clotting Conditions - Dr. Anand Padmanabhan Dr. Anand Padmanabhan is a pathologist, transfusion medicine physician, and Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic. Anand studies blood clotting, also known as “thrombosis”. He is working on a particular type... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Sep-11 • 11 minutes Why A Proposed Marine Sanctuary Could Make History More than 5,000 square miles of central California coast could soon become the newest national marine sanctuary in the United States. It could also make history as one of the first federal sanctuaries to be initiated by a Native American tribe—the Chumash—and become part of a growing movement to give tribes a say over the lands and waters that were once theirs. NPR climate reporter Lauren Sommer dives into the details with host Regina G. Barber, touching on ocean science, heritage and what's in a name. List... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-11 • 54 minutes What's a Few Degrees? Brace yourself for heatwave “Lucifer.” Dangerous deadly heatwaves may soon be so common that we give them names, just like hurricanes. This is one of the dramatic consequences of just a few degrees rise in average temperatures. Also coming: Massive heat “blobs” that form in the oceans and damage marine life, and powerful windstorms called “derechos” pummeling the Midwest. Plus, are fungal pathogens adapting to hotter temperatures and breaching the 98.6 F thermal barrier that keeps them from infecting us? G... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Sep-10 • 11 minutes What microfluidics can do for you Microfluidics is an exciting field of science that has the potential to change the way we do drug trials. | | Today's speaker Susi Seibt is keen to explore the future applications of this teeny tiny science. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Sep-09 • 54 minutes Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose This Australian father-daughter duo played a huge part in the science and philosophy instrumental in the mind-brain problem. (@ABCscience)

2023-Sep-09 The Skeptics Guide #948 - Sep 9 2023 Interview with Anna Blakney; News Items: ChatGPT University Performance, Geothermal Energy, Failed Star, Doctor and NDEs; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Sep-08 • 47 minutes Tree Soil, Rodent Biologist, Soundscape Artist. Sept 8, 2023, Part 2 Treetops can hold complex ecosystems that include soil and other plants. Plus, a rodent biologist reflects on her career. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-08 • 27 minutes Why do my children stress me out? CrowdScience listener Leo gets stressed when his young children start screaming at the same time in the middle of the night. He wants to know why we haven’t evolved to deal with the stress more effectively. The challenges of bringing up a family are nothing new and we don’t face the same dangers as our ancestors, so why do we still react as if it’s a life-threatening emergency? Caroline Steel finds out what stress is for, what it does to us and whether we have in fact evolved to manage it. Contributors: ... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Sep-08 • 47 minutes Embryo Model, Sweat, Whale Vocal Fry. September 8, 2023, Part 1 Scientists successfully created a 14-day old human embryo model without sperm or eggs. And, whale “vocal fry” helps them echolocate. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-08 • 29 minutes Weekly: New type of brain cell; Alaska’s first bridge over a moving glacier; quantum batteries that never age #214A multi-talented brain cell has been discovered – and it’s a hybrid of the two we already know about, neurons and glia. These glutamatergic astrocytes could provide insights into our brain health and function, and even enable treatments for conditions like Parkinsons.Building a bridge over a moving glacier is no mean feat. But rising global temperatures have thawed the permafrost in Denali National Park in Alaska, causing its only access road to sink. A bridge may be the only way to continue access to t... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-08 • 63 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 16, 2022] 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 is some history of thermodynamics you found interesting while working on your new project? - What is the history of mathematical rigor? - What's the history of chocolate? What technology allowed the creation of chocolate candies to become so popular? - In the history of computer archite... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-08 • 82 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (December 14, 2022) 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 is some history of thermodynamics you found interesting while working on your new project? - What is the history of mathematical rigor? - What's the history of chocolate? What technology allowed the creation of chocolate candies to become so popular? - In the history of computer archite... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-08 • 71 minutes Born This Way? Today, the story of an idea. An idea that some people need, others reject, and one that will, ultimately, be hard to let go of. Special Thanks to Carl Zimmer, Eric Turkheimer, Andrea Ganna, Chandler Burr, Jacques Balthazart, Sean Mckeithan, Joe Osmundson, Jennifer Brier, Daniel Levine-Spound, Maddie Sofia, Elie Mystal, Heather Radke EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Matt Kielty Produced by - Matt Kielty Original music and sound design contributed by - Matt Kielty with mixing help from - Arianne Wack Fact-chec... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Sep-08 • 10 minutes What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement? Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-08 • 22 minutes Smologies #27: MARS with Jennifer Buz The Red Planet. A mysterious dusty orb millions of miles away. Our emergency escape bunker. Alie sits down with Dr. Jennifer Buz to talk about what Mars’s DEEEEAL is, why we send rovers there, the poetry of the moon Phobos, Martian sunsets and whether we could landscape Mars to look like a golf course. Jennifer is maybe the chillest areologist on this planet and an absolute gem. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Sep-08 • 10 minutes Air Pollution May Be Increasing Superbugs Today on the show, All Things Considered co-host Ari Shapiro joins Aaron Scott and Regina G. Barber for our science roundup. They talk about how antibiotic resistance may spread through particulate air pollution, magnetically halted black holes and how diversified farms are boosting biodiversity in Costa Rica. (@NPR)

2023-Sep-08 • 31 minutes Concrete concerns, and pharaoh de toilette Plus, how much of a brain boost will free school meals provide? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-08 • 105 minutes How Much Science Did You Inhale? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Inhale Science, Embryo Stems, Magic Mushrooms, Genetic Protection, Chronic Fatigue, Less Pollution, Batty Boxes, Homo Erectu balls, Dish Brain Advances, Baby Smarts, Go To Sleep, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Sep-08 • 54 minutes Our Summer in the Field special: We catch up with Canadian scientists who’ve been exploring the Pacific ocean depths, adventuring in the far north and chasing butterflies on the shores of the great lakes Reintroducing a rare butterfly to a restored ecosystem; Studying Vancouver’s bats in front of a curious audience; Investigating whether Arctic methane seeps could tell us about life on Mars; Revealing the hidden worlds in Pacific ocean depths; Plan a, forget it. Plan b, oh well. Plan c study Saskatchewan ticks; Dodging wild boars while doing archeology in southern Italy; Sidewalk gardens keep harmful chemicals out of streams. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Sep-08 • 29 minutes Food Science: Stories about things we eat As famed Iron Chef Alton Brown once said: “Everything in food is science”. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers discover something about themselves through the science of food. Part 1: Corn researcher Katie Murphy is scared becoming a TikToker will ruin her credibility as a serious scientist. Part 2: As a kid, Scottie Rowell gets an unpleasant surprise when they don’t wait to eat their grandmother’s pickles. Katie Murphy is a plant biologist who loves studying the inner workings of corn. She is ... (@storycollider)

2023-Sep-07 • 28 minutes Returning to the North Pole In September 2012 Arctic sea ice melted to its minimum ever recorded and the German research ice breaker, Polarstern, ventured deep into the region North of Russia to record findings. It’s now retracing its steps, over a decade later, to observe how things have progressed. Autun Purser and Antje Boethius describe the journey and the importance of documenting developments in the face of climate change. Some 75 million individuals are believed to live with Long Covid and, in order to treat the plethora of s... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Sep-07 • 31 minutes Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid How the Tonga eruption caused some of the fastest underwater flows in history, and why many U.S. renewable energy projects are on hold | | | First up on this week’s show, we hear about extremely fast underwater currents after a volcanic eruption. Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with sedimentary geologist Michael Clare and submarine volcanologist Isobel Yeo, both at the U.K. National Oceanography Centre. They discuss the complex aftermath of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption, including fast and power... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Sep-07 • 28 minutes Time is still ticking for the Amazon After decades of exploitation, time is running out for the Amazon rainforest. Eight South American nations came together this week for the first time in 14 years in an attempt to draw up a plan for a more sustainable future. The BBC’s South America correspondent Katy Watson sends us an update on the summit from Belém, Brazil. We also hear from Brazilian scientist Joice Ferreira who tells us why the Amazon is so important for the entire planet. Next up Victoria Gill finds out more about how British ... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Sep-07 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | September 7, 2023 Carl Skylling of Skytrac, a Utah based ski lift company, shares new advancements in ski lifts and the local company’s niche. (0:48)Then, music director of Songwriting with Soldiers, Jay Clementi, talks about the songwriting circles with veterans and how this changes their lives and can rewire the brain. (26:12) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Sep-07 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Clenched fists and full beards: two pieces of evidence suggesting humans evolved to fight Humans have evolved to do lots of things. And one thing scientists are now coming to recognize is that we also evolved to fight — with each other. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Sep-07 • 11 minutes A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm The Vibrio vulnificus pathogen thrives in hot coastal waters, and beachgoers can contract it via a small cut or scrape. It can also kill them in two days. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-07 • 26 minutes Part 1: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom? New translations of Meitner’s letters show that antisemitism before and after World War II robbed Meitner of the 1944 Nobel Prize that went to her long-time collaborator chemist Otto Hahn. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Sep-07 • 53 minutes Zombies, cows and coups Following recent coups in Niger and Gabon, and with seven African coups in the last three years, some political commentators are suggesting that there might be an epidemic of coups. But are coups really contagious, and what does the political science say? Caroline Steel and the Unexpected Elements team across three different continents go on a quest to find the science lurking behind the news. We find out what trees in Chile can tell us about coups and we meet the wasp that performs a coup on a poor unsu... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-07 • 19 minutes First African climate summit: can development and climate action coexist? Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s east Africa global development correspondent, Caroline Kimeu, about the challenges and tensions at play at the inaugural climate summit (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-06 • 14 minutes Our ancestors lost nearly 99% of their population, 900,000 years ago A roundup of stories from the Nature Briefing, including how human ancestors came close to extinction, historic pollution in Antarctica, and the AI that predicts smell from a compound's structure. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Sep-06 • 69 minutes Steven Koonin: Stop POLITICIZING Climate Science! Is climate science being politicized? Are facts being misrepresented and distorted to fit a certain narrative? Are climate scientists trying to dictate policy instead of investigating the actual truth? And what does it mean to be accused of being a global warming denier? Here today to discuss this controversial topic with me is no other than Steven Koonin! Steven is a renowned theoretical physicist and has recently been working on urban studies and government policies. He has also published a very provocati... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-06 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | August 31, 2023 The Ig Nobel awards celebrate the improbable science, the research that makes us laugh and then think, and the under-acknowledged discoveries that are recognized as what they truly are – REAL science. Marc Abrahams, founder and master of ceremonies, tells us about the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel ceremony. (0:56)Ben Stanger discusses his book "From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine," and the history, science, and wonder of life’s most basic, and essential element – the cell. (... (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Sep-06 • 8 minutes This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat (@sciam)

2023-Sep-06 • 9 minutes Weight-Loss Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy Can Also Protect the Heart A new study shows that semaglutide reduces heart failure symptoms like fatigue and swelling by bringing down body weight. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-06 • 22 minutes The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Supernatural Brian Cox and Robin Ince trawl through the Monkey Cage back catalogue to reveal whether science and the supernatural can sit side by side. They hear how comedian Lucy Beaumont believes alien life has visited Hull, and challenge the physics and psychology of ghosts with Prof Richard Wiseman. Has our brain evolved to conjure up ghostly apparitions and demonic forces? Is there real science behind some of our most common paranormal experiences? And they unpick the practical difficulties for Santa delivering gif... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Sep-06 • 14 minutes Recurring UTIs: The Infection We Keep Secretly Getting Have frequent, burning pee? Cramping or the urge to pee even though you just went? If you haven't yet, you probably will eventually—along with an estimated 60% of women and 10% of men. That's the large slice of the population that experiences a urinary tract infections (UTI) at least once. Many people avoid talking about these infections, but about one in four women experience recurring UTIs. No matter what they do, the infections come back, again and again. So today on the show, Regina G. Barber takes prod... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-06 • 29 minutes Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023) An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time (MIT Press, 2023), an indelible collection of portraits of and interv... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Sep-05 • 34 minutes CultureLab: The weird ways animals sense the world – Ed Yong on his book An Immense World Whether it’s the hidden colours of ultraviolet that bees can see, the complex rhythms and tones of birdsong that we’re unable to hear, or the way a dog can smell the past in incredible detail, the way humans experience the world is not the only way.Every animal has its own ‘umwelt’ – a unique sensory experience that allows it to perceive the world differently. As humans we can barely begin to understand what the world looks like to many of the other creatures that inhabit the Earth. But author Ed Yong is he... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-05 • 10 minutes The High-Stakes Calculus of Preventing Wildfires by Burying Power Lines Investigators are eying the Lahaina wildfire as yet another deadly blaze started by electrical equipment. Putting lines underground would help—at a steep cost. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-05 • 31 minutes Titans of science: Helen Sharman - part 1 Chris Smith chats with the first Briton to ever go to space (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-05 • 30 minutes Where does all our energy come from? Everything in our world is powered by energy. We need it to drive our cars, bake cupcakes and even jump up and down on the bed! All of this energy comes from different sources, like gasoline and wind power. Even the food that powers our bodies is a source of energy. But almost all of the energy on Earth first came from the same place: the sun!In this episode, we’ll find out how the sun powers so much of our lives. Plus, we’ll learn how the amount of energy in the universe has stayed the same since the very ... (@Brains_On)

2023-Sep-05 • 94 minutes Cosmology (THE UNIVERSE) Part 1 Encore with Katie Mack Stars. Black holes. THE GAWDANG UNIVERSE. Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) re-introduces us to this 2017 episode along with some bonus updates on astrophysics, her career, and the book she’s published since we last heard from her. Katie also tells us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, debunks some physicist myths and gives us the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries. Walk away with cocktail party comprehension o... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Sep-05 • 49 minutes Big vs Small with Tiny Matters Sam's out this week, but worry not: he found another Sam to replace him! Sam Jones, host of the podcast Tiny Matters that is! Sam and her co-host, our own Deboki Chakravarti, join Ceri and Hank in our first ever team-based episode of Tangents! Two teams enter, one team leaves! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Sep-05 • 16 minutes Everything you need to know about the new Covid variant The UK Health Security Agency has announced plans to bring forward its autumn Covid-19 vaccination programme, and scale up testing and surveillance, after the emergence of the BA.2.86 variant. Madeleine Finlay and Ian Sample discuss where current infection rates stand, the characteristics of the new variant, and how prepared the UK is for a new wave (@guardianscience)

2023-Sep-04 • 27 minutes Metamorphosis: Jumping fleas and mighty mouthparts Dr Erica McAlister uncovers a treasure trove of remarkable insects from the humble flea whose jump enables them to fly without wings and the mystery of the hawkmoth’s tongue, whose varying length has offered the simplest and most effective proof of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection in action. Producer: Dr Adrian Washbourne Presenter: Dr Erica McAlister (Photo: Dr Erica McAlister. Credit: Dr Erica McAlister) (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Sep-04 • 243 minutes AMA | September 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for September 2023. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Sep-04 • 14 minutes This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting about Darwin's 'Paradox' This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting about Darwin's 'Paradox' (@sciam)

2023-Sep-04 • 9 minutes Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones Supposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Sep-04 • 40 minutes 724: Heading Up Research Designing New Materials for Helmets to Prevent Brain Injury - Dr. Ellen Arruda Dr. Ellen Arruda is the Maria Comninou Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with joint appointments as Professor of Biomedical Engineering, as well as Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Ellen... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Sep-04 • 11 minutes The Deadly Toll Heat Can Take On Humans This year, the hottest July ever was recorded — and parts of the country were hit with heat waves that lasted for weeks. Heat is becoming increasingly lethal as climate change causes more extreme heat. So in today's encore episode, we're exploring heat. NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer talks with Short Wave host Regina G. Barber about how the human body copes with extended extreme heat and how today's heat warning systems could better protect the public. If you can, stay cool out there this Labor Day... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-04 • 54 minutes Building a Space Colony* Ready to become a space emigre? For half a century, visionaries have been talking about our future off-Earth – a speculative scenario in which many of us live in space colonies. So why haven’t we built them? Will the plans of billionaire space entrepreneurs to build settlements on Mars, or orbiting habitats that would be only minutes away from Earth, revive our long-held spacefaring dreams? And is having millions of people living off-Earth a solution to our problems… or an escape from them? Guests: Marianne... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Sep-03 • 10 minutes How do you brew What do you love about that first sip of beer? Maybe it's the bitterness, the fizz or the fruitiness? (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Sep-02 • 54 minutes Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience Sharon Carleton takes a look at his decades of work in this 2003 feature, coinciding with this year's Eccles Institute seminar at ANU. (@ABCscience)

2023-Sep-01 • 48 minutes An AI for Smell, Heat and Agricultural Workers, Golden Lion Tamarin, Y Chromosome. Sept 1, 2023, Part 2 Having a complete sequence of the human Y chromosome might help research and medicine. Plus, a new computer model can map the structure of a chemical to predict what it probably smells like. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-01 • 29 minutes What does a sustainable life look like? Many of us are worried about the environment, but the aim of living in a truly sustainable way is hard to pin down. Do we all need to stop buying things? Is it down to governments to make the changes for us? Is there somewhere in the world painting a picture of the end goal? It’s a question that has bothered CrowdScience listener Cate for 20 years! She’s worried we’re not doing enough for the environment and just wants a clear scenario of what it might look like to live sustainably, in a way that could wo... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Sep-01 • 47 minutes US Surgeon General On Mental Health, Tracking Tick Bites. Sept 1, 2023, Part 1 Dr. Vivek Murthy on the intersection of youth mental health, social media, and loneliness. Plus, how an app is helping scientists learn more about the spread of tick-borne diseases. (@scifri)

2023-Sep-01 • 82 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 9, 2022] 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: Are there nuclear reactions going on inside our bodies? - Do you think we'll ever be able to replace damaged brain parts with computational parts as another form of prosthesis? -- What ethical implications will become relevant when we combine machine learning and brain sensors/effectors? - Su... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-01 • 86 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (December 7, 2022) 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 it worth moving to the USA from the UK/Europe to pursue a career in science, mathematics or engineering? What if one wants to change the world? - How long should one wait after college to start some startup in an area of their interest/expertise? - When you are thinking deep... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Sep-01 • 31 minutes London ULEZ emissions tax, and uterus transplants Plus, the worm found in a woman's brain! (@NakedScientists)

2023-Sep-01 • 131 minutes Garry Nolan & Avi Loeb: The Science of Aliens | Brian Keating’s INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast Watch the video of this conversation https://www.youtube.com/live/TezZ65_7MaY... episode with Avi Loeb on Youtube: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of UFO artifacts, materials, and he is actively investigating reports of UFO encounters. Avi Loeb is an astrophysicist at Harvard, the director of the Galileo Project, and the author of Extraterrestrial. In 1993 he moved to... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Sep-01 • 27 minutes Weekly: Our ancestors nearly went extinct?; Why beer goggles aren’t real; Smelling ancient Egyptian perfume #213Our ancestors may have very nearly gone extinct. Around a million years ago, there were just 1300 humans left and it stayed that way for over a hundred thousand years. This is the dramatic claim of research into the genetic diversity of our early ancestors – though some scientists disagree with the conclusions.Despite being completely paralysed and unable to speak, Rodney Gorham can still communicate… by typing messages with his mind. Rodney is one of the first people in the world to use a new type of b... (@newscientist)

