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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.

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 Jul 27, 2018

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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Episode Date
Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds
Dec 19, 2024
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates
Dec 12, 2024
Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech
Dec 05, 2024
Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted
Nov 28, 2024
Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity
Nov 21, 2024
Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains
Nov 14, 2024
Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers
Nov 07, 2024
The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity
Oct 31, 2024
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
Oct 24, 2024
How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete
Oct 17, 2024
Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water
Oct 10, 2024
Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms
Oct 03, 2024
Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins
Sep 26, 2024
Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat
Sep 19, 2024
Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound
Sep 12, 2024
Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?
Sep 05, 2024
A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism
Aug 29, 2024
Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote
Aug 22, 2024
The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise
Aug 15, 2024
The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine
Aug 08, 2024
Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy
Aug 01, 2024
Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots
Jul 25, 2024
New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game
Jul 18, 2024
How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations
Jul 11, 2024
What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer
Jul 04, 2024
Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money
Jun 27, 2024
The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution
Jun 20, 2024
How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice
Jun 13, 2024
Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up
Jun 06, 2024
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials
May 30, 2024
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud
May 23, 2024
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters
May 16, 2024
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects
May 09, 2024
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice
May 02, 2024
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series
Apr 25, 2024
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut
Apr 18, 2024
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene
Apr 11, 2024
When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?
Apr 04, 2024
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career
Mar 28, 2024
Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
Mar 21, 2024
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain
Mar 14, 2024
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
Mar 07, 2024
The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change
Feb 29, 2024
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
Feb 22, 2024
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication
Feb 15, 2024
A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators
Feb 08, 2024
A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs
Feb 01, 2024
A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior
Jan 25, 2024
Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw
Jan 19, 2024
The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth
Jan 11, 2024
The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease
Jan 04, 2024
The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender
Dec 22, 2023
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins
Dec 14, 2023
Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives
Dec 07, 2023
Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots
Nov 30, 2023
Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy
Nov 23, 2023
AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills
Nov 16, 2023
The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics
Nov 09, 2023
Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs
Nov 02, 2023
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science
Oct 26, 2023
The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves
Oct 19, 2023
Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors
Oct 13, 2023
How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?
Oct 05, 2023
Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’
Sep 28, 2023
Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall
Sep 21, 2023
Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions
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
Sep 07, 2023
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell
Aug 31, 2023
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender
Aug 24, 2023
What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated
Aug 17, 2023
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh
Aug 10, 2023
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
Aug 03, 2023
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa
Jul 27, 2023
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones
Jul 20, 2023
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo
Jul 13, 2023
Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero
Jul 06, 2023
Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction
Jun 29, 2023
A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes
Jun 22, 2023
Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course
Jun 15, 2023
Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry
Jun 08, 2023
How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals
Jun 01, 2023
Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females
May 25, 2023
The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves
May 18, 2023
Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands
May 11, 2023
Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes
May 04, 2023
The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable
Apr 27, 2023
Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep
Apr 20, 2023
More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series
Apr 13, 2023
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants
Apr 06, 2023
How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille
Mar 30, 2023
New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories
Mar 23, 2023
An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer
Mar 16, 2023
Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts
Mar 09, 2023
Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry
Mar 02, 2023
Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love
Feb 23, 2023
Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus
Feb 16, 2023
Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth
Feb 09, 2023
Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets
Feb 02, 2023
Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world
Jan 26, 2023
Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change
Jan 19, 2023
Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries
Jan 12, 2023
A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases
Jan 05, 2023
Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights
Dec 22, 2022
Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books
Dec 15, 2022
The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci
Dec 08, 2022
A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano
Dec 01, 2022
Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?
