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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-Jun-07 • 8 minutes The Quest for a Switch to Turn on Hunger While weight-loss drugs are dialing down the urge to eat for many, others desperately need something that can convince their body to consume more. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jun-07 • 37 minutes Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) An interview with Athene Donald (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jun-07 • 25 minutes Awestruck Awe is what takes our breath away when we face a sky full of stars or listen to a moving piece of music. (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Jun-07 • 8 minutes These Predators Had a Face Like an Axe and Will Haunt Your Nightmares Terror birds were the grizzly bears of birds, the great white sharks of the land, Jack the Ripper but with feathers. They were also truly fascinating. (@sciam)

2023-Jun-07 • 12 minutes Behold! The Dulcet Tones Of Cosmic Rays Teppei Katori loves two things: particle physics and music. Naturally, he combined the two. Today on Short Wave, Teppei talks to host Regina G. Barber about how he and his collaborators convert data from cosmic rays—high energy particles from space that are constantly colliding with Earth—into beautiful sights and sounds. (@NPR)

2023-Jun-06 • 29 minutes Fossil fever: scientists dig in We're in the midst of a palaeontological boom... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jun-06 • 8 minutes A Secret Key to Saving Species Is Blowing in the Wind Scientists just figured out that thousands of air quality stations have been accidentally gathering invaluable DNA data on local organisms. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jun-06 • 24 minutes ‘It’s taught me everything about living’: Rachel Clarke on delivering palliative care from the NHS to Ukraine Ian Sample talks to Dr Rachel Clarke about her experience working in palliative care in the NHS and now with hospices in Ukraine. She tells him what dying can teach the living, what we can learn from the Covid pandemic, and reveals the anguish and defiance of trying to provide a dignified death in the midst of war (@guardianscience)

2023-Jun-05 • 28 minutes #196 Animal Liberation Now: Peter Singer on eating and living ethically What does it mean to eat and live ethically in today’s world? In 1975, Australian philosopher Peter Singer published his landmark book Animal Liberation, in which he advocated for a vegan diet and the improved treatment of animals, sparking a global movement for animal rights. Almost 50 years on, amid scientific and ethical advancements, Singer has released an updated version of his book: Animal Liberation Now.New Scientist reporter Madeleine Cuff asks Singer how his views on eating ethically have... (@newscientist)

2023-Jun-05 • 10 minutes Racial disparities in air pollution exposure Pengfei Liu shares findings on racial disparities in exposure to the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide. (@PNASNews)

2023-Jun-05 • 178 minutes AMA | June 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for June 2023. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Jun-05 • 8 minutes The Race Is On to Crack an Artist’s ‘Test’ Signal From Aliens A Sign in Space encourages the public to imagine what a real message from extraterrestrials might be like—and figure out how to interpret it. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jun-05 • 42 minutes 711: Researching RNA Regulation of Reproduction in Plants - Dr. Blake Meyers Dr. Blake Meyers is a Member Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a Professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri. The focus of Blake’s research is on small RNAs in plants. His lab... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Jun-05 • 14 minutes The Rise Of The Dinosaurs Dinosaurs ruled the earth for many millions of years, but only after a mass extinction took out most of their rivals. Just how that happened remains a mystery — sounds like a case for paleoclimatologist Celina Suarez! This encore episode, Suarez walks us through her scientific detective work, with a little help from her trusty sidekick, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber. Have a science fact you can't stop thinking about? Email us at [email protected]! We'd love to hear from you. (@NPR)

2023-Jun-05 • 56 minutes Skeptic Check: The Body Electric Electricity plays an important role in our everyday lives, including allowing our bodies to communicate internally. But some research claims electricity may be used to diagnose and treat disease? Could electric pulses one day replace medications? | We speak with experts about the growing field of bioelectric medicine and the evidence for electricity’s healing abilities. Their comments may shock you. | Guests: | Sally Adee – Science journalist, author of “We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Bod... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Jun-04 • 75 minutes Life's Edge: Exploring the Boundary between Living & Nonliving | Carl Zimmer | Into the Impossible Life's Edge: Exploring the Boundary between Living & Nonliving | Carl Zimmer | Into the Impossible (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Jun-04 • 10 minutes The science of ice cream Here on Ockham's Razor, our soapbox for science, we try to bring you science that's deeply applicable to your daily life. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Jun-03 • 54 minutes The surprising past — and promising future of women in science A woman was among Australia's first three science graduates. But it's still far from a level playing field. (@ABCscience)

2023-Jun-03 The Skeptics Guide #934 - Jun 3 2023 Quickie with Bob: Brain Stimulation; News Items: Harvesting Energy from Air, Breakups and Hindsight Bias, AI Seance, Monster Stars; Your Questions and E-mails: Attenboroughs, Trees and CO2; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Jun-03 • 14 minutes Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue “Cosmos and Chaos:” Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Listen as these authors discuss the connection between art and science, the flawed idea of the hero, exploration of both land and space, and the complexities of being a woman in male dominated fields. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Jun-02 • 28 minutes Lost for words CrowdScience listener Nyankami, from Kenya, has a friend with dementia. Despite memory loss and no longer knowing his way around, his friend has no problem communicating. So what’s the connection between memory and language? Caroline Steel discovers how dementia affects our speech. In most cases the illness does have an impact on our ability to speak but it can depend on many factors, including the type of dementia and even how many languages we speak. She meets George Rook, diagnosed with vascular deme... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Jun-02 • 75 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 19, 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 still mysteries in our knowledge of the human body in spite of exponential advancement in our understanding? - What are the approximate odds that two people have had the same fingerprint pattern? (odds of a collision among all fingerprints within the enumeration of the parameter sp... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jun-02 • 78 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 17, 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: I am writing a long-form article about James Lovelock, who was unusual in that he was an independent scientist. It struck me that you count as one too, and I wondered if you had ever blogged about the upside or downside of not being part of the scientific establishment? - ​What... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Jun-02 • 47 minutes Dwarf Tomatoes, Saguaro Cactus, Sonoran Desert. June 2, 2023, Part 2 Tomato Breeding Project Fueled By Over 1,000 Backyard Gardeners In 2005, gardeners Craig LeHouiller and Patrina Nuske-Small created the Dwarf Tomato Project. They wanted to preserve the flavor and beauty of heirloom tomatoes, without taking up too much space. They started crossbreeding heirloom tomatoes with smaller dwarf tomato plants. To do so, they enlisted volunteers from all over the world. Over 1,000 people have participated so far. You can even buy the seeds and plant them in your own garden! Ira tal... (@scifri)

2023-Jun-02 • 47 minutes Rewilding, Allergy Season, Sharing Science Rejections. June 2, 2023, Part 1 Could Restoring Animal Populations Store More Carbon? Did you know that land and ocean ecosystems absorb about half of the carbon dioxide we emit each year? But what if the earth had the capacity to absorb even more? With the help of some furry, scaly, and leathery critters, maybe it can. A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change claims that by restoring the populations of just a handful of animals—like gray wolves, bison, and sea otters for example—the Earth could capture around 6.41 more gigaton... (@scifri)

2023-Jun-02 • 38 minutes The Seagulls In the 1970s, as LGBTQ+ people in the United States faced conservatives whose top argument was that homosexuality is “unnatural,” a pair of young scientists discovered on a tiny island off the coast of California a colony of seagulls that included… a significant number of lesbian couples making nests and raising chicks together. The article that followed upended the culture’s understanding of what’s natural and took the discourse on homosexuality in a whole new direction. In this episode, our co-Host Lulu M... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Jun-02 • 8 minutes A Pill Version of Ozempic Is Coming The injectable weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy are already popular. Oral forms could lead to even more demand. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Jun-02 • 31 minutes Treaties, treatments and time travel Are psychedelic treatments going to be considered for depression? Plus, what's in the new WHO treaty? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Jun-02 • 9 minutes This Gargantuan Bird Weighed as Much as a Sports Car This Gargantuan Bird Weighed as Much as a Sports Car (@sciam)

2023-Jun-02 • 10 minutes Helping A Man Walk Again With Science This week's science news roundup reunites All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang with Short Wave hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber to dig into the latest headlines in biomedical research, also known as cool things for the human body. We talk new RSV vaccines, vaccination by sticker and a new device helping a man with paralysis walk again. Have questions about science in the news? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Jun-02 • 125 minutes You Otter be Listening to This Week in Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Otter Day, Reversing Autism, Silent Zoo Tours, Slimy Science, Sweet Damage, Spiders, Seagulls, Neanderthals, Sex Education, Curious Kids, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Jun-02 • 54 minutes Digital spinal prosthetic, ground squirrel hibernation, medium sized black hole, roundworm serotonin map and plastic pollution causes ‘plasticosis’ Digital bridge for spinal cord allows paralyzed man to walk again; Warming in the arctic is disrupting the ground-squirrel’s love life; Scientists completely map the activity of serotonin in the brain of a roundworm; Medium sized black hole in our galactic neighborhood could solve an astronomical puzzle; Plastic pollution and disease — ‘Plasticosis’ is a new plague for wildlife. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Jun-02 • 32 minutes Systematic Errors: Stories about failed experiments Featuring Zeke Kossover and Evan Wilson (@storycollider)

2023-Jun-01 • 27 minutes Vaccinating condors against bird flu The California Condor has been brought back from the brink of extinction by dedicated conservation efforts over the past 30 years. Now, this critically endangered species is the latest victim of the H5N1 bird flu which is racing round the world. California Condor co-ordinator Ashleigh Blackford and wildlife veterinarian Dr Samantha Gibbs from the US Fish and Wildlife Service discuss their last-ditch efforts to vaccinate the birds against H5N1. Huge 40,000 km plumes of water ice have been imaged erupting fr... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Jun-01 • 27 minutes How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution, and how the geologic history of the United States can be used to find vital minerals | | First up this week, we hear about the advantages of using the body to measure the world around you. Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Roope Kaaronen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, about how and why cultures use body-based measurements, such as arm lengths and hand spans. Read the related commentary. | | Also on this week’s show, the Unit... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Jun-01 • 24 minutes #195 Breakthrough in suspended animation; treatment using stem cells from umbilical cord; moon dust threat Suspended animation - the stuff of science-fiction, or a real-world solution to surviving long voyages into deep space? Actually it’s neither, but researchers have now successfully induced hibernation in mice and rats, suggesting that the same may be possible for humans... The team explores what this could mean for future medical treatments.Sand martins – known as bank swallows in North America - have returned to their breeding grounds. Ornithologist Bill Haines takes Rowan under his wing at the London Wetl... (@newscientist)

2023-Jun-01 • 53 minutes Cool Science Radio | June 1, 2023 National Geographic science journalist and author David Quammen discusses the truly wild places on our planet in his new book, "The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from the Landscapes of Wonder, Peril & Hope." (0:55) Then, Utah local Daniel Butcher from IT Innovated talks about cyber security and ways to protect your devices from emerging technological threats. (27:48) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Jun-01 • 20 minutes What's in a Street Name? Everything. In 1992, a Dutch doctor named Josh von Soer Clemm von Hohenberg wrote a letter to Henning Voscherau, the mayor of Hamburg, Germany, requesting that a street be named after Marie Nyswander. The doctor had never met Marie, but he had founded a clinic for treating people with drug addiction, and he’d seen methadone treatment — co-developed by Marie — save lives. Four years later, doctors gathered on a street in northwest Hamburg to celebrate that street’s new name: Nyswanderweg. We’re investigating how German... (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Jun-01 • 50 minutes Migrate ideas Human migration is in the headlines again – India and Australia have announced a new migration deal, in the US a Covid-inspired policy that allowed migrants to be quickly expelled has come to an end, and in the UK new measures were announced to stop foreign students bringing families with them, in a bid to reduce migration figures. But what does science tell us about migration? With a team across three continents, we’re looking at the origins of human migration and exploring some of the greatest migrations... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Jun-01 • 16 minutes Why are food allergies on the rise and is a cure on the horizon? Food allergies appear to be increasing globally, but as scientific understanding improves, some experts believe we may one day be able to eliminate them altogether. Ian Sample speaks to Dr Kari Nadeau, an allergy specialist at Harvard School of Public Health and author of the book The End of Food Allergy, to discuss why food allergies are on the rise and what we can do to prevent – and possibly even cure – them (@guardianscience)

2023-May-31 • 29 minutes Wild Britain In 2020, the UK government committed to protecting at least 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030. Step seven years into the future with Gaia. The UK has achieved its biodiversity goal, but what does wild Britain look like? Richard Benwell, CEO of wildlife and Countryside Link, Meredith Whitten, a researcher and urban environment planner at LSE, Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Oceana and George Monbiot, an environmental writer whose book Regenesis explores sustainable agriculture, describe this radical new world... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-May-31 • 92 minutes Rebuilding Higher Education for the 21st Century | Brian Keating & James Altucher Dr. Brian Keating and celebrated bestselling author and podcast host James Altucher, discuss and debate ideas for new higher learning frameworks, focused on remote and metaverse learning and the concept of virtual mentors - 3D-rendered avatars of interactive historical figures built using large language models and natural language processing. Dr. Brian Keating - the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the Univ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-31 • 52 minutes What Is the Nature of Consciousness? | Neuroscience has made progress in deciphering how our brains think and perceive our surroundings, but a central feature of cognition is still deeply mysterious: namely, that many of our perceptions and thoughts are accompanied by the subjective experience of having them. Consciousness, the name we give to that experience, can’t yet be explained — but science is at least beginning to understand it. In this episode, the consciousness researcher Anil Seth and host Steven Strogatz discuss why our perceptions... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-May-31 • 21 minutes AI identifies gene interactions to speed up search for treatment targets How an AI overcomes data-scarcity to map gene networks, and assessing the impact of rocket noise on wildlife. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-31 • 73 minutes Black American Magirology (FOOD, RACE & CULTURE) with Psyche Williams-Forson What’s the difference between Southern cooking and “soul food?” Is there a correct type of mac and cheese? And whose business is it what you eat? (Hint: no one’s). Culinary historian, scholar of African American life and culture critic Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is a professor at University of Maryland College Park and department chair in the Department of American Studies. She also authored the books “Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America” and “Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Wome... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-May-31 • 10 minutes This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades (@sciam)

2023-May-31 • 13 minutes Why Melting Ice In Antarctica Is Making Hurricanes Worse In Texas Ice in Antarctica is melting really quickly because of climate change. That's driving sea level rise around the world, and the water is rising especially fast in the seaside city of Galveston, Texas — thousands of miles from Antarctica. Why do Antarctica and Texas have this counterintuitive relationship? And what does it mean for a $34 billion effort to protect the city from hurricanes?Read more and see pictures and video from Antarctica here. (@NPR)

2023-May-30 • 9 minutes The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Machinery of the Cell [Sponsored] James Rothman shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2010 for discovering the molecular basis of neurotransmitter release. How did a biochemist come to win such a prestigious prize in neuroscience? (@sciam)

2023-May-30 • 9 minutes Bring Back the Seabirds, Save the Climate The number of oceangoing birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-30 • 16 minutes Six months to Cop28: will the most vital summit yet make meaningful progress? With six months to go until the Cop28 UN climate change conference, the world remains on track for a catastrophic 2.7C of warming by the end of the century. Progress has never been more critical and this year it lies in the hands of the United Arab Emirates, a country that has plans to expand its already extensive oil and gas productions. Madeleine Finlay talks to environment correspondent Fiona Harvey about Cop28’s hosts and president, why this year is particularly key, and how close we are getting to irre... (@guardianscience)

2023-May-30 • 26 minutes Allergies and how they happen What causes allergic reactions, and can anything be done about it? (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-29 • 88 minutes 238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking I talk with Scott Shapiro about why computer hacking can never be completely stopped, and how humans are generally the weakest link. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-May-29 • 7 minutes Antarctic Sea Ice Is at Record Lows. Is It an Alarming Shift? Scientists are “watching with bated breath” to see if ice will return to normal levels. The planetary consequences could be huge. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-29 • 57 minutes Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023) In this episode we talk to Jaime Green about her superb cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos. It examines how the possibility of life on other planets shapes our understanding of humanity. Fans of Leslie Jamison, Carl Zimmer and Carlo Rovelli will find a lot to think about. One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? Yet this very question is inevitably reduced to yes or no, to odds and probabilities that posit answers through complex physics.... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-29 • 57 minutes John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023) Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientists have been driven to devise increasingly complex models of the climate system. John D. Aber's Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change (Yale UP, 2023) conveys that the basics of climate and climate change have been known for decades, and that relatively simple descriptions can capture the major features of the climate syst... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-29 • 54 minutes 710: Investigating Carbon Capture Solutions from Cars to Coal-Fired Power Plants - Dr. Jennifer Wilcox Dr. Jennifer Wilcox is an Associate Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and an Investigator within the Clean Energy Conversions Laboratory there. The research in Jen’s group focuses on carbon capture... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-May-29 • 12 minutes What Happens When An Infant Loses Half Their Brain? Mora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example of a process known as brain plasticity, which allows a brain to modify its connections to adapt to new circumstances.Read more of Jon's reporting.Science in your everyday got you puzzled? Overjoyed? We've love to hear it! Reach us by emailing [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-May-29 • 54 minutes Life in the Solar System Spewing lava and belching noxious fumes, volcanoes seem hostile to biology. But the search for life off-Earth includes the hunt for these hotheads on other moons and planets, and we tour some of the most imposing volcanoes in the Solar System. Plus, a look at how tectonic forces reshape bodies from the moon to Venus to Earth. And a journey to the center of our planet reveals a surprising layer of material at the core-mantle boundary. Find out where this layer was at the time of the dinosaurs and what power... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-May-28 • 70 minutes Felix Flicker: The Magic of Physics on The Into The Impossible Podcast Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/AJJGv-5Rk4I #Condensed... #superconductors #quantummechanics The tagline for our podcast by Arthur C. Clarke is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker’s imaginative new book The Magick of Physics provides ample service to that notion. In Flicker’s book the magic is in “condensed matter physics”, the quotidian solids, liquids, and gasses that surround us—and the more exotic matter— whi... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-28 • 12 minutes How trauma harms and how to heal When it comes to mental health, we're so much better as a society at talking about it than we used to be. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-May-27 • 54 minutes The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds There's a scientific story behind Dame Edna's famous Gladioli, and it involves one of Australia's top botanists. (@ABCscience)

2023-May-27 • 29 minutes Toxic vapes and Russian treason Plus, why mosquitoes pick on certain people... (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-27 The Skeptics Guide #933 - May 27 2023 Live Recording with special guest George Hrab; Quickie with Cara: New York is Sinking; News Items: Fourth Meal, Artemis Update, Making Fuel from Sunlight, Most Dangerous Toy, The Science of Reading, Urban Evolution; AI Voice Simulator, Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-May-27 • 187 minutes Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech I have to say that Douglas Murray reminds me in several ways of my late friend Christopher Hitchens. It is not merely that they are both English, eloquent and well-read. Douglas doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and pulls no punches when necessary. But he is otherwise charming, thoughtful, and willing to enter into respectful intelligent conversations on many topics. Both Douglas and Christopher have been journalists covering dangerous parts of the world, which has helped shape some of their views. Douglas i... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-May-26 • 28 minutes Why is the sun at the centre? It may seem like a simple question but could you explain why the earth revolves around the sun? That is what listener Josh from New York wants to know. For much of human history we thought everything revolved around us, literally. So how did humans come to the conclusion that we're not the centre of the universe? And how did the scientific process help us uncover the true order of things? Looking through telescopes from the vantage point of Australia, host Caroline Steel speaks with astronomers and physic... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-May-26 • 17 minutes Audio long read: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more? Hoping to improve public debate and policymaking, multiple efforts have been launched to gather researchers' consensus views. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-26 • 106 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 12, 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 is computation in nature different than the computation that a computer does? ​- Why do cars get much hotter than the outside air temperature? In Austin this week, my car's internal air temperature was 130° F, while it was 100° F outside. - Why haven't we discovered a cure for baldness? Comp... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-26 • 83 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 10, 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: You have published several other books after NKS. Has publishing technology and quality changed in the intervening time? - Would you like to provide a history of fluid mechanics, for example how the Navier–Stokes equations were discovered and how they work? - Given the recent hearings on and... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-26 • 47 minutes Zoonomia Genetics Project, Telomeres, Mutter Museum. May 26, 2023, Part 1 Orcas Are Attacking Boats Near Spain. Scientists Don’t Know Why This Thursday, the Supreme Court restricted the scope of the Clean Water Act pertaining to wetlands, in a 5-4 vote. This could affect the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to protect certain kinds of wetlands, which help reduce the impacts of flooding by absorbing water, and also act as natural filters that make drinking water cleaner. Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberal members in the dissent, writing that the decisi... (@scifri)

2023-May-26 • 47 minutes Experiencing Pain, Grief and the Cosmos, Ivory-Billed Controversy. May 26, 2023, Part 2 The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Debate Keeps Pecking Away Every so often, there’s a claim that the ivory-billed woodpecker is back from the dead. Pixelated videos go viral, blurry photos make the front page, and birders flock to the woods to get a glimpse of the ghost bird. Last week, a controversial paper claimed there’s reason to believe that the lost bird lives. The authors say they have evidence, including video footage, that the bird still flies. The paper is ruffling feathers among the birding and researc... (@scifri)

2023-May-26 • 32 minutes #194 Rewilding special: a night in the beaver pen at the rewilded Knepp Estate The world is undergoing a catastrophic biodiversity crisis, and the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. The problems are big, but there are solutions. On this special episode of the show, host Rowan Hooper reports from the Knepp Estate in southern England, a large estate owned by Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell, who have become pioneers in the rewilding movement. Rowan spent the night wild camping in the beaver enclosure and being serenaded by nightingale... (@newscientist)

2023-May-26 • 42 minutes On the Edge At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, one athlete pulled a move that, as far as we know, no one else had ever attempted. In this episode, first aired in the Spring of 2016, we tell you about Surya Bonaly. Surya was not your typical figure skater: she is black, she is athletic, and she didn’t seem to care about artistry. Her performances—punctuated by triple jumps and other power moves—thrilled audiences around the world. Yet commentators claimed she couldn’t skate and judges never gave her high marks. But ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-May-26 • 6 minutes You’re Allergic to the Modern World Allergy rates are on the rise. Blame climate change and people’s urbanized lifestyles. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-26 • 36 minutes The Power of an Empty Metal Box We’ve been shipping stuff across oceans for centuries. But until 1956, we loaded our ships in the dumbest way possible: one at a time. Then Malcolm McClean came along. He envisioned lifting the big metal box part off a truck and setting it directly down onto a ship. Every one of these boxes would be identical and interchangeable, maximizing space and minimizing waste. The shipping container was born — an idea that was so powerful, it rejiggered the global economy, gutted cities, and turned China into the wo... (@Pogue)

2023-May-26 • 12 minutes Galaxies Are Older Than We Thought — That's A Big Deal If you ask a physicist or cosmologist about the beginnings of the universe, they'll probably point you to some math and tell you about the Big Bang theory. It's a scientific theory about how the entire universe began, and it's been honed over the decades. But recent images from the James Webb Space Telescope have called the precise timeline of the theory a little bit into question. That's because these images reveal galaxies forming way earlier than was previously understood to be possible. To understand wh... (@NPR)

2023-May-26 • 68 minutes Field Trip: A Hollywood Visit to the Writers Guild Strike Line Jump in, we’re going to the Valley to talk to cool, funny screenwriters about ... Artificial intelligence-drafted scripts! Trillion-dollar companies pretending they’re broke! Emmy-nominated writers with side hustles! Teamster bosses dropping mics! What an exciting time to gossip about Hollywood… labor unions! Listen, we all love watching our Programs and laughing, learning and loving. But things are getting WEIRD behind the scenes, and the Writers Guild of America is on strike, showing up in picket lines in... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-May-26 • 54 minutes Inducing hibernation with ultrasound, how your diet and your soap attracts mosquitoes, small predators take the wrong refuge and a Ugandan vet walks with mountain gorillas Focussed ultrasound could have potential for inducing hibernation; Scientists explore what makes you attractive — to mosquitoes; Coyotes and bobcats are more vulnerable to humans when wolves and cougars are around; A Ugandan vet’s amazing story of her work to save mountain gorillas. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-May-26 • 34 minutes Initiations: Stories about proving oneself Whether it’s a new school or new job, there’s often some sort of “try out” to see if you cut the mustard. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share stories about their own inductions. Part 1: When Colleen McDermott signs up to be a forestry conservationist for the summer, they soon notice that none of their colleagues look like them. Part 2: On Pete McCorvey’s first deployment in the United States Navy, he is dreading the part of training where he gets pepper sprayed. Colleen McDermott, origina... (@storycollider)

2023-May-25 • 28 minutes Brightest supernova in a decade A star in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy has exploded spectacularly into a supernova, dubbed SN 2023ixf. It is the brightest in a decade and it has got astronomers around the world into a frenzy. Science in Action hears from both amateur and professional astronomers alike as they scramble to collect exciting new images and data. Back on the ground, we hear from the Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, Tim Lenton about his new paper highlighting how rising global te... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-May-25 • 39 minutes Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females Why it’s so hard to understand the tongue, a book on a revolutionary shift toward studying the female of the species, and using proteomics to find beer in a painting | | First on the show this week, Staff Writer Elizabeth Pennisi joins host Sarah Crespi to talk tongues: Who has them, who doesn’t, and all their amazing elaborations. | | We also have the first in a new six-part series on books exploring the science of sex and gender. For this month’s installment, host Angela Saini talks with evolutionary ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-May-25 • 83 minutes How Did We Get Here? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Boosting Life, It’s thanks to the sun we’re here!, Female spiders, Saturn, Ozone, Frog Sperm, Dinosaur Perspective, Ant, Plant, or Spider?, Healing Vibrations, Electric Boost, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-May-25 • 29 minutes #193 Drug that could cure obesity; world’s largest organism; octopus dreams; mood-enhancing non-alcoholic drink A new class of drugs that can reliably help you lose weight are generating great excitement in the fight against obesity - and Elon Musk and Hollywood actors have been using them too. Weight-loss scientists have developed hormone-mimicking injections that can reduce body fat by 20 per cent... and the team discuss how it works.  The world’s largest organism is not the blue whale. In fact, Pando the aspen grove in Utah weighs 35 times more than a blue whale and has lived for thousands of years. The ... (@newscientist)