2023-Sep-01 • 52 minutes Touch at a Distance In this episode from 2007, we take you on a tour of language, music, and the properties of sound. We look at what sound does to our bodies, our brains, our feelings… and we go back to the reason we at Radiolab tell you stories the way we do. First, we look at Diana Deutsch’s work on language and music, and how certain languages seem to promote musicality in humans. Then we meet Psychologist Anne Fernald and listen to parents as they talk to their babies across languages and cultures. Last, we go to 1913 Pa... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Sep-01 • 10 minutes What the Luddites Can Teach Us about AI What the Luddites Can Teach Us about AI (@sciam)

2023-Sep-01 • 38 minutes Screaming Babies, Noise Canceling, and You In April 1978, MIT professor Amar Bose was flying home to Boston from Switzerland. But when he tried to listen to music through the airline’s headphones, he couldn’t hear a darned thing. He spent the rest of the flight doing acoustical math—and sketching out an idea for headphones that literally subtracted background noise from what you hear. Today, noise-canceling headphones are everywhere. But the revolution began with Amar Bose’s airplane sketches—and the 22-year, $50 million journey that led them to the... (@Pogue)

2023-Sep-01 • 13 minutes Food Allergies Are On The Rise. Are You Affected? Food allergies have risen in the United States over the last few decades. Research suggests that 40 years ago the actual prevalence of food allergies was less than 1%. But this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data showing that almost 6% of U.S. adults and children have a food allergy. But this trend is not present in all countries — and what people are allergic to varies globally. Today, we dive into the complex world of food allergies with Dr. Waheeda Samady. She's the D... (@NPR)

2023-Sep-01 • 191 minutes The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1: As promised at the beginning of this month, here is the first of two “Best of” selections from the Origins Podcast. I apologize that this hasn’t come out sooner, but the lazy days of August caught up with all of our production team. In any case, here, on the last day of August (in all US timezones), enjoy this collection of great clips from many of our exciting guests over the first two years of the podcast. These were all recorded before the pandemic and so we were able to travel to talk with my guests a... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-Sep-01 • 117 minutes Why Are German Boars So Hot? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Free From Dialysis?, Ancient Apes of Turkey, Hot German Boars, Migratory Birds, AI Wins Again?, Can AI talk to animals?, Why Cats Like Tuna, Bees & Neanderthals, Bat Brains, Plastic Brains, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Sep-01 • 33 minutes Break Ups: Stories about the end of a relationship Matters of the heart aren’t usually associated with science, but in this week’s episode, both of our storytellers turn to science to cope with heartbreak. Part 1: When Anna Peterson gets dumped she takes a job with two national wildlife refuges in remote Alaska to prove to her ex he made a mistake. Part 2: When Moiya McTier’s fiancé breaks up with her weeks before their wedding, she turns to the Milky Way to heal. Anna Peterson is originally from Colorado, but has called Atlanta home for nearly 2.5 years. S... (@storycollider)

2023-Aug-31 • 28 minutes Drowning coastal ecosystems Global sea levels are rising more than 3mm per year under current climate conditions. At this rate we are due to hit an alarming 7mm rise per year by the end of the century. If this is not slowed, it could lead to the drowning of essential coastal ecosystems like mangroves and lagoons, professor of environmental science Neil Saintilan tells Science in Action. The seas are also heating up. We’ve covered the devastating effect of marine heatwaves on vibrant sea life like coral reefs before. But what about t... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Aug-31 • 35 minutes Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell How active learning improves calculus teaching, and using machine learning to map odors in the smell space | | First up on this week’s show, Laird Kramer, a professor of physics and faculty in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University (FIU), talks with host Sarah Crespi about students leaving STEM fields because of calculus and his research into improving instruction. | | We also hear from some Science staffers about their own calculus trauma, from fear of spinning shapes to ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Aug-31 • 21 minutes UnDisciplined: This asteroid is about to pass dangerously close to Earth The OSIRIS-Rex mission has picked up a piece of the asteroid Bennu projected to pass close to Earth. Precautionary? Maybe. But there's a big enough risk that we're doing something about it. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Aug-31 • 28 minutes Reality check: carbon capture and storage This week the UK government announced that around 100 new oil and gas licences for the North Sea will be issued. At the same time the Prime Minister said the government would back two new carbon capture and storage plants, one in Aberdeenshire and one in the Humber. Victoria Gill speaks to Angela Knight, former chief executive of Energy UK, about what this decision means for the UK’s aim of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. She then discovers more about the capabilities of carbon capture and stora... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Aug-31 • 9 minutes DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go? Last year’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-31 • 11 minutes They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That We Wouldn't Forget In the early 1990s, two physicists, Ruth Howes and Caroline Herzenberg, began looking into a question that had aroused their curiosity: Just who were the female scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project? Nearly ten years and hundreds of interviews later, they documented hundreds of women across a broad spectrum of scientific fields — physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics — who played crucial roles in the top-secret race to build a nuclear weapon that would end World War II. Since the film Oppenhe... (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Aug-31 • 50 minutes Protecting the Moon India's successful moon landing has the Unexpected Elements team engaging in some serious lunacy. We look at where the moon even came from, how it helps us navigate, and whether it has a cultural and ecological heritage. Also on the show, is Dr. TikTok leading to a raft of self-diagnoses, should we be eating banana peels and worms, and we go back to the moon to see if it has any effect on our sleep. (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-31 • 13 minutes Why are scientists so excited about the vagus nerve? – podcast Science correspondent Linda Geddes tells Ian Sample about her recent investigation into the hype and science surrounding the vagus nerve, and also whether her own experiment with an allegedly nerve-stimulating device is having any effect (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-30 • 29 minutes Physicists finally observe strange isotope Oxygen 28 – raising fundamental questions The long-sought finding challenges scientists understanding of the strong nuclear force, and the AI that can beat human champions at drone racing. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-30 • 21 minutes Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks The most comprehensive survey of how we share our microbiomes suggests a new way of thinking about the risks of developing some diseases that aren’t usually considered contagious. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Transmission” by John Deley and the 41 Players. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Aug-30 The Skeptics Guide #947 - Sep 2 2023 Live from Tucson with special guest George Hrab; Special Report: Death of P22; News Items: Toughest Metal, Eyewear from Coffee Grounds, Water Worlds, Psychic Fraud; Discussion Topic: Cancelling Celebrities; Experts Advice; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Aug-30 • 12 minutes A Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Human Body, and It Is Still Working A Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Human Body, and It Is Still Working (@sciam)

2023-Aug-30 • 11 minutes The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons Raccoons are a main carrier of rabies in the US. A government effort distributes millions of tasty vaccines to protect both animals and people. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-30 • 21 minutes It’s getting harder to see Something about modern life is leading to higher rates of nearsightedness across the world. What is it? To buy tickets to our upcoming live show in New York, go to http://vox.com/unexplainablelive 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. Visi... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Aug-30 • 13 minutes 'Speedboat Epidemiology': Eradicating Disease One Person At A Time Smallpox is a deadly virus. At one point, it killed almost 1 in 3 people who had it. Almost 300 million of those deaths were in the 20th century alone. It was extremely painful, highly contagious and many people thought it would be impossible to wipe out—until it was. On May 8, 1980. the 33rd World Health Assembly declared the world free of smallpox. This marked the first—and only—time a human disease was eradicated globally. Epidemiologist and host of the podcast Epidemic: Eradicating Smallpox Céline Gound... (@NPR)

2023-Aug-29 • 117 minutes EXCLUSIVE: Avi Loeb Claims He May Have PROOF of Alien Technology Watch the video of our conversation https://youtu.be/nlrDky-fCtc?sub_confirm... again, I had the pleasure of speaking to one of the world's most famous and perhaps most controversial astrophysicists – Avi Loeb! For those of you who don’t know him, Avi is a professor of science at Harvard University, theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. He is also a bestselling author and a dear friend of mine. Avi just published Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Star... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-29 • 10 minutes The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires Some residents of Yellowknife are staying behind to fight back wildfires that could soon engulf the Canadian city. Others have shared harrowing stories as they race to escape the flames. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-29 • 48 minutes LIFE ADVICE Encore: For anyone who is tired & needs some hacks Alie takes a teeny tiny break from her vacation to reintroduce you to this laid back, super helpful fan favorite episode. Listen in for: Pomodoro timers! Bullet journals! Apps, tips, tricks and philosophies. Also: the most mellow episode ever, recorded late at night in a guest room. Like a cozy duvet of wisdom, this one is full of life hacks for remaining productive & healthy during distracting times. I asked Ologites their best strategies for keeping their brains less burdened and organizing everything fro... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-29 • 28 minutes Return to the Moon: Why now? We review the progress of the major powers' lunar programmes... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-29 • 18 minutes Iris scans: proof of our humanity in an AI future, or marketing gimmick? Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s technology reporter Hibaq Farah about Worldcoin, a new cryptocurrency offering users tokens in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs. Farah explains what the motives behind the company are, why they think we all need to become ‘verified humans’, and how governments have responded to the project (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-28 • 14 minutes Dead Planets Society #4: Asteroid Gong In an unexpected twist of empathy, Leah and Chelsea are putting their heads together to save the Earth… yes, you read that right!Asteroid researcher and planetary astronomer Andy Rivkin of John Hopkins University joins them to discuss the myriad ways in which we could deflect, destroy or intercept asteroids headed towards Earth. Among the team’s suggestions: a humongous net (a world-wide-web?), a gigantic gong… and Bruce Willis.Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinke... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-28 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Harald Haas Imagine a world in which your laptop or mobile device accesses the internet, not via radio waves – or WiFi – as it does today but by using light instead: LiFi. Well, that world may not be as far away as you might think. In fact, the technology is already here; and it’s thanks in large part to the engineering ingenuity of Harald Haas, Distinguished Professor of Mobile Communications and Director of the Li-Fi Research and Development Centre at the University of Strathclyde. He tells Jim Al-Khalili about the... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-28 • 11 minutes What illusions tell us about silence Ian Phillips, Rui Zhe Goh, and Chaz Firestone use auditory illusions to explore how people perceive silence. (@PNASNews)

2023-Aug-28 • 73 minutes 248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense I talk with computer scientist Yejin Choi about how AI models can be simultaneously very smart and kind of stupid. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Aug-28 • 13 minutes The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning Fungal infections are rising worldwide and climate change may be to blame. Medicine isn’t ready. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-28 • 14 minutes Migratory Birds Are in Peril, but Knowing Where They Are at Night Could Help Save Them Migratory Birds Are in Peril, but Knowing Where They Are at Night Could Help Save Them (@sciam)

2023-Aug-28 • 38 minutes 723: Analyzing Complex Networks of Plant-Animal Interactions - Dr. John Kress Dr. John Kress is a Distinguished Scientist and Curator of Botany at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. John’s research involves exploring the natural world and all the organisms that make up the natural world. Since... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Aug-28 • 12 minutes What Do We Do With Radioactive Wastewater? Workers in Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. Reactors at the plant began melting down after a 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the area. To stop the meltdown, plant workers flooded the reactors with water. But even now, when the plant is offline, the reactors need to be cooled. All that water—about 350 million gallons—is being stored on-site in over 1,000 tanks. And now, these tanks are almost full. Today ... (@NPR)

2023-Aug-28 • 54 minutes Talk the Walk* Birds and bees do it … and so do fish. In a discovery that highlights the adaptive benefits of walking, scientists have discovered fish that can walk on land. Not fin-flap their bodies, mind you, but ambulate like reptiles. And speaking of which, new research shows that T Rex, the biggest reptile of them all, wasn’t a sprinter, but could be an efficient hunter by outwalking its prey. Find out the advantage of legging it, and how human bipedalism stacks up. Not only is walking good for our bodies and brain... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Aug-27 • 37 minutes Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science (Oxford UP, 2023) argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy theories are rife because of the internet that science created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and statistical significance leads to data torturing and confirmatio... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Aug-27 • 11 minutes Thinking of the earth like a vanilla slice Beneath the cold ice sheets of Antarctica lies the dynamic deep earth. So what happens when the two interact? | | Today's speaker Niam is eager to find out. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Aug-26 • 54 minutes Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer All the science underway to protect our health, our environment... and our smartphones? (@ABCscience)

2023-Aug-26 The Skeptics Guide #946 - Aug 26 2023 News Items: Releasing Fukushima Radioactive Water, Online Gaming and Mental Health, Gradient Nanostructured Steel, Supernova and Neutrinos, Recent Lunar Missions; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Gender Affirming Care and Regret; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Aug-26 • 42 minutes The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara Talking is a defining part of what makes us human – we are almost constantly in dialogue but what purpose does all this conversation serve? Both for the individual and for society. And what is happening in our brains when we do it? Shane O Mara has been thinking about those questions for his book, Talking Heads: the New Science of How Conversation Shapes our Worlds (Jonathan Cape, 2023). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Aug-26 • 99 minutes Brian Keating on Live Life Better with Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood evokes one of the best primers on cosmology and astrophysics you’re ever going to get in this wide ranging discussion wit Brian Keating. From the age and size of the Universe to relativity and the essence of science itself, and the pursuit of the Nobel prize, this episode could make you one of the most interesting people in the room at your next dinner party! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod... join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me an... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-25 • 47 minutes Old Things Considered: La Brea, Megalodon, Dino Footprints, Surviving History. Aug 25, 2023, Part 2 A new book uses science and hindsight to figure out how to survive history’s greatest disasters. Plus, megalodon was the largest shark that ever lived. How accurate is the science in the movie Meg 2: The Trench? (@scifri)

2023-Aug-25 • 27 minutes How do butterflies and moths fly? For hundreds of millions of years insects controlled the skies. Before birds, bats and pterodactyls, insects were the only creatures that had evolved the ability to fly: a miracle of physics and physiology requiring their bodies to act in coordinated ballet. This week three separate CrowdScience listeners have been asking questions about the flight of butterflies and moths. How do they move so erratically, yet land so precisely? What makes such tiny insects such accurate flyers? Presenter Anand Jagatia... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Aug-25 • 47 minutes Sea Otters, Alaskan Minerals, Salmon Restoration. Aug 25, 2023, Part 1 As Alaska begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways. Plus, an expert from the Monterey Bay Aquarium talks all things sea otter. (@scifri)

2023-Aug-25 • 26 minutes Weekly: India lands on the moon; Placenta cells could heal the heart; Mind-altering drugs and binge drinking on the rise #212India is celebrating after successfully - and gently - landing on the Moon. A huge win for the country, which is now only the fourth nation to do so. A look at the country’s next ambitions after a historic touchdown. Plus why Russia’s rival mission ended in disaster, and the future of lunar exploration worldwide. Cells found in placentas may be able to treat heart attacks. Researchers were first clued into this amazing healing capability after two pregnant women spontaneously recovered from heart f... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-25 • 65 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 2, 2022] 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: Are we close to making face recognition a ubiquitous replacement for passwords in electronic systems that require a login, negating the need to remember and constantly change multiple passwords? - Can you describe the correlations among qubits, how they differ from ordinary bits and the potentia... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-25 • 73 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (November 30, 2022) 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: Can you give some insight into automata theory, its history and its applications up until today? - How did scientists figure out the source of the cosmic microwave radiation? - Why didn't containers become popular until Docker around 2013? It seems like they would have been very useful long ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-25 • 26 minutes Audio long read: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? Teams of scientists, physicians and data sleuths argue that in some fields unreliable or fabricated trials are widespread. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-25 • 38 minutes Rumble Strip: Finn and the Bell A couple years ago, our producer Annie McEwen listened to an audio documentary that, she said, “tore my heart wide open.” That episode , “Finn and the Bell,” (https://zpr.io/TDjwQuXFDSz6) by independent producer Erica Heilman (maker of the podcast Rumble Strip), went on to win some of the biggest awards in audio (including a Peabody, https://zpr.io/tu4hwhKQ3TWN), and the rest of the staff finally got around to listening, and it tore our hearts wide open, too. It’s a story about a death, but as so many of t... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Aug-25 • 12 minutes India’s Lander Touches Down on the Moon. Russia’s Has Crashed While India’s spacecraft landed on the lunar surface, the Russian one collided with it. The mixed record shows that developing a lunar economy won’t be easy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-25 • 12 minutes Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us 'See' Some of the Billions of Birds Migrating at Night Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pulse-of-the-planet phenomenon that is nocturnal migration. (@sciam)

2023-Aug-25 • 22 minutes Smologies #26: POOP with Rachel Santymire Yep. Here it is. A kid-friendly episode on… poop. Camel poop. Rhino poop. Dog poop. Cat poop. Your poop. The charming and informative Dr. Rachel Santymire -- aka Dr. Poop -- has a background in animal physiology and endocrinology and is elbow deep in dung as a research director at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Dr. Poop sits down with Alie to talk turds and why some critters like to chow down on their own (or others’), the stinkiest poopers, good smelling poop, how getting curious about poop can help save a species,... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-25 • 10 minutes A Tale Of Two Lunar Landing Attempts A journey through some of the latest science stories catching our eyes. This time, we consider the Russian and Indian lunar landing attempts, how scientists are reconstructing music from people's brains and lessons from wildfires that contributed to a mass extinction of North American land mammals 13,000 years ago. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-25 • 31 minutes Serial killers, and sails on supertankers Plus, we hear about water voles' return to the Lake District... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-25 • 91 minutes When Will Science Solve Aging? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Moon Landing!, Lighter Magnets?, Consciousness of AI, Fly Medicine, Music For Cells, Martian Colonists, Sneaky Hummers, Population Overshoot, Rural Pandemic Woes, Memory Cells, Longer-Lived Mice, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Aug-25 • 30 minutes Uncharted: Stories about disability in STEM People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolation and ableism in academia. In this week’s episode, two stories from the recently published book Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias, have been adapted for the podcast. Both of our storytellers showcase how they, as scientists with disabilities, navigate their careers. Part 1: When Skylar Bayer’s heart condition sidelines her from doing her dive research, she s... (@storycollider)