Nov 24, 2022
Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus
Nov 17, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators
Nov 10, 2022
Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy
Nov 03, 2022
Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction
Oct 27, 2022
Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet
Oct 20, 2022
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
Oct 13, 2022
Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores
Oct 06, 2022
Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog
Sep 29, 2022
Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms
Sep 22, 2022
Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’
Sep 15, 2022
Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars
Sep 08, 2022
Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry
Sep 01, 2022
Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age
Aug 25, 2022
Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing
Aug 18, 2022
Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose
Aug 11, 2022
Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity
Aug 04, 2022
Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition
Jul 28, 2022
Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus
Jul 21, 2022
The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy
Jul 14, 2022
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
Jul 07, 2022
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis
Jun 30, 2022
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation
Jun 23, 2022
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits
Jun 16, 2022
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid
Jun 09, 2022
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning
Jun 02, 2022
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa
May 26, 2022
Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names
May 19, 2022
Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic
May 12, 2022
Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral
May 05, 2022
Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food
Apr 28, 2022
Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit
Apr 21, 2022
Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars
Apr 14, 2022
A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses
Apr 07, 2022
Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date
Mar 31, 2022
Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather
Mar 24, 2022
The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense
Mar 17, 2022
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic
Mar 10, 2022
A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists
Mar 03, 2022
Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction
Feb 24, 2022
COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts
Feb 17, 2022
Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media
Feb 10, 2022
Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions
Feb 03, 2022
Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels
Jan 27, 2022
A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships
Jan 20, 2022
Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths
Jan 13, 2022
Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines
Jan 06, 2022
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism
Dec 23, 2021
The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books
Dec 16, 2021
Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water
Dec 09, 2021
The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano
Dec 02, 2021
Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity
Nov 25, 2021
Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites
Nov 18, 2021
The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span
Nov 11, 2021
The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve
Nov 04, 2021
Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression
Oct 28, 2021
Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood
Oct 20, 2021
The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?
Oct 14, 2021
Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia
Oct 07, 2021
Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM
Sep 30, 2021
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Sep 23, 2021
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
Sep 16, 2021
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
Sep 09, 2021
Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms
Sep 02, 2021
New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer
Aug 26, 2021
Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media
Aug 19, 2021
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
Aug 12, 2021
A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry
Aug 05, 2021
Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms
Jul 29, 2021
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core
Jul 22, 2021
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
Jul 15, 2021
Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books
Jul 08, 2021
Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure
Jul 01, 2021
Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science
Jun 24, 2021
Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
Jun 17, 2021
Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families
Jun 10, 2021
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
Jun 03, 2021
Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands
May 27, 2021
Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers
May 20, 2021
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
May 13, 2021
Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects
May 06, 2021
Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys
Apr 29, 2021
Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
Apr 22, 2021
Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived
Apr 15, 2021
Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains
Apr 08, 2021
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Apr 01, 2021
Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions
Mar 25, 2021
COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities
Mar 18, 2021
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills
Mar 11, 2021
The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color
Mar 04, 2021
Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
Feb 25, 2021
All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets
Feb 18, 2021
Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess
Feb 11, 2021
Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing
Feb 04, 2021
Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps
Jan 28, 2021
Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras
Jan 21, 2021
An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior
Jan 14, 2021
The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms
Jan 07, 2021
Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke
Dec 31, 2020
Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights
Dec 17, 2020
Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil
Dec 10, 2020
How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants
Dec 03, 2020
Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis
Nov 26, 2020
Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face
Nov 19, 2020
How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes
Nov 12, 2020
What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements
Nov 05, 2020
Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking
Oct 29, 2020
Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags
Oct 22, 2020
Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
Oct 15, 2020
Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus
Oct 08, 2020
FDA clinical trial protection failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players
Oct 01, 2020
How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia
Sep 24, 2020
Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons
Sep 17, 2020
Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging
Sep 10, 2020
Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people
Sep 03, 2020
Arctic sea ice under attack, and ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change
Aug 27, 2020
Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes
Aug 20, 2020
A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports
Aug 13, 2020
Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel
Aug 06, 2020
Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint
Jul 30, 2020
How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution
Jul 23, 2020
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation
Jul 16, 2020
A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood
Jul 09, 2020
An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat
Jul 02, 2020
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Jun 25, 2020
Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses
Jun 18, 2020
The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild
Jun 11, 2020
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food
Jun 04, 2020
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor
May 28, 2020
How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water
May 21, 2020
How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano
May 14, 2020
Making antibodies to treat coronavirus, and why planting trees won’t save the planet
May 07, 2020
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?