2023-May-25 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Here's why heat waves in our rivers are increasing – and why that's a problem Climate scientists are now looking at rivers and streams. And what they're finding is that these parts of our world are warming rapidly. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-May-25 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | May 25, 2023 Park rangers and park astronomers, Peter Densmore and Kevin Poe, have the details on the upcoming Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival June 14-17. (0:59) Then, Thomas Clardy, the founder and CEO of Powder Watts, talks about innovations that may reduce heat tape expenses by 92%. (26:36) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-May-25 • 10 minutes New Alzheimer’s Drugs Offer Subtle Benefits—With Real Risks Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-25 • 51 minutes Signals, seaweed and space On the anniversary of the first telegraph being sent, the team discover how the telegraph was used as a colonial tool in Ghana, and how an eccentric Brazilian emperor helped spark a communications revolution. They also reveal how tiny worms have helped scientists work out how our hearing works, and how bioelectricity might help focus your mind and heal your wounds. There’s a tale of evil seaweed causing havoc for coastal communities, a scientist studying misophonia makes a pitch for The Coolest Science in... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-May-25 • 18 minutes Japanese knotweed: why is it so damaging and can it be stopped? Since it was introduced to the UK in 1850, Japanese knotweed has gone from novel ornamental plant to rampant invasive species. Madeleine Finlay speaks to journalist Samanth Subramanian about the huge costs associated with finding it on a property, and Dr Sophie Hocking explains what the plant, and our attempts to control it, might be doing to the environment. (@guardianscience)

2023-May-24 • 33 minutes 70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA’s structure James Watson and Francis Crick, who detailed the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, are perhaps two of the most iconic scientists of the 20th Century. Yet the story of how they made their incredible discovery is perhaps equally famous, with a notorious narrative suggesting that they only identified the structure after taking the work of Rosalind Franklin and using it without her permission. Now, 70 years after the discovery of DNA’s structure, it is perhaps time to rewrite the tale. New evidence h... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-May-24 • 23 minutes ‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a biodiversity boost Five-year study shows islands increase ecosystem health without lowering crop yield, and a house built from concrete and nappies. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-24 • 14 minutes How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New work shows how and why they are different. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-May-24 • 31 minutes Expecting: Weed and pregnancy Many states have extremely punitive policies around cannabis and pregnancy. But researchers don't actually have great data on cannabis's harms. 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-May-24 • 10 minutes What the End of the COVID Emergency Means for You What you pay for tests, vaccines, and medicine will change (@sciam)

2023-May-24 • 12 minutes When Your Body Rejects The Kidney It Needs In February 2021, pandemic restrictions were just starting to ease in Hawaii, and Leila Mirhaydari was finally able to see her kidney doctor. Transplanted organs need diligent care, and Leila had been looking after her donated kidney all on her own for a year. So a lot was riding on that first batch of lab results. "Immediately, all my levels were just out of whack and I knew that I was in rejection," she says. "I've had to work through a lot of emotional pain, of feeling like I failed my donor. Like, why ... (@NPR)

2023-May-23 • 80 minutes Fighter Pilot's Stealth Secrets to DOMINATION: Hasard Lee: The Into the Impossible Podcast #F35 #StealthFighter #HasardLee "Being able to regulate your emotions, regulate your stress, your self-talk is really important. The Air Force has moved to this human performance aspect -- all pilots, as soon as they show up, they start this sports psychology training that we've adapted to flying fighters and that carries with them throughout their career." — Hasard Lee In his first book, The Art of Clear Thinking, veteran USAF F-35 Stealth Fighter Pilot Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his care... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-23 • 29 minutes The Greatest Moment in Science Dr Karl was first heard on the wireless in 1981 when he convinced Triple J that a talk about the space shuttle would be good listening because he had applied to be a NASA astronaut. The shuttle did (eventually) launch ... and along with it, the all-science-media career of one Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. | | This is Dr Karl's last Great Moment in Science, as we know it—but don't worry, he'll still be around and firing on all cylinders—including on Triple J's Science with Dr Karl podcast. | | Science with Dr Karl... (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-May-23 • 8 minutes Axiom’s Second Flight Paves the Way for a Commercial Space Station The spaceflight sets the stage for the aging International Space Station's private successors, and for an influx of paying customers. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-23 • 63 minutes Q&A: Dodgy Devices and Maths Mayhem Can our panel get a maths exam question right.... (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-23 • 45 minutes Crust From the planet Earth to the humble pizza pie, some of the most important things in the whole universe have crusts! Including, most likely, the ears that are listening to this! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-May-23 • 23 minutes What will we eat in a post-1.5C world? We now know that global temperatures are likely to temporarily exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the next five years. Breaching this crucial threshold will have serious consequences, including on our food. In the second of a special series of episodes looking at what a future world might look like, science editor Ian Sample explores how our diets could change as the world heats up, exploring climate-resilient vegetables, trying out mealworms, and discovering how to make flour out of microbes (@guardianscience)

2023-May-22 • 10 minutes How vertebrates acquired a gene for vision Chinmay Kalluraya and Matthew Daugherty explain how vertebrates acquired a gene critical for vision from bacteria. (@PNASNews)

2023-May-22 • 78 minutes 237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System I talk with sociologist Brook Harrington about how offshore wealth management works, and how it's useful to think of it as a complex system. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-May-22 • 6 minutes How Chronic Illness Patients Are ‘Hacking’ Their Wearables Fitbits and Apple Watches weren’t designed for people with atypical health conditions. But the tech can be extremely useful—with some creativity. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-22 • 43 minutes 709: Examining How the Brain Controls Our Thoughts and Actions to Reach Our Goals - Dr. Tim Buschman Dr. Tim Buschman is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He studies a process called cognitive control, a process in the brain that allows you to control your own thoughts and actions toward achieving your goals.... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-May-22 • 6 minutes Heat Waves Are Breaking Records. Here's What You Need to Know Heat Waves Are Breaking Records. Here's What You Need to Know (@sciam)

2023-May-22 • 12 minutes Two Squirrely Responses To Climate Change Kwasi Wrensford studies two related species: the Alpine chipmunk and the Lodgepole chipmunk. The two have very different ways of coping with climate change. In this episode, Kwasi explains to host Emily Kwong how these squirrelly critters typify two important evolutionary strategies, and why they could shed light on what's in store for other creatures all over the globe. (@NPR)

2023-May-22 • 54 minutes Let's Stick Together* Crowded subway driving you crazy? Sick of the marathon-length grocery store line? Wish you had a hovercraft to float over traffic? If you are itching to hightail it to an isolated cabin in the woods, remember, we evolved to be together. Humans are not only social, we’re driven to care for one another, even those outside our immediate family. We look at some of the reasons why this is so – from the increase in valuable communication within social groups to the power of the hormone oxytocin. Plus, how our w... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-May-21 • 11 minutes Inspiring the next generation of deadly scientists Corey decided to be a scientist, no matter what anyone else said. It ended up taking him on some life changing adventures. | | Now, he's using his love of science to make sure all kids, even in the most remote parts of Australia, have the chance to achieve their dreams. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-May-20 • 54 minutes Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton He's one of the most famous scientists ever. But who was Isaac Newton, really? Sharon Carleton presents a portrait like no other about the myths surrounding the genius. (@ABCscience)

2023-May-20 • 49 minutes Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023) In Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, investigates the “underworld” of experimentation and suggests new avenues for telling the history of experimental sciences. Divided in two parts, respectively titled “Infra-Experimentality” and “Supra-Experimentality,” Split & Splice is an attempt at defining the phenomenological and historical contours of “exper... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-20 The Skeptics Guide #932 - May 20 2023 News Items: Microsoft Signs Up For Fusion, Robot Helpers, DNA Everywhere, The Evolution of Butterflies, CO2 and Lab Grown Meat; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-May-19 • 33 minutes Can sea-swimming improve my health? Anyone who has ever enjoyed a beach holiday will know there’s something special about being by the seaside. But does sea swimming actually have tangible health effects? This week’s listener Holly is a self-confessed water baby, and says her regular surf sessions on Sydney’s iconic Bondi beach make her feel happier and look younger. But could we get some of the benefits from the beach without getting our feet wet? At the Plymouth Marine Lab, researchers have shown that the smell of the sea makes most peop... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-May-19 • 17 minutes Why We're Worried about Generative AI Why We're Worried about Generative AI (@sciam)

2023-May-19 • 81 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 5, 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 do glaciers form? - Is the orbit of the Earth constant around the Sun? Or is there a variation on a large time frame? - Could it explain the ice ages? - ​​Have you ever studied aerial photos of ocean waves to assess their evolution for irreducibility/pockets of reducibility? - Do you think o... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-19 • 73 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 3, 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: In science, when is it preferable to self-publish rather than go through academic journals? ​- What place do you see for competitive behavior (especially in respect to the paper/citation system) in science? - What do you think would be a good replacement for peer review? - Have... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-19 • 48 minutes Weight and Health Myths, A Corvid Invasion. May 19, 2023, Part 1 Can Science Find An Antidote to Americium? With some poisons, there’s an antidote — something you can take to block the effects of the poison, or to help remove it from your body. But when the harmful chemical is a radioactive element, options are limited. Iodine pills can be used to help block radioactive iodine I131 from being absorbed by the thyroid, but there aren’t many other drugs that can help deal with contamination with other radioactive substances. One of the two existing medications can only be d... (@scifri)

2023-May-19 • 48 minutes The B Broadcast: Bees, Beans, Bears, and Butterflies. May 19, 2023, Part 2 Science Says Eat More Beans Beans are delicious, high in protein, inexpensive, efficient to grow, and an absolute staple in so many cuisines. So why don’t Americans eat more of them? The average American eats 7.5 pounds of beans annually, which is only a few cans of beans every year. The answer is complicated, but one thing is sure: Beans have a PR problem. Ira talks with Julieta Cardenas, a Future Perfect Fellow at Vox, who reported this story. If you’re looking to chef it up, read some of the SciFri staff... (@scifri)

2023-May-19 • 64 minutes Family People In 2021, editor Alex Neason's grandfather passed away. On his funeral program, she learned the name of his father for the first time: Wilson Howard. Not Neason. Howard. And when she asked her family why his last name was different from everybody else's, nobody had an answer. In this episode, we tag along as Alex searches for answers through swampy cemeteries, libraries, and archives in the heart of south Louisiana: who was her great grandfather, really? Is she supposed to be a Neason? Where did the name Ne... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-May-19 • 6 minutes The Looming El Niño Could Cost the World Trillions of Dollars Warming waters in the Pacific can trigger droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall around the world, potentially leading to $3 trillion in losses in the coming years. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-19 • 42 minutes The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo Long considered the most important of all organs, the human heart has fascinated artists and scientists alike. Listen to cardiologist Vincent Figueredo discuss knowledge of and attitudes towards the heart in societies ancient and modern. Figueredo is the author of The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey (Columbia UP, 2023). Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, G... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-19 • 9 minutes The Physics Behind The Perfect Gummy Candy This week for our science news roundup, superstar host of All Things Considered Ari Shapiro joins Short Wave hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber to discuss the joy and wonder found in all types of structures. The big. The small. The delicious. We ask if diapers can be repurposed to construct buildings, how single-celled organisms turned into multi-cellular ones and how to make the best gummy candy?Have questions about science in the news? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-May-19 • 110 minutes How Can A Failure Be A Winner in Science? This Week: Watery Comet, Failed cancer drug, Pollen heat, Defective Black Holes?, Parkinson's Disease, eDNYOU, Zebra Finches, Hammerhead sharks, Mushroom-based materials, Pandemic Brain, Magnetic Brain Direction, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-May-19 • 54 minutes Antarctic dinosaur migration, permafrost and pollution, tracking shark births, Moana’s tools, the Pangenome, and Zoonomia mammalian genome projects Giant dinosaurs found in Australia migrated through Antarctica; A map of arctic industrial pollution shows where risks might arise as permafrost melts; A new technology is showing where baby sharks are born; Polynesian tool finds support the oral histories behind Moana; Incorporating diversity of human genomes in new Pangenome; Comparing 240 mammalian genomes helps illuminate what makes us human. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-May-19 • 33 minutes Learning: Stories from our workshops In this week’s episode, we are highlighting two storytellers from The Story Collider's Education Program and the stories they crafted as a result of the lessons they learned throughout their workshops. Part 1: As a teenager growing up in Iran Yasamin Jodat hears about a robotics competition at the local boys' school, and she is determined to do whatever it takes to be part of it. Part 2: A third cancer diagnosis threatens to ruin JulieAnn Villa's love of running. Yasamin Jodat is currently a Senior Automati... (@storycollider)

2023-May-18 • 30 minutes Return of the Wildfires Over the past few weeks, wildfires have scorched over 1,800 square miles of land across North West America and are still going strong. Dr Mike Flannigan, professor at the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, talks to Roland about the weather patterns and record-breaking heat causing the devastating flames. On the other side of the world, in Zambia, Dr Edgar Simulundu has been finding out why some humans attract mosquitoes more than others, and how we can use this to tackle the ... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-May-18 • 31 minutes The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves Cloning vigorous crops, and finding the first romantic kiss | | First up this week, building resilience into crops. Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss all the tricks farmers use now to make resilient hybrid crops of rice or wheat and how genetically engineering hybrid crop plants to clone themselves may be the next step. | | After that we ask: When did we start kissing? Troels Pank Arbøll is an assistant professor of Assyriology in the department of cross-cultural and regional... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-May-18 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: How will climate change impact how animals mate and reproduce? In a rapidly warming world, hot sex just took on a whole new meaning. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-May-18 • 8 minutes Dismantling the PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Legacy [Sponsored] More sustainable ways of removing persistent chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the environment are on the horizon. (@sciam)

2023-May-18 • 54 minutes Co-operation and cohesion After the elections in Thailand and Turkey, we explore the forces that shape how you decide to vote. Clue: a lot of it comes down to us being social animals. We getting stuck into various sticky subjects – the glue that holds together animal societies, the cells in our bodies and even the International Space Station. We also looking at how the blueprint of the human genome just got a whole load better. Also, join our mission to find the coolest science in the world, with the scientist who explores ocean g... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-May-18 • 18 minutes #192 Life-extending mutation; Kangaroo poo transplant for cows; irregular sleep linked to increased risk of death Want to live 20 percent longer? Well, it may be possible in the future thanks to a new discovery. A life-extending mutation has been found in mice, and the team explains how its benefits can be transferred by transplanting blood stem cells. But will it work in humans?Cows’ burps are a big problem for global warming - but could kangaroo poo be the solution? We hear about a novel new idea to replace the bacteria in cows’ stomachs.A special kind of particle that can remember its past has been created using a q... (@newscientist)

2023-May-18 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | May 18, 2023 Laura Lindenfeld from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science talks about the importance of science literacy and how the center is training scientists to better explain their work and the impact on our lives. (1:03) Then, KPCW's very own Friday night DJ and surround sound expert Mike Wisland talks about the life of a true local legend, Emmy winner and surround sound pioneer Jim Fosgate. (25:30) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-May-18 • 8 minutes A New Study Reveals the Traits That Speed Up Evolution The first large-scale comparison of DNA mutation rates in 68 different vertebrate species gives insights into how quickly life can evolve. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-18 • 50 minutes Linnaeus Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778). The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once wrote: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth". The son of a parson, Linnaeus grew up in an impoverished part of Sweden but managed to gain a place at university. He went on to transform biology by making two major innovations. He devised a simpler method of naming species and he developed a new system for classifying plants and animals, a ... (@BBCInOurTime)

2023-May-18 • 16 minutes Menopause: could a new brain-based treatment cure hot flushes? A first-of-its-kind non-hormonal drug to treat hot flushes has been approved in the US. Madeleine Finlay speaks to endocrinologist and menopause specialist Prof Annice Mukherjee to find out what we know about the mechanism that causes hot flushes, how this new drug targets connections in the brain, and what it might mean for those experiencing menopause in the future (@guardianscience)

2023-May-17 • 28 minutes Rocket Launch Pollution Whilst the globe struggles to shift to green sustainable energy sources, one industry has its sights set solely on the stars. Space X just launched the biggest rocket the world’s ever seen, and it won’t be their last even if it did end its test flight with a bang. As we enter a new golden age of space travel, Vic asks Associate Professor in Physical Geography Dr Eloise Marais if we are paying enough attention to the environmental impacts posed by a rapidly growing space industry. Have viruses, bacteria, a... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-May-17 • 76 minutes RED FLAGS! Room Temperature Superconductor or FRAUD? Jorge Hirsch on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/cAMSoAUo288 UC San Diego Physics Professor Jorge Hirsch... ...joins Professor Brian Keating to discuss recent claimed a breakthrough in high-temperature superconductors, including claims they work at near ambient pressure and temperature. Here come cheap magnetic levitating trains, low-loss power distribution, free MRI scanners in every clinic…. Or not? Watch my solo episode about the controversial claims here: https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4 Since the discovery... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-17 • 30 minutes JWST shows an ancient galaxy in stunning spectroscopic detail New insights into the structure of an early galaxy, and why coral-reef fishes grow so quickly. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-17 • 49 minutes Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse? By definition, the universe seems like it should be the totality of everything that exists. Yet a variety of arguments emerging from cosmology, particle physics and quantum mechanics hint that there could also be unobservable universes beyond our own that follow different laws of nature. While the existence of a multiverse is speculative, for many physicists it represents a plausible explanation for some of the biggest mysteries in science. In this episode, Steven Strogatz explores the idea of a multiverse ... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-May-17 • 8 minutes The First Crispr-Edited Salad Is Here A startup used gene editing to make mustard greens more appetizing to consumers. Next up: fruits. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-17 • 28 minutes Expecting: Baby brain Caring for a child seems to change parents’ brains. But what does that actually mean for how parents think and experience the world? 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-May-17 • 153 minutes Acaropathology (TICKS & LYME DISEASE) Updated Mega Encore with Neeta Pardanani Connally & Andrea Swei It’s 2-for-1! Ticks AND Lyme: together in one helpful, disgusting, gossipy, empowering episode. This pair of episodes is about tiny, thirsty ticks and the diseases they spit into you is wall to wall wisdom from Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally of the West Connecticut State University Tick Lab and Dr. Andrea Swei of SFSU’s Swei Lab cover how to remove a tick, if you should spray your yard and with what, how landscaping affects tick exposure, why Lyme Disease is spreading, the Lone Star Tick rolling into town, h... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-May-17 • 15 minutes Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder through the 'Community' of Ella Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder through the 'Community' of Ella (@sciam)

2023-May-17 • 13 minutes Why You Can't Tell Your Race From A DNA Test Race is a social construct — so why are DNA test kits like the ones from 23andMe coded like they reveal biological fact about the user's racial makeup? This episode, Short Wave Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber talks to anthropologist Agustín Fuentes about the limits of at-home genetic tests and how misinformation about race and biology can come into play. Using science at home to decode your life? Email us at [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-May-16 Why the 'marijuana munchies' make you feel good We know that the drug called cannabis, or marijuana, increases the appetitecommonly called the 'Marijuana Munchies', and we are finally getting closer to knowing what makes it happen. Half-a-billion years ago a biological system evolved to make sure that hungry animals would eat. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-May-16 • 27 minutes How to remember everything What is memory, and how can you improve yours? (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-16 • 8 minutes This Is the Quietest Sound in the Universe Chill materials to extreme temperatures, and their vibrations show properties that could one day be exploited to create memory in quantum computers. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-16 • 26 minutes How do birds communicate? Chirp chirp, y’all! Ever wondered what birds mean when they’re singing their little birdy hearts out? This week, Molly and cohost Bessie explore the kinds of sounds birds can make, and how those sounds are used. Birdsong researcher Kristin Brunk breaks down some sweet tweet science, and we learn how human noise has affected our feathery friends. Plus, a groovy new Mystery Sound! | This episode was sponsored by: | | Liquid I.V. (LiquidIV.com - Use code BRAINS at checkout to receive 20% off anything you orde... (@Brains_On)

2023-May-16 • 18 minutes Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal. Ian Sample speaks to Hannah Devlin about the lucrative business of scientific publishing and hears from Prof Chris Chambers about what was behind the recent mass resignation (@guardianscience)

2023-May-15 • 69 minutes 236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory I talk with Thomas Hertog, physicist and collaborator with Stephen Hawking, about progress in quantum cosmology. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-May-15 • 7 minutes Is Time Travel Even Possible? Two SciAm editors duke it out to see if wormholes and multiverses could in fact exist. (@sciam)

2023-May-15 • 8 minutes Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space The NASA team hopes the iconic spacecraft and its twin can continue taking data beyond the solar system past their 50th birthdays. Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-15 • 44 minutes 708: Tales of Ion Detection: The Making of a Mass Spectrometry Mastermind - Dr. Charles Hohenberg Dr. Charles Hohenberg is a Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. In the lab, Charles does mass spectrometry of noble gases like Krypton and Xenon. He designed and built his own mass spectrometer which is one of the best in the... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-May-15 • 13 minutes Long COVID Scientists Try To Unravel Blood Clot Mystery The COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, but millions across the globe continue to deal with Long COVID. Researchers are still pursuing basic questions about Long COVID — its causes, how to test for it and how it progresses. Today, we look at a group of researchers studying the blood of some Long COVID patients in the hopes of finding a biomarker that could let physicians test for the disease.Questions? Thread of scientific research you're loving? Email us at [email protected] — we'd love to hear abo... (@NPR)

2023-May-15 • 56 minutes Skeptic Check: Shroom With a View* Magic mushrooms – or psilocybin – may be associated with tripping hippies and Woodstock, but they are now being studied as new treatments for depression and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Is this Age of Aquarius medicine or something that could really work? Plus, the centuries-long use of psychedelics by indigenous peoples, and a discovery in California’s Pinwheel Cave offers new clues about the relationship between hallucinogens and cave art. Guests: Merlin Sheldrake - Biologist and the autho... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-May-14 • 181 minutes Andrei Linde: Inflation, Multiverses, and all that, from Mr. Eternal Inflation Andrei Linde is one of the world’s leading cosmological theorists, and is the father of much of Inflationary Cosmology. After Alan Guth developed the original idea of Inflation, Linde, who had been active in this area while working in Moscow, realized a way to make a workable theory out of it, resolving a major problem, called the ‘Graceful Exit’ problem. After that, he made the striking realization that Inflation is inevitable, even in relatively simple theoretical models, and moreover that Inflation wi... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-May-14 • 30 minutes Cancer vaccines and Commercial Space Stations Pancreatic mRNA cancer vaccine shows promise, and SpaceX want a space station by 2025 (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-14 • 12 minutes Investigating murder mysteries with… bugs? This week's episode is one for the true crime podcast fans. | | Paola is a forensic entomologist meaning she uses bugs to help solve murders. | | So, what can the bugs tell us? | | Just a heads up, this episode includes descriptions that get a bit gruesome. Listen with care. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-May-13 • 54 minutes Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe Dark matter is assumed to be responsible for holding the universe together. So where is it? (@ABCscience)

2023-May-13 The Skeptics Guide #931 - May 13 2023 Quickie with Bob: Pangenome; News Items: Fake Studies, Germany and Nuclear Power, Moon Landing Hoax Again, Earth Viewed by Alien Civilization; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dunning-Kruger Revisited; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-May-12 • 37 minutes Why am I so lazy? Lazy. Unmotivated. Procrastinating. If those are words you’re used to hearing from your inner critic, you are not alone. Take CrowdScience listener Laurie. On her days off she loves to relax on the sofa, watch TV, put off chores and generally do as little as possible. Meanwhile she sees other family members and colleagues apparently buzzing with energy: going the extra mile at work, taking up hobbies, going to the gym. Why, she asks, is she so lazy? CrowdScience turns to experts to find out whether or not... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-May-12 • 47 minutes Star Trek Science, Listening to Pando. May 12, 2023, Part 2 Star Trek’s Science Advisor Reveals The Real Astrophysics On Screen Few pop culture properties have lasted quite as long as Star Trek. A dozen Star Trek television shows have aired over the last sixty years—not to mention countless movies, novels, and comic books. Science concepts have always been integral to the Star Trek franchise: from warp speed travel to dilithium. But how much does the series actually accurately depict? Ira speaks with astrophysicist Dr. Erin Macdonald, science consultant for Star Tre... (@scifri)

2023-May-12 • 26 minutes Nature's Take: Can Registered Reports help tackle publication bias? Nature staff take on the big topics that matter in science. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-12 • 47 minutes US COVID Health Emergency Ends. May 12, 2023, Part 1 FDA Advisory Board Approves First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill This week an FDA advisory board paved the way for the first over the counter birth control pill, with an unanimous decision 17-0. The FDA must accept the recommendation before the pills are available for sale, which is expected in a few months time. If approved, the progestin-only pill would be manufactured by the company Perrigo, under the brand name Opill. Ira talks with Maggie Koerth, science journalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota,... (@scifri)