2023-Aug-24 • 29 minutes Brain-computer interfaces Advances in brain-computer interfaces have allowed patients with paralysis to communicate faster, more accurately and more expressively with direct brain to speech translation. Co-author of an exciting new paper in the field, bioengineer Alex Silva, tells Science in Action about his team’s work with patient Ann. The world has been following the Indian and Russian race to land on the lunar south pole. Producer Ella Hubber gives a timeline of the events leading up to that historic landing. Also this week,... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Aug-24 • 50 minutes The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in our series on science, sex, and gender | First up on this week’s show, determining the origin of solar wind—the streams of plasma that emerge from the Sun and envelope the Solar System. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, about how tiny jets in so-called coronal holes seem to be responsible. Sarah also talks with Scien... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Aug-24 • 34 minutes Battles with flames We're in the heart of summer in Europe, where extreme heat has spiralled into out-of-control wildfires across the Mediterranean, leading thousands to flee their homes. Previously on Inside Science we've looked at how and why temperatures are soaring across the globe. Now we're homing in on one of the most visible effects of that. First, BBC climate and science reporter Georgina Rannard paints a picture of the link between these fires and climate change. Next up we hear from Professor Stefan Doerr, d... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Aug-24 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: 'It's one of the most lonely feelings': The realities of mainstream schooling for deaf children 85% of deaf children attend mainstream public schools and many deaf advocates will say this is a good thing, but good intentions and good educational practices are two different things. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Aug-24 • 9 minutes The Winds That Doomed Lahaina Gusts primed the Maui landscape to burn, then drove an out-of-control blaze. It’s a worst-case scenario that’s growing increasingly common around the world. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-24 • 22 minutes Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create Kay Way was a nuclear physicist who was an expert in radioactive decay. After working on the atomic bomb she became an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Aug-24 • 50 minutes The man who couldn’t lie This week, we start off by digging into conspiracy theories. What’s behind their enduring allure? And have they always been around? Marnie and the panel investigate. Many conspiracy theories are based off of misinformation… but what’s actually going on in our brains when we lie? We look into the case of the man who was physically unable of spreading tall tales. Sometimes, the truth is there, but is difficult to uncover. Delving for this deeper meaning is something particle physicists like Dr Harry Cliff... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-24 • 17 minutes The Y chromosome has finally been sequenced: here’s why it matters Twenty years after the first pass at sequencing the entire human genome, the Y chromosome has finally been fully decoded. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Mark Jobling, professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, about why it has proved so tricky, the role of the Y chromosome in our bodies, and the likelihood of it eventually dying out altogether (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-23 • 29 minutes Brain-reading implants turn thoughts into speech Two studies demonstrate how brain-computer interfaces could help people to communicate, and working out how hot it can get before tropical leaves start to die. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-23 • 7 minutes How Hilary Turned Into a Monster Storm Mexico and the western US are reeling from record-shattering rainfall. Blame high ocean temperatures—and prepare for worse to come as the planet warms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-23 • 12 minutes Here's How You Go Birding in the Middle of the Night Here's How You Go Birding in the Middle of the Night (@sciam)

2023-Aug-23 • 34 minutes Jumping the gun At last year’s World Athletics Championships, sprinter TyNia Gaither was disqualified for false starting... after the gun went off. Officials said she started faster than humanly possible. How can that be? This episode originally ran on June 15, 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! bi... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Aug-23 • 12 minutes What Made Hilary Such A Weird Storm One name has been on millions of minds — and all over the news — in the past week: Hilary.It's been decades since a storm like this has hit Southern California, so even some scientists were shocked when they heard it was coming. In today's episode, Regina Barber talks to Jill Trepanier, who studies extreme climatic events — like hurricanes and climate change — at Louisiana State University. She tells us how we use science to predict events like this, and what Hilary and future storms may or may not tell us ... (@NPR)

2023-Aug-22 • 71 minutes Why Professor Dave Thinks Our Scientific Integrity Is at Jeopardy Today's guest is no stranger to drama and controversy, and he may have helped you pass a test or two in school… Meet Dave Farina, better known as Professor Dave Explains! Dave is a popular science communicator, chemist, author, and proprietor of one of the largest science YouTube channels in the world. Dave and I first got in contact after I published an interview with someone who Dave claims is a charlatan, and of course, that sparked my interest, and I knew I had to get Dave on the show, too, so he could ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-22 • 7 minutes Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case A victory for Montanans’ right to a clean, healthy environment could set a precedent for other climate lawsuits throughout the United States. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-22 • 28 minutes CultureLab: Must watch science shows – the best TV of 2023 Struggling to choose what to watch? Whether it’s sci-fi, medical dramas or documentaries about the natural world, we’ve got you covered. Our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley shares a rundown of her top TV choices from 2023 so far, as well as what to look out for the rest of the year. Reviews of some of the shows featured in this episode:  Foundation (Apple TV)The Last Of Us (HBO Max and Sky Atlantic)Best Interests (Sky Go, Amazon, Apple TV)Wild Isles (BBC iPlayer, Amazon)Dead Ringers (Amazon)Silo... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-22 • 38 minutes What is artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence has been all over the news lately — but how does it even work? In this episode, Molly and co-host Sydney explore the how and why of A.I. with researcher Avital Balwit. Together, they imagine possible futures with A.I. and talk about how we might use these powerful tools in thoughtful ways. As a bonus, you’ll get a tricky new mystery sound and a hot track from Sanden’s band, Loudly With A Chance of Screamballs! _______Don’t miss our next virtual events! In September, your favorite hos... (@Brains_On)

2023-Aug-22 • 66 minutes Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) Encore with Helen Zaltzman The brilliant and dazzling Helen Zaltzman pops in with some new asides in this encore episode of Ologies. Helen, host of the podcasts The Allusionist, Veronica Mars Investigations and Answer Me This, and a person who technically for a living researches the origins of language and thus is an etymologist, visits Alie's apartment to chat about various word origins, gender in language, the Bible a.k.a. The Oxford English Dictionary, origins of the filthiest slang, emoji decoding, mediocrity, step parents, babie... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-22 • 42 minutes Dust The universe is dusty AF, frankly. It's on your body, in every nook in cranny of your house, some planets are just made entirely of dust pretty much, and space is full of it! It's everywhere, so I guess we might as well learn something about it... (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Aug-22 • 30 minutes The perfect plate of food: seasonal and well seasoned How to cook food that's healthy for us and the planet without compromising on taste... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-22 • 16 minutes Apple cider vinegar gummies: what’s the science behind the weight loss trend? Apple cider vinegar is touted as a cure-all for everything from excess weight to digestion issues and blood sugar spikes. Supplement ‘gummies’ are the latest trend, billed as a tastier way to incorporate apple cider vinegar into our diets. Posts promoting them have been viewed millions of times on TikTok, but are the health claims backed up by the science? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Carol Johnston, a professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University who has been studying vinegar for 2... (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-21 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Anne-Marie Imafidon Anne-Marie Imafidon passed her computing A-Level at the age of 11 and by 16, was accepted to the University of Oxford to study Maths and Computer Science. She's used to the 'child prodigy' label that's followed her throughout her career, but that doesn't mean she's had an easy ride. It was a combination of personal experience and the discovery that the number of women working in the STEM sectors - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - was in free-fall that inspired Anne-Marie to found Stemette... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-21 • 6 minutes Wondery Presents: Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike’s disappearance might have faded from memory, if it wasn’t for one woman’s tireless crusade. From Wondery, comes a new season of Over My Dead Body; a story about an obsessive love affair, a scandalous secret and a mother’s battle for the truth. Listen to Over My Dead Body: Wondery.fm/_OMDB_ See Privacy Policy at https://... (@Pogue)

2023-Aug-21 • 80 minutes 247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality I talk with economist Samuel Bowles about human nature and the origin of inequality. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Aug-21 • 11 minutes Russia and India Are Racing to Put Landers on the Moon Robotic spacecraft from both countries are aiming to touch down on the moon’s southern hemisphere, as one’s space program waxes and the other wanes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-21 • 15 minutes Using Human-Sized Microphones and Hay Bales, They Unlocked the Mysteries of Bird Migration Using Human-Sized Microphones and Hay Bales, They Unlocked the Mysteries of Bird Migration (@sciam)

2023-Aug-21 • 41 minutes 722: Taking Critical Steps to Elucidate Mechanisms of Limb Movement in Locomotion - Dr. Young-Hui Chang Dr. Young-Hui Chang is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology where he directs research in the Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory. Research in Young-Hui’s lab aims to examine how the control of movement by the... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Aug-21 • 11 minutes Fixing Our Failing Electric Grid... On A Budget It's no secret that our electric grid is a flaming hot mess — and in order to reduce emissions, the U.S. needs to get a lot more renewables onto the grid. But there's a problem: Our electric grid is too old and outdated to handle this new technology. In fact, many of the copper wires on transmission lines are using technology from as far back as the early 1900s! Because of this, thousands of wind and solar projects are waiting for years to get online. The Inflation Reduction Act is incentivizing a big trans... (@NPR)

2023-Aug-21 • 54 minutes A Twist of Slime* Your daily mucus output is most impressive. Teaspoons or measuring cups can’t capture its entire volume. Find out how much your body churns out and why you can’t live without the viscous stuff. But slime in general is remarkable. Whether coating the bellies of slithery creatures, sleeking the surface of aquatic plants, or dripping from your nose, its protective qualities make it one of the great inventions of biology. Join us as we venture to the land of ooze! Guests: Christopher Viney - Professor of materi... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Aug-20 • 11 minutes Why would we need a celestial lighthouse? Let's go on a space adventure! | | Gomeroi woman and astrophysics honours student Krystal explores the scale of our universe. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Aug-19 • 54 minutes Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival Some of the science on display at this year's Hobart-wide celebration of the big, small and occasionally glowy. (@ABCscience)

2023-Aug-19 The Skeptics Guide #945 - Aug 19 2023 News Items: Deep Space Network, Identifying Misinformation, Regret and Gender Affirming Care, Localizing Hidden Consciousness, Ice Baths; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Metazoan Correction; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Aug-18 • 47 minutes Women Athletes, Stem Cell Cornea Repair, Sand. August 18, 2023, Part 2 A conversation about the gap in womens’ sports science, and why it's so important to better understand female athletic performance. Plus, how researchers looked at taking stem cells from a patient’s healthy eye and using them to help regrow tissue in a damaged eye. And a look at the wonders of sand. (@scifri)

2023-Aug-18 • 36 minutes What is the weight of the internet? How do you think about the internet? What does the word conjuror up? Maybe a cloud? Or the flashing router in the corner of your front room? Or this magic power that connects over 5 billion people on all the continents of this planet? Most of us don’t think of it at all, beyond whether we can connect our phones to it. CrowdScience listener Simon has been thinking and wants to know how much it weighs. Which means trying to work out what counts as the internet. If it is purely the electrons that form those... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Aug-18 • 47 minutes Covid Update, Brain Fog Research, Toilet to Tap. Aug 18, 2023, Part 1 As COVID-related hospitalizations once again surge, virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen answers listener queries about the latest variant. Plus, research into the ‘brain fog’ symptom. And a trip to Reno, NV to check in on a wastewater recycling program. (@scifri)

2023-Aug-18 • 33 minutes Weekly: Climate Special - an antidote for doom; plus the key ingredient for alien technology, and surprising revelations about an ancient tattooed mummy #211The hottest July on record, a global surge in wildfires, bleached corals and collapsed cactuses - the story of climate change feels dire right now. But before you bury your head in the sand or succumb to doom and gloom - a dose of reality and hope. In this climate special, a look at how our record-setting year fits the predictions, the incredible good news about the global energy transition and an appeal to the power of our decisions to make a difference in the future.  There’s a new covid-19 ... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-18 • 93 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [November 25, 2022] 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: There was a study where they saw helices in superconducting materials. What properties make helices common in nature, from DNA to whirlpools to EMR? - Can you tell us why electrons in the atoms of the Sun do not burn due to the heat? - How does superconducting magnet levitation work? - Fermions ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-18 • 82 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (November 23, 2022) 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: As a British native, do you participate in Thanksgiving festivities? - Do you ever use spreadsheets or any other type of specialist app to manage information? Or is your main tool Mathematica? - Do you go through periods of low motivation? If so, what do you do to get over that... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-18 • 74 minutes Merchants of Truth and Light: Losing the Nobel Prize - Brian Keating The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey Astrophysicist and cosmologist Brian Keating, Ph.D., talks about the high-pressure world of science. For a decade, Dave Asprey, “the father of biohacking,” elevated what you knew about the capabilities of your mind and body across a thousand episodes of Bulletproof Radio. Now, he’s evolving it even further in his plan to upgrade humanity. You’re invited to expand your knowledge, explore your own performance and embrace possibility with The Human Upgrade™. You’ll meet bright thinkers and radical doers who pu... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-18 • 58 minutes The Wubi Effect When we think of China today, we think of a technological superpower. From Huawei and 5G to TikTok and viral social media, China is stride for stride with the United States in the world of computing. However, China’s technological renaissance almost didn’t happen. And for one very basic reason: The Chinese language, with its 70,000 plus characters, couldn’t fit on a keyboard. Today, we tell the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, a hard headed computer programmer who solved this puzzle and laid the foundation... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Aug-18 • 10 minutes Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-18 • 9 minutes They Tap Into the Magical, Hidden Pulse of the Planet, but What is the Nighttime Bird Surveillance Network? On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness. (@sciam)

2023-Aug-18 • 41 minutes The Pulse-Pounding Origin Story of USB-C There’s a new kind of jack in town—well, new as of 2014—called USB-C. This single, tiny connector can carry power, video, audio, and data between electronic gadgets—simultaneously. It can replace a laptop’s power cord, USB jacks, video output jack, and headphone jack. The connector is symmetrical, so you can’t insert it upside-down. It’s identical end for end, too, so it doesn’t matter which end you grab first. USB-C has the potential to charge your gadget faster and transfer data faster than what’s come be... (@Pogue)

2023-Aug-18 • 14 minutes The Key To Uncovering An Ancient Maya City? Lasers Today we enter into the plot of a summer blockbuster adventure movie. Regina talks to NPR reporter Emily Olson about the recently uncovered ancient Maya city, Ocomtun. The large site, which researchers found using LiDAR technology, even seems to have "suburbs," flipping their expectations about how robust the Maya civilization was — and where it was. Read Emily's full story here.Have a science mystery to share? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-18 • 78 minutes All In All We Are All Just Bricks In The Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Demons, Songs via Brain Waves, Fly Plastic, Hidden Consciousness, Better Fake Meat, 3-D Seafood, Extinction Events, Dino Footprints, Octopus Memory, Male Mouse Sex Drive, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Aug-18 • 27 minutes Elections in an AI age & smokers start with less grey matter Plus, why Russia is planning a trip to the moon... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-18 • 34 minutes Job Search: Stories about finding employment Searching for a job in science or in another field is often a daunting task with plenty of challenges, both expected and unexpected. In this week’s episode, each of our storytellers embark on a job hunt that is anything but straightforward. Part 1: To get funding for grad school, Hakim Walker needs to pass a lie detector test. Part 2: In order to keep up the facade of living the American Dream, Xavier Bettencourt applies for a job as a science educator. Hakim Walker was born in Brooklyn, New York to a large... (@storycollider)

2023-Aug-17 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Romeo and Juliet — an age-old tale of love, death and pandemics Romeo and Juliet has always been about life in a pandemic, we're just starting to notice it. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Aug-17 • 29 minutes The science behind the Hawaii fire Hawaii is still reeling from the devastating fires that consumed Lahaina on the island of Maui last week. Professor of Meteorology from the University of Hawaii, Kevin Hamiliton, joins Science in Action to discuss the factors that make these events more likely across the Hawaiian Islands. Amongst these is climate change. Also this week we discuss the concerning reports of a sudden spike in methane levels in the Arctic with Xin Lan of the US National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration. A few weeks ago... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Aug-17 • 46 minutes What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated Ancient wildfires may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals, and do insular societies have more complex languages? | | First up on this week’s show, what killed off North America’s megafauna, such as dire wolves and saber-toothed cats? Online News Editor Mike Price joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the likely culprits: climate or humans, or one that combines both—fire. They discuss how the La Brea Tar Pits are helping researchers figure this out. Read the related Science paper. | | Next up, ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Aug-17 • 33 minutes The wide-ranging effects of climate change This week China hit a record high temperature, a scorching 52.2°C, while Death Valley in California measured 53.9°C. Elsewhere, Europe has been battling searing heat and raging wildfires. In previous editions of Inside Science we’ve explored the effects of heat on our health. This week we’ve zoomed out to get a wider perspective on the impacts of soaring temperatures. First up, Rebecca Tobi from the Food Foundation reveals how this weather will impact the range of foods we are used to seeing on superm... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Aug-17 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | August 17, 2023 With the tragic wildfire in Hawaii, Cool Science Radio discusses the topic with journalist and host of the podcast, ”Fireline,” Justin Angle, who has written , "This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat." (2:14)Then, allergy sufferers no longer have to be held hostage by their symptoms! Hear about some new treatments for environmental allergies and the prevention of progression from allergies to asthma with researcher and sought-after expert, Dr. Roberto Gar... (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Aug-17 • 19 minutes The Story of the Real Lilli Hornig, the Only Female Scientist Named in the Film Oppenheimer Lilli Hornig is the only female scientist mentioned by name in the film Oppenheimer. Here's the story of the real Lilli Hornig. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Aug-17 • 50 minutes Corrupted thinking and cancerous co-option The conversation this week starts off on corruption. There are allegations of political or corporate malfeasance in the news regularly throughout the world. But can science bring anything to the investigators? We look at some efforts to bring empirical rigour to the fight. But corruption of sorts is also a big thing in our online lives. Algorithms can deliver duff results, maybe because they are poorly conceived, or perhaps because they are fed corrupt data. So when our cellular biological algorithms a... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-17 • 27 minutes Killing the Skydancer: episode three, An Open Secret In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly, Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explores the illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors, and asks why it is so difficult to solve these crimes. In the third and final episode, Phoebe finds out more about the pressures that drive people to commit raptor persecution, discovers how the police investigation into the case of Susie’s crushed chicks unfolded, and how Susie is doing now (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-16 • 19 minutes Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Aug-16 • 32 minutes Fruit flies' ability to sense magnetic fields thrown into doubt Study fails to replicate two key papers on fruit flies’ magnetic sense, and what the closing of the Arecibo observatory means for science. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-16 • 12 minutes Hearing Aids Stave Off Cognitive Decline Hearing Aids Stave Off Cognitive Decline (@sciam)

2023-Aug-16 • 9 minutes Cities Aren’t Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore—Especially Lahaina Humans figured out how to prevent huge fires in urban areas over a century ago. Why have they gotten so bad again? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-16 • 34 minutes Can we talk to animals? Two scientists explain how AI might help us translate animal communication, and what we might learn from their squawks, chirps, songs, and chatter. This episode was recorded live at the Aspen Ideas Festival. 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 ch... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Aug-16 • 13 minutes Is Math Real? Kids ask, "Why?" all the time. Why does 1+1=2? Why do we memorize multiplication tables? Many of us eventually stop asking these questions. But mathematician Dr. Eugenia Cheng says they're key to uncovering the beauty behind math. So today, we celebrate endless curiosity and creativity — the driving forces of mathematicians. Regina G. Barber and Eugenia talk imaginary numbers, how to go beyond simply right and wrong and yes, Eugenia answers the question, "Is math real?"Eugenia's new book Is Math Real? is ou... (@NPR)