Apr 30, 2020
From nose to toes—how coronavirus affects the body, and a quantum microscope that unlocks the magnetic secrets of very old rocks
Apr 23, 2020
How countries could recover from coronavirus, lessons from an ancient drought, and feeling tactile waves in the hand
Apr 16, 2020
Does coronavirus spread through the air, and the biology of anorexia
Apr 09, 2020
How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice
Apr 02, 2020
Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals
Mar 26, 2020
Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music
Mar 19, 2020
Science’s leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin
Mar 12, 2020
Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life
Mar 05, 2020
An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing
Feb 27, 2020
Brickmaking bacteria and solar cells that turn ‘waste’ heat into electricity
Feb 20, 2020
NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma
Feb 13, 2020
Fighting cancer with CRISPR, and dating ancient rock art with wasp nests
Feb 06, 2020
A cryo–electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia
Jan 30, 2020
Getting BPA out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment
Jan 23, 2020
Researchers flouting clinical reporting rules, and linking gut microbes to heart disease and diabetes
Jan 16, 2020
Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational
Jan 09, 2020
Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps
Jan 02, 2020
Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books
Dec 19, 2019
Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space
Dec 13, 2019
Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid
Dec 05, 2019
Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors
Nov 28, 2019
Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music
Nov 21, 2019
How to make an Arctic ship ‘vanish,’ and how fast-moving spikes are heating the Sun’s atmosphere
Nov 14, 2019
Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology
Nov 07, 2019
How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes
Oct 31, 2019
A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm
Oct 24, 2019
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
Oct 17, 2019
Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands
Oct 10, 2019
An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
Oct 03, 2019
Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts
Sep 26, 2019
Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds
Sep 19, 2019
Studying human health at 5100 meters, and playing hide and seek with rats
Sep 12, 2019
Searching for a lost Maya city, and measuring the information density of language
Sep 05, 2019
Where our microbiome came from, and how our farming and hunting ancestors transformed the world
Aug 29, 2019
Promising approaches in suicide prevention, and how to retreat from climate change
Aug 22, 2019
One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
Aug 15, 2019
Next-generation cellphone signals could interfere with weather forecasts, and monitoring smoke from wildfires to model nuclear winter
Aug 08, 2019
Earthquakes caused by too much water extraction, and a dog cancer that has lived for millennia
Aug 01, 2019
Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery
Jul 25, 2019
Can we inherit trauma from our ancestors, and the secret to dark liquid dances
Jul 18, 2019
The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health
Jul 11, 2019
Converting carbon dioxide into gasoline, and ‘autofocal’ glasses with lenses that change shape on the fly
Jul 04, 2019
Creating chimeras for organ transplants and how bats switch between their eyes and ears on the wing
Jun 27, 2019
The why of puppy dog eyes, and measuring honesty on a global scale
Jun 20, 2019
Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Jun 13, 2019
The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED
Jun 06, 2019
Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag
May 30, 2019
New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings
May 23, 2019
Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones
May 16, 2019
Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse
May 09, 2019
The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish
May 02, 2019
Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales
Apr 25, 2019
How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste
Apr 18, 2019
A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants
Apr 11, 2019
A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade
Apr 04, 2019
Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system
Mar 28, 2019
Vacuuming potato-size nodules of valuable metals in the deep sea, and an expedition to an asteroid 290 million kilometers away
Mar 21, 2019
Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments
Mar 14, 2019
Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago
Mar 07, 2019
Measuring earthquake damage with cellphone sensors and determining the height of the ancient Tibetan Plateau
Feb 28, 2019
Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders
Feb 21, 2019
How far out we can predict the weather, and an ocean robot that monitors food webs
Feb 14, 2019
Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut
Feb 07, 2019
Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep
Jan 31, 2019
Pollution from pot plants, and how our bodies perceive processed foods
Jan 24, 2019
Peering inside giant planets, and fighting Ebola in the face of fake news
Jan 17, 2019
A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees
Jan 10, 2019
Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust
Jan 03, 2019
End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories
Dec 20, 2018
‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull
Dec 13, 2018
Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children
Dec 06, 2018
The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution
Nov 29, 2018
Exploding the Cambrian and building a DNA database for forensics
Nov 22, 2018
The worst year ever and the effects of fasting
Nov 15, 2018
A big increase in monkey research and an overhaul for the metric system
Nov 08, 2018
How the appendix could hold the keys to Parkinson’s disease, and materials scientists mimic nature
Nov 01, 2018
Children sue the U.S. government over climate change, and how mice inherit their gut microbes
Oct 25, 2018
Mutant cells in the esophagus, and protecting farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure
Oct 18, 2018
What we can learn from a cluster of people with an inherited intellectual disability, and questioning how sustainable green lawns are in dry places
Oct 11, 2018
Odd new particles may be tunneling through the planet, and how the flu operates differently in big and small towns
Oct 04, 2018
The future of PCB-laden orca whales, and doing genomics work with Indigenous people
Sep 27, 2018
Metaresearchers take on meta-analyses, and hoary old myths about science
Sep 20, 2018
The youngest sex chromosomes on the block, and how to test a Zika vaccine without Zika cases
Sep 13, 2018
Should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and why were chemists baffled by soot for so long?