2023-May-12 • 73 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [July 29, 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 does the concept of the ruliad say about teleportation? ​​​- So are we experiencing a single state of the universe, or are we sampling different branches to build our experience? ​​​- ​If the speed of light emerges from propagation through discrete emes, then does the speed of light vary ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-12 • 82 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (July 27, 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: How was it determined that light travels at a constant speed in a vacuum? - Could you speak about the history of the hard sphere model in statistical mechanics? In many textbooks, it is mentioned rather briefly for something so fundamental. - How did the study of nonlinear dynamics come abou... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-12 • 61 minutes The War on Our Shore Foreign enemies have seldom brought war to U.S. soil… right? In this episode from 2017, we tell you strange stories of foreign enemies landing on our shore. From bombs floating across the country without a sound (or even a discussion), to Nazi prisoners of war leading placid lives in towns nationwide, listen to how war quietly wormed its way into the heartland of the United States. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact w... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-May-12 • 10 minutes Your Dog Is a Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Cancer Every year, thousands of pets develop tumors very similar to those found in people. Find drugs that work for canines, and human treatments should follow. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-12 • 36 minutes From Klingon to Dothraki: Constructed Languages for Hollywood The first time you heard “Star Trek” characters speak Klingon, or the “Game of Thrones” characters speaking Dothraki and High Valyrian, you might have assumed that the actors were just speaking a few words of gibberish, created by some screenwriter to sound authentic. But these are complete languages, with vocabulary, syntax, grammar, and even made-up histories. There’s only one person on the planet whose full-time job is creating them—and these days, he’s swamped with requests. No doubt about it: Conlangs ... (@Pogue)

2023-May-12 • 6 minutes Parrot Babies Babble Just like Us Parrot Babies Babble Just like Us (@sciam)

2023-May-12 • 12 minutes Move over, humans—lemurs have rhythm, too There's a lot for scientists to learn about the origins of humans' musical abilities. In the last few years, though, they've discovered homo sapiens have some company in our ability to make musical rhythm. That's why today, producer Berly McCoy brings the story of singing lemurs. She explains how their harmonies could help answer questions about the beginnings of humans' musical abilities, and what all of this has to do with Queen. (@NPR)

2023-May-12 • 118 minutes The Science of Soap & Mosquitoes What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Einstein, Female Space Crews, Sperm, Diamond Funnels, Stem Cells, Pangenome, Assassin Bugs, Crabs, Doctors experimenting, Magic Mushrooms, Soap, Mosquitoes, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-May-12 • 54 minutes Sharks that hold their breath, 2000 year old condor nest, why deer don’t get Lyme disease, redrawing the motor homunculus and new vaccine technologies for the next pandemic Why does this shark hold its breath?; A condor nest in the Andes preserves a 2000 year record of the rare birds; Scientists figure out why deer don’t get Lyme disease from their ticks; The famous motor homunculus picture is wrong; The next pandemic will see new vaccines delivered in new ways. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-May-12 • 32 minutes Motherhood: Stories about becoming a mom In honor of Mother’s Day, this week we’re sharing stories about the journey to becoming a mom. Part 1: Discouraged by the medical approach to pregnancy, Julia Whitehouse decides to have a home birth. Part 2: When Nessa Goldman splits with her husband, her dream of having children by age 35 is in jeopardy. Julia Whitehouse is a writer and comedian and mother and daughter. She has written for New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s, Splitsider, Mutha Magazine, and POPSUGAR. She hosts Manhattan’s longest running ... (@storycollider)

2023-May-11 • 18 minutes #191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science On this bonus episode of the podcast we present a guide on how to think about some of the most important and mind-bending concepts in science, from artificial intelligence to mental health, from nutrition to virtual particles. It all comes from a special How To Think About issue of New Scientist that is out now – the team discuss some of the things it covers. Other topics include consciousness, wormholes, ageing, origins of life, quantum gravity, and even happiness. Make yourself happy subscribing to our po... (@newscientist)

2023-May-11 • 28 minutes Human genome goes global In 2003, an incredible scientific milestone was achieved as the first human genome completed sequencing. For 20 years, this genome has been used as a reference by researchers for comparison to all other DNA sequences. Now, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium is addressing the lack of genetic diversity starting with 47 new reference genomes. Members of the consortium, Dr Karen Miga, assistant professor, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Dr Benedict Paten, associate professor, UC Santa Cruz Genomics I... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-May-11 • 40 minutes Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands A new approach promises to increase organ transplants but some question whether they should proceed without revisiting the definition of death, and what happens to rural lands when people head to urban centers | | First up this week, innovations in organ transplantation lead to ethical debates. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel and several transplant surgeons and doctors about defining death, technically. Also in this segment: | | Anji Wall, abdominal transplant surgeon a... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-May-11 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | May 11, 2023 Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku joins to talk about his new book, “Quantum Supremacy: How The Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything.” (1:01) Then, John Webster of the US Biochar Initiative talks biochar which is a carbon-rich material made from simple biomass and its uses go way beyond just enhancing our soil. (27:23) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-May-11 • 28 minutes Negotiation When was the last time you had to use your negotiating skills? Did you walk away satisfied? This week junior doctors are half way through their 4 day walkout, with senior NHS figures suggesting the cancellation of between 250,000 and 350,000 appointments/operations. Victoria Gill is preparing to debate her way through the science of disagreement and identify what qualities make for the perfect negotiator. Associate Professor Sunny Lee, Deputy Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at University ... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-May-11 • 28 minutes #190 Problems for lab-grown meat; do we need vitamin D supplements?; waking the sleeping Arctic ocean; fish sing for Eurovision Lab-grown meat may be cruelty free, but is it really better for the environment? Not at the moment. In fact, the team finds out how it’s up to 25 times worse than normal meat. And with prices still astronomically high, will it ever become a viable replacement?Are we waking up the sleeping Arctic ocean? Melting sea ice from rising global temperatures is having a knock on effect on one of the Arctic’s major ocean currents, the Beaufort Gyre. Rowan speaks to earth scientists Harry Heorton and Michel Tsamados o... (@newscientist)

2023-May-11 • 51 minutes Coronation exploration Unexpected Elements is all about finding surprising stories and nuggets of science in everyday news. Each week we start by taking a news story that’s floating around and use that as a launchpad for three other science stories that become increasingly unexpected. This week, the team squints at the recent lavish ceremony and ritual of the British King’s coronation and asks: What does it all mean? Why is ritual so important to us humans, and why does it always seem to involve precious objects? That’s where ... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-May-11 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: The muses help those who help themselves If you've ever had writer's block then you know how desperate that experience can be. What you might not realize is that you're in very good company. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-May-11 • 6 minutes The Weird Way Australia’s Bushfires Influenced a Weirder La Niña In 2019 and 2020, the out-of-control blazes sent clouds of smoke across the Pacific, where they brightened clouds and cooled the ocean. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-11 • 16 minutes First UK baby born with DNA from three people: what happens next? The pioneering IVF procedure known as mitochondrial donation therapy (MDT) could prevent children from being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Darren Griffin, an expert in genetic diseases and reproduction, about how MDT works, the ethical considerations attached, and what techniques like it could mean for the future of reproduction (@guardianscience)

2023-May-10 • 80 minutes Invisible Photology (INVISIBILITY CLOAKS) with Greg Gbur Invisibility cloaks. Transparent frogs. Stealth bombers. Gorilla mischief. Theoretical optical physicist and Invisible Photologist Dr. Greg Gbur joins Alie to chat about light, illusions, secret technology, science fiction inspiration, terrible camouflage, great movies, historical mishaps, and even a few great household life hacks – and why you should go read a book on your porch. Perhaps his book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-May-10 • 41 minutes What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2) If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is? Researchers investigating alternative possibilities have faced resistance from the biomedical establishment for decades, but intriguing theories about the role of defects in protein processing and the immune system have emerged. (Part 2 of two episodes.) (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-May-10 • 21 minutes ‘Pangenome’ aims to capture the breadth of human diversity Mapping a more diverse human genome, and the latest from the Nature Briefing. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-10 • 55 minutes The Known Unknowns: Exploring the Humbling Universe | Lawrence Krauss | Part 2 Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast. In this episode Professor Krauss discusses his 10th and most recent book: The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos. The book challenges readers to explore the limits of what we know, and possibly what is even knowable! Can science ever explain the mysteries of time, space, matter, the origin... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-10 • 6 minutes The End of the Covid Emergency Is a Warning The highest alerts are being unraveled globally. But with some 7 million people dead, there are hard lessons to learn from the pandemic—and a lot of work still to do. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-10 • 65 minutes Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022) For a certain kind of standard realist, science aims at getting the absolute truth about the universe. For Hasok Chang, this view is unrealistic because we have no way of judging whether we are getting at that truth. In his new book, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022), Chang argues that we should understand scientific inquiry and its epistemic fruits in terms of what we do to acquire, justify, and use scientific knowledge. Drawing on Dewey and other pra... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-10 • 37 minutes Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs Fetuses leave cells behind in their parents' bodies, where they braid themselves into tissues, and remain, for years. What are they doing in there? 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-May-10 • 9 minutes A 19th-Century Obscenity Law Is Being Used Again to Limit Abortion A 19th-Century Obscenity Law Is Being Used Again to Limit Abortion (@sciam)

2023-May-10 • 13 minutes We Need To Talk About Teens, Social Media And Mental Health This week, the American Psychological Association issued its first-of-kind guidelines for parents to increase protection for children online. It comes at a time of rising rates of depression and anxiety among teens.This episode, NPR science correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff looks into the data on how that seismic change has shifted the mental health of teenagers. In her reporting, she found that the seismic shift of smartphones and social media has re-defined how teens socialize, communicate and even sleep.... (@NPR)

2023-May-09 • 33 minutes Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia This episode offers an insight into the work of leading cancer specialist and author of When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael A. Sekeres. 1 in 2 people will develop cancer in their lifetime, but thankfully treatment for the disease is rapidly changing and improving. I ask Mikkael about the drugs that allow people to beat cancer and live better with it. When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-09 • 65 minutes The Known Unknowns: Exploring the Humbling Universe | Lawrence Krauss | Part 1 Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast. In this episode Professor Krauss discusses his 10th and most recent book: The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos. The book challenges readers to explore the limits of what we know, and possibly what is even knowable! Can science ever explain the mysteries of time, space, matter, the origi... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-09 Insects fly to the light The ancient Romans thought that insects were attracted to bright light, and then there's the well-known phrase, "drawn like a moth to a flame", so it seems like people over many years have spotted insects coming into the lights, at night. But what's the real reason? | | Host: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-May-09 • 9 minutes Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis—Until Now A new paper showing how water actually travels through a plastic membrane could make desalination more efficient. That’s good news for a thirsty world. | Read this story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-09 • 42 minutes Glass "Oh, glass, big deal" you might be saying. Well guess what: if you're reading this, you're looking through glass right now to read about this episode about glass. You might even be touching glass to make this glass episode play! It's glass's world, you're just living in it! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-May-09 • 32 minutes How would life evolve in space? Humans and every other living thing on Earth are perfectly suited to our wonderful planet. There’s life everywhere, from boiling-hot ocean vents to chilly mountain peaks. But what would life look like in other parts of the galaxy, or beyond? What would happen to our bodies if we lived in space? | In an out-of-this-world episode, Molly and cohost Jaxson moonwalk through the possibilities of life in outer space. They learn what scientists look for when they want to know if a planet or moon could support life.... (@Brains_On)

2023-May-09 • 17 minutes Will psychedelic drugs transform mental health treatment? Ian Sample speaks to science correspondent Hannah Devlin about the evidence behind using psychedelics as medicines, and hears from Prof Celia Morgan about how they work, what we know about the risks and what’s left to learn (@guardianscience)

2023-May-09 • 28 minutes Building a better battery How did batteries become such an important power source, and what might the future hold for them? (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-08 • 9 minutes These Mini Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction These Mini Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction (@sciam)

2023-May-08 • 188 minutes AMA | May 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for May 2023. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-May-08 • 9 minutes The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect Immune cells called monocytes are triggered to help clear infection—but in some cases they never switch off, leaving patients breathless for months. Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-08 • 54 minutes 707: Applying Analytical Chemistry Approaches to Better Understand Chemicals of Concern - Dr. Diana Aga Dr. Diana Aga is the Henry M. Woodburn Chair and a State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo. She also serves as the Director of RENEW (Research and Education in eNergy,... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-May-08 • 11 minutes What Could We Do With A Third Thumb? Today on the show, we meet a prosthetic designer and a neuroscientist fascinated with understanding how the brain and body might adapt to something we haven't had before — a third thumb. Dani Clode and Tamar Makin spoke to Short Wave in Washington D.C., at the 2023 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (@NPR)

2023-May-08 • 54 minutes Catching Fire* We have too much “bad fire.” Not only destructive wildfires, but the combustion that powers our automobiles and provides our electricity has generated a worrying rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. And that is driving climate change which is adding to the frequency of megafires. Now we’re seeing those effects in “fire-clouds,” pyrocumulonimbus events. But there’s such a thing as “good fire.” Indigenous peoples managed the land with controlled fires, reaped the benefits of doing so, and they’re bringing them... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-May-07 • 11 minutes The hidden cost of fish and chips We often think of sharks as villains -- but as far as humans vs sharks go… we're the bad guys. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-May-06 • 54 minutes Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday Reflecting on Sir David Attenborough's decades-long contribution to our understanding of the natural world. (@ABCscience)

2023-May-06 The Skeptics Guide #930 - May 6 2023 Interview with Brian Brushwood; What's The Word: Catacoustics; News Items: AI Mind Reading, 10,000 steps per day, 30 Years of the Web, When Will Aliens Contact Us; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Carnivore Diet; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-May-05 • 29 minutes What are Ostriches for? Meet the ostrich, one of nature’s most unusual creatures: a two-metre-tall, flightless bird that struts about the African savannah. CrowdScience listener Pat found herself entranced by seeing them on a wildlife documentary, where two ostriches were exhibiting some bizarre behaviour. According to her, the female was sitting on her eggs in a ‘nest’ that was barely a dent in the ground, while the male was just flapping his feathers around her. So Pat came to us to ask: what are ostriches for? Anand Jagatia... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-May-05 • 47 minutes Antibiotic Resistance, Space Launches and the Environment, Phage Therapy. May 5, 2023, Part 2 SpaceX Explosion Damages Environment Around Launch Site Last Thursday, SpaceX’s South Texas facility was awash in noise and fire, as crowds gathered in South Padre Island and Port Isabel to watch Starship’s first orbital launch. It was the largest and most powerful rocket ever made, standing at around 400 feet tall. Four minutes into the launch, SpaceX detonated the rocket after the SuperHeavy booster failed to separate from the Starship as planned. The launch destroyed the company’s launch pad, spreading c... (@scifri)

2023-May-05 • 47 minutes Why Rats Love Cities, Science Of Saliva And Taste. May 5, 2023, Part 1 A Dying Planet Offers A Peek Into The Future This week, astronomers reported in the journal Nature that they had spotted a planet approximately the size of Jupiter being swallowed by a star over the course of ten days. The star, called ZTF SLRN-2020, is about 15,000 light-years away from our solar system, but still in our own galaxy. Astronomers had thought this type of planet-engulfing must happen, based on how stars evolve and certain chemical signatures they’ve spotted from inside stars. However, this is... (@scifri)

2023-May-05 • 63 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [June 24, 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 much does a cat's tail affect its ability to land on its feet? Do cats without tails tend to fall over frequently? - ​​​​​Could a planet have "internal" rotation of its molten core while having a stagnant outer surface, or perhaps a slowly rotating surface? - ​​​​What's the deal wi... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-05 • 73 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (June 22, 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: Are periodic boom and bust cycles of the economy inevitable, or should we by now be capable of managing national economies better, simultaneously avoiding both recessions and excessive inflation? - What modes does Stephen Wolfram have? - What are the personality traits of Steph... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-May-05 • 36 minutes Ologies: Dark Matters Testudinology. Enigmatology. Hagfishology. Raccoonology. Meteorology. Chronobiology. Chickenology. Delphinology. Bryology. Vampirology. Zymology. Echinology. Screamology. Melaninology. Dolorology. In this episode, we introduce you to one of our all-time favorite science podcasts. Ologies. A show that’s a kindred spirit to ours, but also… very different. In each episode, Host Alie Ward interviews a brilliant, charming ologist, and wanders with them deep into their research, quirky facts they’ve learned throu... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-May-05 • 10 minutes A New Cloned Horse Offers Hope for Endangered Species The technique may finally be emerging as a way to preserve species at risk of extinction. Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-05 • 8 minutes This $600-Million Room Contains the World's Largest Collection of These Tiny Endangered Animals This $600-Million Room Contains the World's Largest Collection of These Tiny Endangered Animals (@sciam)

2023-May-05 • 10 minutes Some people get sick from VR. Why? Another week comes by, and luckily so does our roundup of science news. This time, we've got some questions about better understanding our health: Why do some people get motion sickness from virtual reality (VR) content? Do we really need to walk 10,000 steps a day? And is there real science behind ice baths? This week, Sacha Pfeiffer, legendary reporter and occasional host of NPR's All Things Considered, who joins our hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber to demystify and (in some cases) debunk the scien... (@NPR)

2023-May-05 • 33 minutes China's satellites and Wales' trilobites Is China gearing up for conflict in space? And why did the 'Godfather of AI' quit Google? (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-05 • 111 minutes May the 4th has Quantum Microscopes! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Quantum Microscopes, Textbooks in India, Photosynthesis, Aliens, Aminos, Frogs, Seals, Ice Caps, Blood Brain Barrier, Brain Reading, Anorexic Guts, UTIs, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-May-05 • 54 minutes Who wore a prehistoric pendant, AI mind reader, the evolution of blinking, Eastern wolves, seeing air pollution from space, air pollution and cancer and where does moon dust come from 20,000 deer-tooth pendant carries the DNA of the person who wore it; New AI mind-reading system could restore the voice of the voiceless; An amphibious fish can give us clues into the origins of blinking; Canada’s Eastern wolves are genetically distinct, not just wolf/coyote mutts; New satellite will be ‘an eye in the sky’ monitoring North America’s air pollution; Air pollution causes lung cancer, but not the way you might think; Question - where does moon dust come from? (@CBCQuirks)

2023-May-05 • 33 minutes Expertise: Stories about knowledge Experts are a dime a dozen, but true expertise is hard to come by. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers – who shared their stories at our annual Proton Prom fundraiser this week – struggle with finding the knowledge they seek. We’re especially grateful to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for supporting the event and making this all possible. Part 1: When Zach Weinersmith agrees to create a trivia game, he doesn’t realize how hard it is to come up with facts that are both interesting and actually true... (@storycollider)

2023-May-04 • 23 minutes #189 Spinal cord stimulation: bringing movement back to paralysed stroke survivors Spinal cord stimulation has, for the first time, been shown to help two people with upper body paralysis due to stroke regain some arm movement. To find out how this groundbreaking technology works, New Scientist health reporter Grace Wade speaks to two researchers who helped conduct this research - Nikhil Verma at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Erynn Sorensen at the University of Pittsburgh.She also speaks to Heather, one of the study’s participants, who explains the emotio... (@newscientist)

2023-May-04 • 31 minutes Darwin dumped from Indian classrooms India is at the centre of much of the discussion on this week’s episode of Science In Action. We hear about how a proposal to scrap Darwinian evolution from Indian secondary schools has led to signatures from thousands of scientists. Dr Vineeta Bal, Researcher at the National University of Immunology, is one of the signatories on a petition against the proposed changes. We spoke to her about why she is against them. Also in India, a new Sars-Cov-2 variant, named XBBX.16 is being studied by epidemiologist... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-May-04 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Here's why you should be optimistic about the future of climate change Scientists and journalists have been trying to shock people with the overwhelming weight of evidence that our planet is warming. Now perhaps a new tactic is in order – optimism for the future. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-May-04 • 39 minutes Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes Builders of the largest scientific instruments, and how cracks can add resilience to an ecosystem | | First up this week, a story on a builder of the biggest machines. Producer Kevin McLean talks with Staff Writer Adrian Cho about Adrian’s dad and his other baby: an x-ray synchrotron. | | Next up on this episode, a look at self-organizing landscapes. Host Sarah Crespi and Chi Xu, a professor of ecology at Nanjing University, talk about a Science Advances paper on how resilience in an ecosystem can come ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-May-04 • 28 minutes Recycling In this special edition of Inside Science, Vic Gill prepares to rummage through our rubbish, to peek behind the curtain of the UK's recycling habits and see how well prepared we are as a nation to further our efforts of sustainable waste management. Presenter: Vic Gill Producer: Emily Bird (@BBCRadio4)

2023-May-04 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | May 4, 2023 Astronomer Phil Plait introduces his new book "Under Alien Skies." Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team as well and is a public outreach advocate for NASA missions. He has an upcoming talk at Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City. (1:10)Then, when you think of NASA, you may think of mighty rockets, rovers and astronauts. What you may not know is that NASA is the home to the largest group of Earth scientists in the world, including NASA climate scientist Dr. Lesley Ott. (27:33) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-May-04 • 22 minutes #188 Consciousness measured at point of death; the lifeform with seven genomes; impact of Covid on the gut From bright lights at the end of a tunnel, to hearing dead loved ones, there are many common sensations related to near death experiences. But what’s going on in the brain to cause them? The team hears about a signal measured in the brains of people just before they died.Aliens may make contact with Earth as early as 2029. That’s the theory at least. The team explains how some of NASA’s deep space spacecraft could be used to beam back messages from distant planets.For the first time an organism has been dis... (@newscientist)

2023-May-04 • 11 minutes The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an “embarrassment of riches.” | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-04 • 35 minutes Episode 5: The Trouble With Getting What You Want Marie Nyswander died in 1986. She’d achieved almost everything she set out to, but she wanted more: even better medications than methadone, fewer regulations, and the holy grail—a cure for addiction. Addiction science has come a long way since Marie’s time, and it turns out, a lot of the field’s earlier assumptions were probably wrong. Neuroscientist Kent Berridge explains why wanting something isn’t the same as liking it. But a cure is still out of our reach (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-May-04 • 17 minutes How AI is making non-invasive mind reading a reality For the first time, researchers have found a way to non-invasively translate a person’s thoughts into text. Using fMRI scans and an AI-based decoder trained on a precursor to ChatGPT, the system can reconstruct brain activity to interpret the gist of a story someone is listening to, watching or even just imagining telling. Ian Sample speaks to one of the team behind the breakthrough, to find out how it works, where they hope to use it, and whether our mental privacy could soon be at risk (@guardianscience)

2023-May-03 • 37 minutes Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level? Perpetual motion machines are impossible, at least in our everyday world. But down at the level of quantum mechanics, the laws of thermodynamics don’t always apply in quite the same way. In 2021, after years of effort, physicists successfully demonstrated the reality of a “time crystal,” a new state of matter that is both stable and ever-changing without any input of energy. In this episode, Steven Strogatz discusses time crystals and their significance with the theoretical physicist Vedika Khemani of Stanf... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-May-03 • 41 minutes Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up A focus on women’s health research, and the star caught in the act of devouring a planet. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-May-03 • 54 minutes Brian Keating on the Jordan Harbinger Show Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible podcast, and the author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor. What Jordan Harbinger discusses with Brian Keating: What compelled dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel to annually reward outstanding contributions for humanity, and how would he feel about the way Nobel prizes are awarded today? What is an... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-May-03 • 80 minutes Stem Cell Biology (CELLS MAKING CELLS) with “Science Sam” aka Samantha Yammine How do our bodies build our bodies? What does a stem cell look like? How do they know what to do? What diseases could stem cells cure? And why is Canada such a hot place for research? Dr. Samantha Yammine – known by many as Science Sam – is a stem cell biologist and science communicator and takes us back to the discovery of stem cells, chats ethical questions, spotting scams, cloning, gene-edited babies, helping your body heal faster and what advancements are being made, albeit by slowly growing in a dish. ... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-May-03 • 10 minutes Is Cosmology Broken? This Map May Be a Crucial Puzzle Piece The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-03 • 47 minutes Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021) Listen to this interview of Jan Recker, Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, Germany and author of Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide (Springer, 2021). We talk about how your research is what you write. Jan Recker : "Very few of us scientists are gifted readers, and very few of us are gifted writers, but those who are, I do think that they have an advantage in science. It's not that they're the better scientists, but they just und... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-03 • 25 minutes The tornado problem 2023 has been a record-setting year for tornadoes, and these storms came with barely any warning. So to better understand tornadoes, scientists might need to confront more of these storms head-on. 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-May-03 • 9 minutes Surviving in the Ephemeral Pools of Life Surviving in the Ephemeral Pools of Life (@sciam)

2023-May-02 • 28 minutes Do video games really rot your brain? Video games are fun, challenging and sometimes hard to put down. But are they good for you? Or do they rot your brain, like some people say? In this episode, Molly and cohost Colden (along with sassy alien hero Fuzzbutt Picklestar) explore how video games affect your brain, for better or worse. Plus, we look at other technologies that adults used to think were bad for kids, like novels and radio. And an extra mysterious Mystery Sound! | This episode was sponsored by: | | Liquid I.V. (LiquidIV.com - Use cod... (@Brains_On)

2023-May-02 Dreaming a diagnosis with Dr Karl Some sleepers who act out their dreams are later diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. As Dr Karl explains, it's one of a few slightly odd new diagnostic tools. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-May-02 • 56 minutes Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023) If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. In The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life (Simon & Schuster, 2023) theoretical physicist Dr. Felix Flicker proves that they are indeed magic—just familiar magic. The name for this magic is “condensed matter physics.” Most people haven’t heard of the field, yet more than a third of physicists identify as condensed matter researchers, making it the mo... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-May-02 • 12 minutes Will Artificial Intelligence Help — Or Hurt — Medicine? A doctor's job is to help patients. With that help, often comes lots and lots of paperwork. That's where some startups are betting artificial intelligence may come in. The hope is that chatbots could generate data like treatment plans that would let doctors spend less time on paperwork and more time with their patients. But some academics warn biases and errors could hurt patients. Have a lead on AI in innovative spaces? Email us at [email protected]! (@NPR)

2023-May-02 • 19 minutes Can cities help us fight climate change? As the planet warms, and intense heatwaves become the norm, our urban environments need a radical rethink to keep them habitable. So what do we want the cities of the future to look like? In the first of our special series of episodes looking at what a future world could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to author and historian Ben Wilson, Prof Jessica Davies and Prof Diane Jones Allen about how to create cities that are fairer, greener and more self-reliant. (@guardianscience)