2023-Aug-16 • 26 minutes Killing the Skydancer: episode two, The Perfect Crime In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly, Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explores the murky world of the illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors, and asks why it is so difficult to solve these crimes. In episode two, Phoebe speaks to the people trying to protect these rare birds, but as she digs deeper encounters a surprising silence around the killing of Susie’s chicks (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-15 • 80 minutes Juan Maldacena: What Is A Wormhole? Juan Maldacena joined Professor Brian Keating for his first-ever podcast to discuss his fascinating work on black holes, AdS CFT, and 'human traversable wormholes and fundamental physics. We discussed the Multiverse, Black Holes, Wormholes, SETI, Life on Einstein Lane at the Institute for Advanced Study, wormholes in movies like Interstellar, and more. Brian and Juan start by chatting about his recent paper "HUMANLY TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES" https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618 which is based, in part, on this ear... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-15 • 9 minutes Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use Chronic drinking depletes the brain’s dopamine levels. A single dose of a gene therapy reset them, and stopped the craving for alcohol. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-15 • 30 minutes How do our eyes, skin and hair get their colors? All the different colors in our eyes, hair and skin are made by a super special substance called melanin! In this episode, we’ll meet a melanocyte, the artistic cell that makes melanin. Plus, Molly and cohost Jeremy talk with Dr. Tina Lasisi to learn why humans have so many different colors of skin in the first place. And a scientist goes undercover to try to solve the many mysteries surrounding melanin. All that, plus a brand new mystery sound!This episode was sponsored by:Didn’t I Just Feed You (Didntijus... (@Brains_On)

2023-Aug-15 • 33 minutes Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023) Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave consequences for us all. Steve Nicholls' book Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future (Princeton UP, 2023) presents insects and other arthropods as you have never seen them before, explaining how they conquered the planet and why there are so many of them, and shedding light on the evolutionary marvels that enabl... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Aug-15 • 83 minutes Diabetology (BLOOD SUGAR) Part 2 Encore with Mike Natter Wrapping up our Diabetology 2 parter encore, diabetic diabetologist and wonderful person Dr. Mike Natter, MD is back with a little introduction covering some stuff that wasn't on the radar back in 2019, like what's the deal with this Ozempic stuff you've heard about, and then Natter from the past goes on to answer all of your questions about blood sugar, the cost of insulin, pancreas transplants, keto, glucagon, how exercise can save your life, his most meaningful interactions with patients, pudding theft,... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-15 • 35 minutes The past, present and future of nukes From discovering the atom, to preparing for a nuclear strike (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-15 • 22 minutes Killing the Skydancer: episode one, Susie’s Chicks In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly, Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explores the murky world of the illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors and asks why it is so difficult to solve these crimes. In episode one, Phoebe hears about the case of Susie, a hen harrier whose chicks were killed while being monitored on camera. As she starts to investigate the case, she hears from conservationist Ruth Tingay about why hen harriers are targeted and finds out about ... (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-14 • 16 minutes Dead Planets Society #3: Gravitational Wave Apocalypse As if burrowing through a planet and blowing up the sun weren’t enough… This time, Chelsea and Leah hope to harness the power of gravitational waves to destroy everything we know and love. Christopher Berry at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)  explains how they could create their own gravitational waves using a bespoke black hole machine, and helps them understand how to control such a device for their nefarious purposes…Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes ou... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-14 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Anne Ferguson-Smith Our genes can tell us so much about us, from why we look the way we look, think the way we think, even what kind of diseases we might be likely to suffer from. But our genes aren't the whole story. There are other, complex and intriguing systems within every cell in our bodies which control which of our tens-of-thousands of genes are switched on, or off, in different parts of the body, and under different circumstances. Welcome to the fascinating world of 'epigenetics', which our guest, the molecular genet... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-14 • 20 minutes Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning in 2004, however, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science in a dark room in Pasadena, exploring Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) by means of the remotely operated Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their tools, sensor... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Aug-14 • 11 minutes Growth mindset and educational outcomes Cameron Hecht discusses an intervention targeting high school teachers to improve student retention and diversity in STEM fields. (@PNASNews)

2023-Aug-14 • 8 minutes In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You (@sciam)

2023-Aug-14 • 6 minutes How NASA Nearly Lost the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Forever The space agency lost touch with the beloved spacecraft following a faulty command signal. Here’s how it happened—and how engineers worked to bring it back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-14 • 69 minutes 246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization I talk with Mayanist David Stuart about Maya civilization, how they kept time, and what they thought about science. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Aug-14 • 40 minutes 721: Unraveling Mysteries Surrounding the Development and Function of Glial Cells - Dr. Sonia Mayoral Dr. Sonia Mayoral is the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Assistant Professor of Brain Science at Brown University. In the lab, Sonia studies glial cells, the cells in your brain that aren’t neurons. These cells perform a lot of different functions and... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Aug-14 • 14 minutes Sperm Can't Really Swim And Other Surprising Pregnancy Facts There's the birds and the bees. And then there's what happens after. The process that leads to the beginning of pregnancy has a lot more twists and turns than a happenstance meeting. Today on Short Wave, NPR health reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin talks about the science of the very first week of pregnancy.Read Selena's full explainer by clicking this link. Or download and print it here. Have an incredible science story to share? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-14 • 54 minutes Granting Immunity* “Diversity or die” could be your new health mantra. Don’t boost your immune system, cultivate it! Like a garden, your body’s defenses benefit from species diversity. Find out why multiple strains of microbes, engaged in a delicate ballet with your T-cells, join internal fungi in combatting disease. Plus, global ecosystems also depend on the diversity of its tiniest members; so what happens when the world’s insects bug out? Guests: Matt Richtel – Author, most recently, of “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordi... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Aug-13 • 63 minutes Richard Ellis: When Galaxies Are Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn Richard S. Ellis is professor of astrophysics at University College London and a world-renowned observational astronomer who has made numerous discoveries about the nature and evolution of the universe. He lives in Cambridge, UK. When Galaxies Were Born is Richard Ellis’s firsthand account of how a pioneering generation of scientists harnessed the world’s largest telescopes to decipher the history of the universe and witness cosmic dawn, the time when starlight first bathed the cosmos and galaxies emerged f... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-13 • 11 minutes Safety, science and a platypus If we had a time machine, we could go back and fix the mistakes we've made. But that probably isn't the best way to prevent mistakes before they happen... | | Trish Kerin believes everyone has a right to be safe at work and has a creative way to encourage us to spot warning signs early, saving us from mistakes ahead of time. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Aug-12 • 54 minutes What can we learn from five minutes of silence? Sometimes we all need to sit in silence ... but is there ever really silence? Take a seat and let your ears provide the answer. (@ABCscience)

2023-Aug-12 The Skeptics Guide #944 - Aug 12 2023 5-10 Year: Loch Ness; News Items: Depression Does Not Cause Cancer, Hidden Undersea World, AI vs Robo Calls, Cement Supercapacitor; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on EVs, RFK Jr on Tik Tok; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Aug-11 • 45 minutes Hawai’i Wildfires, Blue-Fin Tuna Science, Maine’s New Lithium Deposit. August 11, 2023, Part 1 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Devastating Fires Might Become More Common In Hawaii As of Friday morning, at least 55 were dead and thousands were seeking shelter on Maui, after wildfires tore across the Hawaiian island. Officials there say that the fires, once rare, have caused billions of dollars in damage, and the Biden admini... (@scifri)

2023-Aug-11 • 28 minutes Are dogs good for us? Dogs have been our best animal buddy for thousands of years. They’ve helped us out in countless ways from hunting alongside us to guiding us as service dogs. Talk to any pet owner and they’ll tell you how much joy their dog brings them. But you’ll also probably hear about vets bills, muddy footprints, or chewed up slippers. There are plenty of claims about the ways in which dogs might benefit our physical and mental health -- but how strong is the evidence? This week on CrowdScience, listeners Jason and Fi... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Aug-11 • 47 minutes Pod Pregnancy Movie, Increase In Deep-Sea Mining, Upcoming Astronomical Delights. August 11, 2023, Part 2 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In ‘The Pod Generation,’ Pregnancy Goes High-Tech In the new movie The Pod Generation, a wife named Rachel, played by Emilia Clarke, and her husband Alvy, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, want to start a family. In the movie’s near future, you don’t have to have a baby by getting pregnant, or using IVF... (@scifri)

2023-Aug-11 • 26 minutes Weekly: Ultra-processed foods not so bad?; Another milestone toward fusion power; Mapping the genes we know nothing about #210Ultra-processed foods are bad for us and we should avoid them at all costs – right? Well, it’s actually not as clear cut as that.The foods may actually form a much more important part of healthy diets than we release.  Nuclear fusion, which could some day offer a low-waste source of clean power, is one step closer to becoming viable. Last year scientists managed to get more power out of a fusion reactor than they put in – a huge breakthrough for the technology. And this year they’ve done one b... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-11 • 81 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [November 18, 2022] 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: Does gravity's strength cause a fundamental limit for the size a planet? What about a star? What about a black hole? What about a galaxy? What about the universe? - Internal gas pressure and gravity are two main forces for star formation from nebulas. - What was the pressure of the early univers... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-11 • 82 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (November 16, 2022) 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: Did Einstein ever attempt to quantize spacetime, as opposed to treating it as a continuous medium? - We are ultra-interested to hear about this future history of science! - What was the most fantastic experience you had as a physicist? - What is the history behind migrating the entropy term ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-11 • 37 minutes The Internet Dilemma Matthew Herrick was sitting on his stoop in Harlem when something weird happened. Then, it happened again. And again. It happened so many times that it became an absolute nightmare—a nightmare that haunted his life daily and flipped it completely upside down. What stood between Matthew and help were 26 little words. These 26 words, known as Section 230, are the core of an Internet law that coats the tech industry in Teflon. No matter what happens, who gets hurt, or what harm is done, tech companies can’t be... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Aug-11 • 7 minutes The Scary Science of Maui’s Wildfires Wildfires were once rare across the Aloha State. But drought, invasive species, and human development have pushed Hawaii into a fiery new age. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-11 • 89 minutes What's So Super About Science? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: The Milky Way, Denisovans, Social Distance, Super Conductor, Quantum Superchemistry, Nile Crocodiles, Atlantic Conveyer Belt, Humming Galaxy, Space Awareness, Spin Matters, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Aug-11 • 9 minutes The Fish That Conceal Themselves To Hunt All Things Considered host Juana Summers joins Regina G. Barber and Berly McCoy to nerd-out on some of the latest science news buzzing around in our brains. They talk NASA shouting across billions of miles of space to reconnect with Voyager 2, the sneaky tactics trumpetfish use to catch their prey and how climate change is fueling big waves along California's coast. What science story do you want to hear next on Short Wave? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-11 • 28 minutes Prepping for pandemics, and pursuing Perseids Are we prepared for "Pandemic X"? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-11 • 30 minutes Burn Out: Stories about mental exhaustion According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, burnout is defined as “physical, emotional or mental exhaustion, accompanied by decreased motivation, lowered performance and negative attitudes towards oneself and others.” This is what our storytellers are experiencing in this week's episode. Part 1: During her pediatric residency, Erica Martinez finds herself struggling to feel empathy for some of her patients. Part 2: While working as a doctor in South Bronx, Karinn Glover feels overwhelmed and powerless wh... (@storycollider)

2023-Aug-10 • 26 minutes Pandemic surveillance system at risk ProMED is one of the most useful scientific tools you’ve never heard of. It’s a global surveillance system of infectious disease outbreaks which is available, for free, to researchers and the public alike. But ISID, the society which runs the platform, claim they have run out of money to support ProMED and will be switching to a subscription service, against the wishes of both users and staff. ProMED editor Marjorie Pollak tells Science in Action about the vital service ProMED has played in pandemic monitor... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Aug-10 • 24 minutes Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh First up on this week’s show, we hear about the skewed perception of our own hands, extremely weird giant viruses, champion regenerating flatworms, and more from Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox. Christie also chats with host Sarah Crespi about her work on a daily newsletter and what it takes to do it 5 days a week. Read more newsletters and sign up for your daily dose of Science and science. | Next on the show, AAAS Intern Andrew Saintsing learns about why trees are repulsive—to one another. Michael Kalyu... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Aug-10 • 33 minutes How social media can affect the health of teenagers The Threads social media app launched on 5th July. Instagram users were able to sign up with just a few clicks. It joins a plethora of other social media apps like Snapchat, Twitter and TikTok, all of which are readily accessible on our phones. With all these apps at our fingertips, it’s never been easier for us to discover new people to follow, keep in touch with our friends and stay up to date with the latest news about our favourite celebrities. But Professor Devi Sridhar, the chair of global public he... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Aug-10 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | August 10, 2023 Earl Foote, founder of Nexus IT, explores the world of current cyber threats and technology trends. (1:01)Then, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Susan Casey discusses her new book about the hidden abyss that is the deep ocean, "The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Oceans." How much lost history is down there? How much knowledge and how many geological marvels and undescribed species? (25:08) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Aug-10 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: What the life of Ira Hayes can teach us about the price of heroism Ira Hayes has been commemorated in movies and songs, but his actual life after WWII is still shrouded in a lot of mystery. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Aug-10 • 45 minutes Racism in health: the roots of the US Black maternal mortality crisis A perfect storm of factors has led to huge racial disparities in maternal healthcare. In the USA, as abortion clinics continue to close, this inequity is projected to widen. In this podcast from Nature and ScientificAmerican, we hear from leading academics unpacking the racism at the heart of the system. From the historical links between slavery and gynaecology to the systematic erasure of America’s Black midwives. What is behind the Black maternal mortality crisis, and what needs to change?Read more of&nbs... (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-10 • 7 minutes The Weird Way That Human Waste Is Killing Corals Wastewater fuels blooms of reef-smothering algae. Better engineering and an army of funny-looking fish can come to the rescue. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-10 • 61 minutes Diabetology (BLOOD SUGAR) Part 1 Encore with Mike Natter Dr. Mike Natter hosts this encore episode of Ologies (hosted by Alie Ward), it's a classic 2 parter: Diabetology about the happy, moody-, sweaty-, unconscious-, and possibly even homicidal-making sugar in our blood. In this episode, Dr. Mike Natter dishes about how blood sugar works, what insulin does, and how prevalent diabetes is in all of its various forms. Also: keto vs. vegan, hypoglycemia, cyborg organs, owl hoots, gestational diabetes, type 1 vs. type 2 and ... does Gwyneth drink her own pee? Also: t... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-10 • 7 minutes Minisode: Dadward Takes a Break Listen, kids... give your father a break, okay? Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media and Mark David Christenson Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Ni... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-10 • 45 minutes Racism in Health: The Roots of the U.S. Black Maternal Mortality Crisis What is behind the Black maternal mortality crisis, and what needs to change? In this podcast from Nature and Scientific American, leading academics unpack the racism at the heart of the system. (@sciam)

2023-Aug-10 • 54 minutes Some of our universe is missing This week on the show that looks for the science behind the news, Marnie Chesterton investigates mystery after mystery. Where is Yevegeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, and could science help to trace him? Which animals would do best at a game of hide and seek? And we hear about the time when half the stuff in the universe went missing, and how cosmologists found it again. We continue our endless quest to identify the Coolest Science in the World. This week’s contender studies the murky side o... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-10 • 17 minutes Summer picks: are we any closer to understanding long Covid? In this episode from March 2023, Ian Sample hears from Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, Prof Catherine Heymans, about her experience of long Covid and how it has affected her life. He also speaks to Prof Danny Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London, about the scientific understanding of the condition, and whether we’re any closer to a treatment (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-09 • 116 minutes String Gas Cosmology: Challenging Inflation | Robert Brandenberger Watch this episode on YouTube to see the slides: https://youtu.be/G3xy-bEDJCY "I view string theory as the most promising way to quantize matter and gravity in a unified way. We need both quantum gravity and we need unification and a quantization of gravity. One of the reasons why string theory is promising is that there are no singularities associated with those singularities are the same type that they offer point particles." — Robert Brandenberger In this thought-provoking conversation, my grad school m... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-09 • 26 minutes How welcome are refugees in Europe? A giant study has some answers A survey of 33,000 Europeans suggests overall support towards refugees has slightly increased, and how to get shapes to roll down wiggly paths using mathematics. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-09 • 9 minutes The Mystery Genes That Are Keeping You Alive Nobody knows what around a fifth of your genes actually do. It’s hoped they could hold the secret to fixing developmental disorders, cancer, neurodegeneration, and more. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-09 • 30 minutes Unexplainable or Not: Beach day! Sam Sanders, host of Vulture’s Into It podcast, is in the hot seat for a new episode of our game show. Can he guess which sandy mystery has been solved and which ones are still unexplainable? 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 po... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Aug-09 • 13 minutes The Fungi Economy, Part 3: Can Climate Modeling from Space Save Our Forests? The Fungi Economy, Part 3: Can Climate Modeling from Space Save Our Forests? (@sciam)

2023-Aug-09 • 11 minutes The Science Of Happiness Sounds Great. But Is The Research Solid? How do we really get happier? In a new review in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers Elizabeth Dunn and Dunigan Folk found that many common strategies for increasing our happiness may not be supported by strong evidence. In today's Short Wave episode, Dunn tells co-host Aaron Scott about changes in the way scientists are conducting research, and how these changes led her team to re-examine previous work in the field of psychology. Want to hear Dunn read the paper? Check it out here. Questions? E... (@NPR)

2023-Aug-08 • 12 minutes Everyone Was Wrong About Antipsychotics An unprecedented look at dopamine in the brain reveals that psychosis drugs get developed with the wrong neurons in mind. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-08 • 30 minutes How much can your brain hold? Your brain does so much stuff! It makes sure your heart is always pumping and your lungs are breathing — plus it stores all kinds of important information, like your best friend’s birthday or your pet’s favorite kind of treat. But could your brain ever run out of storage space?In this episode, Molly and cohosts Corinne and Suriya learn all about our mighty memories. They crack the code on brain storage and figure out the science of forgetting! Plus, an unforgettable new mystery sound.This episode was spons... (@Brains_On)