Sep 06, 2018
Science and Nature get their social science studies replicated—or not, the mechanisms behind human-induced earthquakes, and the taboo of claiming causality in science
Aug 30, 2018
Sending flocks of tiny satellites out past Earth orbit and solving the irrigation efficiency paradox
Aug 23, 2018
Ancient volcanic eruptions, and peer pressure—from robots
Aug 16, 2018
Doubts about the drought that kicked off our latest geological age, and a faceoff between stink bugs with samurai wasps
Aug 09, 2018
How our brains may have evolved for language, and clues to what makes us leaders—or followers
Aug 02, 2018
Liquid water on Mars, athletic performance in transgender women, and the lost colony of Roanoke
Jul 26, 2018
Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds
Jul 19, 2018
The South Pole’s IceCube detector catches a ghostly particle from deep space, and how rice knows to grow when submerged
Jul 12, 2018
A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America’s first dogs
Jul 05, 2018
Increasing transparency in animal research to sway public opinion, and a reaching a plateau in human mortality
Jun 28, 2018
New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb
Jun 21, 2018
The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains
Jun 14, 2018
Science books for summer, and a blood test for predicting preterm birth
Jun 07, 2018
The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production
May 31, 2018
Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes
May 24, 2018
Tracking ancient Rome’s rise using Greenland’s ice, and fighting fungicide resistance
May 17, 2018
Ancient DNA is helping find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conservation
May 10, 2018
The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone
May 03, 2018
Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels
Apr 26, 2018
Drug use in the ancient world, and what will happen to plants as carbon dioxide levels increase
Apr 19, 2018
How DNA is revealing Latin America’s lost histories, and how to make a molecule from just two atoms
Apr 12, 2018
Legendary Viking crystals, and how to put an octopus to sleep
Apr 05, 2018
Chimpanzee retirement gains momentum, and x-ray ‘ghost images’ could cut radiation doses
Mar 29, 2018
A possible cause for severe morning sickness, and linking mouse moms’ caretaking to brain changes in baby mice
Mar 22, 2018
How humans survived an ancient volcanic winter and how disgust shapes ecosystems
Mar 15, 2018
Animals that don’t need people to be domesticated; the astonishing spread of false news; and links between gender, sexual orientation, and speech
Mar 08, 2018
A new dark matter signal from the early universe, massive family trees, and how we might respond to alien contact
Mar 01, 2018
Neandertals that made art, live news from the AAAS Annual Meeting, and the emotional experience of being a scientist
Feb 22, 2018
Genes that turn off after death, and debunking the sugar conspiracy
Feb 15, 2018
Happy lab animals may make better research subjects, and understanding the chemistry of the indoor environment
Feb 08, 2018
Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investigating why naked mole rats don’t seem to age
Feb 01, 2018
The dangers of dismantling a geoengineered sun shield and the importance of genes we don’t inherit
Jan 25, 2018
Unearthed letters reveal changes in Fields Medal awards, and predicting crime with computers is no easy feat
Jan 18, 2018
Salad-eating sharks, and what happens after quantum computing achieves quantum supremacy
Jan 11, 2018
Who visits raccoon latrines, and boosting cancer therapy with gut microbes
Jan 04, 2018
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, our best online news, and science books for your shopping list
Dec 21, 2017
Putting the breaks on driverless cars, and dolphins that can muffle their ears
Dec 14, 2017
Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research
Dec 07, 2017
Debunking yeti DNA, and the incredibly strong arms of prehistoric female farmers
Nov 30, 2017
The world’s first dog pictures, and looking at the planet from a quantum perspective
Nov 22, 2017
Preventing psychosis and the evolution—or not—of written language
Nov 16, 2017
Randomizing the news for science, transplanting genetically engineered skin, and the ethics of experimental brain implants
Nov 09, 2017
How Earth’s rotation could predict giant quakes, gene therapy’s new hope, and how carbon monoxide helps deep-diving seals
Nov 02, 2017
Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew
Oct 26, 2017
LIGO spots merging neutron stars, scholarly questions about a new Bible museum, and why wolves are better team players than dogs
Oct 19, 2017
Evolution of skin color, taming rice thrice, and peering into baby brains
Oct 12, 2017
Putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient Scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects
Oct 05, 2017
Furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating wombats, and puzzling out preprint publishing
Sep 28, 2017
Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors
Sep 21, 2017
Cargo-sorting molecular robots, humans as the ultimate fire starters, and molecular modeling with quantum computers
Sep 14, 2017
Taking climate science to court, sailing with cylinders, and solar cooling
Sep 07, 2017
Mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of negotiating AIs, and atomic bonding between the United States and China
Aug 31, 2017
What hunter-gatherer gut microbiomes have that we don’t, and breaking the emoji code
Aug 24, 2017
A jump in rates of knee arthritis, a brief history of eclipse science, and bands and beats in the atmosphere of brown dwarfs
Aug 17, 2017
Coddled puppies don’t do as well in school, some trees make their own rain, and the Americas were probably first populated by ancient mariners
Aug 10, 2017
The biology of color, a database of industrial espionage, and a link between prions and diabetes
Aug 03, 2017
DNA and proteins from ancient books, music made from data, and the keys to poverty traps
Jul 27, 2017
Paying cash for carbon, making dogs friendly, and destroying all life on Earth
Jul 20, 2017
Still-living dinosaurs, the world’s first enzymes, and thwarting early adopters in tech
Jul 13, 2017
Odorless calories for weight loss, building artificial intelligence researchers can trust, and can oily birds fly?