2023-May-02 • 29 minutes Did rugby give me dementia at 40? What we know about concussions, and how they can lead to dementia (@NakedScientists)

2023-May-01 • 20 minutes Smologies #22: REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS with David Steen This shorter, kid-safe edit of the classic Herpetology episode features frilly gills, frog tornadoes, legless lizards, and reasons to appreciate snakes. Also, why you shouldn’t kiss one. Dr. David Steen is a beloved herpetologist and wildlife conservationist and his answers are full of facts and flim-flam busters. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-May-01 • 82 minutes 235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind I talk with cognitive philosopher Andy Clark about the extended mind and how it functions as a prediction machine. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-May-01 • 6 minutes An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs, and stayed there. It’s a worrying signal of an ocean in crisis. (@WIREDScience)

2023-May-01 • 59 minutes 706: Using Algorithms to Automate Decision-Making in Energy Management, Automobiles, and Manufacturing - Dr. Andrew Alleyne Dr. Andrew Alleyne is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-May-01 • 8 minutes This Fleeting Ecosystem Is Magical, and You Have Probably Never Heard of It or Even Noticed It This Fleeting Ecosystem Is Magical, and You Have Probably Never Heard of It or Even Noticed It (@sciam)

2023-May-01 • 13 minutes Shoring Up The Future With Greener Batteries Today on the show, next-generation energy innovators Bill David and Serena Cussen challenged us to think about the future of clean energy storage. They spoke to Emily Kwong at the 2023 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington D.C. (@NPR)

2023-May-01 • 54 minutes Finding Endurance* In 1915, Endurance, the ship that took Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic, was slowly crushed and sank. Shackleton, and the 28 men he brought with him, were camped on the ice near the ship, and watched helplessly as their transport went to a watery grave, two miles down. But a recent expedition has found the Endurance, taking the world back to the last hurrah of the heroic age of polar expedition. How was it found, and what will be done with it? Also, while feats of exploration inspire TV shows and magazin... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Apr-30 • 11 minutes Creating equity on the pathway to science careers People who want to be a scientist, should have the opportunity to pursue a career in science - right? | | Well, there are barriers that make it much harder for some people to become the scientists they dream of being. | | Today, Linda Agnew explores how we can create equitable opportunities in STEM for people with disabilities. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Apr-29 • 54 minutes A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology Dave Keeling started measuring carbon dioxide in 1958, Dave’s son Ralph continues his father’s work today. (@ABCscience)

2023-Apr-29 The Skeptics Guide #929 - Apr 29 2023 News Items: Starship Launch, False Belief Systems, Ashwagandha and other Herbal Drugs, The Evolution of Eukaryotes, Blue Holes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: P-Values vs Effect Sizes; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Apr-28 • 33 minutes What's living inside my gut? Inside our gut lives an entire ecosystem of bacteria and microbes, called the microbiome. In fact, the human body contains trillions of microorganisms, which outnumber our cells by ten to one. This means that technically we are more microbe than human. But not only do these microbes rely on us to survive, we also rely on them for some vital bodily functions. So what impact do these trillions of microbes have on our health? That’s the question that’s been bothering CrowdScience listener Russell, from Canada.... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Apr-28 • 67 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [June 10, 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: ​​As the Wolfram Language grows, will the number of lines of code ever shrink? What could cause such a trend? - ​​​​Scientists are trying to elucidate the origins of life on Earth. The current focus is exploring the "RNA world." This occurred 4.5 billion years ago. Could there have bee... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-28 • 70 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (June 8, 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 is the value system you follow based on? Have you designed your own value and motivational structure? - Do you find exercising your personal thoughts on these livestreams can be a therapeutic experience? - Have you ever thought about the role of physical exercise or sports... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-28 • 47 minutes Personifying AI, The Reading Brain, Environmental Sampling Via Bees. April 28, 2023, Part 2 Why Do Humans Anthropomorphize AI? Artificial intelligence has become more sophisticated in a short period of time. Even though we may understand that when ChatGPT spits out a response, there’s no human behind the screen, we can’t help but anthropomorphize—imagining that the AI has a personality, thoughts, or feelings. How exactly should we understand the bond between humans and artificial intelligence? Guest host Sophie Bushwick talks to Dr. David Gunkel, professor of media studies at Northern Illinois Uni... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-28 • 47 minutes History And Science Of Chickens, Climate Activism, Pipeline Movie. April 28, 2023, Part 1 Dirty Diapers Reveal How Germy Babies’ Microbiomes Are In a new study, researchers picked through the dirty diapers of more than 600 infants. Those stinky diapers were a gold mine of info—they contained more than 10,000 virus species. And though it may sound terrifying, those viruses play a key role in babies’ microbiomes. Guest host and SciFri producer Kathleen Davis talks with Katherine J. Wu, staff writer at The Atlantic about this story and other science news of the week. They chat about climate change’... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-28 • 95 minutes Boldly going where no podcast has gone before: William Shatner; Wonder, Awe, and Questions, Questions... I first met William Shatner a little over 19 years ago when we were filming a TV inspired in part on my book, The Physics of Star Trek. The show was ultimately titled, How William Shatner Changed the World. I am not sure what I expected when I met Bill, but what I got was something completely different. After a brief period during which I felt a bit like I was being auditioned, and which I passed after we filmed a scene in which I was required to use a teleprompter to spout a long series of Star Trek tec... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-Apr-28 • 18 minutes Audio long read: Conquering Alzheimer’s — a look at the therapies of the future Trial successes have raised hopes that the condition might eventually be preventable. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Apr-28 • 23 minutes The Golden Rule At first glance, Golden Balls was just like all the other game shows — quick-witted host, flashy set, suspenseful music. But underneath all that, each episode asked a very serious question: can you ever really trust another person? Executive producer Andy Rowe explains how the show used a whole lot of money and a simple set of rules to force us to face the fact that being good might not end well. The result was a show that could shake your faith in humanity — until one mild-mannered fellow unveiled a very u... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Apr-28 • 10 minutes The Quest for Longevity Is Already Over Studying people who live well beyond the age of 100 could reveal the secret to living longer, healthier lives. But the statistics tell another story. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-28 • 7 minutes Do We Need To Save the Whales Again? Do We Need To Save the Whales Again? (@sciam)

2023-Apr-28 • 62 minutes The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy Have germs or humans done the most to shape the world’s history? Did Homo Sapiens get the better of the Neanderthals because of superior brainpower or because of better resistance to some infectious disease? And are germs part of the story behind the fall of Rome and rise of Islam? Owen Bennett Jones talks germs with Jonathan Kennedy of London University. Kennedy is the author of Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Crown Publishing, 2023). Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and ... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-28 • 13 minutes #187 CultureLab: The Power of Trees with Peter Wohlleben As humans are responsible for the devastation of the world’s forests, surely it’s our job, then, to step in and make things right? Well, not according to German forester and best-selling author Peter Wohlleben.In his latest book ‘The Power of Trees’, he argues that forestry management, tree planting, and the exploitation of old growth forests is ecologically disastrous, and that trees and forests need to be left to heal themselves.In this episode of CultureLab, New Scientist culture and comment editor Aliso... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-28 • 38 minutes The Million-Dollar Toothpaste Tube We’re overrun with plastic. It’s in our oceans, our water, our food. Something has to be done—preferably by corporations, which churn out millions of tons of plastic every year. Enter: the toothpaste tube. It might seem like a minor player in the plastic problem, but we throw 20 billion toothpaste tubes into the landfill every year. Recycling plants can’t take them, because they’re made of plastic and metal foil bonded together. They all end up in the landfill. Colgate, the #1 toothpaste brand, decided to... (@Pogue)

2023-Apr-28 • 15 minutes SUPERBLOOM: An Upside To The California Downpours California's wet winter has devastated many local communities. It has also benefited some of the state's endangered ecosystems. Those benefits are on full display in California's largest remaining grassland. Wetlands, long severed from the rivers and streams that nourished them, are being flooded with freshwater. Biologists are seeing baby salmon, fattened by new food sources in flood plains, make their way to sea. Endangered birds and waterfowl are nesting next to flooded fields. Today, NPR climate corresp... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-28 • 108 minutes Why aren't we studying sex in space? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Safety & Justice, Bears, Space Sex, Gut Differences, Poop, Asteroids, Sleeping Seals, Roadkill Lemonade, Microbial Resistance, Lost Lunar Lander, New Brain Network, Getting Nervous, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Apr-28 • 31 minutes Ultra-processed cuisine and catch-up vaccines Ultra-processed foods are linked to diseases like cancer, and the WHO push for people to catch up on vaccines (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-28 • 54 minutes Apples for a warmer world, Rosalind Franklin and DNA, birds’ belly canteen, moustranaut microbiome and Brian Cox on black holes How do you like them apples? A researcher breeds climate-change tolerant fruit; New documents retell the story of Rosalind Franklin’s contribution to DNA science; Desert birds have special belly feathers for carrying water for their chicks; Space mice give insight into how our microbiome could protect us from bone loss; UK science star Brian Cox’s new book explores how we might live in a black hole. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Apr-28 • 32 minutes Skin Deep: Stories about racial disparities In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share stories about the problems of finding representation of diverse skin tones in science and medicine. Part 1: While preparing for a lecture, Stacy Vasquez finds a racist term on a skin slide. Part 2: While learning about Lyme disease in medical school, LaShyra Nolen isn’t satisfied when the professor can’t tell her what the rash would look like on dark skin. As a first-generation Chicano in STEM, Stacy Vasquez recognizes the importance of addressing the S... (@storycollider)

2023-Apr-27 • 32 minutes The truth about the Sudan biolab Khartoum’s National Public Health Laboratory has been caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan. Dr Maysoon Dahab and Dr Ayman Ahmed explain the situation and why health labs are often targeted in conflicts. Virus hunters have used artificial intelligence to discover more than 180,000 new viruses. Professor Eddie Holmes and Dr Mang Shi tell Roland how AI is completely transforming the field of viral discovery. Experts have forecasted a return to El Niño conditions later this year, which could bring with ... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Apr-27 • 30 minutes The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable Science’s editor-in-chief and an award-winning broadcast journalist discuss the struggles shared by journalism and science, and we learn about what makes something stand out in our memories | | First up on the show this week: Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with Amna Nawaz, an award-winning broadcast journalist and host of the PBS NewsHour, about the value of new voices in science and journalism and other things the two fields have in common. | | Next up, what makes something stand out in you... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Apr-27 • 35 minutes Net Zero Far away and not enough, those are criticisms of the government’s latest net zero initiative – a plan to reduce emissions . We ask Jim Watson Professor of Energy Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources for his assessment. And there’s money to be made from private health testing, the growth of Covid testing has been followed by an upsurge in private screening for cancer in particular, but how useful is it really? BBC Health correspondent Matthew Hill takes a look. Every cell in ... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Apr-27 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 27, 2023 Dr. Bryn Dentinger, one of the leading mycologists in the world, discusses the universe of fungi. Then, science journalist Jaime Green talks about her book "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos." (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Apr-27 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Is predictive, personalized treatment the future of medicine? Our healthcare systems are designed to help people once they have a disease – not to keep them from getting sick in the first place. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Apr-27 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: How does climate change impact the geography of inequity? Redlining has been illegal for 50 years, but the negative effects reverberate today. Redlined communities are more at risk under climate change. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Apr-27 • 29 minutes #186 Private space company crashes on the moon; hypnotherapy as anaesthetic; record-breaking ocean warming; Rosalind Franklin and DNA With SpaceX’s Starship blowing up, and ispace’s lander crashing into the moon, in the last week two of the most exciting missions of the year have failed. The team finds out what went wrong, and how long it’ll be until these missions can try again.Fish farts and genital stridulation - the team shares a beautiful underwater soundscape of British ponds, recorded using a hydrophone. They learn about the daily acoustic activity cycles of ponds, and find out why researchers are collecting these sounds.Hypnosis i... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-27 • 7 minutes As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast Is Also Sinking Coastal lands are subsiding and losing elevation—a “hidden vulnerability” that’s making rising seas all the worse. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-27 • 73 minutes Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021) Not all atheists are New Atheists, but thanks in large part to the prominence and influence of New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, New Atheism has claimed the pulpit of secularity in Western society. New Atheists have given voice to marginalized nonreligious individuals and underscored the importance of science in society. They have also advanced a derisive view of religion and forcefully argued that science and religion are intrinsically in conflict. ... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-27 • 89 minutes Sir Anthony Leggett on science, superfluidity, and serendipity Sir Anthony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his foundational contributions to superfluidity, is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Reflecting on a lifetime in science, he shares his groundbr... (@Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin)

2023-Apr-27 • 14 minutes Europe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant: can it be stopped? The environmental law charity ClientEarth and 13 other groups headed into a Flemish court this week in an effort to stop Ineos building a petrochemical plant that would be the biggest project of its kind in Europe for 30 years. Madeleine Finlay hears from correspondent Sandra Laville about how plastics are made, the environmental and health impacts of the process and what needs to be done to get a handle on plastic pollution (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-26 • 34 minutes How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten Newly discovered documents reveal more about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving DNA’s structure, and how multisensory experiences can create stronger memories in fruit flies. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Apr-26 • 72 minutes Brian Keating on the Modern Wisdom Podcast with Chris Williamson In this interview with Chris Williamson on the Modern Wisdom Podcast, Brian Keating talks about what it takes to build a telescope that can detect the farthest regions of space in the Antarctic, what the Nobel Prize originally set out to achieve and how the politics of the physics community can often get in the way of progress. He discusses his book Losing The Nobel Prize and his motivations for writing it. Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Apr-26 • 19 minutes #185 CultureLab: Cosmo Sheldrake on capturing the sounds of our oceans Have you ever stopped to think about what life underwater sounds like? Well, now is your chance to hear it first-hand as multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Cosmo Sheldrake, has released a collection of music composed entirely out of recordings from our oceans and the animals that inhabit them. 'Wild Wet World' has been a decade in the making and features the sounds of humpback whales singing, oyster toadfish grunting and haddock drumming. In this episode of the CultureLab podcast from N... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-26 • 6 minutes This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar Race The Japanese company Ispace could be the first to safely touch down on the moon’s surface, with more spacecraft following later this year. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-26 • 8 minutes The Bad Side of 'Good' Cholesterol Very high HDL cholesterol levels almost double your risk of heart problems. (@sciam)

2023-Apr-26 • 33 minutes How to resurrect a mammoth Scientists are hard at work trying to bring back woolly mammoths (and dodos). But should they? And what would they actually be bringing back? 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-Apr-26 • 55 minutes Delphinology Part 2 (DOLPHINS) with Justin Gregg Wow. It gets weirder. Military dolphins, dolphins on drugs, sensory deprivation, deciphering dolphin language, the search for alien life, and more with the affable and knowledgeable Delphinologist Dr. Justin Gregg. Should you cuddle a dolphin? Can one kill you? Should you hire dolphins as midwives? Why do they follow boats? And what’s Drake got to do with it? (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Apr-26 • 15 minutes Worm Blobs In The Bowels Of The Earth In the toxic waters of Sulphur Cave in Steamboat Springs, Colo. live blood-red worm blobs that have attracted international scientific interest. We don special breathing gear and go into the cave with a team of researchers. There, we collect worms and marvel at the unique crystals and cave formations that earned Sulphur Cave a designation as a National Natural Landmark in 2021. Then we learn how extremophiles like these worms are helping scientists search for new antibiotics, medicines and even models for r... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-26 • 34 minutes What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1) After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Redwood Trail” by Audionautix. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Apr-25 • 14 minutes Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem A discussion with the the author of Free Will (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) and Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem, Mark Balaguer, in which we discuss the scientific arguments for and against the possibility of free will. In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will and determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philosophical problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events. In the course of his argu... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-25 Sniffing out disease with Dr Karl The power of smell can't be understated — our noses don't just sniff out tasty treats, they can also alert us to danger. | | In this episode of Great Moments in Science, Dr Karl tells the story of a super-sniffer who might've unlocked a powerful diagnostic tool. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Apr-25 • 43 minutes Color Color: it's not just for art anymore. From red dwarfs to green algae to... uh... brown squirrels, science is chock full of color, too! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Apr-25 • 8 minutes Forget Cars, Green Hydrogen Will Supercharge Crops Renewable generation projects are set to make this future fuel widely available. And it’s much more versatile than you think. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-25 • 29 minutes Flies on a bus, space elevators, and other brain benders! If you love big thoughts, this is the episode for you. We’ll ponder what would happen if a fly flew into the window of a moving bus. Would it have to keep flying forward to avoid crashing into the back window? Or could it just hover inside the bus? Plus we’ll unpack one of the most important ideas in science, the Theory of General Relativity. You’ll learn how creative thinking helped Albert Einstein change the world and get a little creative yourself guessing an all-new Mystery Sound! | This episode was spo... (@Brains_On)

2023-Apr-25 • 17 minutes Why are black women four times more likely to die from childbirth? Experts and campaigners have been pointing out the racial disparities in maternal healthcare for years. The latest report to highlight the issue comes from the House of Commons women and equalities committee. MPs behind the report have condemned the government’s failure to address the gulf in outcomes. So why are black and Asian women still more at risk from childbirth? Madeleine Finlay hears what it can be like to navigate the maternity system as a woman of colour, and speaks to Guardian health editor Andr... (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-25 • 26 minutes Dealing with Diabesity With obesity and diabetes rates rising around the world, we seek solutions... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-24 • 9 minutes Genomic insights for sea turtle conservation Blair P. Bentley, Lisa Komoroske, and Camila Mazzoni discuss the role genomic elements play in the evolution of sea turtles. (@PNASNews)

2023-Apr-24 • 67 minutes 234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution I talk with cellular biologist Tobias Warnecke about cells and their evolution, especially the role of histones in different kinds of cells. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Apr-24 • 12 minutes AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them Humans are building meaningful relationships with AI chatbots. What will the consequences be? (@sciam)

2023-Apr-24 • 7 minutes A Critical Arctic Organism Is Now Infested With Microplastics The algae Melosira arctica is the foundation of the food chain, and its contamination could have major consequences for ecosystems and the climate. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-24 • 32 minutes 705: Engineering New Enzymes and Predicting the Biochemical Activity of Proteins - Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University. In the lab, Mary Jo uses theory and computation to better understand how molecules work. In particular she works on enzymes which are proteins that... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Apr-24 • 12 minutes The News Roundup Goes Intergalactic It's our latest roundup of science news! This time, with Ailsa Chang of NPR's All Things Considered, who joins us to discuss three stories that take us on a journey through space — from the sounds of Earth's magnetosphere, to the moons of Jupiter, to a distant phenomenon NASA calls "an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space."Learn more about NASA's Harp Project here: https://listen.spacescience.org/We love hearing what you're reading and what science is catching your eye! Reac... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-24 • 54 minutes The Latest Buzz* Is your windshield accumulating less bug splatter? Insects, the most numerous animals on Earth, are becoming scarcer, and that’s not good news. They’re essential, and not just for their service as pollinators. We ask what’s causing the decrease in insect populations, and how can it be reversed. Also, the story of how California’s early citrus crops came under attack – a problem that was solved by turning Nature on itself. And how chimpanzee “doctors” use insects to treat wounds. We investigate the small an... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Apr-23 • 14 minutes #184 Dead Ringers TV review: Revolutionising the future of reproductive health Based on the 1988 David Cronenberg film, the new six-part TV series Dead Ringers tells the story of identical twin doctors - played by Rachel Weisz - as they explore innovations in childbirth and fertility.In this bonus episode of the podcast, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley speaks to the show's lead writer, Alice Birch, about how she took on Cronenberg’s twisted tale, why it was important to include graphic and realistic depictions of birth in the series, and about the emerging medical technologies that p... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-23 • 89 minutes Marc Kamionkowski: Crises In Cosmology Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/RVLMnBsJgKI?=sub_confir... Kamionkowski is a theoretical physicist, who’s research is in cosmology, astrophysics, and elementary-particle theory. His main focus has been on particle dark matter, inflation the cosmic microwave background, and cosmic acceleration. His 1999 paper, A Polarization Pursuer’s Guide inspired Professor Keating to create the BICEP experiment. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University. 00:0... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Apr-23 • 10 minutes Could a planet like Luke Skywalker's exist in our universe? It's the perennial question when it comes to considering the universe – could there be life on other planets? (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Apr-22 • 23 minutes Introducing Our New Podcast: Universe Of Art How do we use art to process the world around us in ways that science can’t? How are illustrators using their skills to help us understand nature’s most unusual creatures? On Universe of Art, a new podcast from Science Friday, hosted by SciFri producer and art nerd D Peterschmidt, we bring you some of our favorite arts stories from the show, some new ones too, and conversations with the producers who made those segments. We’ll hear from astronomers who integrate space into their artwork, drag performers who... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-22 • 54 minutes Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart And bee venom shows promise treating a range of cancers. (@ABCscience)

2023-Apr-22 The Skeptics Guide #928 - Apr 22 2023 News Items: Starship Almost Launch, Information in Ancient Meteorites, Lunar Cycle and Suicide, Sharper MRI Images, Mummies and Taxes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Storage; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Apr-21 • 35 minutes Do we have a sense of time? CrowdScience listener Marie, in Sweden, has always had difficulty with her sense of time. She often thinks that events that happened years ago took place recently or that a holiday coming up is happening sooner than it is. So she wants to know if time is a sense, like the sense of taste or touch, and if it’s something she can learn. Anand Jagatia talks to scientists who’ve studied time, memory and how our brains process and store the events in our lives to find an answer to Marie’s question. Along the wa... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Apr-21 • 47 minutes Anesthesia 101, Carbon-Sequestering Poplars, Period Book. April 21, 2023, Part 1 An Explosive End For A Massive Rocket This week, SpaceX attempted the first uncrewed orbital test flight of its massive Super Heavy rocket topped with an experimental crew capsule known as Starship. After one aborted launch earlier in the week, the huge rocket successfully lifted off Thursday morning—but minutes later, the Starship component failed to separate from the Super Heavy booster, and the combined rocket stack exploded. While a setback for the team, SpaceX head Elon Musk said that a lot had been le... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-21 • 64 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [June 3, 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's the difference between bits and bytes? - Can you talk about what a "sufficiently smart compiler" is? ​​​​- Sometimes I wonder if a program can be "lifted" to an unrelated mathematical representation, in which certain transformation rules would discover a more efficien... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-21 • 91 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (June 1, 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 we'll ever get to the stage of having flying cars? Is there any historical evidence? - Even now with traction control, anti-lock braking systems, automatic crash avoidance and the like, driving cars has automated "smart" safeguards nowadays. - It seems like many scienc... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-21 • 33 minutes Starship explodes & soundscapes for sleep Plus, breakthrough in the fight against flu and measuring the microbiome of mice in space... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-21 • 47 minutes The Myth of the Alpha Wolf, Cherokee Nation Seed Banks, History of Gender Affirming Care. April 21, 2023, Part 2 How We Arrived At Current Standards Of Care For Trans Medicine So far this year, 16 states have moved to restrict or completely ban transgender kids access to gender affirming care. And 17 other states are considering similar laws, a handful even trying to restrict care for adults. This political controversy has drawn increased attention to “Standards of Care,” a set of guidelines written by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health or WPATH. Health professionals are encouraged to consult th... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-21 • 31 minutes Corpse Demon Heaven and hell, Judgement Day, monotheism — these ideas all came from one ancient Persian religion: Zoroastrianism. Also: Sky Burials. Zoroastrians put their dead on top of a structure called The Tower of Silence where vultures devour the body in a matter of hours. It’s clean, efficient, eco-friendly. It’s how it’s been for thousands of years. Until 2006. That’s when a Zoroastrian woman living in Mumbai snuck up into the tower and found bloated, rotting bodies everywhere. The vultures were gone. And not ju... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Apr-21 • 35 minutes Against the Odds: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project In this week’s episode, both of our stories are from CZI's Rare As One Project. CZI’s Rare As One Project brings together rare disease patients and advocates in their quest for cures. Both of this week’s stories are from Rare As One grantees who are sharing their stories and experiences navigating diagnosis and organizing their communities to accelerate research, identify treatments, and change the course of their diseases. Part 1: After ending up in the ER for the third time, Rachel Alvarez struggles to un... (@storycollider)