2023-Aug-08 • 43 minutes Blue From trustworthy to calming, sad to steadfast, and, of course, jeans - the color blue means a lot of things to a lot of people. Join Team Tangents as we delve into this deceptively complicated primary color! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Aug-08 • 58 minutes Q&A: Knuth, curry and kettles How much of the universe is empty space... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Aug-08 • 15 minutes Summer picks: should we ban artificial grass? Installing artificial grass is becoming an increasingly popular way to achieve a neat, green lawn without much effort. But with environmental and potential health costs associated with plastic turf many campaigners and gardeners would like to see it banned. In this episode from April 2023, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian feature writer Sam Wollaston and urban ecologist Prof Rob Francis about why people go for artificial grass, its environmental impact, and whether it’s time we rid ourselves of the idea ... (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-07 • 20 minutes CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road Scientist and broadcaster Alice Roberts has written her first children’s book. The fictional tale follows prehistoric girl Tuuli, and captures the story of her encounter with a strange boy who leads her on a great adventure.Inspired by her own experiences trekking through the arctic, the book imagines what life would’ve been like for humans of the time, how they might’ve interacted with neanderthals and grapples with questions like: how were the first wolves domesticated?In this episode of CultureLab, New S... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-07 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Bruce Malamud From landslides and wildfires to floods and tornadoes, Bruce Malamud has spent his career travelling the world and studying natural hazards. Today, he is Wilson Chair of Hazard and Risk and executive director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University - but as he tells Jim al-Khalili, a lifelong passion for discovery has taken Bruce from volunteering with the Peace Corps in West Africa and a Fulbright Fellowship in Argentina, to fieldwork in India; not only studying hazards themse... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-07 • 218 minutes AMA | August 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for August 2023. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Aug-07 • 16 minutes The Fungi Economy, Part 2: Here's How Plants and Fungi Trade beneath Our Feet The Fungi Economy, Part 2: Here's How Plants and Fungi Trade beneath Our Feet (@sciam)

2023-Aug-07 • 69 minutes 720: Stimulating Research on the Mechanisms of Memory and Applications of Memory Modulation - Dr. Steve Ramirez Dr. Steve Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. In his research, Steve is studying learning and memory, and he is interested in discovering whether it is possible to artificially... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Aug-07 • 11 minutes Black Metallurgists, Iron And The Industrial Revolution The ability to create wrought iron cheaply has been called one of the most significant innovations in the British Industrial Revolution. It's known today as the Cort process, named after British banker Henry Cort, who patented the technique. But Dr. Jenny Bulstrode, a historian at University College London (UCL), found that Cort stole the innovation from 76 Black enslaved ironworkers in Jamaica. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-07 • 57 minutes Skeptic Check: UFO Conspiracy UFOs are back. This time they’ve landed on Capitol Hill in the form of a public, congressional hearing. We watched the hearing with great interest, but felt dissatisfied when it came to evidence. Claims that the government has alien technology are obviously tantalizing. So tantalizing, in fact, that it’s easy to overlook logical fallacies in how these claims are presented. We identify a few of the missteps. But what would convince you that the government is aware of alien visitation? Is the word of an autho... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Aug-06 • 66 minutes The Discovery of The Century or BUST? High Temperature Superconductor | Inna Vishik and Jorge Hirsch See the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/qQnDatnAWP4... news! A team of scientists in South Korea has made an extraordinary claim: they have discovered a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. This means that they have found a material that can conduct electricity perfectly under everyday conditions. This is a huge deal. If it's true, it could revolutionize many technologies. We could have perfectly efficient power grids, levitating trains, and commercially viable fusion r... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Aug-06 • 12 minutes When AI surprises a software engineer We're getting pretty familiar with hearing people talk about AI and what it could mean for our future. | | Luckily we humans still have the power to shape how that will look. | | Rashina Hoda is one of those humans and she's hoping to make sure AI is used in an ethical way. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Aug-05 • 43 minutes Cosmic Dust Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out about dust that is raining down on Earth from space. They are joined by planetary scientists Matthew Genge and Penny Wozniakiewicz and comedian Alan Davies. They learn how billions of tiny micrometeorites land on the surface of the Earth every year, hidden amongst pollution particles and household dust. Where does cosmic dust come from and what can it tell us about the birth of the solar system? New episodes are released on Saturdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the ful... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Aug-05 • 54 minutes The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres The Exploratorium in San Francisco opened in 1969, and went on to inspire our own science centres in Australia. (@ABCscience)

2023-Aug-05 The Skeptics Guide #943 - Aug 5 2023 What's the Word: Mereology; News Items: Glass Coated DNA, How Deadly in Heat, Australian Psychics, Speech Deepfake,s; Special Report: Electric Vehicle Myths; Quickie with Bob: Heaviest Animal; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Aug-04 • 47 minutes Answering Evolution Questions, Planetary Protection. Aug 4, 2023, Part 2 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Protecting Other Planets From Earth’s Germs For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to avoid contaminating other planets as they explore them—an idea called planetary protection. As missions venture forth to places such as Mars or Jupiter’s moon, Europa, the need to protect worlds tha... (@scifri)

2023-Aug-04 • 47 minutes Artificial Sweetener Safety, Nuclear Weapons Tech. Aug 4, 2023, Part 1 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. A Possible Breakthrough Superconductor Has Scientists Split Recently, a superconducting material went viral in the scientific community. Researchers in South Korea say they’ve discovered a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor. If it works, it would create electricity under normal, every... (@scifri)

2023-Aug-04 • 27 minutes Is the ‘sunshine cure’ a real thing? Imagine spending six months of every year living in total shade. That’s what life is like for residents of the Norwegian town of Rjukan, set so low in a valley that they see no direct sunshine at all from October to March. Marnie Chesterton heads there to hear about an ingenious solution: giant mirrors that beam rays down into the town square, where locals gather to feel the reflected heat. The man behind the project was motivated by a need for winter sun – but how much difference does it really make ... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Aug-04 • 70 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [November 11, 2022] 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: How does sand form near the sea? - Is grammar invented or discovered? - ​I believe there exists a 13 letter language from a pacific island. Do you think a 10 letter language would be useful since every word would also be a base 10 number? - ​How can a natural programming language replace older c... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-04 • 80 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (November 9, 2022) 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 prepare for your keynote talks about new technologies and Wolfram Language features? - What barriers currently still exist that keep AR/VR from being widely useful in the workplace? - One thing I genuinely appreciate about Stephen is his obvious incredible delight wh... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Aug-04 • 40 minutes CeCe Moore Cracks Cold Cases with Genealogy Genealogy has been around a while. So has DNA evidence. But what if you combined the two? What if you could use DNA from a crime scene, compare the unknown killer’s genetics with public databases of other people’s DNA, figure out who his relatives are, and thereby determine his identity? That’s the system that CeCe Moore invented five years ago. So far, she’s cracked over 270 cold cases using this method—and brought closure to hundreds of grieving families. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy ... (@Pogue)

2023-Aug-04 • 33 minutes Weekly: Surprise superconductor claims put to the test; Alzheimer’s test goes on sale; how NASA (briefly) lost Voyager 2 #209The saga of the room-temperature superconductor continues. The creators of a new material called LK-99 maintain that it perfectly conducts electricity at room temperature and pressure and so other scientists are racing to try to test it for themselves. If the findings are true it would be transformative to science and technology. It’s not just researchers, however, who are testing the material, citizen scientists are also trying to create it at home. Early results are now in.There’s a plan to pump milli... (@newscientist)

2023-Aug-04 • 26 minutes Is the ‘sunshine cure’ a real thing? Imagine spending six months of every year living in total shade. That’s what life is like for residents of the Norwegian town of Rjukan, set so low in a valley that they see no direct sunshine at all from October to March. Marnie Chesterton heads there to hear about an ingenious solution: giant mirrors that beam rays down into the town square, where locals gather to feel the reflected heat. The man behind the project was motivated by a need for winter sun – but how much difference does it really make to our... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Aug-04 • 13 minutes The Fungi Economy, Part 1: Just like Us, Trees Are Experiencing Inflation The Fungi Economy, Part 1: Just like Us, Trees Are Experiencing Inflation (@sciam)

2023-Aug-04 • 54 minutes Right to be Forgotten In online news, stories live forever. The tipsy photograph of you at the college football game? It’s there. That news article about the political rally you were marching at? It’s there. A charge for driving under the influence? That’s there, too. But what if... it wasn’t? Several years ago a group of journalists in Cleveland, Ohio, tried an experiment that had the potential to turn things upside down: they started unpublishing content they’d already published. Photographs, names, entire articles. Every mont... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Aug-04 • 9 minutes Covid’s Summer Wave Is Rising—Again Covid-19 cases are slowly increasing across the US for the fourth summer in a row. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-04 • 10 minutes This Sausage-Shaped Part Of Your Brain Causes Out-Of-Body Experiences Ever felt like you were watching yourself and the rest of the world from outside of your body? Or floating above yourself? Well, scientists finally know what part of your brain is causing that sensation. NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton shares the tale of the discovery with host Aaron Scott. Plus, they talk about why it may be helpful to occasionally venture outside of your bodily self. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-04 • 136 minutes This is the Day After. Whatchya Gonna Do Science? This Week: Ancient Discoveries, NASA on UAPs, Tall Tall Trees, Ryugu Rocks, Scandalous Sports Supplements, Eating Plastic, Tickling Rats for Science!, Do power lines kill birds?, Mosquito-Friendly Gene Drive, Cooperation in Cancer Cells, Memory Rhythm, The Stop Spot, Robot Comedians, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Aug-04 • 33 minutes Overthinking: Stories about repetitive thoughts If you’ve ever found yourself thinking about a problem or a situation over and over again, you might be an over-thinker like our storytellers. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers think about something too much and for too long. Part 1: Clinical psychologist Saren Seeley can’t stop obsessing about her research. Part 2: In therapy, comedian Nat Towsen realizes he’s always thinking too much. Saren H. Seeley is a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychiatry Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mo... (@storycollider)

2023-Aug-03 • 30 minutes Bird Flu is back Science in Action returns to H5N1, the fast spreading strain of bird flu which has caused devastation in the sky, sea, and land over the last few months, with no end in sight. Roland visits Skomer Island and the coast of Wales where sea bird colonies are threatened and hundreds of guillemots have washed ashore dead, struck down by bird flu. We also hear of outbreaks on Finnish fur farms where controversial plans are in progress for culls of wild birds, of mysterious infections of domestic cats in Polan... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Aug-03 • 34 minutes Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in African American ancestry, and a reckoning for Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum | | First up on this week’s show, ancient DNA researchers and ancestry giant 23andMe joined forces to uncover present day ties to a cemetery at the Catoctin Furnace ironworks in Maryland, where enslaved people were buried. Contributing producers and hosts of the Dope Labs podcast Titi Shodiya and Zakiya Whatley spoke w... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Aug-03 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | August 3, 2023 Author Maureen Seaberg explores new science about the senses. From being able to hear amplitudes smaller than an atom to being able to smell a trillion scents, our senses are more astonishing than you may know. (1:17)Then, Dr. Stephen Badylak, discusses the biomaterials from which spinal interbody fusion devices are manufactured and new technology that is improving outcomes. (27:21) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Aug-03 • 10 minutes This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves A prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-03 • 16 minutes No Place for a Woman in Mathematics? The Woman Who Ended up Supervising The Computations that Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work Naomi Livesay supervised the mechanical computing operation at Los Alamos and worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she has rarely been mentioned as more than a footnote. Until now. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Aug-03 • 50 minutes The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas The World Cup has us looking at why women get more ACL injuries, how to avoid cracking under pressure, and why some animals play dead. Also on the program we consider the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence in Africa, whether the continent is turning to nuclear power, and if banana skins are hallucinogenic. (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Aug-03 • 19 minutes Summer picks: could the multiverse be real? The film Everything Everywhere All at Once won the 2023 Academy Award for Best Picture. In this episode from March 2023, just before the Oscars, Ian Sample spoke to the theoretical physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll about why we seem to be drawn to the idea of multiple worlds, and what the science says about how the multiverse might actually work (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-02 • 35 minutes Mapping the universe A rocket launch, super-massive black holes and ghost particles! This past week’s scientific findings are testament to how hard-at-work cosmologists and physicists have been seeking out the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the rules that govern it. Professor of Cosmology at UCL, Andrew Pontzen, joins Marnie Chesterton to discuss the lot of them. Euclid took to the stars on Saturday, carrying a wide-angle space telescope that promises the opportunity to create a far larger and accurate 3D map... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Aug-02 • 32 minutes How to get more women in science, with Athene Donald The experimental physicist joins us to talk about her book Not just for the boys, why we need more women in science. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Aug-02 • 21 minutes How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Slow Burn” by Kevin MacLeod. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Aug-02 • 8 minutes The First Pill for Postpartum Depression Is Almost Here Current treatments for depression after giving birth are either slow to work or hard to get. The FDA is considering a new tablet that relieves symptoms within days. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-02 • 25 minutes Who let the wolves in? Dogs were the first domesticated animal in history, emerging from wolves some 20,000 years ago. But how did wolves become dogs? To find the answer, scientists have to play with a lot of puppies. 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 ... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Aug-02 • 79 minutes Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH) with Nita Farahany Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chatbots, what’s changed recently, the potential for good, the possible perils, how different lawmakers are stepping in, and whether or not this is scary dinner party conversation. Do you have feelings about AI and brain implants? Hopef... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Aug-02 • 9 minutes Could Weight-Loss Drugs Curb Addiction? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 12 Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well as shed pounds. (@sciam)

2023-Aug-02 • 15 minutes The Secrecy Of The Horseshoe Crab Blood Harvest For decades, humans have harvested the blood of horseshoe crabs, which is used to test whether many of our vaccines and medicines are contaminated with harmful bacterial toxins. But the horseshoe crab harvesting industry has few regulations and a lot of secrecy. NPR investigative reporter Chiara Eisner talks to us about expansion of this industry and why synthetic alternatives to the blood aren't being widely used in the United States. (@NPR)

2023-Aug-01 • 9 minutes The Mystery of the Colorado River’s Missing Water Snow is falling—but it doesn’t show up to replenish the river. In a drying West, researchers are racing to find out where it goes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Aug-01 • 31 minutes Can boredom be good for you? Boredom is something we all feel sometimes, when nothing seems fun or interesting. But have you ever wondered what’s actually going on in your brain when you feel that way? Can it ever be good for you to be bored? Molly and co-host Maisie explore how boredom can lead to creativity, and how our brain can work past that blah feeling. Plus, a boredom-blasting brain workout from Sanden and his pal Pete the wombat, and a brand new Mystery Sound!This episode was sponsored by:Didn’t I Just Feed You (Didntijustfeed... (@Brains_On)

2023-Aug-01 • 12 minutes Summer picks: what’s the reality behind the ‘Love Island smile’? As the 10th series of the ITV show finishes, viewers may have noticed the perfectly straight, white teeth of the contestants. But are there risks associated with achieving a flawless smile? In this episode from January 2023, Madeleine Finlay speaks to dentist Paul Woodhouse about some of the dangers of dental tourism (@guardianscience)

2023-Aug-01 • 30 minutes Hydrogen: fuel or folly? Does hydrogen have a part to play in our net zero ambitions? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-31 • 21 minutes Dead Planets Society #2: Punch A Hole in a Planet In this episode of Dead Planets Society, Leah and Chelsea embark on a boring journey… no, as in they literally try to bore through a planet! With the help of planetary scientists,  Baptiste Journaux of the University of Washington and Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology, our hosts drill down into the science of achieving this momentous task, discussing which planets are perfect for perforation, how to deal with melting drill bits, and catapulting a whale to outer space…Tune in ... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-31 • 17 minutes The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes. Yan... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jul-31 • 82 minutes UAP Disclosure: Eyewitness encounters with Ryan Graves See the Video of this episode here! https://youtu.be/tnQtfv93agA "The gimbal object...we had never seen anything like that before!" In today's episode, we have a fascinating conversation with Ryan Graves, who shares his encounters with multiple unidentified objects that flew past Navy F-18 aircraft over extended periods. As we delve into this extraordinary event, we explore the complexities surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and the challenges of reporting them. From the stigma surrounding UAP... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jul-31 • 27 minutes The Life Scientific: Andre Geim The world around us is three-dimensional. Yet, there are materials that can be regarded as two-dimensional. They are only one layer of atoms thick and have remarkable properties that are different from their three-dimensional counterparts. Sir Andre Geim created the first-ever man-made 2D material, by isolating graphene, and is one of the pioneers in this line of research. Even beyond his Nobel Prize-winning work on graphene, he has explored new ideas in many different areas of physics throughout his caree... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-31 • 9 minutes How to Roll a Joint Perfectly, according to Science How to Roll a Joint Perfectly, according to Science (@sciam)

2023-Jul-31 • 13 minutes Christmas in July! Celebrate With Hilarious Research Would you survive as a doctor in The Sims 4? What's the appropriate amount of free food to take from a public sample station before it's considered greedy? And how much of an impact do clock towers have on sleep? These are the hard-hitting questions that researchers ask and answer in the Christmas issue of The BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal. What started in 1982 as an experimental roundup of fun research for the holidays has since grown into one of The BMJ's most highly anticipated issue... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-31 • 10 minutes How dehorning affects rhino behavior Vanessa Duthé explains how dehorning affects the behavior of black rhinoceroses. (@PNASNews)

2023-Jul-31 • 262 minutes 245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics I talk about why there's not really a crisis in physics, although there definitely are ways the field could improve. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Jul-31 • 15 minutes Audio long read: Lab mice go wild — making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain Neuroscientists are developing new set-ups to study how the brain might work in the messy, unpredictable real world. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Jul-31 • 12 minutes Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal When humans and a neural network viewed pieces of art, they all found the same images memorable. What those images have in common offers a glimpse into what fascinates the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-31 • 39 minutes 719: Studying the Sea through Shells, Skeletons, and Sediments - Dr. Abby Smith Dr. Abby Smith is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Marine Science at the University of Otago. In the lab, Abby is dedicated to studying shells and the animals that make shells. She is interested in how shells are made, what they... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Jul-31 • 54 minutes We'll Always Have Parasites Imagine tapeworms longer than the height of an adult human. Or microbes that turn their hosts into zombies. If the revulsion they induce doesn’t do it, the sheer number of parasites force us to pay attention. They are the most abundant form of animal life on Earth. Parasites can cause untold human suffering, like those that cause African River Blindness or Lyme disease, but their presence is also a sign of a health ecosystem. A parasitologist whose lab contains the largest parasite collection in the world g... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Jul-30 • 12 minutes Advancing women's health with mice? Researchers have a lot of unanswered questions about female reproductive health. | | Today's speaker has a story of a discovery that will hopefully advance this area of science, but found in a very unlikely place. | | We have some live shows coming up, and we'd love to see you there! Get your tickets here. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Jul-29 • 42 minutes Ancient DNA Secrets Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Horrible Histories alum Ben Willbond, ancient DNA experts Prof Turi King and Dr Tom Booth and Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse, as they uncover some of the incredible revelations being revealed through study of ancient DNA. The discovery of the skeleton of Richard III under a Leicester car park made headlines around the world.Turi King talks about her involvement in identifying the regal remains using DNA extracted from his teeth and how she was able to prove that th... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Jul-29 • 54 minutes Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets Scientists are harnessing the very small to explore very big things — from faults in massive structures to time reversal at the molecular level. (@ABCscience)

