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Anders
Jul 13, 2020
Kas Pi
Nov 10, 2018
Half of the program is basically an NSA hiring campaign. Bring science to the nerds in order to lure them into surveillance crime. Terrible program, really.
Harald Clark
Oct 28, 2018
Good and quick glimpses into scientific fields. I find the sponsor adverts irritating, but overall well produced podcast.
A Podcast Republic user
Jul 27, 2018
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Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall
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Sep 21, 2023 |
Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions
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Sep 14, 2023 |
Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell
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Aug 31, 2023 |
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender
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Aug 24, 2023 |
What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated
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Aug 17, 2023 |
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh
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Aug 10, 2023 |
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
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Aug 03, 2023 |
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa
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Jul 27, 2023 |
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones
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Jul 20, 2023 |
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero
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Jul 06, 2023 |
Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction
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Jun 29, 2023 |
A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes
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Jun 22, 2023 |
Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course
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Jun 15, 2023 |
Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry
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Jun 08, 2023 |
How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females
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May 25, 2023 |
The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves
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May 18, 2023 |
Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands
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May 11, 2023 |
Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes
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May 04, 2023 |
The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable
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Apr 27, 2023 |
Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep
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Apr 20, 2023 |
More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series
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Apr 13, 2023 |
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants
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Apr 06, 2023 |
How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille
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Mar 30, 2023 |
New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories
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Mar 23, 2023 |
An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer
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Mar 16, 2023 |
Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts
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Mar 09, 2023 |
Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry
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Mar 02, 2023 |
Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love
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Feb 23, 2023 |
Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus
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Feb 16, 2023 |
Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth
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Feb 09, 2023 |
Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets
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Feb 02, 2023 |
Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world
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Jan 26, 2023 |
Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change
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Jan 19, 2023 |
Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries
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Jan 12, 2023 |
A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases
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Jan 05, 2023 |
Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights
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Dec 22, 2022 |
Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books
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Dec 15, 2022 |
The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci
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Dec 08, 2022 |
A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano
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Dec 01, 2022 |
Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus
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Nov 17, 2022 |
Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators
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Nov 10, 2022 |
Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction
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Oct 27, 2022 |
Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
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Oct 13, 2022 |
Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores
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Oct 06, 2022 |
Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog
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Sep 29, 2022 |
Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’
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Sep 15, 2022 |
Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars
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Sep 08, 2022 |
Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry
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Sep 01, 2022 |
Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age
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Aug 25, 2022 |
Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing
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Aug 18, 2022 |
Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose
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Aug 11, 2022 |
Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity
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Aug 04, 2022 |
Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition
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Jul 28, 2022 |
Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus
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Jul 21, 2022 |
The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
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Jul 07, 2022 |
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation
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Jun 23, 2022 |
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid
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Jun 09, 2022 |
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa
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May 26, 2022 |
Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names
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May 19, 2022 |
Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic
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May 12, 2022 |
Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral
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May 05, 2022 |
Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food
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Apr 28, 2022 |
Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit
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Apr 21, 2022 |
Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars
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Apr 14, 2022 |
A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses
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Apr 07, 2022 |
Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date
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Mar 31, 2022 |
Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather
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Mar 24, 2022 |
The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic
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Mar 10, 2022 |
A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists
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Mar 03, 2022 |
Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction
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Feb 24, 2022 |
COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts
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Feb 17, 2022 |
Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions
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Feb 03, 2022 |
Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels
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Jan 27, 2022 |
A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships
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Jan 20, 2022 |
Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths
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Jan 13, 2022 |
Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism
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Dec 23, 2021 |
The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water
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Dec 09, 2021 |
The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano
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Dec 02, 2021 |
Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity
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Nov 25, 2021 |
Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites
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Nov 18, 2021 |
The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span
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Nov 11, 2021 |
The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood
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Oct 20, 2021 |
The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?
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Oct 14, 2021 |