2023-Apr-21 • 12 minutes Fire And Ice: Linking Intense Wildfire And The Melting Arctic In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice is shrinking as the climate heats up. In the Western U.S., wildfires are getting increasingly destructive. Those two phenomena are thousands of miles apart, but scientists are uncovering a surprising connection. The ice is connected to weather patterns that reach far across North America. And as the climate keeps changing and sea ice shrinks, Western states could be seeing more extreme weather, the kind that fuels extreme wildfires.Check out the full series about how melting ice... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-21 • 54 minutes Life on the garbage patch, lumpy dark matter formed the visible universe, underwater volcanoes, tadpole’s flexible forms, climate change and Antarctic life, and life with more oxygen. The great Pacific garbage patch is crawling with coastal life; A new cosmic map shows lumpy dark matter was scaffolding for our universe to evolve; We now know why huge underwater volcanoes don’t change the climate much; Spadefoot toads decide in the egg what kind of tadpoles they need to be; Life in Antarctica survived the last ice age, but is threatened in a warming world; Antarctic seabirds’ breeding seasons are being pre-empted by unseasonal storms; Listener Question: What would happen to animals if at... (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Apr-20 • 18 minutes #183 How To Blow Up A Pipeline film review: Is it time for more radical climate activism? With action on climate change moving so slowly, is it time for more radical activism? Have we been left with no option but to use sabotage and property destruction as a way to protect our planet? Those are the questions a new film, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, aims to get you thinking about. Based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Swedish academic Andreas Malm, the film leaves viewers questioning whether sabotaging an oil pipeline is a logical form of climate activism. In this bonus episode... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-20 • 83 minutes Fossilized Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: PFAS, Electric Healing, Good Cement, Ocean Plastic, Hot Animals, Bat Bones, Parasites, Salt Substitute, 2000 yr old necropolis, And Much More (Fossilized) Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Apr-20 • 28 minutes Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines The pandemic showed Africa at the back of the global queue when it came to vaccines. That should never happen again if plans being debated in Cape Town this week go ahead. Roland talks to Seanette Wilson of South Africa's Biovac. Also in the programme: life finds a way on plastic floating in the ocean; Greenland rock dust as a global fertiliser; and designing proteins from scratch. Image Credit: Robert Bonet/NurPhoto via Getty Images Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Roland Pease Assistant Producer: Soph... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Apr-20 • 36 minutes Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep What does it mean that we have so many more seamounts than previously thought, and finding REM sleep in seals | | First up on the show this week: so many seamounts. Staff News Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a study that mapped about 17,000 never-before-seen underwater volcanoes. They talk about how these new submarine landforms will influence conservation efforts and our understanding of ocean circulation. | | Next up, how do mammals that spend 90% of their time in the water, get... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Apr-20 • 28 minutes Covid – missing link found? Data collated from swab samples taken in Wuhan’s market in the early days of the Covid pandemic suggest animals sold in the market were carrying the virus at the time. It’s the strongest evidence yet for an intermediate species – one which passed the virus on to humans after becoming infected by bats carrying the virus. Dr Florence Debarre from the Institute of ecology and environmental sciences, in Paris and Professor Eddie Holmes from Sydney University discuss the findings. Beethoven’s genome has been ... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Apr-20 • 53 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 20, 2023 The Utah Avalanche Center's Chad Brackelsberg and Trent Meisenheimer talk about the science of a spring snowpack...when it is record-breaking? What happens to the slowly eroding snow? When is it hazardous? How late into the season will we see avalanches? (1:14) Then, Jason Sills of the Clark Planetarium talks about stargazing over the last 20 years and the upcoming 20th-anniversary celebration. (30:44) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Apr-20 • 28 minutes #182 3D-printing inside living organisms; what ChatGPT means for human intelligence; why insects fly towards light; carbon storage in the oceans We’ve all seen the moths gather around the kitchen light or campfire flame at night, but have you ever wondered why they’re drawn to it? Well, there are loads of theories, but the team explores a brand new one which suggests insects don’t come seeking the light, but are instead imprisoned by it.Life finds a way. Even amid the vast swathe of plastic and junk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, creatures have set up home, thousands of miles from their natural habitats. Is this a reassuring sign of adaptabilit... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-20 • 7 minutes The Search for Long Covid Treatments Takes a Promising Turn Scientists believe lasting symptoms following a coronavirus infection are not a single disorder. So new clinical trials are hunting for a range of solutions. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-20 • 39 minutes Episode 4: The Morality of Molecules Marie thinks she’s finally found a treatment for heroin addiction that will work as a long-term solution, but not everyone agrees—including some of the people she’s trying to help. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Apr-20 • 18 minutes How did ultra-processed foods take over, and what are they doing to us? Sliced supermarket bread, ham, cheese, crisps, a fruit-flavoured yoghurt and a fizzy drink. If this sounds like a standard lunch, you’re not alone. The average person in the UK gets more than 50% of their calories from ultra-processed foods – otherwise known as ‘industrially produced edible substances’. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Chris van Tulleken about what ultra-processed foods are really made of, how they have become a major part of our diets, and the impact they are having on our health (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-19 • 21 minutes A smarter way to melt down plastics? Repeated flash-heating provides a new way to depolymerise plastics, and the latest from the Nature Briefing. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Apr-19 • 46 minutes How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others? The idea of infinity is probably about as old as numbers themselves, going back to whenever people first realized that they could keep counting forever. But even though we have a sign for infinity and can refer to the concept in casual conversation, infinity remains profoundly mysterious, even to mathematicians. In this episode, Steven Strogatz chats with his fellow mathematician Justin Moore of Cornell University about how one infinity can be bigger than another (and whether we can be sure that there isn’t... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-Apr-19 • 7 minutes A Mission to Jupiter's Strange Moons Is Finally on Its Way A Mission to Jupiter's Strange Moons Is Finally on Its Way (@sciam)

2023-Apr-19 • 10 minutes The Biggest Microbiome Study Sheds New Light on Shared Health Risks The most comprehensive survey of how we share our microbiomes suggests a new way of thinking about diseases that aren’t usually considered contagious. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-19 • 37 minutes Live show, dead dinosaurs We did a live show! We talked about how one of our favorite episodes came together and how we went about creating (somewhat) accurate dinosaur sounds. 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-Apr-19 • 63 minutes Delphinology Part 1 (DOLPHINS) with Justin Gregg Giant brains! Communication mysteries! Infamous sensuality! Dolphins are here to blow your relatively tiny mind with their squeaks, clicks, cliques, history, lore, zany evolutionary path, psychedelic experiences, and so much more. Learn why some dolphins are pink, why NASA poured cash into groovy research, what it’s like to touch a dolphin, if they can learn to speak English, their mating strategies, captivity, and the researchers that made our culture obsessed with them. Also: how a screensaver can save yo... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Apr-19 • 15 minutes The Race To Protect Millions Of People From Melting Glaciers Melting glaciers are leaving behind large, unstable lakes that can cause dangerous flash floods. Millions of people downstream are threatened. In today's episode, NPR Climate Desk reporter Rebecca Hersher and producer Ryan Kellman take Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong to a community high in the mountains of Nepal where residents are on the front lines of this new climate threat, and explains how scientists are looking for solutions that can save lives around the world.Check out the full series about how melti... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-18 How tall is time? Well, it's all relative Atomic clocks are the most precise time-keepers we have. | | But that doesn't mean they can escape the timey wimey effects of gravity. | | In this episode of Great Moments in Science, Dr Karl explains how this enables super-accurate clocks to not just measure time, but height as well. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Apr-18 • 10 minutes A ‘Morning-After Pill’ for Sexually Transmitted Infections Is Almost Here The single-dose antibiotic regimen dramatically reduces transmission of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. But it doesn’t have the CDC’s blessing yet. | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-18 • 7 minutes The Surprising Backstory behind Witch Hunts and Reproductive Labor The Surprising Backstory behind Witch Hunts and Reproductive Labor (@sciam)

2023-Apr-18 • 32 minutes Why do we like some foods, but not others? Do you have a favorite food that your friend doesn't like at all? Do you look at what your parents are eating and say, "No, thank you!" Well, you’re not alone! Lots of people have different food preferences. But why do some people like certain foods and others don’t? And what’s a supertaster? In this tasty treat of an episode, Molly and cohost Nishka visit a cooking class for kids and talk with food expert Jennifer Anderson from Kids Eat in Color (https://kidseatincolor.com/) to learn how to make ... (@Brains_On)

2023-Apr-18 • 12 minutes Could virtual reality gaming help people overcome anxiety? Madeleine Finlay speaks to science correspondent Linda Geddes about trying out a virtual reality game that challenges you to keep your heart-rate down while facing a terrifying monster, why it could help with tackling anxiety, and whether the gamification of coping strategies could be the best way to integrate them into our every day lives (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-18 • 30 minutes Taking a trip into a black hole What are black holes, how do you find one, and what would happen if you fell in? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-17 • 73 minutes 233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism I talk with cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier about reason: how it developed, how it is used, and how we can be better at it. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Apr-17 • 6 minutes Diseases Didn’t Just Shape History, They Control the Future A new book explores the far-reaching impact of germs and viruses on human society. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-17 • 48 minutes 704: Navigating the Seas of Change Studying Ocean Acidification and Marine Ecosystems - Dr. Tessa Hill Dr. Tessa Hill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She is part of the Bodega Ocean Acidification Research group there at the Bodega Marine Laboratory. Research in... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Apr-17 • 13 minutes Where are the whales? Scientists find clues thousands of miles away Endangered North Atlantic right whales are disappearing from their native waters, a serious danger for a species with only 340 animals left. The mystery behind this change took NPR's climate reporter Lauren Sommer 2,000 miles away to the world's second-largest ice sheet, sitting on top of Greenland. On today's episode, Lauren takes Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong on an expedition to Greenland's ice sheet and then to the Gulf of Maine to break down the ripple effects of climate change. Reach the show by email... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-17 • 56 minutes CRISPR Mosquitoes The editing tool CRISPR is already being tested on animal and plant cells. It has even been used on humans. How might this revolutionary tool change our lives? On the one hand, it could cure inherited diseases and rid the world of malaria-spreading mosquitoes. On the other hand, scientists using it are accelerating evolution and introducing novel genetic combinations that could transform our biological landscape in unforeseen ways. We explore the ramifications of this revolutionary technology. Guests: Na... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Apr-16 • 11 minutes Everything you ever (or never) wanted to know about ticks They're the unwanted hiking companion that is trying to suck your blood. | | Today, Charlotte tells us about why ticks want to follow us home. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Apr-15 • 54 minutes Beaming energy to Earth from space And one hundred years ago, a scientific expedition in Australia showed Einstein was right. (@ABCscience)

2023-Apr-15 The Skeptics Guide #927 - Apr 15 2023 Interview with Jon Bornstein of Amprius Technology; News Items: Dopamine Detox, Overprotection May Cause Anxiety, W-Boson Mass, No Health Benefits from Moderate Drinking; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Apr-14 • 28 minutes Is there anyone out there? What are the actual chances of finding alien life? The idea of meeting an extra-terrestrial has ignited imaginations for hundreds of years, and it has also inspired real science: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - or Seti - is an organisation that brings together researchers across the world in pursuit of distant life forms. This same dream is on the mind of listener Andrew in Yorkshire in the UK, who has been looking into the sheer size of the universe, and wants to know: how many stars are th... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Apr-14 • 48 minutes ‘Possibility Of Life’ Book, PFAS Sewage, ‘Smart’ Play. April 14, 2023, Part 2 Is Anybody Out There? The Quest For Life In Space It’s one of humanity’s biggest fundamental questions: “Is there life elsewhere in the universe?” But despite years of searching, it’s a query that still has no answer. That conundrum also opens up a whole string of other inquiries, from how to best search for signs of life, to whether we’ll be able to make sense of what we’re seeing. The search for life elsewhere can also help us learn about our own existence. How many of what we consider the basic rules o... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-14 • 48 minutes EV Proposal, Lactose Intolerance. April 14, 2023, Part 1 EPA Proposal To Require 60% Of New Cars To Be EVs by 2030 The EPA released a set of proposals this week that would cap C02 emissions for new cars. In order to meet the new stricter targets automakers would need to ramp up electric vehicle manufacturing substantially. By 2030, 60% of new cars would need to be electric. Ira talks with Casey Crownhart, Climate Reporter for the MIT Technology Review, about the new EPA emissions proposals and other top science news of the week including predictions of a bad mosq... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-14 • 62 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 27, 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 evolution move toward complexity or simplicity? - ​​​We should breed extremophile bacteria and algae to terraform planets by slowly exposing them to toxic atmospheres. ​​​- Can bacteria be diabetic? - ​​Did Craig Venter indeed create synthetic life, or did he just change the existing specie... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-14 • 74 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (May 25, 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 think software innovations are stronger with mathematical research tied to them, even for "non-mathematical software"? - Can you say more about your writing process? How much time does it take for you to finish writing a blog post? How do you integrate a bunch ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-14 • 34 minutes Fear in the Lab: Stories about confronting danger You can tell a lot about a person by how they react in the face of danger. In this week’s classic episode, both of our storytellers must find the courage to brave the perils of life and the lab. Part 1: Neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman is working late one night alone in the lab when she accidentally sticks herself with a needle full of deadly toxin. This story originally aired on December 16, 2016 in an episode titled “Deadly Mistake.” Part 2: Ali Mustafa finds that the scars of war stay with him even at his... (@storycollider)

2023-Apr-14 • 24 minutes How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden The social psychologist joins us to discuss his new book Foolproof. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Apr-14 • 14 minutes Are Rats Running This Podcast? This week, New York City crowned Kathleen Corradi its first rat czar. The new position is part of a multipronged approach from city officials. Reporter and New Yorker Anil Oza called up rodentologists to understand — does their approach withstand the test of scientific research? We love hearing your musings and questions about the science in your everyday life. Reach us by emailing [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Apr-14 • 27 minutes Abortion Pills, Take Two Abortion pills — a combo of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol — are on notice: on April 7, 2023, a federal judge said the FDA’s approval of mifepristone was invalid. And then, not more than an hour later, another federal judge in a separate case said that mifepristone had to stay on the market in certain states. With these two contradictory rulings, mifepristone — and medical abortion, in general — is in the crosshairs. So, today, we want to rewind to an episode we made last year. It looks at these tw... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Apr-14 • 9 minutes The Abortion Pill Legal Standoff Endangers Access to All Drugs A Fifth Circuit ruling that keeps mifepristone available, but curtails access to it, is the newest front in a battle over the FDA’s power to approve medications. | | Read the story here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-14 • 56 minutes Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button from Hidden Brain Understandably, there is a lot going on in our lives, and we feel pulled in every direction. But trying to get everything done can distract from the joy that surrounds us. Host Shankar Vedantam and psychologist Dacher Keltner discuss what it means to savor the beauty of the people, moments, and things in the world and the scientific reasoning behind the feeling of "awe." This is an episode of Hidden Brain that originally aired in February 2023, and you can listen to new episodes of Hidden Brain wherever y... (@Pogue)

2023-Apr-14 • 9 minutes What You Need to Know about GPT-4 What You Need to Know about GPT-4 (@sciam)

2023-Apr-14 • 29 minutes Solar power milestones and bird microbiomes Plus, a new theory behind magnetoreception, and how concrete might absorb more CO2 (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-14 • 104 minutes There's Bacteria in Your Eye What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Upcycling For Eyes, Bacteria, Canadian dire wolf, Mint, Monkeys, Lip Reading, Alexa, Tiger Personality, Bird water, Broccoli, Ancient Drug Use, Aging, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Apr-14 • 54 minutes AI scientist develops theories, bear hibernation and immobility risks, Canadian astronaut to the moon, Medieval monks moon science, a new view on the womb and the Earth with no moon A new AI can develop scientific theories like a human scientist; A Canadian Astronaut on catching a ride to the moon; Understanding the secret of bear hibernation could help humans avoid blood clots; Medieval monks watching the moon provided valuable climate data; A view on the womb - a new book looks at the neglected science of the uterus; How would the Earth be different if it had never collided with the object that created the moon? (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Apr-13 • 32 minutes Bird flu: The global threat H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian flu is racing across the world, and has infected multiple species, including wild and farmed birds, and mammals from cats to sea lions. What can be done to control it? Roland Pease talks to global experts about the dangers to animal and human health, and about the measures to bring the outbreak under control. Producer: Roland Pease Assistant producer: Sophie Ormiston (Photo: A government worker examines chicks for signs of bird flu infection at a poultry farm in Darul Imara... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Apr-13 • 50 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 13, 2023 Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, discusses current global temperatures, levels of greenhouse gasses and where 2022 ranks in the climate record. Then, Brenda Mann, program director of the University of Utah science and engineering fair, shares fascinating school science and engineering projects. (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Apr-13 • 39 minutes More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series Anchoring radiocarbon dates to cosmic events, why hibernating bears don't get blood clots, and kicking off a book series on sex, gender, and science | | First up this week, upping the precision of radiocarbon dating by linking cosmic rays to isotopes in wood. Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Online News Editor Michael Price about how spikes in cosmic rays—called Miyake events—are helping archaeologists peg the age of wooden artifacts to a year rather than a decade or century. | | Next on the show, we... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Apr-13 • 41 minutes Sweet Science Researchers from London’s Francis Crick Institute have found a type of artificial sweetener is able to dampen down immune system responses - at least in mice. Karen Vousden and Fabio Zani tell us about the implications. And Ronan McCarthy from Brunel University has found a range of different artificial sweeteners have antibacterial properties. We discuss the connections between these two areas of research and the prospect of developing drug treatments from artificial sweeteners. Penny Johnes from Brist... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Apr-13 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Opioid use and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic there was an explosive rise in opioid deaths. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Apr-13 • 30 minutes #181 New York goes quantum; a tipping point in human culture; JUICE mission to Jupiter How many people can we physically feed on Earth? As the global population is predicted to reach 11 billion by the end of the century, do we have enough land to feed all those mouths? The team discusses the safest ways to feed the world, and finds out the absolute limit of Earth’s capacity.You know those fetching tunics Stone Age people wore? Well, we may have figured out how they stitched them together. The team discusses the discovery of a 40,000 year old horse (or bison) bone, and what it tells us about a... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-13 • 6 minutes The Massive ‘Batteries’ Hidden Beneath Your Feet Aquifer thermal energy storage can use groundwater to heat and cool buildings—decarbonizing homes and businesses in the process. | Read the article here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-13 • 30 minutes Eco-anxiety: getting hot under the collar about climate change Why people are feeling stressed about the future and the frightening implications of climate change... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-13 • 12 minutes Bonus Episode: Mantra Meditation Your audio toolkit for fighting eco-anxiety... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-13 • 52 minutes What Do Bees, Ants, and Dragonflies Get up to All Day? Bugs are everywhere: in every corner of the world, even the Artic. But of the estimated 10 million species of bugs worldwide, only a million have been studied or described. Given the increasing rate of extinction, can scientists hope to learn about them all? What do bugs do all day? Where do they live? How do they communicate? This episode explores: How Dr. Jessica Ware became a curator and professor at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Ware’s travels around the world, to study bugs in their hab... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-13 • 35 minutes Episode 3: The Prepared Mind After years of disappointing results in her quest to treat heroin addiction, Marie Nyswander was more than ready to try something new. When she met a prominent doctor from the prestigious Rockefeller Institute, they embarked on an experiment that would define both of their careers and revolutionize the treatment of addiction for decades to come. But not everyone was happy about it. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Apr-13 • 37 minutes Field Trip: My Butt, a Colonoscopy Ride Along & How-To Come check out my butt with me! 1 in 16 people in the U.S. will have colon cancer, and 0 in 16 want to talk about getting a camera up your guts to check things out. I am one of them, but after losing loved ones to colon cancer – and staring down the barrel of my first-ever colonoscope — I recorded tips, tricks, taste tests, foggy drug hazes, bar room advice, and finally my surprising results. It may save a life. Possibly yours. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Apr-13 • 14 minutes Juice Mission: why has the search for alien life moved to Jupiter’s moons? The European Space Agency’s long-awaited Juice Mission is about to blast off for Jupiter’s moons. Its goal: to find out whether the oceans below their icy surfaces could be capable of supporting life. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Stuart Clark about why moons are the new Mars for scientists seeking life, how magnetic fields can help us understand these mysterious lunar oceans, and what Juice might mean for our understanding of life beyond the solar system (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-12 • 114 minutes Martin Rees: If Science is to Save Us, Part 1 This is the second podcast dialogue we are airing with renowned astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal, and former President of the Royal Society, Lord Martin Rees. The first time I sat down with Martin for the Podcast we discussed his life in science, and topics ranging from the state of modern cosmology to the potential conflicts between science and religion (which he views as minimal, and I don’t). Martin’s thinking, and his expertise, go far beyond these topics however. Based on his experience at the Roy... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-Apr-12 • 27 minutes Octopuses hunt by 'tasting' with their suckers The receptors that help octopuses sense by touch, plus a roundup of stories from the Nature Briefing. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Apr-12 • 15 minutes Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Apr-12 • 8 minutes Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air Neoplants says its pothos has superior purification properties—but you’ll still need a lot of them to get the job done. | Read the article here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-12 • 23 minutes Talking trees Studies suggesting trees communicate through an elaborate underground fungal network have captured imaginations. It’s a beautiful idea, but the fantasy may have gotten ahead of the science. 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. Help keep this show and all of Vox's journalism free by making a gift to Vox today: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad c... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Apr-12 • 10 minutes Good News for Coffee Lovers A careful new study reveals coffee is generally safe for your heart and may boost your daily step count. (@sciam)

2023-Apr-12 • 13 minutes Peep The Delightful Science Of Chickens When Tove Danovich decided to dabble in backyard chicken keeping, she embraced a tried and true journalistic practice — reading everything there is to find on the subject. In her search, she found plenty of how-to guides, but what she really wanted was to know more about the science. She wanted to understand their evolution and unique relationship with humans. "As I was reading more and as I was wanting this book that increasingly it seemed like it it just didn't exist. I wound up writing it instead," says... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-11 • 11 minutes What to do when there's a polar bear in your backyard | Alysa McCall As Arctic ice melts, polar bears are being forced on land -- and they're hungry. With the apex predators frequently turning to human junkyards for a snack, northern towns have had to get creative in order to keep both their people and wildlife safe. Biologist and conservationist Alysa McCall shares lessons from the field on how to safely navigate contact with these magnificent animals and plan for a future where climate change forces us all a little closer. (@TEDTalks)

2023-Apr-11 • 63 minutes Sir Roger Penrose | The Emperor’s New Mind: Consciousness & Computer | INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/5Ag6jpvIa2w?=sub_confir... 6 October 2020 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. I was delighted to have had this chance to discuss life, physics and everything with my friend Sir Roger Penrose, who endorsed my book Losing the Nobel Prize back in 2018. Well, now Sir Roger has WON the Nobel Prize. We discussed the first... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Apr-11 The physics of dunking biscuits Humans have been dunking biscuits for as long as biscuits have existed. | | But why do we do it? Why are soggy biscuits so darn good? | | In this archive episode of Great Moments in Science, Dr Karl submerges himself into the mechanics of this age-old activity. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Apr-11 • 40 minutes Growth Spring is upon us, which means a whoooole bunch of junk is going to start growing, such as flowers, grass, and little baby animals. So this week, Tangents is hacking into that growth mindset being displayed by Mother Nature to talk all about the science of stuff getting bigger! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Apr-11 • 8 minutes Stem Cell ‘Junk Yards’ Reveal a New Clue About Aging New research shows that the cells’ garbage-clearing function deteriorates with age—and opens the door to reversing the process. | Read the article here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-11 • 36 minutes How do we learn to read - and why is it hard? Reading is your one-way ticket to adventure! You can ride fire-breathing dragons, explore outer space, or even save the world – all within the pages of a book. But have you ever wondered how we learn to read? And why it can sometimes feel hard to do? Molly and co-host Anna talk to American Public Media reporter Emily Hanford, host of the podcast Sold a Story (https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-... about how some teaching techniques make it harder to learn how to read. Plus tips on how to become a rockst... (@Brains_On)

2023-Apr-11 • 60 minutes China hides Covid data, the problem with pain Plus, scientists manufacture meatball made of mammoth (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-11 • 15 minutes Should we ban artificial grass? Artificial grass has become a hugely popular way to achieve a neat, green lawn all year round. But what are the costs of a hassle- and mud-free garden? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian feature writer Sam Wollaston and urban ecologist Prof Rob Francis about why people go for artificial grass, its environmental impacts, and whether it’s time we rid ourselves of the idea of the perfect lawn altogether (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-10 • 74 minutes 232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information I talk with economist Amy Finkelstein about how asymmetric information affects markets for insurance and other goods. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Apr-10 • 9 minutes NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution With new satellites and programs, the agency is tackling air quality from all angles—for the health of people and the planet. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-10 • 29 minutes Bill Nye, The FOOD Science Guy! Greetings, Science Rules! listeners! Have you ever wondered about the future of lab grown meat? Or what the deal is with GMOs? What about the science behind salting your pasta water? Today, we are sharing a special episode of the food podcast The Sporkful where Bill Nye and Corey S. Powell tackle your food science questions, and talk about their own food quirks. It turns out that Bill is very particular about his Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, and there’s one thing he won’t tolerate in PB&J preparation. ... (@BillNye • @coreyspowell)

2023-Apr-10 • 38 minutes 703: Using Chemical Genetics to Understand Cell Signaling Networks to Treat Human Diseases - Dr. Kevan Shokat Dr. Kevan M. Shokat is Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California San Francisco, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley, and an Investigator with the... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Apr-10 • 12 minutes Meet the Magnificent Microbes of the Deep Unknown Meet the Magnificent Microbes of the Deep Unknown (@sciam)

2023-Apr-10 • 13 minutes Launching Into Space — Sustainably! In 1957, the Space Age began with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. Since then, the number of objects humans have hurled toward the stars has soared to the thousands. As those objects have collided with one another, they've created more space debris in Earth's orbit. According to some estimates, all of that debris and human-made space trash, the number of objects — from satellites to screws — could be in the millions. In this iteration of our AAAS live show series, Short Wave co-host Aa... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-10 • 56 minutes Skeptic Check: Feeling Risky It’s not just facts that inform our decisions. They’re also guided by how those facts feel. From deciding whether to buckle our seat belts to addressing climate change, how we regard risk is subjective. In this extended conversation with an expert on the psychology of risk, find out about our exaggerated fears, as well as risks we don’t take seriously enough. Meanwhile, while experts warn society about the dangers of self-aware AI – are those warnings being heeded? Guest: David Ropeik – Professor emeritus ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Apr-09 • 129 minutes “I only had 30 minutes to Invent Eternal Inflation!” Andrei Linde | INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Qq2OgL8Hb6o?=sub_confir... Linde is one of the main authors of inflationary cosmology. At present, it is the leading candidate for the theory of the very early stages of expansion of the universe and formation of its large scale structure. In this podcast Linde will describe some of the popular versions of this theory, as well as observational evidence ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Apr-09 • 11 minutes Waterways are teeming with life - how can we protect them? Callum is thinking about the future of freshwater systems in Australia. They're full of life, within and around the water. | | But how do we protect these waterways when humans also rely on them? | | Callum Donohue explores this careful balance. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Apr-08 • 54 minutes Technology helps scientists discover new species As pressure on the natural world increases, new technology is bringing fast results as scientists monitor fauna and flora and identify new species. (@ABCscience)