2023-Jul-29 The Skeptics Guide #942 - Jul 29 2023 Quickie With Steve: Another Alzheimer Drug; News Items: Can AI Learn Like Humans, Room Temperature Superconductor, A Galaxy Without Dark Matter, Men Convicted for Mineral Solution; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Talent vs Skill; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Jul-29 • 12 minutes The Jackson Water Crisis Through A Student Journalist's Eyes In this special episode, we hear from the high school grand prize winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge: Georgianna McKenny. A rising senior at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, the 17-year-old rings an alarm on the water crisis in Jackson, through the lens of young people. Emily, who was one of the judges of this year's contest, talks to Georgianna about her winning podcast and their shared love for storytelling. (@NPR)

2023-Jul-28 • 67 minutes Stephen Wolfram on Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds 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/2023... | Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X8DQuazATdM (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-28 • 35 minutes Why does some music make us sad? CrowdScience investigates the link between music and emotion to try and understand why certain songs can have such a profound impact on our mood. From breakup songs to upbeat holiday hits, many of us have made playlists that reflect how we feel, whether that’s down in the dumps or high as a kite. This week CrowdScience investigates the link between music and emotion to try and understand why certain songs can have such a profound impact on our mood. Presenter Anand Jagatia is surprised to learn that new... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Jul-28 • 10 minutes Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy (@sciam)

2023-Jul-28 • 48 minutes The Cat’s Meow, Chumash Marine Sanctuary, EV Tires. July 28, 2023, Part 2 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. What Is Your Cat’s Meow Trying To Tell You? Cats have formed bonds with humans for thousands of years. But what exactly is going on in our furry friends’ brains? What are they trying to tell us with their meows? And why did humans start keeping cats as pets anyway? To help answer those questions and... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-28 • 48 minutes Kākāpō Conservation, NYC Parrots, One Year After the Dobbs Decision. July 28, 2023, Part 1 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. No, The Gulf Stream Is Not Collapsing A sobering climate study came out this week in the journal Nature Communications. It suggests that a system of ocean currents—called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)—could collapse sometime between 2025 and 2095, which could have dire clima... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-28 • 94 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [November 4, 2022] 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: Are all pixels squares/rectangles, or have other shapes (which can tile the plane) been used? - Why hasn't all the cosmic background radiation escaped out into the universe by now? How is it still around to be detected billions of years later? - It's weird to talk about time experienced by a pho... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-28 • 100 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (November 2, 2022) 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: Do you think that in the future, people will look at our societal interest in math and science the same way we view alchemists and theologians of old? - Tell us about the history of chess computers and the approaches they used before deep learning. - Can you talk about the history of softwar... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-28 • 27 minutes Weekly: Cheaper cures for many diseases; How to understand the superconductor ‘breakthrough’; Hear a star twinkle New Scientist Weekly #208Better and cheaper treatments for everything from sickle cell disease to ageing should come as a result of a new technique for delivering mRNA to blood stem cells. The technique has been adapted from the technology in mRNA covid-19 vaccines and could even be used for doping in sport.Controversial claims of a superconductor that works at room temperature and pressure have ignited heated discussion this week. Such a finding would be revolutionary, with implications for transport, medi... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-28 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: The US is not prepared for the dangers of zoonotic diseases There is no national strategy, let alone a global one to mitigate the dangers of diseases that spread from animals to humans. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Jul-28 • 35 minutes Little Black Holes Everywhere In 1908, on a sunny, clear, quiet morning in Siberia, witnesses recall seeing a blinding light streak across the sky, and then… the earth shook, a forest was flattened, fish were thrown from streams, and roofs were blown off houses. The “Tunguska event,” as it came to be known, was one of the largest extraterrestrial impact events in Earth’s history. But what kind of impact—what exactly struck the earth in the middle of Siberia?—is still up for debate. Producer Annie McEwen dives into one idea that suggests... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Jul-28 • 9 minutes Heat Waves Aren’t Just Getting Hotter—They’re Sticker Too This summer's extraordinary heat is but a preview of what's to come: Humidity not only makes daytime highs more miserable, it extends the hotness through the night. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-28 • 28 minutes Global boiling, and crashed crafts on Mars Plus, a new biobank scheme aimed at children (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-28 • 9 minutes Peanuts, Pets And Poopy Shores For most infants, introducing peanuts early can help prevent allergies later on — but a new study reveals most caregivers don't know that. Why? Plus — some summertime advice for keeping pets cool in the heat, and avoiding beaches contaminated with poop. (A lot of them are.) All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly joins Regina G. Barber and Aaron Scott to discuss those stories in our science news roundup.Have questions about science in the news? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Jul-28 • 101 minutes Nothing Compares 2 Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Ruining AMOC, Indonesian Barrier, Restoring Fertility?, Fighting Malaria, The Loch Ness Monster, Fish, Egg Stealing Birds, Stair Trouble, Curious Vs Urgent, Robot Preacher, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Jul-28 • 29 minutes Fish Out of Water: Stories about feeling out of one's element When life throws you into unusual or unfamiliar situations, it’s hard to feel comfortable or confident in your skills. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers grapple with feeling like a fish out of water. Part 1: When Neeti Jain dissects her first fish in the lab, she feels like she’s not cut out to be a scientist in marine ecology. Part 2: As the new chief public health officer, Harold Cox feels out of his depth when their office receives a package with what appears to be anthrax. Neeti Jain is a... (@storycollider)

2023-Jul-27 • 26 minutes Ocean current collapse A large system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has been making headlines this week as a new paper predicts its imminent collapse. This could have devastating consequences for the climate. But not all climate scientist and oceanographers are convinced by the results. Stefan Rahmstorf and Eleanor Frajka-Williams debate the contentious paper. In more positive news, huge steps have been made in the field of gene therapy. Stefano Rivella and Hamideh Parhiz tell... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Jul-27 • 10 minutes Facebook ‘echo chamber’ has little impact on polarized views, according to study An experiment which tweaked social media algorithms found no effect on polarization of views. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Jul-27 • 46 minutes Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa On this week’s show: evaluating scientific collaborations between independent scholars and industry, farming in ancient Europe, and a book from our series on sex, gender, and science. | | First up on this week’s show, a look behind the scenes at a collaboration between a social media company and 17 academics. Host Sarah Crespi speaks with Michael Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication who acted as an impartial observer for Meta’s U.S. 2020 ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Jul-27 • 30 minutes Heat and health Last summer saw intense heatwaves across the world. And already this year, global air, surface and sea temperatures have hit the highest levels on record. China, India and the US are currently experiencing heatwaves. In June, the UK’s Met Office released a health warning because of the high temperatures. In this episode Gaia Vince investigates what causes heatwaves and how hotter weather impacts our health. She finds out how we can prepare ourselves as the temperatures rise. Gaia is joined by Peter St... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Jul-27 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | July 27, 2023 Author Kathy Joseph tells the fascinating history of the dreamers and schemers who harnessed electricity and changed our world. (0:59)Then, Bill Latten, president of the Southern California Timing Association, talks about Bonneville Speed Week and the technology behind these feats of speed. (26:01) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Jul-27 • 11 minutes Why Scientists Are Clashing Over the Atlantic’s Critical Currents Is the system of currents that runs through the Atlantic about to shut down, creating climate chaos? Depends on who you ask. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-27 • 15 minutes Blood, Sweat, and Fears: The Story of Floy Agnes Lee, the Young Woman Who Analyzed the Blood of Manhattan Project Scientists Floy Agnes Lee was a hematologist at Los Alamos. Recruited to the Manhattan Project while still a student at University of New Mexico, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan Project scientists, including Louis Slotin, following an accident that exposed him to a fatal dose of radiation. Years after the war, she returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory and conducted research on the impact of radiation on chromosomes. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Jul-27 • 50 minutes Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot As Netflix cracks down on password sharing around the world - something it once encouraged - we wondered why people like to share passwords to other things, such as phones, email accounts and logins. Passwords and encryption exist as ways of protecting us from hostile agents in most aspects of life. But timing is everything. Nature has been doing it for years of course. But climate change is upsetting some of the ecological match-ups of locks and keys, migration and feeding that have evolved over the mill... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-27 • 15 minutes Canadian lake could mark the start of new geological epoch Plutonium from nuclear weapons, industrial waste, and human activity more broadly have left such a mark on the Earth that a new epoch called the Anthropocene has been proposed. Why have scientists picked a quiet lake in Canada as the spot to define this epoch? (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-26 • 46 minutes Replay: University of Adversity with Brian Keating and Lance Essihos Professor Brian Keating tells listeners: “If you go through life and you have this expectation that you are going to have the wind at your back. You are going to be much more disappointed than if you expect there to be adversity, headwinds, friction, and flux. Then you overcome it or maybe it is not even there.” How to engage passion in aspiring astronomers The emotion behind winning a Nobel Prize Coping with rejection and humiliation The importance of meditation Finding meaning in the unknown Lance ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jul-26 • 9 minutes Here's Why Actors Are So Worried about AI Here's Why Actors Are So Worried about AI (@sciam)

2023-Jul-26 • 45 minutes Does Nothingness Exist? Aristotle argued almost 2,400 years ago that a perfect vacuum could never exist. Today, the concept of nothingness figures at least implicitly into almost every theory of modern physics. In this episode closing out season 2 of “The Joy of Why,” the theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia of New York University and the Institute for Advanced Study talks with host Steven Strogatz about the impact of quantum mechanics on the definition of a “true vacuum,” the possibility of false vacuums, how the concept of... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-Jul-26 • 21 minutes AI-enhanced night-vision lets users see in the dark Night-vision technology gets a boost from machine learning, and the mysterious link between COVID-19 and type-1 diabetes. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Jul-26 • 10 minutes Coming Soon Near You: Bears Extreme heat and other weather events are driving bears closer to humans’ campgrounds and hiking trails—and that’s no good for either species. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-26 • 75 minutes The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. Aaron is also External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. We talk about what the science of science can contribute to your career in research. Aaron Clauset : "In science, having good ideas is, in the end, the most important part. You can go a long way, in terms of surviving in the ecosystem of scientific research, on the basis of having really good ideas. Beca... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jul-26 • 27 minutes Why do we have a moon? In all our searching of the universe, we’ve never seen another moon like ours. It's big, it's weird, and it has played a huge role in shaping our planet. But how did we get it? Every possible story points to cataclysm. This episode originally ran on June 15, 2022. It is part of our Lost Worlds series exploring scientific mysteries buried in the deep past. 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! unexp... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Jul-26 • 96 minutes Sciuridology (SQUIRRELS) with Karen Munroe Flying squirrels. Fox squirrels. Giant squirrels. Tiny ones. Grey ones. Black ones. Fluorescent ones? Alie is losing her mind talking to dream guest and Sciuridologist, Dr. Karen Munroe. This Baldwin Wallace University professor has studied squirrels for decades and addresses where they sleep, how many babies they have, if they bite each other’s junk, how they find their acorns, Marvel movies, birdfeeder drama, imported squirrels, melanistic morphs, world domination, fistfights with birders, the rarest squi... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Jul-26 • 11 minutes Why Babies Babble And What It Can Teach Adults About Language In which we metaphorically enter the UCLA Language Acquisistion Lab's recording castle, guided by linguistics researcher Dr. Megha Sundara. NPR science correspondent Sydney Lupkin temporarily takes over the host chair to talk to Sundara about all things baby babble. Along the way, we learn why babies babble, how that babbling can change with exposure to new languages — and if there are any lessons for adults. Questions about other ways we develop? Email us at [email protected] and we might answer it in a f... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-25 • 7 minutes This Rare Case of Green Hairy Tongue Is Pure Nightmare Fuel Patients with hairy tongue syndrome—which can also turn tongues black, brown, yellow, or blue—often report gagging, mouth dryness, or bad breath. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-25 • 34 minutes What’s inside a jellyfish? Jellyfish are some of the most unique creatures on the planet. They’ve been around longer than the dinosaurs. They don’t have brains, bones or blood. And they’re not even fish! So what are they?Float along with Molly and cohost Rosie as they learn about the different parts of a jellyfish, hear from a jellyfish superhero, and talk to scientist Dr. Rebecca Helm about how jellyfish have babies. Plus, a tantalizing new Mystery Sound!This episode was sponsored by: Buy a Toyota (BuyAToyota.com - To explore Toyota... (@Brains_On)

2023-Jul-25 • 44 minutes Bacteria It's easy to write off bacteria as no good, nasty, disease causing creeps, but consider this: without bacteria, we wouldn't have yogurt, or delicious sourdough bread, or a gut microbiome to digest those things! There are probably other good examples of ways bacteria are helpful to us, but I'm too hungry to think of them... (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Jul-25 • 14 minutes What can doppelgangers tell us about nature v nurture? The thing about doppelgangers is that despite looking almost identical, they aren’t biologically related. So, what makes them appear so similar? (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-25 • 30 minutes How AI will actually change the world We ditch the media hysteria to focus on how machine learning tools work and how we can make best use of them (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-24 • 25 minutes CultureLab: Oppenheimer – The rise and fall of the “father of the atomic bomb” First J. Robert Oppenheimer created the weapon, then he fought for years to warn of its dangers. During the second world war, the so-called “father of the atomic bomb”, led a team of scientists in the US in a race against Nazi Germany to create the first nuclear weapon. Then it was used to kill thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.In Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s new 3-hour blockbuster, the film focuses on the years that followed and how the physicist’s campaigning ultimately led to his downfall.... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-24 • 31 minutes In search of stardust Norwegian jazz musician Jon Larsen was having breakfast one clear spring morning when he noticed a tiny black speck land on his clean, white table. With no wind, birds or planes in sight, he wondered if it fell from space. Dust from space is not as fanciful as it sounds. Billions of microscopic meteorites, dating back to the birth of our solar system, fall onto Earth every year. But they are so tiny, hidden among the copious dust of everyday life, that scientists believe they are impossible to find outsi... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-24 • 10 minutes Are You a Lucid Dreamer? A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head. (@sciam)

2023-Jul-24 • 97 minutes 244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation I talk with philosopher Katie Elliott about the metaphysics of laws, chances, and time travel. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Jul-24 • 7 minutes This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space A UK company cofounded by an astrophysicist combines AI with radar satellite imagery to keep track of vegetation, and eventually to make forecasts about its growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-24 • 42 minutes 718: Making Molecular Movies of Complex Chemical Reactions in Live Cells - Dr. Antoine van Oijen Dr. Antoine van Oijen is a Distinguished Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Wollongong in Australia. The work Antoine does combines physics, chemistry, and biology. He develops new... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Jul-24 • 12 minutes The Scorpion Renaissance Has Arrived Scorpions: They're found pretty much everywhere, and new species are being identified all the time. Arachnologist Lauren Esposito says there's a lot to love about this oft-misunderstood creature. Most are harmless — they can't even jump — and they play a critical role in their diverse ecosystems as a top invertebrate predator. (encore)Want to hear us talk about other newly identified animal species? We'd love to know! We're at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Jul-24 • 54 minutes Measure For Measure Whether in miles or pounds, meters or kilograms, we take daily measure out our lives. But how did these units ever come to be, and why do we want to change them? From light-years to leap seconds, we look at the history of efforts to quantify our lives and why there’s always room for greater precision. Plus, we debate the virtues of staying imperial measurements vs. going metric. Guest: James Vincent - Author of Beyond Measure, the Hidden History of Measurement Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Jul-23 • 73 minutes The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin Listen to this interview of Nicolas Christin, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and in the department of Engineering and Public Policy. We talk about the luck it takes to succeed in research, and of course too about the initiative shown by successful researchers to seize that luck. Nicolas Christin : "You will get a pretty good understanding of where some research idea has come from if you read the Introduction of the paper very carefully. Because t... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jul-23 • 12 minutes Peeking inside unhappy Aussie knees How are your knees feeling? There's a pretty good chance one or both of them are sore — after all, knee osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability globally, and Australia's no exception. | | Trouble is, we don't really have any way of treating it. But never fear — this week we're hearing from someone who's bringing her engineering background to take a peek inside dodgy knees and see what it might take to fix them. | | We have some live shows coming up! We're heading to Sydney and the Huon Valley in T... (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Jul-22 • 42 minutes The Secret Life of Sharks Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out about the apex predators of the ocean. They are joined by physiological ecologist Lucy Hawkes, shark scientist Isla Hodgson and naturalist Steve Backshall. They learn about the surprising social behaviours of sharks, how they reproduce and exactly how long they have been around for - they’re even older than dinosaurs! Brian and Robin hear about Steve’s experience of diving with over 100 species of shark. Is their reputation as cold blooded killers accurate? New episodes a... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Jul-22 • 54 minutes There's no age limit to science From a teenage enthusiast to a 100-year-old Nobel Prize winner, The Science Show explores the agelessness of wonder. (@ABCscience)

2023-Jul-22 The Skeptics Guide #941 - Jul 22 2023 News Items: Early Woodworking, Genetic Engineering to Fight Malaria, How We Determine What's True, Killing Bacteria, Nanopatch Pseudoscience; Your Questions and E-mails: Fishercat vs Red Fox, Thorium Reactors; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Jul-21 • 47 minutes How Does The Brain Control Your Every Move? July 21, 2023, Part 1 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Astronomers Spy A Two-Faced Star This week, astronomers report in the journal Nature that they’ve discovered a white dwarf—a dying star’s dense inner core—that, instead of being uniform in composition, has a surface that appears to be hydrogen on one face and helium on the other. The star rotates on i... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-21 • 47 minutes What To Know Before You Go See ‘Oppenheimer’. July 21, 2023, Part 2 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Revisiting The Nuclear Age With ‘Oppenheimer’ This weekend, Christopher Nolan’s long awaited film Oppenheimer hits theaters. It tells the story of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his road to becoming the “father of the atomic bomb.” With its release, audiences will be faced with the Unit... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-21 • 27 minutes Why do we get bored? “I’m bored!” We can all relate to the uncomfortable - and at times unbearable - feeling of boredom. But what is it? Why does it happen? And could this frustrating, thumb-twiddling experience actually serve some evolutionary purpose? CrowdScience listener Brian started wondering this over a particularly uninspiring bowl of washing up and it’s ended with presenter Marnie Chesterton going on a blessedly un-boring tour through the science and psychology of tedium. She finds out why some people are more af... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Jul-21 • 81 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [October 28, 2022] 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: Why were only a few species domesticated? Could any species be domesticated? Are humans domesticated? - Does conditioning have anything to do with domestication? - Since an octopus has nine brains, including one in each leg, how does it see the world? - Every animal has different capabilities, w... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-21 • 76 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (October 26, 2022) 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: Do you have any fun Halloween plans? Any memorable costumes you've dressed up in or have seen? - If you could spend the day as any animal in the world, what would it be? What might the change in perspective allow you to understand and apply toward your current work? - What are ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-21 • 30 minutes Weekly: How to measure consciousness; Nature-made graphene; New sabretooth cats New Scientist Weekly #206A major theory of consciousness is being put to the test with brain scans. Integrated information theory proposes a value called "phi" to represent consciousness and in a new experiment, it seems to work. Does the discovery bring us any closer to solving the elusive “hard problem” of neuroscience? Graphene has been hailed as a super material since its synthesis in 2004. But, unbeknownst to us, nature has long-been producing graphene, right under our noses. Understanding natural... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-21 • 79 minutes No, the Universe ISN'T 27 Billion Years Old! See the Video! https://www.youtube.com/live/_45U7IjIJDk... this episode Brian Keating and Allison Kirkpatrick respond to Rajendra Gupta’s controversial paper challenging the current model of the universe. What is the basis for this claim and why are media outlets and influencers promoting it so wildly? In addition to their detailed critique of Gupta's paper, they discuss galaxy formation, dark matter, and the scientific method. “Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billio... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jul-21 • 41 minutes The Right Stuff Since the beginning of the space program, we’ve expected astronauts to be fully-abled athletic overachievers—one-part science geeks, two-part triathletes—a mix the writer Tom Wolfe called “the right stuff.” But what if, this whole time, we’ve had it wrong? In this episode from 2022, reporter Andrew Leland joins blind Linguistics Professor Sheri Wells-Jensen and a crew of 11 other disabled people. They embark on a mission to prove not just that they have what it takes to go to space, but that disability give... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Jul-21 • 14 minutes Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History (@sciam)

2023-Jul-21 • 11 minutes Ticks and the Diseases They Carry Are Spreading. Can This Drug Stamp Them Out? A small study showed that feeding deer a type of ivermectin reduced the number of ticks drinking their blood. (Yes, it’s that ivermectin. No, you shouldn’t eat it.) Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-21 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Linguists identify a new dialect emerging in South Florida There are many ways Latino people and cultures have influenced the country. Some linguists say that an entirely new American dialect is taking shape right now, in Miami. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Jul-21 • 31 minutes What if Placebos ARE the Medicine? We’ve known about the placebo effects for over 200 years. That’s where doctors give you a pill containing no actual medicine, but you still get better. Recent studies have uncovered a broader range of benefits from the including alleviated pain, nausea, heart rate, hay fever, allergies, insomnia, depression, anxiety, fatigue, and even symptoms of Parkinson’s. Weirder yet, the characteristics of the pill — color, size, and shape — influence their effectiveness. Fake capsules work better than fake pills, and ... (@Pogue)

2023-Jul-21 • 12 minutes 'Oppenheimer' And The Science Of Atomic Bombs Christopher Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' chronicles the life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and 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.Want us to cover other historical science or science in pop culture? Email us at shortwave@npr.... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-21 • 92 minutes Science to Sing About What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: No Dark Matter, English Study Bias, Private Medicine, Babies Love Opera, Underwater Pollinators, No Symptoms, Bat Music, Scared Flies, Mini-Brains, Smarter Better, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Jul-21 • 28 minutes Alzheimer's drug, and algae vegan vitamins Plus, is London set for a major measles outbreak? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-21 • 32 minutes Standing Your Ground: Stories about sticking up for yourself Confrontation can be scary and speaking up for yourself takes courage. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers find their confidence to fight for themselves. Part 1: When Luis Melo doesn’t see his name on a report that he spent nine months working on, he decides to confront his boss. Part 2: When another professor at a conference makes an inappropriate comment toward Sara Maloni, she decides to speak up. Luis Melo has been providing professional Data Science consulting services in various industrie... (@storycollider)

2023-Jul-20 • 26 minutes On the edge of a new volcano For the third year running, Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula is experiencing another spectacular volcanic eruption. Volcanologist Evgenia Ilyinskaya has been out in Iceland witnessing the sight and getting samples of the noxious fumes. Across the rest of the Northern Hemisphere heat domes persist, bringing extreme weather ranging from wildfires to tornadoes. We keep on seeing that this year “is the warmest in 120,000 years”. But what does that mean? Two paleoclimatologists, Bette Otto-Bliesner and Jessica Ti... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Jul-20 • 37 minutes Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones A massive effort by African volunteers is ensuring artificial intelligence understands their native languages, and measuring 40,000 skeletons | Our AI summer continues with a look at how to get artificial intelligence to understand and translate the thousands of languages that don’t have large online sources of text and audio. Freelance journalist Sandeep Ravindran joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss Masakhane, a volunteer-based project dedicated to spurring growth in machine learning of African languages. S... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Jul-20 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | July 23, 2023 The James Webb Space Telescope celebrates a year of sending images from space back to this planet. We speak with NASA Engineer Tom Harkins about the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope and what we have learned over the last year. (0:48)Then, Christina Sauer, associate editor for National Geographic Kids Books, talks about Kids Almanac 2024. (25:28) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Jul-20 • 11 minutes Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them Maybe it’s a commercial jingle, a TikTok song, or a new summer bop. Here’s how to trick your brain into hitting pause. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-20 • 12 minutes One of Many Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Leona Woods Marshall Libby Leona Woods Marshall Libby was the only woman hired onto Enrico Fermi's team at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. She was just 23 years old, already had a Ph.D. in molecular spectroscopy and a deep understanding of vacuum technology. She was also the only woman present at the world’s first successful nuclear chain reaction. Amid all this, she managed to conceal her pregnancy until two days before her baby was born. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Jul-20 • 50 minutes Barbie in Space Unexpected Elements looks for the science behind the news, and this week the news is glittery and pink with the release of the Barbie movie. The movie has very pink aesthetic, so we get philosophical about the colour pink – does it actually exist and if so, how come it isn’t in the rainbow? We also discover how this iconic doll has performed some actual valuable science, helping cryogenic researchers design space suit technology to help future missions to the moon. In Ask the Unexpected this week we’ve g... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-20 • 22 minutes Extreme heat: what does it do to us and how can we adapt? As record temperatures spread across the world, Ian Sample sets out to understand what heat does to our bodies and what we can do to mitigate it without causing more damage to the environment. He visits Prof Lewis Halsey’s team at the University of Roehampton and learns first-hand about the body’s response to heat. He also hears from scientists Prof Jean Palutikof and Dr Aaron Bach about how we can adapt buildings and working conditions in a changing climate. (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-20 • 88 minutes Molecular Neurobiology (BRAIN CHEMICALS) Encore with Crystal Dilworth Hi! I’ve been in the hospital with pneumonia! But enjoy this banger of an encore about: Serotonin! Dopamine! Norepinephrine! Neurotransmitters: what's their deal? Dr. Crystal Dilworth, aka Dr. Brain, stops by to have a spirited discussion about how chemical messengers change our moods and behaviors. We chat about depression, anxiety, what chemicals drive us to get off the couch, how antidepressants work, ADHD, addiction, the microbiome, new habits, quitting smoking, starting meditation, Oreos vs. cocaine, S... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Jul-19 • 22 minutes Smologies #25: LIGHTNING with Chris Giesige It’s a kid-friendly episode on … thunder and lightning: very, very frighteningly interesting! Wildfire researcher and lightning scientist Chris Giesige answers questions about thunderclaps and lightning flashes in a laid back way that will put him at the top of your Fulminologist list. He explains everything from clouds to positive and negative charges, the link between lightning scientists and firefighters, volcanic lightning, ice particle mosh pits, how many gigawatts in a lightning strike, and how to enj... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Jul-19 • 36 minutes The science of sound Scientists, conservationists and other researchers are using audio soundscapes in innovative ways to record the natural world in rich detail and help develop strategies to preserve it. Gaia Vince visits the Dear Earth exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre where she interacts with the ‘Tell It To The Birds’ artwork by Jenny Kendler. This piece transforms spoken word into birdsong, which Jenny hopes will help raise awareness of threatened species. She is joined by Dr Patricia Brekke from the Zoological ... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Jul-19 • 25 minutes Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal Intervention against schistosomiasis also shows agricultural and economic benefits, and the successful launch of India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Jul-19 • 20 minutes Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Jul-19 • 8 minutes The US Finally Approved an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill. Here’s What to Know By early 2024, a tablet called Opill will be sold in pharmacies without a prescription, making it easier for uninsured and young buyers to access. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-19 • 31 minutes The Black Box: In AI we trust? AI can often solve problems in unexpected, undesirable ways. So how can we make sure it does what we want, the way we want? And what happens if we can’t? This is the second episode of our new two-part series, The Black Box. 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 ... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Jul-19 • 9 minutes How Stress Messes With Your Gut Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress (@sciam)

2023-Jul-19 • 11 minutes This Cellular Atlas Could Lead To Breakthroughs For Endometriosis Patients For people with endometriosis—a mysterious disease where endometrial tissue grows outside of the uterus—medical visits can be especially frustrating. It takes some patients years (on average, ten years) to get a diagnosis and treatment options are limited. There are currently no cures. One researcher, Dr. Kate Lawrenson, is trying to change that. She and her team of researchers have created a cellular atlas of the disease and hope this cell-by-cell approach will open up doors for faster diagnosis options an... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-18 • 10 minutes An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo Millions of years ago, retroviruses invaded the human genome. Today some of these viral remnants threaten the developing embryo while others fight to defend it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-18 • 38 minutes Hip hip hooray! Why are parties so fun? Happy birthday to us! Brains On is celebrating its tenth birthday and we’re throwing a big party. Molly is putting up decorations, Sanden has made his special Super Salty Party Punch and Gungador is ready to dance his pants off! But why is Marc hiding out in a closet?Join Molly and co-host Olive as they explore what makes parties so fun – and why they make some of us nervous sometimes. Plus a snazzy new Mystery Sound! This episode was sponsored by:Buy a Toyota (BuyAToyota.com - To explore Toyota SUVs.)Indee... (@Brains_On)

2023-Jul-18 • 74 minutes Avi Loeb: “This object came from another solar system!” See the Video! https://youtube.com/live/BFuW-zfH5RU Avi Loeb joined Brian Keating after he led a Galileo Project expedition to the Pacific Ocean to retrieve spherules of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1. These samples were brought back to Harvard College Observatory over 50 spherules in total, which lay on the deep ocean floor for nearly a decade. These sub-millimeter-sized spheres, which appear under a microscope as beautiful metallic marbles, were concentrated along the expected path of IM1 —... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jul-18 • 18 minutes What’s at stake if we mine the deep sea? As the International Seabed Authority gathers in Jamaica to thrash out regulations for mining the deep sea, Chris Michael of the Guardian’s Seascape team gives Ian Sample the background to this highly contested decision. Ian also hears from the marine biologist Dr Diva Amon about why some scientists are sounding the alarm (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-18 • 30 minutes Antidepressants: the ongoing debate What is depression, and are antidepressants the best treatment? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-17 • 20 minutes Dead Planets Society #1: Kill The Sun The sun is the centre of our solar system, the parent body to all the planets, unquestionably the most important cosmic object for life on Earth. But what if we were to destroy it?It turns out that is easier said than done. In the premier episode of the Dead Planets Society podcast, our hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte resort to extreme methods in their quest to put out the sun. They learn that adding a giant ball of water to the equation will only provide more fuel for the fire, stret... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-17 • 28 minutes Bodies, brains and computers We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now. Evolutionary biologist and broadcaster Professor Ben Garrod, is off to meet some of the sensory innovators and technological pioneers who are developing human like-sensing technology. From skin patches that can read our sugar levels, to brain implants that could use our thoughts to control computers. This is the technology that could blur the boundary between body, mind, and ... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-17 • 71 minutes 243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon I talk with astrophysicist Joseph Silk about the prospects and justifications for building telescopes on the Moon. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Jul-17 • 9 minutes Why legalese persists Eric Martínez explains why legal documents are written in hard-to-read language. (@PNASNews)

2023-Jul-17 • 7 minutes Weird Weather Is Making Air Travel Even Worse Flight delays, cancellations, and violent turbulence are becoming increasingly common as extreme weather ramps up. Things are likely to get worse with climate change. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-17 • 42 minutes 717: Developing Tools and Resources to Accelerate Neuroscience Discovery - Dr. Hongkui Zeng Dr. Hongkui Zeng is Executive Vice President and Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. She is dedicated to understanding how the brain is organized and how the different components of the brain work together to generate behaviors and... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Jul-17 • 13 minutes Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities? Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities? (@sciam)

2023-Jul-17 • 15 minutes Meet The Residents Of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ocean — so much so that there are five gigantic garbage patches in the seas. They hang out at the nexus of the world's ocean currents, changing shape with the waves. The largest is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These areas were long thought to have been uninhabited, the plastics and fishing gear too harmful to marine life. But researchers have recently uncovered a whole ecosystem of life in this largest collection of trash. Today, with the help of marine ... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-17 • 54 minutes Fantastic-er Voyage* Thinking small can sometimes achieve big things. A new generation of diminutive robots can enter our bodies and deal with medical problems such as intestinal blockages. But do we really want them swimming inside us, even if they’re promising to help? You might change your mind when you hear what else is cruising through our bloodstream: microplastics! We take a trip into the human body, beginning with the story of those who first dared to open it up for medical purposes. But were the first surgeons really ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Jul-16 • 12 minutes What can hot springs tell us about the origins of life? Do you think we're alone in the universe? Could there be other life out there? | | And, whether there is or isn't, how does life come to be, anyway? | | (Is this sounding a little like your mate on a camping trip getting a bit too deep while looking up at all those stars?) | | Well, this time we're hearing from someone who's trying to unpick the origins of life — here on Earth, and maybe other places too. | | We've got a bunch of live shows coming up! You can find more details here. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Jul-15 • 43 minutes The Magic of Mushrooms Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out about the secret world of fungi, hidden beneath our feet. They are joined by biologist Merlin Sheldrake and mycologist Katie Field. They hear about the hidden life of fungi, including their hundreds of mating types, predatory behaviour and crucial role in life beginning on Earth. Katie shares how mycologists like her are using fungi to come up with creative solutions to climate change. New episodes are released on Saturdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the full series f... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Jul-15 • 54 minutes Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within Climate change is already having far-reaching consequences, for our forests, our oceans and ourselves. (@ABCscience)

2023-Jul-15 The Skeptics Guide #940 - Jul 15 2023 Special Guests: George Hrab and Andrea Jones Roy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Meteors and Alien Craft; News Items: Leqembi for Alzheimer's, Jeffrey Epstein Not Murdered, When Will Betelgeuse Explode, Can AI Solve Math Problems; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Jul-15 • 29 minutes Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023) Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. As Levin sets out to determine how big "really big" may be, she offers a rare intimate look at the daily life of an innovative physicist, complete with jet lag and the tensions between personal relationships and the extreme demands of scientific exploration. Nimbly explainin... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jul-14 • 35 minutes Why aren't we all ambidextrous? Why are some people left-handed? Why are some people right-footed? Why do some write with their right and throw a ball with their left? What does this all have to do with our brains? Why is it hard for some people to tell left from right? And what about animals? Can they be left-flippered, or finned, or southpawed? That's what a few CrowdScience listeners want to know, and we've got an expert panel on left, right and everything in between to help answer your questions. From genetics to culture, host Caro... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Jul-14 • 48 minutes Youth Mental Health Crisis, Repairing Sharks’ Bad Reputation. July 14, 2023, Part 1 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Oceans Are Getting Hotter—And Greener It’s hot out there, and more so than normal July weather. It’s estimated that more than 100 million Americans are under heat watches, warnings, and advisories, spanning the west coast and southern states. Not only is the land hot, but the oceans are, too. Th... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-14 • 47 minutes Lab-Grown Meat Approval, Underground Climate Change, Utahraptor. July 14, 2023, Part 2 We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Where’s The Beef? Lab-Grown Meat Gets U.S. Approval People have been looking for meat-alternatives for decades. Vegetarians avoid animal products for many reasons, from concerns over animal treatment and slaughtering practices to the meat industry’s climate impacts. Methane from cows and other lives... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-14 • 29 minutes Weekly: JWST’s amazing year; Giant sloth jewellery; $1million mathematics prize New Scientist Weekly #205Following a year of incredible, awe-inspiring images from deep space, the team is celebrating the 1st birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope. They reflect on the amazing discoveries so far, and look at how JWST will alter our understanding of the universe.From this summer, the International Seabed Authority will be considering licences for deep sea mining, despite the fact that no set of rules has been agreed upon to govern it. At this critical time, the team explores new resear... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-14 • 84 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (October 12, 2022) 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 much time do you spend on building Wolfram Language vs. doing research on the Physics Project? And what are the pros and cons of doing both things? - When working on something new, how do you know if you're making progress? Have you had stretches of time when you were explo... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-14 • 79 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [October 7, 2022] 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: Should we try to contact extraterrestrial beings by broadcasting signals into space, or is it too dangerous to reveal our location? - How do you tell if something is natural or artificial? - How far can an EMP from the human heart travel? - If I am on an object moving two-thirds of the speed of ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-14 • 29 minutes The Fellowship of the Tree Rings At a tree ring conference in the relatively treeless city of Tucson, Arizona, three scientists walk into a bar. The trio gets to talking, trying to explain a mysterious set of core samples from the Florida Keys. At some point, they come up with a harebrained idea: put the tree rings next to a seemingly unrelated dataset. Once they do, they notice something that no one has ever noticed before, a force of nature that helped shape modern human history and that is eerily similar to what’s happening on our plane... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Jul-14 • 8 minutes The Arctic Is a Freezer That’s Losing Power As glaciers retreat, methane-rich groundwater is bubbling to the surface. That may be warming the climate, accelerating the Arctic’s rapid decline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-14 • 13 minutes What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species. (@sciam)

2023-Jul-14 • 9 minutes Sea squirts and 'skeeters in our science news roundup Science in the headlines: An amazingly preserved sea squirt fossil that could tell us something about human evolution, a new effort to fight malaria by genetically modifying mosquitos and why archeologists are rethinking a discovery about a Copper-age leader. All Things Considered host Adrian Florido nerds-out on those stories with Short Wave host Regina G. Barber and science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel.Have questions about science in the news? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Jul-14 • 28 minutes Feeling the heat and hearing the silence What caused the hottest day ever recorded? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-14 • 89 minutes Follow the Science Threads! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Martian Minerals, Bird Nests, Deformation Dangers, Megalodon Menu, Same-Sex Relationships in the Wild, Spider Mites Undressed, Snake Friends, Silent Sound, Sugar Control Sleep, Information Trade, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Jul-14 • 32 minutes POV: Stories about others' point of view July is Disability Pride month, which is all about empowerment and visibility for those with disabilities. In honor of Disability Pride month, this week’s episode features two stories from the point of view of people with disabilities. Part 1: When Julie Baker is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told her vision might get worse, she struggles to accept she’s going blind. Part 2: Javier Torres becomes frustrated with others' responses to his neurosensorial hearing loss. Julie Baker is a Boston-based writ... (@storycollider)