2023-Apr-08 The Skeptics Guide #926 - Apr 8 2023 Quickie with Bob: Quantum Random Numbers; News Items: Treating Infections Without Antibiotics, The Science of Clogging, New Kind of Black Hole, First Cell Phone; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Feedback on AI; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Apr-07 • 38 minutes What does flying do to my body? Compared to the entirety of human existence, our history of flying in aeroplanes is very short indeed. So what does this fast form of travel do to bodies that have evolved for land-based living? That's what listener Sofia wants to know after working as a flight attendant for over a decade. What effect does working at 35,000 feet have on one's health? How disruptive to your circadian rhythms is hopping across ten time zones in less than 24 hours? What's happening in our stomachs if a crisp packet blows up t... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Apr-07 • 25 minutes Million Bazillion: Why are there so many of the same stores? We’re super-jazzed to share this episode of Million Bazillion, a podcast for kids and families that helps you understand money. | | In this episode, hosts Bridget and Ryan get a question from Will in Ohio and are taking a cross-country road trip to answer it. Will wants to know why there are so many of the same stores. From Starbucks to Home Depot and all the McDonald’s in between, we’ll break down the reason why. (@Brains_On)

2023-Apr-07 • 82 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 20, 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-q... | Questions include: Do you think having many (eventually thousands of) IoT devices will necessitate some kind of additional routing logic on local networks to prevent primary devices (desktops) from being slowed? - ​​The implementation of IPv6 solved the problem of the number of possible internet addresses, ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-07 • 71 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (May 18, 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-q... | Questions include: Why did electromagnetism become a focus of study so late into human civilization? Wouldn't the ancients have observed and studied magnets and static electricity and characterized it as easily as we did? - Why did Turing come up with Turing machines as a basis for computation and not t... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Apr-07 • 48 minutes Artemis II Astronauts, AI Research Pause, Terra Nil Video Game. April 7, 2023, Part 2 An Open Letter Asks AI Researchers To Reconsider Responsibilities In recent months, it’s been hard to escape hearing about artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT, the AI-enabled version of Bing, and Google’s Bard—large language models skilled at manipulating words and constructing text. The programs can conduct a believable conversation and answer questions fluently, but have a tenuous grasp on what’s real, and what’s not. Last week, the Future of Life Institute released an open letter that read ... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-07 • 47 minutes Plants Make Sounds, Frog Science, COVID Vaccine Update. April 7, 2023, Part 1 Your Plants Are Trying to Tell You They’re Thirsty Spring is in the air, with flowers blooming and gardens starting. Most people with a green thumb will know a droopy plant is a signal that it needs water. But new research has found another way that plants will signal that they’re thirsty: emitting staccato popping sounds, too high pitched for the human ears. Elsewhere in the world of science journalism, an argument has been made that elephants have self-domesticated. If true, this would make these gentle g... (@scifri)

2023-Apr-07 • 40 minutes Observations: Stories about noticing the details Making insightful observations is a key component of being a good scientist, or journalist, or filmmaker. Come to think of it, many careers rely on the ability to notice the details. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers are keen observers of human and animal nature. Part 1: Documentary filmmaker Caitlin Starowicz is so focused on making her movie about endangered Mountain Gorillas a success that she fails to see what’s in front of her. Part 2: For a story on escape rooms, journalist Danny Wicent... (@storycollider)

2023-Apr-07 • 44 minutes The Library of Alexandra How much does knowledge cost? While that sounds like an abstract question, the answer is surprisingly specific: $3,096,988,440.00. That’s how much the business of publishing scientific and academic research is worth. This is the story of one woman’s battle against a global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research. In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan had just moved home to Kazakhstan after a disappointing few years trying to study neuroscience in the United States when she landed on ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Apr-07 • 6 minutes Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’ For the first time, researchers transferred them to the wombs of female monkeys, where the embryo-like structures produced a response similar to pregnancy. | Read the article here. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-07 • 12 minutes How Zombifying Fungi Became Master Manipulators How Zombifying Fungi Became Master Manipulators (@sciam)

2023-Apr-07 • 14 minutes News Round Up: Mammoth Meatballs, Stressed Plants And Apologetic Robots In this Friday round up of science news we can't let go, not everything is as it seems. Meatballs are not made of fresh meat from the cattle range. Robots are keeping something from you. And plants have secrets they keep out of your earshot. It's deceptive science, Short Wave-style. We love hearing what you're reading and what science is catching your eye! Reach the show by emailing [email protected]. (@NPR)

2023-Apr-07 FQxI April 7, 2023 Podcast Episode What is Life? What is Consciousness? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 5 (@FQXi)

2023-Apr-06 • 30 minutes Chasing tornados in the American mid-West Chasing tornados in the American mid-West – scientists are trying to learn the maximum from the tornado outbreaks currently in America. Professor Karen Kosiba calls us from a radar truck studying the storms, and Professor John Allen explains the energy powering them. From the weather of today to the skies of 800 years ago... Dr Sébastien Guillet reveals how lunar observations by medieval monks are helping untangle the connection between historic eruptions and climate. Finally, we go back even further ... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Apr-06 • 29 minutes Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants Why some countries, such as China, vaccinate flocks against bird flu but others don’t, and male ants that are always chimeras | | First up this week, highly pathogenic avian influenza is spreading to domestic flocks around the globe from migrating birds. Why don’t many countries vaccinate their bird herds when finding one case can mean massive culls? Staff News Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the push and pull of economics, politics, and science at play in vaccinating poultry against b... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Apr-06 • 54 minutes It's the Blairs Animal Corner Spectacular! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Cactus, Portable MRI, Monkey Slieght of Hand, Parakeet Vacations, Female Spiders, Dino Lips, And Much More Animal Corner! Become a Patron! Check out the full episode of our science podcast on YouT... (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Apr-06 • 52 minutes Cool Science Radio | April 6, 2023 Local hydrologist Brian McInerney discusses Utah's record snowpack and flooding ahead (1:07). Then, Tanya Lewis, senior health and medicine editor at Scientific American, explores new research on the origins of COVID-19 (27:27). (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Apr-06 • 29 minutes Science superpower? The government has launched a new 10-point plan designed, it said to “cement the UK’s place as a global science and technology superpower”. We speak with Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute, for his take on the government's plan and the findings of his own review of the UK’s research landscape. In 1963, in a now famous speech at the Labour Party conference in Scarborough, Labour leader and soon to be Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised a new Britain would be forged in the “white he... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Apr-06 • 22 minutes #180 Maximum human lifespan; a twist on a classic physics experiment; saving the kākāpō How long can a human live for? The world record is 122 years, and while some people believe our bodies aren’t capable of surpassing that, a new theory suggests we could see the record broken in a decade’s time. The team explains how this could be possible.An upgraded version of the classic double-slit experiment has observed how light interacts through differences in time rather than space. Researchers used a special type of material in the experiment, which the team says could be used to make time crystals... (@newscientist)

2023-Apr-06 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Searching for solutions A very wet winter changed things and in most parts of the West, the drought seems to be over. That gives us a little bit of time to keep working on solutions to water availability. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Apr-06 • 6 minutes The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe By recreating an early state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, scientists hope to understand the conditions that made the universe what it is today. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-06 • 32 minutes Seeing Truth in Physics Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often seen as “outside” the field, he has found freedom to think harder, pursue ideas, and carve a place for himself in the story of science. Alexander and Alexis Boylan discuss how we should be thinking about physics, art, and the meaning of life all together, all the time. Learn more about the Seeing Truth exhibition at our website. Follow us on Twitter @WhyArguePod a... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-06 • 28 minutes Episode 2: The Pleasure Center A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help – about something else entirely. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Apr-06 • 54 minutes Artificial auroras, home runs and climate change, baby’s first bacteria, math does crowd control, science and storylistening and old books with hidden stories. Scientists map Earth’s ionosphere with artificial auroras; Climate change is a boon for baseball’s power hitters; Scientists identify where babies get their bacteria; When we walk through crowds, math, not intelligence, controls the flow of traffic; How stories can work with science to help us make sense of the world; The stories that books can tell — that aren’t in the words they contain (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Apr-05 • 17 minutes What’s feeding the 5,000-mile blob of seaweed growing in the Atlantic? The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the biggest seaweed bloom on the planet, is already beginning to coat beaches in Florida, Mexico and the Caribbean in dangerous, smelly goop. Madeleine Finlay speaks to sargassum expert Prof Brian Lapointe about what’s feeding it, and whether anything can be done (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-05 • 82 minutes Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2023-Apr-05 • 43 minutes What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? Should Covid-19 vaccines be judged by how well they prevent disease or how well they prevent death? Anna Durbin, a public health expert and vaccine researcher, talks with Steven Strogatz about the science behind vaccines. (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-Apr-05 • 32 minutes Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form Researchers see most distant pair of supermassive black holes yet observed, and assessing an AI's ability to interpret heart images. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Apr-05 • 28 minutes Your questions, unexplained This week, we tackle three listener questions — on sleepwalking, deja vu, and Earth’s magnetic field. Next time, we could be (not) answering yours. Email us at [email protected], or fill out this form. 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. Help keep this show and all of Vox's journalism free by making a gift to Vox today: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Apr-05 • 46 minutes Chickenology Part 2 (HENS & ROOSTERS) with Tove Danovich We’re back for Part 2! If you missed Part 1, start there for the chicken basics and then come back for the weird stuff like chickens eating chickens, why chickens bother laying unfertilized eggs, rooster gossip, fairy eggs, nest abominations, bird grief, beak accessories, soft burbling chicken sounds, spicy chicken feed, safe corners of the internet, multicolored eggs and the big questions: SHOULD YOU GET A CHICKEN OR WHAT. We help you decide. (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Apr-05 • 14 minutes Allergies Are Weird. So Are Cats Katie Wu is a bona fide cat person. She has two of them: twin boys named Calvin and Hobbes. Every night, they curl up in bed with her, bonking their little noses together, rubbing their fur and whiskers everywhere, and leaving behind inevitable cat residue. It's certifiably cute ... and a little bit gross.It's also the worst nightmare for the cat-allergic. Which, just shy of a decade ago, Katie was. In a stroke of luck, Katie's debilitating cat allergy disappeared. The reasons for her immune overhaul remain... (@NPR)

2023-Apr-04 • 9 minutes Jump, bend, and roll: The rise of bioinspired robots A special edition of Science Sessions delves into the capabilities of robots inspired by plants and animals. (@PNASNews)

2023-Apr-04 Want to see an eclipse without travelling? You might be waiting a while Thousands of people will descend on the tiny WA town of Exmouth later this month to witness the Moon block out the Sun for a whopping one minute. | | But if you're a homebody not all that keen on a road trip, how long might it take to see a total solar eclipse from where you are right now? | | Dr Karl investigates in this archive episode of Great Moments in Science. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Apr-04 • 26 minutes Recharging in nature How nature is good for our health, and how installing EV chargers at national parks might help us get there... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Apr-04 • 9 minutes Your First Lab-Grown Burger Won’t Contain Much Beef Meat brewed in bioreactors is on the way, but it’s still too expensive. The solution? Add a whole lot of plants. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-04 • 34 minutes The Trash Trail: Why is there so much plastic in the ocean? We use plastic for all kinds of things, from shampoo bottles to glitter. It’s useful but also a danger, because a lot of plastic is ending up in our oceans, where it’s sucked into swirly twirly whirlpools of garbage. The biggest of these is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Hop into the ExPLORERR with Molly and cohost Ana-Victoria to learn more about this plasticy problem and find out what you can do to help solve it! Plus a brand new mystery sound! | This episode was sponsored by: | | Liquid I.V. (L... (@Brains_On)

2023-Apr-04 • 15 minutes Why does the UK government want to ban laughing gas? The UK government recently announced plans to make the possession of laughing gas for recreational use a criminal offence. Ian Sample speaks to science correspondent Nicola Davis about the reasons behind banning nitrous oxide, risks associated with its use and what else experts think could be done to prevent harm (@guardianscience)

2023-Apr-03 • 244 minutes Ask Me Anything | April 2023 Ask Me Anything episode for April 2023. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Apr-03 • 10 minutes How Do People Live in Orbit? Ask the Space Archeologists An innovative research project delivers new evidence about the challenging life of astronauts on the International Space Station. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Apr-03 • 42 minutes Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022) How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena. The body is central to our sense of identity. It can be a canvas for self-expression, decorated with clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, tattoos, and piercings. But the body is more than that. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness (MIT Press, 2022), Costan... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-03 • 61 minutes Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023) Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoare's book The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History (Cambridge UP, 2023) provides a deep, causal view of the forces that have shaped the universe, the earth, and humanity. Starting with the Big Bang and the formation of the earth, it traces the evolutionary history of the world, focusing on humanity's origins. It also explores the many... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-03 • 48 minutes 702: Building High-Throughput Technology to Characterize Biological Systems - Dr. Adam Abate Dr. Adam Abate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California San Francisco. He is also a co-founder of the startup company Mission Bio. The overall goal of Adam’s lab is to... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Apr-03 • 11 minutes Open Offices Aren't Working, so How Do We Design an Office That Does? Open Offices Aren't Working, so How Do We Design an Office That Does? (@sciam)

2023-Apr-03 • 14 minutes Why We Should Care About Viruses Jumping From Animals To People The phenomenon of zoonotic spillover — of viruses jumping from animals to people — is incredibly common. The question is: which one will start the next pandemic? NPR science desk correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff brings us her reporting on Influenza D, an emerging virus spreading among cows and other livestock in the United States. (@NPR)

2023-Apr-03 • 55 minutes Calling All Aliens Are we alone in the universe? Is there other intelligence out there? COSMIC, the most ambitious SETI search yet, hopes to answer that. We hear updates on this novel signal detection project being conducted on the Very Large Array in the desert of New Mexico. Also, we chat with award-winning science fiction writer Ted Chiang about how he envisions making contact with aliens in his stories, including the one that was the basis for the movie Arrival. And find out why some scientists don’t want only to listen ... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Apr-03 FQxI April 3, 2023 Podcast Episode Does Objective Reality Exist? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 4 (@FQXi)

2023-Apr-02 • 53 minutes Superconductor Smackdown: Breakthrough or ‘Probable Fraud’? Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4?subconfirma... come maglev trains, fusion reactors, cheap MRI scanners in every clinic…. Or not? Since the discovery of superconductors in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, earning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics, they have been the subject of much fascination and inquiry. Some of the greatest minds in physics have grappled with how supercondu... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Apr-02 • 65 minutes Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023) In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks of torture and fatal wounds—hands bound by rope, machete cuts—and also for signs of identity: how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the tiny bones of the toes, molded by kneeling before a loom; a girl is identified alongside her pet dog. In the tenderness of understanding these bones, forensics not... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-02 • 13 minutes Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience The intersection between cutting-edge neuroscience and the emerging field of network science has been growing tremendously over the past decade. Olaf Sporns, editor of Network Neuroscience, and Distinguished Professor, Provost Professor of Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, discusses the applications of network science technology to neuroscience. Dr. Sporns hopes the launch of Network Neuroscience will contribute to the creation of a common language used by sci... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Apr-02 • 11 minutes Tiny creatures have a big conservation problem To plan conservation efforts, scientists need to know what species are in an area, how big the populations are, how they interact... The list goes on. | | But what happens when the creatures that need conserving are so small you can barely see them? | | Today, Lisa Kirkendale explores the importance of taxonomy in conservation, and why even the tiniest of creatures need attention. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Apr-02 • 19 minutes Eric Weinstein: The Crazy Structure of the Universe Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/65tgV4OrsAk?subconfirma... to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find oth... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Apr-01 • 54 minutes Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water By performing their waggle dance, bees communicate information about direction, distance and quality of a food source. (@ABCscience)

2023-Apr-01 The Skeptics Guide #925 - Apr 1 2023 Interview with Blake Lemoine; Quickie with Steve: Batteries with Double the Energy Density; News Items: Mammoth Meatball, Lunar Ice, First Blitzar Observed, England Allows Gene-Edited Crops; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Mar-31 • 37 minutes How do my ears sense direction? How do we hear a sound and immediately know where it’s coming from? That’s the question that CrowdScience listener Chiletso asked himself one day as he heard his son bounce a ball and instantly knew its direction. In this ear-opening episode, presenter Anand Jagatia sets out to discover what makes left, right, up and down, sound so different. First, Anand gets blindfolded, so that Alan Archer-Boyd, former auditory scientist and lead engineer at BBC R&D, can put his sound localisation skills to the test. ... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Mar-31 • 47 minutes Mapping An Insect Brain, Climate Education, Audubon Name, Wastewater Methane. March 31, 2023, Part 2 Sewage Is A Biological Necessity, And A Methane Minefield In most cities, once you flush a toilet, the water and waste flows through the sewage system to a water treatment plant. Once it’s there, it goes through a series of chemical and biological processes which clean it up and make the water safe to drink again. But a recent paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology finds that some of those sewage plants may be having a greater impact on the climate than previously thought. The anaerobic... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-31 • 69 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 13, 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-q... | Questions include: What's the densest thing in the universe? I've heard that black holes don't count—why? - The entire mass of the Earth at neutron star density would fit into a sphere of 305 m in diameter (the size of the Arecibo Telescope). - What if black holes are like visible branchings in the multiway... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-31 • 62 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (May 11, 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: Would you agree that the way you succeed matters a lot in regards to whether you get to enjoy your success or not? - How do you mold your environment to create good working habits? - What's the best passive way to make money (stock trading, investing, etc.) and how stable is it... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-31 • 47 minutes Early Spring, Mumps On The Rise, Gulf Of Maine, Supermassive Black Hole. March 31, 2023, Part 1 A Supermassive Black Hole The Mass Of 30 Billion Suns This week, astronomers reported that they may have found signs of one of the largest black holes ever detected–a space behemoth the mass of some 30 billion suns. The supermassive black hole, located in part of the Abell 1201 galaxy cluster, was detected using a combination of gravitational lensing and supercomputer simulations. First, the astronomers observed how the images of other more distant objects viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope were warped by... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-31 • 30 minutes Mariah Wilson: Anything To See A Forest Elephant In this week’s episode, we get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to film a wildlife conservation documentary. Part 1: Documentary producer Mariah Wilson is days into making her film about the endangered Forest Elephant and still hasn’t seen one. Part 2: Science Journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews Mariah Wilson to learn more about the stars of her documentary Silent Forests. Mariah Wilson is a documentary producer and director with a focus on wildlife conservation whose work has taken her to six co... (@storycollider)

2023-Mar-31 • 71 minutes The Good Samaritan Tuesday afternoon, summer of 2017: Scotty Hatton and Scottie Wightman made a decision to help someone in need and both paid a price for their actions that day — actions that have led to a legal, moral, and scientific puzzle about how we balance accountability and forgiveness. In this 2019 episode, we go to Bath County, Kentucky, where, as one health official put it, opioids have created “a hole the size of Kentucky.” We talk to the people on all sides of this story about stemming the tide of overdoses. We ... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Mar-31 • 12 minutes Audio long read: What Turkey’s earthquake tells us about the science of seismic forecasting Despite decades of research, predicting exactly where an earthquake will strike remains practically impossible. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Mar-31 • 34 minutes The Rewilded Farm After 17 years of trying to prop up their failing farm outside of London, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree were stressed, exhausted, and $1.7 million in debt. They decided to stop farming—no more plowing, planting, irrigating, chemicals. They gave away the farm—to nature. 20 years later, their land has one of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the UK. These 3500 acres teem with species, many of which are endangered or hadn’t been seen in the UK for centuries. And the twist: Their land now genera... (@Pogue)

2023-Mar-31 • 11 minutes Cosmos, Quickly: Remembering the Genius of Vera Rubin Cosmos, Quickly: Remembering the Genius of Vera Rubin (@sciam)

2023-Mar-31 • 12 minutes Eunice Foote: The Hidden Grandmother Of Climate Science Today, most climate science is done with satellites, sensors and complicated computer models. But it all started with a pioneering female physicist and two glass tubes. Eunice Foote, the woman behind that glass tube experiment, has largely been left out of the history books. Until about 10 years ago, John Tyndall was seen as the grandfather of climate science for setting the foundation for the understanding of the greenhouse gas effect. But Eunice's experiment, done three years prior, showed that air with m... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-31 • 30 minutes T-Rex lips and dating tips Also, should we call time on daylight savings, and why has the UK government moved to ban nitrous oxide (@NakedScientists)

2023-Mar-31 • 54 minutes Tyrannosaur lips, bald eagles dine on beef, saving the orbital environment, how your fingerprints are built and how humans run on electricity Tyrannosaurus rex had lips covering its terrifying teeth; Eagles are eating cows instead of salmon – and farmers are happy; Inspired by the High Seas treaty, scientists are calling for the protection of space; Arches, loops and whorls — how your unique fingerprints are made; Humans are fueled by food — but we run on electricity. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Mar-30 • 123 minutes How To Do The Science Dance? , What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Hot & Rocky, Farming Pumas, Stressed Out Lizards, Robots, Healing Cockles?, Squid Camouflage, Fishy conspiracy theories, Ancient Gneomes, Signal Strength, Possible MS Cause, (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Mar-30 • 33 minutes Gene editing breakthrough We look at a gene editing breakthrough, a new technique to correct genetic errors in sick patients. Roland speaks to Professor David Liu to learn about the base editing technology. Also, we look into the complex causes of last year's post-pandemic spike in child hepatitis. Professor Judy Breuer and her colleagues may have found an explanation behind the unexpected outbreak. And the James Webb Space Telescope continues to seek out the secrets of our universe. Professor Beth Biller and Dr Elsa Ducrot have t... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Mar-30 • 27 minutes How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille On this week’s show: How people in the past thought about their own past, and a detailed look at how Braille is read | | First up this week, what did people 1000 years ago think about 5000-year-old Stonehenge? Or about a disused Maya temple smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood? Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how Mesoamerican sites are revealing new ways that ruins were incorporated into past peoples’ lives. | | Next up on this week’s show is a segment fr... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Mar-30 • 36 minutes Covid leaks and conspiracies Science writer Philip Ball has followed the relationship between government and its scientific advisors throughout the pandemic. He discusses the role of scientific advisors in the light of conflicting information following the leak of a number of former Health Minister Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. Phil tells us why he believes greater transpearency is needed around the advice offered to government. The head of the US FBI has suggested the Covid 19 pandemic may have been started through a leak from a... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Mar-30 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Could whales help fight climate change? The profound decline in whale populations doesn't just change our ocean ecosystems – it might also be impacting our atmospheric climate. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Mar-30 • 31 minutes #179 Black holes older than time; nine animals to save the climate; the largest creature ever to walk the Earth Sea otters, American bison and grey wolves are among nine groups of animals that could help fight climate change. The team discusses the various attributes that make these groups particularly impactful, and they explain what we’d need to do to help populations grow.An ancient supermassive black hole that formed in the early moments of the universe has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The team explains how it might’ve formed so early into the universe’s existence - and they discuss the mind-bo... (@newscientist)

2023-Mar-30 • 53 minutes Cool Science Radio | March 30, 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kate Zernike tells the story of 16 female scientists who forced MIT to admit it had been discriminating against female faculty for decades in her new book "The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science." (0:41) Then, Research Professor Maureen McCarthy talks about effects of megastorms and atmospheric rivers. (27:56) (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Mar-30 • 7 minutes The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs Ice can trap pollutants and accelerate their breakdown, with troubling environmental consequences. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-30 • 28 minutes Episode 1: The Accidental Calling A young doctor looking for adventure abroad is posted to rural Kentucky, where she learns about addiction for the first time—and starts ruffling feathers. (@LostWomenofSci)

2023-Mar-30 • 74 minutes Shep Doeleman on hunting for black holes Shep Doeleman is a senior research fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and one of the world’s leading experts on black holes. He heads the globe-spanning Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which in recent years unv... (@Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin)

2023-Mar-30 • 16 minutes Glass beads full of water on the moon: what does the discovery mean for space exploration? More than half a century after humans last walked on the moon, researchers have made a discovery that makes lunar living an increasing possibility. The moon’s surface is littered with tiny glass beads containing water, which could be extracted and used by visiting astronauts. Ian Sample speaks to Professor Mahesh Anand, part of the team that made the discovery, about where these beads come from and what they mean for future moon missions (@guardianscience)

2023-Mar-29 • 76 minutes Chickenology Part 1 (HENS & ROOSTERS) with Tove Danovich Yes, Chickenology is a real word. And we have questions. Such as: should you get a chicken?! Chicken-haver and author of “Under the Henfluence” Tove Danovich stops in to recall how her casual backyard chicken experiment turned into an obsession, a lifestyle, and then a book. We chat about junglefowl, chicken competitions, egg prices, chicken statues, bird personalities, coop logistics, avian flus, shell hues, earlobes, live chicken cams, and more on this Part 1. Stay tuned next week as we address a record-b... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Mar-29 • 25 minutes Bacterial ‘syringes’ could inject drugs directly into human cells Repurposing a microbial system to deliver molecules directly into cells, and the disconnect between research into, and treatment of, chronic pain. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Mar-29 • 19 minutes New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI An energy-efficient chip called NeuRRAM fixes an old design flaw to run large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices, reaching the same accuracy as wasteful digital computers. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Cast of Pods” by Doug Maxwell. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Mar-29 • 8 minutes Plastics Are Devastating the Guts of Seabirds New research shows that seabirds’ ingestion of the pollutant scars their insides—a new disease called “plasticosis”—and may disturb their microbiomes. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-29 • 69 minutes Life Extension Therapies The story of the Fountain of Youth is as old as history itself. Herodotus, the father of ancient Greek history, wrote of a mythical spring that extended the life of its bathers. Today, biotech entrepreneurs, scientists, and health influencers are still searching for that mythical spring. Longevity and anti-aging research has recently blossomed, with a number of tantalizing discoveries. Still, this research hasn't delivered any magic bullets. Yet, that hasn't stopped a cottage industry of folks hawking a ple... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Mar-29 • 9 minutes Long COVID's Roots in the Brain: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 3 Post-COVID symptoms can linger for months or years, and more and more evidence points to problems with the nervous system. (@sciam)