2023-Jul-13 • 26 minutes Europe’s heatwave death toll As extreme heat returns to much of the world we hear the impact of last year’s heatwaves in Europe, where 62,000 people are estimated to have died. Joan Ballester, Associate Research Professor at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, discusses the figures from his latest paper and his concerns for the future. This week the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of middle-distance runner and Olympic champion Caster Semenya in a case related to testosterone levels in female athletes. Marnie Chester... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Jul-13 • 28 minutes The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo Science’s NextGen voices share their thoughts on artificial intelligence, how to avoid creating sociopathic robots, and a visit to a historic observatory as researchers pack their bags | | As part of a Science special issue on finding a place for artificial intelligence (AI) in science and society, Producer Kevin McLean shares voices from the next generation of researchers. We hear from students about how they think human scientists will still need to work alongside AI in the future. | | Continuing the ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Jul-13 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: How women changed American journalism In American history, women have largely been left out of newsrooms, so how has that changed history? (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Jul-13 • 50 minutes Cool Science Radio | July 13, 2023 In her debut memoir, "Starstruck: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark," Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown. (1:21)Then, author Amy Brady unravels the nearly two-hundred-year-old untold story of America’s obsession with ice and the unexpected ways this unlikely product transformed our nation in her new boo... (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Jul-13 • 12 minutes A Hair Loss Study Raises New Questions About Aging Cells A protein secreted by seemingly dormant cells in skin moles causes hair to grow again. That’s a big—and potentially useful—surprise. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-13 • 54 minutes Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak—asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. “When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size.” On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, b... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jul-13 • 28 minutes The Kakhovka dam and global food security On Tuesday, the United Nations reported that the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in Ukraine will impact heavily on global food security, causing a rise in food prices and leaving many without access to clean drinking water. Nine days after the disaster Gaia looks to the future alongside Kira Rudyk, Ukrainian MP who is also leader of the opposition party Golos and Laura Wellesley, senior research fellow in the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. Earlier this week the th... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Jul-13 • 50 minutes Nato and the left-handed universe As Nato meets, we look at what science says about consensus decision-making, whether the universe is left-handed, and what chemistry can tell us about our ancient past. Also, we examine windfarms potentially blocking reindeer herding, our quest for the coolest science in the world continues with Beth the bee queen, and Caroline contemplates the long road that got us to a malaria vaccine. (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-13 • 15 minutes Has a 25-year-old bet taken us a step closer to understanding consciousness? Twenty-five years ago in a German bar, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that we’d understand the neural basis for consciousness by 2023. Last month, the winner of the bet received a case of wine. Ian Sample talks to Christof and David about why they made the bet, who won, and where we are now in our understanding of this most fundamental aspect of existence (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-12 • 43 minutes Brian Keating on The Micah Hanks Program: Life Beyond Earth and Losing The Nobel Prize Brian Keating is interviewed by Micah Hanks. Micah is a writer, pocaster, researcher, adventurer, and cofounder of The Debrief, He delves deep into science, technology, history and UAP and UFO research. In this interview Micah focuses on Professor Keating’s book, Losing the Nobel Prize, Brian’s personal Nobel stories, and his outspoken criticisms of the coveted Nobel. Brian gives his ideas on how the award process could be improved. In addition, You're going to get a faced paced introduction to the field ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jul-12 • 15 minutes ChatGPT can write a paper in an hour — but there are downsides A roundup of stories from the Nature Briefing, including the pros and cons of writing a paper with AI, record-breaking global temperatures, and a protein that boosts monkeys’ memories. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Jul-12 • 10 minutes Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones Creating a memory takes energy, and brains only have so much. A study using snails shows how they can be primed for future learning. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-12 • 72 minutes Curiology (EMOJI) Part 2 with Various Emoji Experts The thrilling conclusion of all-things-emoji! Eggplants, peaches, jumping ska dudes, gray hearts, family emojis, what NOT to text your Southern Italian friends, yellow hands, red hair, the birth of the smiley face and how to celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17 with Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge, designer Jennifer Daniel, and the world’s first emoji translator (and current Emojipedia editor-in-chief) Keith Broni. Listen to Part 1 first, of course. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Jul-12 • 35 minutes The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it AI has the potential to impact our society in dramatic ways, but researchers can’t explain precisely how it works or how it might evolve. Will they ever understand it? This is the first episode of our new two-part series, The Black Box. 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/givepodcast... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Jul-12 • 13 minutes This Is Canada's Worst Fire Season In Modern History. It's Not New Canada is having its worst fire season in modern history. The fires have burnt more than 20 million acres, casting hazardous smoke over parts of the U.S. and stretching Canadian firefighting resources thin. Public officials and many news headlines have declared the fires as "unprecedented," and in the modern-sense they are. But NPR climate correspondent Nate Rott has been talking to researchers who focus on the history of wildfire in Canada's boreal forests and they say the situation is not without preceden... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-12 • 46 minutes Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart? The heart’s electrical system keeps all its muscle cells beating in sync. A hard whack to the chest at the wrong moment, however, can set up unruly waves of abnormal electrical excitation that are potentially deadly. The resulting kind of arrhythmia may be what caused the football player Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills to collapse on the field after he took a powerful hit during a 2023 National Football League game. Today, powerful defibrillators are usually used to help resynchronize hearts in distress. ... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-Jul-11 • 20 minutes CultureLab: Earth’s Deep History: Chris Packham on the epic and tumultuous story of our planet Our world has led a long, sometimes tumultuous, and always complicated life. Over the last four billion years, Earth’s geology has changed radically and dramatically.Earth, a new five-part BBC documentary narrated by naturalist Chris Packham, tells the story of this change by looking at significant moments in the planet’s history - from the dramatic moment when nearly all life on Earth was wiped out, to the end of the dinosaurs and the rise of humanity.In this episode, Chris explains why he was drawn to wor... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-11 • 8 minutes The Microplastic Crisis Is Getting Exponentially Worse Plastic production is skyrocketing, pushing microplastic pollution to dangerous new levels. Now research shows even the Arctic is increasingly contaminated. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-11 • 41 minutes Shells From eggs to tacos to Ninja Turtles, some of the best things in life come in shells. So cozy on up inside the nearest conch as we regale you with tales of shells from all across the scientific spectrum! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Jul-11 • 61 minutes Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs Plus, how dolphins manage to get some shut eye... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jul-11 • 18 minutes The awe-inspiring intelligence of octopuses Madeleine Finlay speaks to science correspondent Nicola Davis about why octopuses are more similar to us humans than we might believe. She also hears from Prof David Scheel about our increasing understanding of the sophistication of these cephalopods, and how that should influence our treatment of them (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-10 • 27 minutes Remote touch We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now. This technological revolution is starting to profoundly change not only how we interact with the world around us, but is allowing us to see, hear, smell, taste and even touch things we never imagined possible before. An artificial intelligence revolution is super-charging sensing technology, promising us eyes with laser precision, ears that can distinguish every sound in a mil... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-10 • 93 minutes 242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information I talk with David Krakauer about the current state of research in complex systems. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Jul-10 • 10 minutes Why People Stop Using Drugs Like Ozempic Drugs like semaglutide—better known as Ozempic or Wegovy—could be lifelong treatments for obesity, but what little data scientists have suggests that people don't stick with them for long. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-10 • 12 minutes Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice (@sciam)

2023-Jul-10 • 56 minutes 716: Metabolic-Based Therapies As a Key Component in Treating Cancer and Other Diseases - Dr. Dominic D'Agostino Dr. Dominic D’Agostino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida. He is also a Research Scientist Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Dom’s lab develops... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Jul-10 • 12 minutes The Only Nuclear-Powered Passenger Ship EVER In the Port of Baltimore, a ship is docked that hasn't transported passengers for more than 50 years. It's the NS Savannah and it's designated a National Historic Landmark. That's because it was the first—and only—nuclear-powered passenger ship to have ever been built. Science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel tells us about his recent tour of the ship and why it was a symbol of peace in it's time. To see more pictures of Geoff's visit to the NS Savannah, including one from 1962 when the ship was operational, cl... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-10 • 54 minutes Dinosaurs' Last Gasp* Do we have physical evidence of the last day of the dinosaurs? We consider fossilized fish in South Dakota that may chronicle the dramatic events that took place when, 66 million years ago, a large asteroid slammed into the Gulf of Mexico and caused three-quarters of all species to disappear. Also, what new discoveries have paleontologists made about these charismatic animals, and the director of Jurassic World: Dominion talks about how his film hews to the latest science. Hint: feathers! It’s deep history... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Jul-09 • 62 minutes Nobel Laureate Adam Riess: Tension In The Cosmos! Watch the full video on youtube here: https://youtu.be/b3Tx1g8gKmY Other Episode with Adam Riess: https://youtu.be/WZUqzHRuzhA Adam Riess is a renowned astrophysicist recognized for his groundbreaking research on the expansion of the universe with the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Through extensive measurements and collaborations with other scientists, Riess discovered an intriguing tension in the size of the universe's expansion, which has steadily grown over the past decade. These results, reaching a s... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jul-09 • 12 minutes Indigenous voices in water planning What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management are often tokenistic at best, or worse, completely absent. | | Bradley Moggridge wants to change that. He's a Kamilaroi man and hydrogeologist, and he knows Indigenous knowledge needs to be central to Australia's water future. | | Want to join the audience at our next live show? We're hea... (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Jul-08 • 50 minutes The Evidence: Exploring the concept of solastalgia In The Evidence on the BBC World Service, Claudia Hammond will be exploring the concept of solastalgia; broadly defined as the pain or emotional suffering brought about by environmental change close to your home or cherished place. Made in collaboration with Wellcome Collection, Claudia Hammond and an expert panel examine this relatively new concept, one that might be increasingly heard about as the effects of climate change are felt. Claudia will be hearing stories of solastalgia from communities in Ke... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-08 • 43 minutes Bees v Wasps Brian Cox and Robin Ince tackle one of the most important questions posed by science: which is better, bees or wasps? To defend bees, ecologist Dave Goulson joins the panel, while entomologist Seirian Sumner comes to the defence of wasps. Although both species are known to deliver a nasty sting, Seirian and Dave battle to show why their species should be loved, not swotted, and how we unknowingly rely on them. Comedian Catherine Bohart takes on the role of judge. Which will she ultimately choose: bees or w... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Jul-08 • 56 minutes Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite Testing magnets for CERN'S Large Hadron Collider is a high-stakes job, with serious consequences. (@ABCscience)

2023-Jul-08 The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023 Quickie with Bob: The Impossible Planet; News Items: Activity Late in Life, Hominid Cannibals, Aspartame and Cancer, FAA Approves Flying Car, Neutrino Image of Galaxy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Homelessness, Titan Failure, Canadian Forests; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Jul-07 • 130 minutes Bart Ehrman: Revelations about Revelations...and more I have admired Bart Ehrman’s writing for more than a decade. I remember how profoundly reading Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great reminded me of how little I had really understood about the scriptures. For me, Bart Ehrman took over from there. I recalled reading his 2014 masterpiece How Jesus Became God, which made it clear that the modern Western Interpretation of the Holy Trinity differs significantly from the earliest impressions of Jesus, and moreover that the notion of humans intermingling with ... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-Jul-07 • 33 minutes Why do we experience vertigo? CrowdScience listener Ali wants to know why we experience vertigo. Anand Jagatia finds out that it’s not just the giddy sensation we feel when we’re at the top of a mountain. Vertigo is also a physical illness that can be triggered by a range of disorders. He talks to leading experts on balance to learn what causes the condition, discovers how virtual reality can help people with a phobia of being in high places and volunteers to be turned upside down to experience what it feels like to be treated for ... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Jul-07 • 48 minutes Accessible Birding, Space Sounds, Wasps. July 7, 2023. Part 2 Meet The Blind Birder Reimagining Accessibility In The Outdoors For many blind and low vision people, accessing outdoor spaces like parks can be challenging. Trails are often unsafe or difficult to navigate, signs don’t usually have Braille, guides generally aren’t trained to help disabled visitors, and so on. But nature recordist Juan Pablo Culasso, based in Bogata, Colombia, is changing that. He’s designed a system of fully accessible trails in the cloud forests of southwest Colombia that are specifically... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-07 • 47 minutes Beavers, Pando Tree, $7 Violin. July 7, 2023. Part 1 How The Humble Beaver Shaped A Continent The American beaver, Castor canadensis, nearly didn’t survive European colonialism in the United States. Prized for its dense, lustrous fur, and also sought after for the oil from its tail glands, the species was killed by the tens of thousands, year after year, until conservation efforts in the late 19th century turned the tide. In her new book, Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, author Leila Philipp tells that tale—and the ecological cost of this near-e... (@scifri)

2023-Jul-07 • 99 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (October 5, 2022) 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 the history behind emails and instant messaging? I have a hard time imagining life before then and handling communication that may not get a response for days (waiting for a letter in the mail). - What were the early days of Wolfram|Alpha like? - I see papers from '40s - even '30s - o... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-07 • 78 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [September 30, 2022] 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: Why are there herbivores and carnivores? Isn't it evolutionarily best for everything to be omnivorous? - Short digestive systems are better for meat, as they offer some protection from infection, but are less efficient for extracting nutrients from plant matter. Fire allowed us to enjoy both wor... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jul-07 • 57 minutes Man Against Horse This is a story about your butt. It’s a story about how you got your butt, why you have your butt, and how your butt might be one of the most important and essential things for you being you, for being human. In this episode from 2019, Reporter Heather Radke and Producer Matt Kielty talk to two researchers who followed the butt from our ancient beginnings through millions of years of evolution, all the way to today, out to a valley in Arizona, where our butts are put to the ultimate test. Special thanks ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Jul-07 • 9 minutes A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US The mosquito-borne disease was eliminated here long ago. Now “revenge travel,” global migration, poor public funding—and maybe climate change—could help it come back. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-07 • 24 minutes Weekly: Earth breaks heat records; Quantum LiDAR for self-driving cars; Cryptography in pre-Viking runic writing New Scientist Weekly #203July has become a record-busting month. In fact, this month has seen the hottest global average temperatures ever recorded on Earth. With heat waves hitting the US and the UK coast, the team finds out what’s driving temperatures to such extremes.Driverless cars could someday go quantum. LiDAR, a light-detection device used in driverless cars to help them navigate, could be replaced by quantum light, or photons. The team explains how this would make driverless cars better at navigati... (@newscientist)

2023-Jul-07 • 41 minutes Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023) Sleep was taking over Anna's life. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fifty hours at a stretch. She stopped working and began losing weight because she couldn't stay awake long enough to eat. Anna's doctors didn't know how to help her until they tried an oddball drug, connected with a hunch that something produced by her body was putting her to sleep. The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness (Columbi... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jul-07 • 34 minutes The Man Who Invented QR Codes In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts that zoomed past him on the assembly line. He wondered why the standard barcode from the 70s was still used...Why couldn’t someone invent a barcode that used two dimensions instead of one that could work from any angle or distance, even even if it got smudged or torn? And so, studying a game of "Go", he dreamed up what we now know as the QR Code — the square barcode you scan with your phone. It shows u... (@Pogue)

2023-Jul-07 • 8 minutes Doctor AI Will See You Now Doctor AI Will See You Now (@sciam)

2023-Jul-07 • 13 minutes What Geologists Love — And Lament — About Cult Classic 'The Core' 20 years ago, the cult classic movie 'The Core' was released in theaters. From the start, it's clear that science is more a plot device than anything — but some scientists love it anyway. Today, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber has a friendly laugh with geologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach about the creative liberties writers took to make the movie's plot work.P.S. We're biased here, but we don't think you need to have seen the movie to enjoy this episode. This edition of our periodic 'movie club' series... (@NPR)

2023-Jul-07 • 110 minutes Free The Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Pulsars, Quasars, & Neutrinos, Minimal Cells, Mink Brains, Life & Death, Photosynthetic Efficiency, Bee Homes, Static Ticks, Hunters, Hepatitis C, Brain Boost, And Much More Solstice Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Jul-07 • 30 minutes Resurfacing: Stories about coming back to oneself Whether you’re in the lab or the field, not feeling like yourself sucks. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers find a way to feel like themselves again. Part 1: Some harsh words from Sarah Kucenas’ high school swim coach shake her confidence and she gives up her dream of being a pediatric neurosurgeon. Part 2: When Michael Herrera’s COVID turns into long COVID, he struggles to feel like himself until he starts birding. Sarah Kucenas is fascinated by the developing brain. Specifically, she and her... (@storycollider)

2023-Jul-06 • 27 minutes Melting of Greenland ice sheet Record-breaking global temperatures are accelerating Greenland ice melt at an alarming rate. Professor of glaciology Alun Hubbard has witnessed the melt first hand. He tells us how the ice sheet is being destabilised and what this could mean on a human level. Also, how safe are Japanese plans to dispose of nuclear waste from the Fukushima accident? We get reassurance from molecular pathology expert, Professor Gerry Thomas. And last week was a big one for cosmology news. We catch up on science behind th... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Jul-06 • 29 minutes Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero Worldwide survey kills the myth of “Man the Hunter,” and tightly constraining the electric dipole moment of the electron | | First up this week on the show, freelance science writer Bridget Alex joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss busting the long-standing myth that in our deep past, virtually all hunters were men and women tended to be gatherers. It turns out women hunt in the vast majority of foraging societies, upending old stereotypes. | | After that, we learn about a hunt for zero. Tanya Roussy, a r... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Jul-06 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | July 6, 2023 International best-selling author John Vaillant shares his new book, “Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World.” (0:56)Then, Neeru Khosla, founder and executive director of CK-12, a global leader in free online education, talks about online learning and how free access could change our world. (27:39) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Jul-06 • 10 minutes One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost An early experiment in older rhesus macaques suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Could it one day help people? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jul-06 • 7 minutes From Our Inbox: Alessandra Giliani, 14th-century Italian anatomist 700 years ago, a girl braved all for science. Alessandra Giliani was the first female anatomist of the western world. The only way she could work was disguised as a man. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Jul-06 • 78 minutes Curiology (EMOJI) Part 1 with Various Emoji Experts Thumbs up? Thumbs down. Skulls of joy. And so many expressions of pain and comfort. This, my babies, is the -ology that sparked this whole podcast. Curiology means “writing with pictures” but will certified emoji experts agree that they are curiologists? Listen in for behind-the-scenes drama, origin stories, stats on usage, trends and global context with Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge, designer Jennifer Daniel, and the world’s first emoji translator (and current Emojipedia editor-in-chief) Keith Broni. An... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Jul-06 • 50 minutes Unexpected elements on the sea bed This week time is up for the UN to come up with rules about how to mine the ocean bed. We hear about the mysterious potato shaped objects on the sea floor that contain lots of valuable minerals that are essential for electronics like mobile phones. Our team on three different continents compare how recycling of precious metals is going in their parts of world, and we hear why early Lithium batteries kept catching fire. We also speak to an expert on hydroelectric power who tells us how small scale hydro is ... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jul-06 • 20 minutes Why inflammation matters, and what we can do to fight it Ian Sample talks to Dr David Furman, an expert on inflammation and ageing at Stanford University. He explains how chronic inflammation is affecting our health and how lifestyle choices can help us fight it (@guardianscience)

2023-Jul-06 • 45 minutes No, No Nobel: How to Lose the Prize: Brian Keating on Scientific American's Science Talk Physicist Brian Keating talks about his book Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor. Past episode with Avi Loeb on Youtube: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Please join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstag... The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast by su... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)