2023-Mar-29 • 11 minutes Why Scientists Just Mapped Every Synapse In A Fly Brain To really understand the human brain, scientists say you'd have to map its wiring. The only problem: there are more than 100 trillion different connections to find, trace and characterize. But a team of scientists has made a big stride toward this goal, a complete wiring diagram of a teeny, tiny brain: the fruit fly larva. With a full map, or connectome, of the larval fruit fly brain, scientists can start to understand how behaviors shape, and are shaped by, the specific wiring of neural circuits. On today'... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-28 • 65 minutes Avi Loeb: `Oumuamua is EXTRATERRESTRIAL Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... the video of this episode here: https://youtube.com/live/86E03OzQDCo?sub... Bergner and Seligman explained the behavior of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, as a rare form of a quite common object, a comet. They claim it "began as an icy planetesimal that was irradiated at low temperatures by cosmic rays during its interstellar journey, and experienced warming during its passage through the So... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Mar-28 I do not like green eggs and ham... or potatoes? Green potatoes — would you like them here or there? Would you like them anywhere? | | Well as Dr Karl taught us last week, potatoes contain a potentially deadly chemical, and a green tinge is its greatest tell. | | In this archive episode, we explore why green potatoes are best avoided. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Mar-28 • 6 minutes California’s Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-28 • 44 minutes Ants If you are on the planet Earth right now, there's probably a pretty good chance you're near an ant right now. So spare a thought for those hard working little fellows and unplug your headphones so they can hear this episode about ants (featuring special guest Maddie Sofia) and learn more about themselves! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Mar-28 • 35 minutes Why do we need bugs? Insects can live almost anywhere: backyards, mountaintops, scorching hot deserts, underwater, even on Antarctica! There are more than a million different species out there, from speedy dragonflies that zip through the air as fast as a car to rainbow-colored beetles living in tropical rainforests. Plus, scientists are discovering new ones all the time! But why does the world need bugs? And why do they make us feel a little icky sometimes? In this super buggy episode, Molly and co-host Lorna meet bug scientis... (@Brains_On)

2023-Mar-28 • 29 minutes Smologies #21: SLEEP with Chris Winter A G-rated, kid-safe Smologies edit all about getting your Zzzzzs. Neurologist and somnologist Dr. W. Chris Winter is an expert on sleep, and since his first interview, he’s released a book called “The Rested Child” all about sleep and kiddos! So parents, kids and anybody else can dive in to learn about different sleep stages, what sleep does to the brain, insomnia, ideal bedtime conditions, brain performance and how doctors often overlook pediatric sleep disorders. You’ll learn so many facts that will help ... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Mar-28 • 29 minutes The Right to Repair: Get your fix Whatever happened to make do and mend? Many of us, it seems, have lost the ability to fix the things we buy. So are manufacturers on a mission to make things impossible to fix, forcing us to buy new ones? Or should we be taking more personal responsibility to reduce waste?  Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists (@NakedScientists)

2023-Mar-28 • 16 minutes Could faecal transplants be the next frontier in health? Madeleine Finlay hears from science correspondent Linda Geddes about her experience becoming a faecal transplant donor, how getting a dose of someone else’s gut bacteria could treat illnesses like arthritis, diabetes and cancer, and asks whether a pill made from poo is an idea we are ready to swallow (@guardianscience)

2023-Mar-27 • 57 minutes Can Scientists Be Spiritual? Alan Lightman | Into The Impossible Podcast Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/R5DXUZet7HE?sub_confirm... the brain a computer? Where does the soul lie? Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? Alan Lightman takes on these ancient questions and more in this fabulous new book chock-full of cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries in brain science. Watch Alan's first episode on the Into the Impossible Podcast https://yo... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Mar-27 • 81 minutes 231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism I talk with Sarah Bakewell about the history of humanism, from the Renaissance to today. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Mar-27 • 97 minutes Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicle Transition Explained,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The series takes a systems perspective on electric vehicles, and talks about all of the potential barriers – from a lack of minerals, to stressing out the electricity grid, to being short on consumers or workers – that face EVs, which are too often cast as a climate change cure-all. Charette and Vins... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Mar-27 • 38 minutes 701: Studying and Preserving the Giant South American River Turtle and Other Species - Dr. Germán Forero-Medina Dr. Germán Forero-Medina is the Science and Conservation Director at the Wildlife Conservation Society Colombia. He also coordinates the projects for the conservation of freshwater turtles and tortoises in the Amazon Orinoco region. In his research,... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Mar-27 • 9 minutes Climate Freeloaders Are Destroying the Planet Governments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-27 • 15 minutes If AI Starts Making Music on Its Own, What Happens to Musicians? If AI Starts Making Music on Its Own, What Happens to Musicians? (@sciam)

2023-Mar-27 • 13 minutes Perennial Rice: Plant Once, Harvest Again And Again Rice is arguably the world's most important staple crop. About half of the global population depends on it for sustenance. But, like other staples such as wheat and corn, rice is cultivated annually. That means replanting the fields year after year, at huge cost to both the farmers and the land. For years, scientists have been tinkering with rice strains to create a perennial variety – one that would regrow after harvest without the need to be resown. Today, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber takes a l... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-27 • 55 minutes Make Space for Animals* Long before Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space, Laika, a stray dog, crossed the final frontier. Find out what other surprising species were drafted into the astronaut corps. They may be our best friends, but we still balk at giving other creatures moral standing. And why are humans so reluctant to accept the fact that we too are animals? Guests: Jo Wimpenny - Zoologist and writer. Author of “Aesop’s Animals” Taylor Maggiacomo - Associate Graphic Editor at National Geographic Alexande... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Mar-26 • 11 minutes An Atom's Eye View Jacob is no stranger to becoming immersed in the world he's researching. He's a nanotechnologist, so things are about to get tiny. | | Today, Jacob Martin explains why his research requires a balance of the real and virtual worlds of scientific experimentation. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Mar-25 World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen And soft tissues can be fossilised. They help piece together the history of life on Earth. (@ABCscience)

2023-Mar-25 The Skeptics Guide #924 - Mar 25 2023 What's the Word: Pleonasm; Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engine, Tik Tok and Misinformation, 3D Printed Rocket, Beethoven's Hair, Uranus Moons and Subsurface Oceans; Follow up: Oumuamua Comet Hypothesis; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Mar-25 • 42 minutes Magic Materials You might think materials are a bit boring and inconsequential but without them we would still be living in the stone age. Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by material scientists Mark Miodownik and Anna Ploszajski and comedian Ed Byrne to discover the life changing materials that are hidden in plain sight. Which materials have made us human? Which materials do we completely depend on? And how will materials shape our future? Producer: Caroline Steel Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Mar-25 FQxI March 25, 2023 Podcast Episode Is There a Multiverse? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 3 (@FQXi)

2023-Mar-24 • 42 minutes Why do some people have panic attacks? Sweating, nausea, chest pain and shortness of breath sound like the physical symptoms of a heart attack. For about 4% of the world’s population, they are also symptoms of an underdiagnosed condition that can leave sufferers curled in a ball and screaming on the floor. A CrowdScience listener wants to know why humans have panic attacks. Host Marnie Chesterton brings on board an expert co-presenter, novelist Tim Clare, to talk us through the hows and whys. Tim suffered from crippling panic attacks for over... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Mar-24 • 67 minutes Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2023-Mar-24 • 73 minutes History of AI (March 22, 2023) Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa | Excerpt from livestream episode History of Science and Technology Q&A (March 22, 2023), Stephen Wolfram answers: What is the history of AI? What is the first recorded example of artificial intelligence? | Stephen's conversation with Terry Sejnowski on the history of neural nets is available here: https://y... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-24 • 68 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 6, 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-q... | Questions include: Can you explain rasterization? -  Does the human visual system use a molecular-scale version of rasterization? - When I close my eyes and apply pressure, why do I see colored dynamic geometric patterns? ​I also see the grid, and it's interesting how it fades when your normal vision f... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-24 • 85 minutes History of Science & Technology Q&A (May 4, 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 discuss the thinking process of the discovery of complex numbers, quaternions and octonions? - Can you go over the history of Grothendieck? What lead to the homotopy hypothesis? - Can you talk about the history of four-function calculators? - Could you tell us when cybersecurity was ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-24 • 53 minutes Cool Science Radio | March 23, 2023 Social Psychologist Sander van der Linden is known around the University of Cambridge as the “defense against the dark arts teacher.” He shows how we can inoculate ourselves against misinformation in his new book, "Foolproof: Why Misinformation infects our Minds and How to Build Immunity."Then biologist Dr. Danielle Clode. She studies koalas and writes about this marsupial (which is actually not a bear!) that eats only one food, one that is toxic! (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Mar-24 • 31 minutes Animals at the Wuhan Market DNA has revealed potential animal COVID carriers at the Wuhan market, but what does that tell us about the start of the pandemic? Roland talks to two of the experts behind the new analysis: Dr Florence Débarre and Professor Eddie Holmes. Also, we look into Europe’s grand new space ambitions. ESA director general Josef Aschbacher gives Roland the details of the space agency’s out-of-this-world plans. And Beethoven's last DNA: a hairy story of his family and genetic afflictions. Dr Tristan Begg shares how t... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Mar-24 • 47 minutes New NASA Science Head, Climate and Fungus, Whiskey Fungus, Animal Testing Alternatives. March 24, 2023, Part 2 Can Medicine Move To Animal-Free Testing? Before a new drug can begin clinical trials in humans, it gets tested on animals. But things are changing. Late last year, Congress passed the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, which cleared the way for new drugs to skip animal testing. Can we expect to phase out animal testing altogether? Is it safe? And what technologies might make that possible? Guest host Flora Lichtman talks with Dr. Thomas Hartung, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testi... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-24 • 48 minutes March Mammal Madness, Underwater Volcano, Listening to Space. March 24th, 2023, Part 1 The Latest IPCC Report Is Full Of Warnings—And Hope It’s that time of year: another IPCC report has hit the presses. These reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are like a check up—to let us know how we’re doing on the climate front and what Earth’s future is projected to look like. And to no one’s surprise, this year’s report is full of warnings. But also, it has a lot of room for hope. Maggie Koerth, senior science writer at FiveThirtyEight, joins guest host Charles Bergquist to talk ... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-24 • 83 minutes Martin Bauer: The Revolutionary Stern-Gerlach Experiment Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/hiw3aJwc7TU... The Stern-Gerlach experiment is one of the most important results in physics history. Shockingly, the paper had never been translated into english until today's guest, Prof. Martin Bauer set himself to the task. We'll discuss the experiment, as well as Martin's research. Bring your questions for this renowned science popul... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Mar-24 • 30 minutes Road Not Taken: Stories about what could have been In science it’s completely normal to wonder what would happen if you altered one variable or another – that’s what you do when you test a hypothesis – but when it comes to the choices we make in our lives, there will always be unanswered questions. In this week’s episode, both our storytellers share stories about their lives' fork-in-the-road moments. Part 1: As a child who loves biology and has Caribbean immigrant parents, Calvin Cato feels pressure to become a doctor. Part 2: Shane Hanlon can’t help but c... (@storycollider)

2023-Mar-24 • 44 minutes Alone Enough Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved being alone. But then, the pandemic hit. And she got diagnosed with cancer. Actually, those two things happened on the exact same day, at the exact same hour. In the shadow of that nightmarish timing, Cat found her way to a sport that celebrated the solitude that was forced on her, and taught her how to not only embrace self-reliance, but to love it. This sport is called competitive bikepacking. And in these competitions, riders have to br... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Mar-24 • 8 minutes This Is the Lightest Paint in the World An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-24 • 16 minutes Music-Making Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Scary Good Music-Making Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Scary Good (@sciam)

2023-Mar-24 • 11 minutes News Round Up: Algal Threats, An Asteroid With Life's Building Blocks And Bee Maps After reading the science headlines this week, we have A LOT of questions. Why did the Virgin Islands declare a state of emergency over a large blob of floating algae? What can a far-off asteroid tell us about the origins of life? Is the ever-popular bee waggle dance not just for directions to the hive but a map? Luckily, it's the job of the Short Wave team to decipher the science behind the day's news. This week, co-host Aaron Scott, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber and science correspondent Geoff B... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-24 • 114 minutes The Science Springquinox What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Neutrino Detection, Baltic Blasts, Fevers, Galaxies, Forever Chemicals, Big Eyes, Animal Personalities, Pee Shyness, Depression, Otters, Mice Imaging, Language Brains, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Mar-24 • 31 minutes Nerve interfaces and infrared fossil finding Plus, assessing animal welfare and building infrastructure on areas of biodiversity... (@NakedScientists)

2023-Mar-24 • 54 minutes Oumuamua probably not an alien spaceship, dizzy great apes, infant delivery glove, prolifically peeing insects, atmospheric rivers and the gravity of climate change Oumuamua’s strange behaviour has a natural explanation, no aliens needed; Great apes spin to make themselves dizzy — apparently just for kicks; A sensor equipped surgical glove could help make delivery of babies safer; The process of elimination — how tiny insects pee 300 times their own weight every day; A new scale for atmospheric river intensity is helping us understand them; Extreme weather is increasing — so much that it’s changing earth’s gravity; Listener Question: Why do geese sometimes fly north i... (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Mar-23 • 25 minutes New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories On this week’s show: Earth’s youngest impact craters could be vastly underestimated in size, and remaking a plant’s process for a creating a complex compound | | First up this week, have we been measuring asteroid impact craters wrong? Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about new approaches to measuring the diameter of impact craters. They discuss the new measurements which, if confirmed, might require us to rethink just how often Earth gets hit with large asteroids. Paul also shares mo... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Mar-23 • 32 minutes Antarctic Ice Special Sea ice coverage hit a recording-breaking low in the Antarctic this week, but what does this mean for the rest of the world? Why is the region so difficult to predict? And what could further changes in climate mean for the South Pole? Often the Arctic dominates conversations around polar warming but this week, with the help of climate modelling expert Tamsin Edwards, Kings College London, we’ll be tackling these questions and more. We’ll hear from British Antarctic Survey researcher Nadia Frontier, a mari... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Mar-23 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Taking the unconventional path A variety of studies have shown that, by the second grade, about 75 percent of girls have already developed an implicit belief that science, math and engineering are subjects that belong more to boys. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Mar-23 • 28 minutes #178 Botox affects your understanding of emotions; GPT-4 exhibits human-level intelligence; IPCC climate change report 2023 As countries continue dragging their feet on emissions reductions, the latest  synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is another call to arms, warning of catastrophic impacts of climate change. The team digs into the report and asks whether the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C is now beyond reach.ChatGPT’s successor GPT-4 is here, and excitement is brewing as the language model has begun to demonstrate signs of artificial general intelligence, when machines demonstr... (@newscientist)

2023-Mar-23 • 51 minutes Paul Erdős Paul Erdős (1913 – 1996) is one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century. During his long career, he made a number of impressive advances in our understanding of maths and developed whole new fields in the subject. He was born into a Jewish family in Hungary just before the outbreak of World War I, and his life was shaped by the rise of fascism in Europe, anti-Semitism and the Cold War. His reputation for mathematical problem solving is unrivalled and he was extraordinarily prolific. He ... (@BBCInOurTime)

2023-Mar-23 • 85 minutes Domicology (ABANDONED BUILDINGS, RECYCLED HOUSES & GHOST TOWNS) with Rex LaMore What’s inside that boarded up house? Should you explore an abandoned mall? A vacant factory? And how much of an old house ends up in a landfill? The founder of Domicology, Dr. Rex LaMore of Michigan State University’s Center for Community and Economic Development, is an expert on these things and answers any possible question you might have, from ghost towns to hidden house notes, arson, recycling wood, stealing metal and how to leave a better housing situation for future generations. Also: whale poltergeis... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Mar-23 • 8 minutes The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun The hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-23 • 18 minutes Three years on: are we any closer to understanding long Covid? Ian Sample hears from Scotland’s Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans about her experience of long Covid and how it has impacted her life. He also speaks to Professor Danny Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London, about the current scientific understanding of the condition, and whether we’re any closer to a treatment. (@guardianscience)

2023-Mar-23 • 14 minutes Why Pandemic Researchers Are Talking About Raccoon Dogs A few weeks ago, raw data gathered in Janaury 2020 from Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China — the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic — was uploaded to an online virology database. It caught the attention of researchers. A new genetic analysis from an international team provides the strongest evidence yet for natural origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of one animal in particular: raccoon dogs. Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong talks with Katherine Wu, a staff writer at The Atlantic,... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-22 • 19 minutes How to make driverless cars safer — expose them to lots of dangerous drivers A method to test and teach autonomous cars how to deal with dangerous situations, and a renewed interest in bats and how they deal with viruses. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Mar-22 • 50 minutes Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction. (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2023-Mar-22 • 20 minutes What's so funny? Scientists are digging into what makes something funny. We compare their notes with comedians — including Atsuko Okatsuka, Josh Johnson, Dulcé Sloan, and Chris Fleming. 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/adchoic... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Mar-22 • 8 minutes The Climate Report That Foretells Humanity’s Future The IPCC’s synopsis of the state of climate science warns that we’re running out of time to avoid ever-worsening disaster. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-22 • 13 minutes Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week (@sciam)

2023-Mar-22 • 13 minutes If ChatGPT Designed A Rocket — Would It Get To Space? From text churned out by ChatGPT to the artistic renderings of Midjourney, people have been taking notice of new, bot-produced creative works. But how does this artificial intelligence software fare when there are facts at stake — like designing a rocket capable of safe spaceflight?In this episode, NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel and Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong drill into what this AI software gets wrong, right — and if it's even trying to detect the difference in the first place.Want to hear mo... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-21 • 18 minutes #177 Field report from the High Arctic: polar bears and melting glaciers in Svalbard In this bonus episode, join host Rowan Hooper as he ventures to Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the far north, just 1000 km from the North Pole. The Arctic is warming far faster than any other region on the planet, making Svalbard an incredible natural laboratory to study climate change, and particularly, melting glaciers. Svalbard is also home to a large population of the world’s largest land carnivore, the polar bear. Rowan speaks with Jon Aars of the Norwegian Polar Institute about the fate o... (@newscientist)

2023-Mar-21 Potentially poisonous potato no small fry Given the right (or wrong) circumstances, the humble potato packs a punch. | | It contains a chemical that could kill if ingested in large amounts. The catch-22? That chemical is exactly why potatoes taste so good. | | In this archive episode of Great Moments, Dr Karl digs into the science. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Mar-21 • 35 minutes SciShow Tangents Classics - Weather SciShow Tangents will be back next week with a new season and very special guest! Until then, please enjoy this beloved classic episode about Weather! Because it's spring and the weather is changing, you see! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Mar-21 • 30 minutes Why do dogs wag their tails? Have you heard the expression “dogs are people’s best friend”? Where did it come from? And why are dogs and humans such great pals? Molly and co-host Kha-ai jump back in time to learn how dogs became humans’ best friends, and answer the question why do dogs wag their tails? Plus, we’ll also explore how dogs help humans and even other animals like cheetahs. And keep your ears perked for a brand new Mystery Sound! | This episode was sponsored by: | | Indeed (Indeed.com/BRAINS - Terms and conditions apply. Co... (@Brains_On)

2023-Mar-21 • 7 minutes Your Tap Water Is Filthy, but That Could Finally Change The US is proposing bold action to clean thousands of “forever chemicals” out of drinking water. It’s long overdue. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-21 • 16 minutes Willow Project: what could the ‘carbon bomb’ mean for the environment? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian West Coast reporter Maanvi Singh about the Biden administration’s approval of a controversial new oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. She also hears from Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is part of a coalition that’s filing a lawsuit to challenge the decision. (@guardianscience)

2023-Mar-21 • 13 minutes What we lose if the Great Salt Lake dries up Dotted across the Great Basin of the American West are salty, smelly lakes. The largest of these, by far, is the Great Salt Lake in Utah.But a recent report found that water diversions for farming, climate change and population growth could mean the lake essentially disappears within five years. Less water going in means higher concentrations of salt and minerals, which threatens the crucial ecological role saline lakes play across the West, as well as the health of the people who live nearby. On today's ep... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-21 • 33 minutes Trick or treaty: the high seas agreement The high seas treaty aims to protect 30% of the open ocean by 2030. But is this realistic? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Mar-20 • 73 minutes Studying Autism with BRAINS Grown In Space | Alysson Moutri on The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... sure to watch the video of this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/hDKGF5W4Qis?sub_confirm... Where does consciousness come from? Can we cure autism? Can we grow a human BRAIN in Space? Dr. Alysson Muotri joins me to discuss all these fascinating questions and more. Brain organoids are lab-grown minibrains that mimic structural and functional features of full-size brains. They are created by... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Mar-20 • 118 minutes 230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks I talk with philosopher and cognitive scientist Raphaël Millière about the capacities and limitations of modern AI systems. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Mar-20 • 10 minutes Math learning through videos Stanislas Dehaene and Marie Amalric investigate whether short online videos are sufficient to teach mathematics concepts. (@PNASNews)

2023-Mar-20 • 45 minutes 700: Making Materials and Developing Devices for Extreme Environments - Dr. Debbie Senesky Dr. Debbie G. Senesky is an Assistant Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford University. She is dedicated to creating materials that are tiny and tough enough to operate in extreme environments like outer space. They also... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Mar-20 • 8 minutes How a Beam of Pellets Could Blast a Probe Into Deep Space Researchers seek to develop advanced propulsion systems that can transform long-distance space exploration. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-20 • 14 minutes Space Force Humor, Laser Dazzlers, and the Havoc a War in Space Would Actually Wreak Space Force Humor, Laser Dazzlers, and the Havoc a War in Space Would Actually Wreak (@sciam)

2023-Mar-20 • 14 minutes Venus And Earth: A Tale Of Two 'Twins' Planetary scientists announced some big news this week about our next-door neighbor, Venus. For the first time, they had found direct evidence that Venus has active, ongoing volcanic activity. "It's a big deal," says Dr. Martha Gilmore, a planetary geologist at Wesleyan University. "It's a big deal in that there are no other planets, actually, where we've seen active volcanism." (Moons don't count - sorry Io!) What makes that fact so striking is how inhospitable a place Venus is now – crushing pressure, a t... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-20 • 55 minutes Skeptic Check: Do Your Own Research* Scientists are increasingly finding their expertise questioned by non-experts who claim they’ve done their own “research.” Whether advocating Ivermectin to treat Covid, insisting that climate change is a hoax, or asserting that the Earth is flat, doubters are now dismissed by being told to “do your own research!” But is a Wiki page evidence? What about a YouTube video? What happens to our quest for truth along the way? Plus, a science historian goes to a Flat Earth convention to talk reason. Guests: Yvett... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Mar-19 • 62 minutes Return of Cyclone Freddy 34 days after it first formed at the far end of the Indian Ocean, record-breaking Cyclone Freddy made a repeat landfall on Mozambique as well as passing over Malawi, causing extensive damage and loss of life. Climate scientists Liz Stephens and Izidine Pinto join Roland to give an update on the destruction and explain how Cyclone Freddy kept going for an exceptionally long time. At the Third International Human Genome Summit in London last week, Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi announced he had created baby mi... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Mar-19 • 11 minutes Meteorites and meteor-wrongs We've all looked at the night sky in the hope of seeing a shooting star, but today's speaker looks at the ground to find meteorites! | | Ellie Sansom explains what it takes to go on a meteorite hunt in the Australian outback. | | Next live show: | The next Ockham's Razor live show is in Brisbane on the 24th of March. You can find tickets here. We'd love to see you there! (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Mar-18 Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory. The Australian Academy of Science has called for a review of science funding in Australia. (@ABCscience)

2023-Mar-18 The Skeptics Guide #923 - Mar 18 2023 Interview with Derek Muller from Veritasium; Update: Mask Wearing; News Items: New Lunar Space Suits, End of Life Care, GPT-4 is Here, Terminator Zones, Ohio Chemical Spill (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Mar-18 • 43 minutes How Far Can the Human Body Go? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by biomechanist Polly McGuigan, evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod, comedian Russell Kane and Olympic gold medalist Sally Gunnell to find out how good humans are at endurance. Could anyone win a gold at the Olympics? Could a human outrun a cheetah? And have we reached the absolute limits of human endurance? Producer: Caroline Steel Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Mar-18 • 20 minutes Tweeting Directly From Your Brain (And What's Next) Our friends at NPR's TED Radio Hour podcast have been pondering some BIG things — specifically, the connection between our physical, mental, and spiritual health. In this special excerpt, what if you could control a device, not with your hand, but with your mind? Host Manoush Zomorodi talks to physician and entrepreneur Tom Oxley about the implantable brain-computer interface that can change the way we think. Keep an eye on NPR's TED Radio Hour podcast feed the next few weeks, as they unveil the series. (@NPR)

2023-Mar-17 • 29 minutes Can robots be soft? When imagining a robot, a hard-edged, boxy, humanoid figure may spring to mind. But that is about to change. CrowdScience presenter Alex Lathbridge is on a mission to meet the robots that bend the rules of conventionality. Inspired by how creatures like us have evolved to move, some roboticists are looking to nature to design the next generation of machines. And that means making them softer. But just how soft can a robot really be? Join Alex as he goes on a wild adventure to answer this question from lis... (@BBCScienceNews)

2023-Mar-17 • 52 minutes Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [April 29, 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-q... | Questions include: Considering visual perception discontinuous or discrete, can we also consider it quantized? In that case, could it be calculated as "discrete packets of visual perception," based on quantum physics? - If the level of CO2 was much higher in the past, why wasn't there a runaway greenhouse e... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-17 • 78 minutes Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (April 27, 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 take work problems home? What are your thoughts about a balanced work life? - What is a "shocking" meeting? - What do you think of Elon Musk buying Twitter? - It's like voting for algorithms in elections! Algorithm personalities or bias will be increasingly important, I ... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-17 • 47 minutes Smart Toilet, Soft Robotics, Naked Mole Rats. March 17, 2023, Part 2 Stop Flushing Your Health Data Down The Toilet You could be flushing important information about your health right down the toilet—quite literally. Pee and poop can tell you a lot about your health, so what if your waste…didn’t go to waste? What if, instead, it could tell you more about your health? Like number one, it can catch a condition like diabetes early. Or number two, check out what’s going on in your gut microbiome. That’s the goal of the smart toilet—a device that gets all up in your business to t... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-17 • 47 minutes Drugs Designed By AI, The Phosphorus Paradox, Regulating PFAS Chemicals. March 17, 2023, Part 1 At Long Last, More Regulations For Forever Chemicals This week, the EPA proposed the first national standards for drinking water that would set limits on the amount of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) chemicals that would be allowed in water systems. There are thousands of different PFAS chemicals, which are often used industrially for properties such as heat, water and stain resistance—from fire-fighting foams to coatings on clothing and paper plates. They have come to be known as “forever chemic... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-17 • 35 minutes Lies: Stories about playing along There’s a ton of reasons to lie, but experts have found that lies are most beneficial when they’re not selfish. In this week’s episode, both our storytellers do their best to play along for the sake of others. Part 1: While working as a camp counsellor at a camp for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, Gabe Mollica is determined to keep his promise to one of the campers. Part 2: Collette Micks finds herself going along with her mom’s absurd plan to act like her father isn’t dying of cancer.... (@storycollider)

2023-Mar-17 • 55 minutes Apologetical How do you fix a word that’s broken? A word we need when we bump into someone on the street, or break someone’s heart. In our increasingly disconnected secular world, “sorry” has been stretched and twisted, and in some cases weaponized. But it’s also one of the only ways we have to piece together a sense of shared values and beliefs. Through today's sea of sorry-not-sorries, empty apologies, and just straight up non-apologies, we wonder in this episode from 2018 what it looks like to make amends. EPISODE CR... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Mar-17 • 32 minutes NASA Redirects an Asteroid 65 million years ago an asteroid struck the earth. In the ensuing planetary darkness, the dinosaurs went extinct. But the dinosaurs didn’t have a space program! Now we can spot incoming asteroids with steadily improving confidence. If we see one on a collision course with the Earth, we know from the movies that the solution is to nuke it...Right? Actually, NASA has a better idea. If you can just nudge an asteroid slightly off its current path, maybe 25 or 50 years before it hits us, it won’t hit the earth. ... (@Pogue)

2023-Mar-17 • 10 minutes Squeak Squeak, Buzz Buzz: How Researchers Are Using AI to Talk to Animals Squeak Squeak, Buzz Buzz: How Researchers Are Using AI to Talk to Animals (@sciam)

2023-Mar-17 • 13 minutes Flying Into Snowstorms ... For Science! For the past few winters, researchers have been intentionally flying into snowstorms. And high in those icy clouds, the team collected all the information they could to understand—how exactly do winter storms work? With more accurate data could come more accurate predictions about whether a storm would cause treacherous conditions that shut down schools, close roads and cancel flights. NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce recently took to the skies for one of these flights and shares her reportin... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-17 • 31 minutes HIV case cured by umbilical cord stem cells Plus, an artificial sweetener suppresses immunity, and gorillas enjoy getting dizzy (@NakedScientists)

2023-Mar-17 • 90 minutes 15 March 2023 – Episode 916 – Ides Like the Science Pi? This Week: Time Reflections, Just Bad News, Vaccinated Sleep, Butterfly Paint, AI Science Papers, Nickleback, Dizzy Apes, Bees, Monkey tools, Unicorns, Bats, Pollution, And Much More Science! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Mar-17 • 54 minutes Earliest horsepeople, whales use ‘vocal fry’, plankton might migrate poleward, mapping a fruit fly brain and understanding the cuddly, cute and really strange koala 5,000 years ago riding left traces on the legs and butts of the earliest horsepeople; Whales use ‘vocal fry’ to echolocate at depth; Fossils suggest that if equatorial oceans get too warm, plankton may desert; Scientists have mapped the most complex animal brain yet - and it's the size of a grain of salt; A new book explores the unique biology and uncertain fate of Australia’s iconic koala. (@CBCQuirks)

2023-Mar-17 FQxI March 17, 2023 Podcast Episode Is Our Universe Fine-Tuned For Life? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 2 (@FQXi)

2023-Mar-16 • 33 minutes Return of Cyclone Freddy 34 days after it first formed at the far end of the Indian Ocean, record-breaking Cyclone Freddy made a repeat landfall on Mozambique as well as passing over Malawi, causing extensive damage and loss of life. Climate scientists Liz Stephens and Izidine Pinto join Roland to give an update on the destruction and explain how Cyclone Freddy kept going for an exceptionally long time. At the Third International Human Genome Summit in London last week, Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi announced he had created baby mic... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Mar-16 • 21 minutes An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer On this week’s show: Spotting volcanic activity on Venus in 30-year-old data, and giving context to increases in early onset colon cancer | | First up this week, a researcher notices an active volcano on Venus in data from the Magellan mission—which ended in 1994. News Staff Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how to find a “fresh” lava flow in 30-year-old readings. | | Next up, a concerning increase in early onset colon cancer. Kimmie Ng, director of the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer ... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Mar-16 • 29 minutes Gene Editing Ethics, Killer Whale Mummy's Boys and Ancient Hippo Butchery Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui caused international outrage when in 2018 when he used the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR Cas-9 to edit the genomes of two human embryos. That experiment, described by the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology described as ‘abominable’, resulted in the birth of twin girls. The experiment also landed Dr He in prison for three years. Now, out of prison and working for a company in Beijing that proclaims to offer “affordable gene therapy” – He Jiankui has been speaking i... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Mar-16 • 28 minutes #176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background Brainoids - tiny clumps of human brain cells - are being turned into living artificial intelligence machines, capable of carrying out tasks like solving complex equations. The team finds out how these brain organoids compare to normal computer-based AIs, and they explore the ethics of it all.Sickle cell disease is now curable, thanks to a pioneering trial with CRISPR gene editing. The team shares the story of a woman whose life has been transformed by the treatment.We can now hear the sound of the afterglow... (@newscientist)

2023-Mar-16 • 51 minutes Cool Science Radio | March 16, 2023 Cognitive scientist Paco Calvo talks about the new science of plant intelligence in his book covering "Planta Sapiens." Then writer Paul Bogard discusses the importance of the night sky and the impact of darkness on all forms of life. (@KPCWRadio)

2023-Mar-16 • 5 minutes How to Lucid Dream (Even if You Think You Can’t) Want to take control inside your dreams? Turns out it’s a skill you can practice. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-16 • 16 minutes How will gene editing change medicine and who will benefit? Ian Sample speaks to Guardian science correspondent Hannah Devlin about the latest developments and debates about gene editing to emerge from a summit at the Francis Crick Institute in London. The summit heard from the first person with sickle cell disease to be treated with a technique known as CRISPR. He also hears from Prof Claire Booth about ensuring these cutting edge treatments are made available to everyone who needs them (@guardianscience)

2023-Mar-16 • 12 minutes Could de-extincting the dodo help struggling species? As a leading expert on paleogenomics, Beth Shapiro has been hearing the same question ever since she started working on ancient DNA: "The only question that we consistently were asked was, how close are we to bringing a mammoth back to life?"In the second part of our conversation (listen to yesterday's episode), Beth tells Short Wave co-host Aaron Scott that actually cloning a mammoth is probably not going to happen. "But there are technologies that will allow us to resurrect extinct traits, to move bits an... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-16 FQxI March 16, 2023 Podcast Episode Is Science Becoming Less Disruptive? (@FQXi)

2023-Mar-15 • 32 minutes How to build a virus-proof cell A streamlined genome makes bacteria immune to viral infection, and designing mini-MRI scanners for low- and middle-income countries. (@NaturePodcast)

2023-Mar-15 • 25 minutes #175 Living Off-Earth: Ethical questions for living in outer space with Erika Nesvold Whether it’s on the Moon, Mars or somewhere even more distant, we may see human settlements in space in our lifetime. But when we do, will we be prepared?Alongside all the concerns of whether we should even be considering moving out to space, there are a lot of ethical considerations that need to be thought about too. How do you govern the new societies you’re forging? How do you hold the leaders accountable? How do we learn from and avoid the mistakes we’ve made on Earth? In this bonus episode of the ... (@newscientist)

2023-Mar-15 • 27 minutes Origins: The meaning of “life” For every definition of life, there’s a creature that sends us right back to the drawing board. This is the third episode in our three-part series, Origins, about the beginnings and boundaries of life on Earth. 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... (@voxdotcom • @nhassenfeld)

2023-Mar-15 • 8 minutes The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal A new experiment pulled off the most precise measurement of an electron’s self-generated magnetic field—and the universe’s subatomic model is at stake. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-15 • 9 minutes RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2 RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2 (@sciam)

2023-Mar-15 • 14 minutes It's Boom Times In Ancient DNA Research into very, very old DNA has made huge leaps forward over the last two decades. That has allowed scientists like Beth Shapiro to push the frontier further and further. "For a long time, we thought, you know, maybe the limit is going to be around 100,000 years [old]. Or, maybe the limit is going to be around 300,000 years," says Shapiro, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. "Well, now we've been working with a horse fossil in Alaska that's about 800,000 years old." Beth's car... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-15 • 19 minutes How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations Supergenes that lock inherited traits together are widespread in nature. Recent work shows that their blend of genetic benefits and risks for species can be complex. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Chee Zee Jungle – Primal Drive” by Kevin MacLeod. (@QuantaMagazine)

2023-Mar-14 • 77 minutes Chronobiology (CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS) Encore + 2023 Updates with Katherine Hatcher Ahh, Daylight Savings Time: does it mess up your brain? What time should you go to bed? Are you sleeping enough? Is shift work really that bad? How dark is dark enough? The wonderful and hilarious Dr. Katherine Hatcher got her PhD in hormones, sleep cycles and circadian rhythms, and helps Alie dissect her terrible sleep habits. We also chat about a tiny magical area in our brains that acts as your body's Big Ben. By the end of the episode, you'll be in footie pajamas eager to change your whole life. Follow... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Mar-14 • 6 minutes Of Mice and Milk What you eat or drink just after you finish pumping iron is crucial to laying down muscle. | | Dr Karl weighs up the best way to bulk up, in this archive episode of Great Moments in Science from 2011. (@ABCscience • @DoctorKarl)

2023-Mar-14 • 47 minutes Aging Every millisecond of every day, you, everyone you know, every rock on the ground, every star in the sky... they're all aging. And podcasts are no exception. In fact, Tangents is hitting a milestone in its aging as we bring season 4 to a close with this episode! You can't hear the dull roar of time lurching ever onward if you're listening to a funny show, so come listen! (@SciShowTangents • @hankgreen • @ceriley • @itsmestefanchin • @im_sam_schultz)

2023-Mar-14 • 34 minutes Why do we have friends? Friendship rules! Friends help us work through problems, keep us company and bring joy to our lives. Making friends might have also helped our prehistoric ancestors survive and thrive! Still, friendship can be tough sometimes. In this episode, we’ll answer your friendship questions with Eileen Kennedy-Moore (a.k.a Dr. Friendtastic!) and hear some advice from a filmmaker with autism about making friends. Plus an all-new Mystery Sound! | | This episode was sponsored by: | Indeed (Indeed.com/BRAINS - Terms an... (@Brains_On)

2023-Mar-14 • 22 minutes Smologies #20: FISHES with Chris Thacker Ichthyology is not easy to say, but fish are easy to love. Dr. Chris Thacker will get you so thrilled to stare into a pond or look up pictures of silvery sea serpent-looking fish friends. Hilariously charming fish expert and LA County Natural History Museum Curator of Ichthyology, Dr. Thacker took Alie to a basement full of several million jars of fish to chat about the worst fish husbands, the weirdest mating behaviors, the scariest fish, the nicest fish, the tiniest fish, how they breathe, how you can h... (@Ologies • @alieward)

2023-Mar-14 • 6 minutes The World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Is About to Launch Relativity Space’s attempt to reach orbit heralds the increasing use of 3D printing in the space sector. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-14 • 10 minutes If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound Like? If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound Like? (@sciam)

2023-Mar-14 • 15 minutes The Last of Us: could the next pandemic be fungal? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian science correspondent Linda Geddes about the possibility of a fungal pandemic like the one depicted in apocalyptic thriller The Last of Us. They discuss the strange world of fungi, the risks of infections and treatment resistance, and what we can do to protect ourselves from future fungal threats (@guardianscience)

2023-Mar-14 • 13 minutes How To Bake Pi, Mathematically (And Deliciously) This March 14, Short Wave is celebrating pi ... and pie! We do that with the help of mathematician Eugenia Cheng, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the book How to Bake Pi. We start with a recipe for clotted cream and end, deliciously, at how math is so much more expansive than grade school tests.Click through to our episode page for the recipes mentioned in this episode.Plus, Eugenia's been on Short Wave before! To hear more, check out our episode, A Mathema... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-13 • 72 minutes 229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology I talk with law professor and bioethicist Nita Farahany about the challenges of mind-reading neurotechnologies. (@seanmcarroll)

2023-Mar-13 • 25 minutes Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief Do scientists ever reject science? Research data on the controversial topic of extraterrestrial life has met with resistance from some in the scientific community and openness from communities of faith. Guests Avi Loeb, professor of astrophysics and cosmology at Harvard University, where he serves as the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science. Author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Kate Dorsch, associate director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Universit... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Mar-13 • 45 minutes 699: Battling Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Investigating Microbial Contributions to Neurodegenerative Disease - Dr. Daniel Czyż Dr. Daniel Czyż is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida. Daniel’s lab has two main research areas. Part of his lab is dedicated to developing new treatments to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria using... (@PBtScience • @PhDMarie)

2023-Mar-13 • 10 minutes No One Knows if You Need Another Covid Booster It’s cellular immunity, not antibodies, that probably protects against the coronavirus’s worst effects—and scientists haven’t worked out how long it lasts. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-13 • 14 minutes How Well Does A New Alzheimer's Drug Work For Those Most At Risk? A new drug for Alzheimer's disease, called lecanemab, got a lot of attention earlier this year for getting fast-tracked approval based on a clinical trial that included nearly 1,800 people. It was the most diverse trial for an Alzheimer's treatment to date, but still not enough to definitively say if the drug is effective for Black people. "[In] the world's most diverse Alzheimer's trial, a giant trial of 1,800 people that lasted for a much longer time than most trials did, we're still not sure that all of ... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-13 • 55 minutes Flower Power Before everything could come up roses, there had to be a primordial flower – the mother, and father, of all flowers. Now scientists are on the hunt for it. The eFlower project aims to explain the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the fossil record, what Darwin called an “abominable mystery.” Meanwhile, ancient flowers encased in amber or preserved in tar are providing clues about how ecosystems might respond to changing climates. And, although it was honed by evolution for billions of years, can we m... (@BiPiSci • @SethShostak • @mollycbentley)

2023-Mar-12 • 62 minutes Human genome editing: Promise and Peril We meet experts at the Human Genome Editing Summit in London, seeking to cure genetic disease and ensure that it is safe and available to all. Roland Pease hears from Victoria Gray, the first person to be cured of the debilitating and life-shortening disease sickle cell anaemia by gene editing, and from the scientists making it possible. Also, the prospect of work to attempt gene rescue in fetuses before they are born. But the technology is expensive and complex. The question troubling the participants is... (@bbcworldservice)

2023-Mar-12 • 50 minutes When Will We Detect Dark Matter? Elena Aprile and the XENON Experiment Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Qp3YOsaJ4r0 Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheim... Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON Dark Matter Experiment. Aprile is well known for her work with noble liquid detectors and for her contributions to particle astrophysics in the search for dark matter. P... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2023-Mar-12 • 36 minutes Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods Have faith and science always been enemies? The story of Robert Hooke, a revolutionary working in the Scientific Revolution, exemplifies the ways in which Christianity has actually provoked scientific inquiry. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Patricia Fara, director of studies and affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s Department of the History and Philosophy of Science. J... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Mar-12 • 11 minutes When bias in science is a good thing Bias is usually regarded as something to avoid in scientific research, but that doesn't always have to be the case. | | James Hill explores the role his lived experience as a queer Ngarrindjeri man plays in his research, and what can be gained by inviting bias into science. | | Next live show: | Ockham's Razor is coming to the World Science Festival in Brisbane and we'd love to see you there. You can find tickets here. (@ABCscience • @teegstar)

2023-Mar-11 Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum In the final Strange Frontiers, Carl Smith takes us into the vault at one of the world’s greatest archives of natural history. (@ABCscience)

2023-Mar-11 The Skeptics Guide #922 - Mar 11 2023 Dumbest Thing of the Week: Feng Shui; News Items: Blood Test for Anxiety, Mars Sample Return, Dinosaur Color; Cosmic Rays and the Pyramids; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, BetterHelp; Science or Fiction (@SkepticsGuide • @stevennovella)

2023-Mar-11 • 52 minutes Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press "It is not only for science to give to publishing, but the time has come for publishing to start giving back to science." Tiffany Gasbarrini clarifies the difference between commercial and mission-driven publishers and how publishers who aren't bound by commercial interests alone can make brave ideological publishing decisions. She also makes a passionate case for why telling stories in science can make all the difference in the way we perceive and trust science as a community and society. Avi Staiman is th... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Mar-11 • 43 minutes How to Commit the Perfect Murder Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Susan Calman, Prof Sue Black and Dr Julia Shaw as they invent Infinite Monkey Cluedo, and discover whether they can commit the perfect murder, or whether the latest forensic science will always be able to piece the clues together. They reveal whether the perfect crime or perfect criminal really exists and how we might spot them, and how the latest forensic techniques have transformed even decades-old murder cases. The panel also discuss how the courtroom has ... (@themonkeycage • @ProfBrianCox • @robinince)

2023-Mar-10 • 48 minutes Tips And Tricks To Grow Your Garden In A Changing Climate. March 10, 2023, Part 2 Tips And Tricks To Grow Your Garden In A Changing Climate For many of us, spring is right around the corner—or already here—which means it’s time to start thinking about what is going into your garden this year. But largely thanks to climate change, our seasons are getting wonkier every year. Gardens are feeling the heat as climate change affects the timing of the seasons, temperature extremes, the amount of rainfall, the intensity of droughts, and more. So it’s more important than ever to plant a garden th... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-10 • 48 minutes A New Controversial Black Hole Theory, Saving The Great Salt Lake. March 10, 2023, Part 1 Despite Superconductor Breakthrough, Some Scientists Remain Skeptical This week, researchers unveiled a new superconductor which they say works at room temperature. Scientists have been working on identifying new superconductors for decades—materials that can transmit electricity without friction-like resistance. However, previously discovered superconductors only work at super cold temperatures, and under incredibly high pressures. The newly discovered superconductor, lutetium, could be much more useful in... (@scifri)

2023-Mar-10 • 107 minutes A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 2] Part 2 (of 2)—Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in an on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests. In this episode, Terry Sejnowski joins Stephen to discuss the the long story of how neural nets got to where they are. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversation... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-10 • 74 minutes A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 1] Part 1 (of 2)—Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in an on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests. In this episode, Terry Sejnowski joins Stephen to discuss the the long story of how neural nets got to where they are. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversation... (@stephen_wolfram • @WolframResearch)

2023-Mar-10 • 27 minutes Community: Stories about finding a place to belong Finding community within science can be a challenge. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers struggle with feeling out of place in science. Part 1: After his mentor and chemistry teacher uncle is murdered, André Isaacs feels adrift. Part 2: Engineer Joey Jefferson doesn’t feel like he belongs in science as a black bisexual man. A native of Jamaica, André Isaacs moved to the US to attend the College of the Holy Cross where he received his B.A. in Chemistry in 2005. He received his PhD from the Unive... (@storycollider)

2023-Mar-10 • 27 minutes Buttons Not Buttons Tiny buttons have such a hold on us. They can be portals to power, freedom, and destruction. Today, with the help of buttons, we tell you about taking charge of the little things in life, about fortunes made and lost, and about the ease with which the world can end. Confused? Push the button marked Play. Special thanks for the music of Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with th... (@Radiolab • @lmillernpr • @latifnasser)

2023-Mar-10 • 9 minutes It’s Time for a Flu Vaccine—for Birds Avian influenza has killed millions of birds. Shots to prevent it already exist. Why isn’t the entire poultry industry using them? (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-10 • 8 minutes How To Stop a (Potentially Killer) Asteroid How To Stop a (Potentially Killer) Asteroid (@sciam)

2023-Mar-10 • 11 minutes Ocean World Tour: Whale Vocal Fry, Fossilizing Plankton and A Treaty Reading the science headlines this week, we have A LOT of questions. Why are more animals than just humans saddled — er, blessed — with vocal fry? Why should we care if 8 million year old plankton fossils are in different locations than plankton living today? And is humanity finally united on protecting the Earth's seas with the creation of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction treaty? Luckily, it's the job of the Short Wave team to decipher the science behind the headlines. This week, that decipher... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-10 • 48 minutes Q&A: How will astronauts shower on the moon? Why did sharks survive the meteor strike and the dinosaurs didn't? What's the secret to self control? (@NakedScientists)

2023-Mar-10 • 108 minutes How to Get Brainier Thru Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Chornobyl Dogs, Water, Plasticosis, Mouse Antlers?, Coffee, Baby Biome, Macaques, Wasps, Dinosaur Bones, Sober Shots, Brain Cell Activation, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! (@TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie)

2023-Mar-09 • 67 minutes Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2023-Mar-09 • 35 minutes Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril Human Genome Editing: The team meet experts at the Human Genome Editing Summit in London, seeking to cure genetic disease and ensure that it's safe and available to all. Roland Pease hears from Victoria Gray, the first person to be cured of the debilitating and life-shortening disease sickle cell anaemia by gene editing, and from the scientists making it possible. Also, the prospect of work to attempt gene rescue in fetuses before they are born. But the technology is expensive and complex – the question t... (@bbcworldservice • @thescienceear)

2023-Mar-09 • 39 minutes Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts On this week’s show: Compassion fatigue will strike most who care for lab animals, but addressing it is challenging. Also, overturning ideas about ocean circulation | | First up this week: uncovering compassion fatigue in those who work with research animals—from cage cleaners to heads of entire animal facilities. Host Sarah Crespi and Online News Editor David Grimm discuss how to recognize the anxiety and depression that can be associated with this work and what some institutions are doing to help. | |... (@ScienceMagazine)

2023-Mar-09 • 26 minutes UnDisciplined: Why are book bans on the rise in the US? There are some ways in which this latest cycle of censorship is different, and perhaps even more alarming. (@SoUndisciplined • @mdlaplante • @nalininadkarni)

2023-Mar-09 • 28 minutes Abundant energy This week’s programme is a thought experiment: What would the world be like if energy became superabundant and very cheap? Energy is vital for every aspect of our society, and the energy cost of extraction, processing, manufacture and transport is priced into every product we buy. Today’s energy crisis is having a huge impact, from affecting diplomatic relations between nations to the availability of food. How can our energy systems evolve and what could cheap abundant energy mean for us, our relationshi... (@BBCRadio4)

2023-Mar-09 • 92 minutes Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss Onstage at the Orpheum Theater, Nov 15, 2022 On Nov 15th and 16th, 2022, The Origins Project Foundation hosted their first public events in North America at the beautiful Orpheum Theater in Phoenix, AZ (we had hosted an event in Iceland in September during our Greenland-Iceland Travel Adventure). There was no better way to begin this new series than with a dialogue onstage with Richard Dawkins, and that was the substance of our first night’s event. As all those who have followed us will know, Richard and I have done many dialogues together, onstage ... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2023-Mar-09 • 27 minutes #174 Finding the universe’s missing matter; saving babies’ lives by sequencing their genomes; the earliest horse riders - the latest news in science Matter we’ve long thought missing from galaxies has finally been found. Great news…except there’s one catch. It turns out that perhaps this matter should be missing, based on our understanding of the way young galaxies form. So what’s going on? The team finds out where and how this matter was found, and what it means for our understanding of galaxies.A life-saving trial is sequencing the entire genomes of extremely sick babies. The team learns how the trial worked, and hears from one mother whose son made a... (@newscientist)

2023-Mar-09 • 17 minutes Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder Scientists discovered that some stars have heartbeats and that some of them can be used to measure the longest distances that exist. This episode was produced by Andrew Middleton and Liya Rechtman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.f... (@NewBooksSci)

2023-Mar-09 • 9 minutes Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind Scientists investigated a weird feature in Parker Solar Probe data—and may have discovered what drives the plasma that pervades the solar system. (@WIREDScience)

2023-Mar-09 • 14 minutes 'Are You A Model?': Crickets Are So Hot Right Now Have you ever wondered how biologists choose what animal to use in their research? Since scientists can't do a lot of basic research on people, they study animals to shed light on everything from human health to ecosystems to genetics. And yet, just a handful of critters appear over and over again. Why the mouse? Or the fruit fly? Or the zebrafish? Cassandra Extavour, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, talked with Short Wave co-host Aaron Scott about her favorite new model critter on the block: crickets.... (@NPR)

2023-Mar-09 • 18 minutes Everything Everywhere All at Once: could the multiverse be real? The film Everything Everywhere All at Once has enjoyed critical acclaim and awards success. Ahead of the Oscars, where it’s tipped to sweep the board, Ian Sample speaks to 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)