Jul 06, 2017
A Stone Age skull cult, rogue Parkinson’s proteins in the gut, and controversial pesticides linked to bee deaths
Jun 29, 2017
Why eggs have such weird shapes, doubly domesticated cats, and science balloons on the rise
Jun 22, 2017
Slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular level, and plumbing magma’s secrets
Jun 15, 2017
How to weigh a star—with a little help from Einstein, toxic ‘selfish genes,’ and the world’s oldest Homo sapiens fossils
Jun 08, 2017
A new taste for the tongue, ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies, and early evidence for dog breeding
Jun 01, 2017
How whales got so big, sperm in space, and a first look at Jupiter’s poles
May 25, 2017
Preventing augmented-reality overload, fixing bone with tiny bubbles, and studying human migrations
May 18, 2017
Our newest human relative, busting human sniff myths, and the greenhouse gas that could slow global warming
May 11, 2017
Podcast: Reading pain from the brains of infants, modeling digital faces, and wifi holograms
May 04, 2017
Podcast: Where dog breeds come from, bots that build buildings, and gathering ancient human DNA from cave sediments
Apr 27, 2017
Podcast: When good lions go bad, listening to meteor crashes, and how humans learn to change the world
Apr 20, 2017
Podcast: Watching shoes untie, Cassini’s last dive through the breath of a cryovolcano, and how human bias influences machine learning
Apr 13, 2017
Podcast: Giant virus genetics, human high-altitude adaptations, and quantifying the impact of government-funded science
Apr 06, 2017
Podcast: Killing off stowaways to Mars, chasing synthetic opiates, and how soil contributes to global carbon calculations
Mar 30, 2017
Podcast: Teaching self-driving cars to read, improving bike safety with a video game, and when ‘you’ isn’t about ‘you’
Mar 23, 2017
Podcast: The archaeology of democracy, new additions to the uncanny valley, and the discovery of ant-ibiotics
Mar 16, 2017
Podcast: Human pheromones lightly debunked, ignoring cyberattacks, and designer chromosomes
Mar 09, 2017
Podcast: Breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA, and how past civilizations shaped the Amazon
Mar 02, 2017
Podcast: Cracking the smell code, why dinosaurs had wings before they could fly, and detecting guilty feelings in altruistic gestures
Feb 23, 2017
Podcast: Recognizing the monkey in the mirror, giving people malaria parasites as a vaccine strategy, and keeping coastal waters clean with seagrass
Feb 16, 2017
Podcast: Saving grizzlies from trains, cheap sun-powered water purification, and a deep look at science-based policymaking
Feb 09, 2017
Podcast: An 80-million-year-old dinosaur protein, sending oxygen to the moon, and competitive forecasting
Feb 02, 2017
Podcast: Bringing back tomato flavor genes, linking pollution and dementia, and when giant otters roamed Earth
Jan 26, 2017
Podcast: Explaining menopause in killer whales, triggering killer mice, and the role of chromosome number in cancer immunotherapy
Jan 19, 2017
Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees
Jan 12, 2017
Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease
Jan 05, 2017
Podcast: Our Breakthrough of the Year, top online stories, and the year in science books
Dec 22, 2016
The sound of a monkey talking, cloning horses for sport, and forensic anthropologists help the search for Mexico’s disappeared
Dec 15, 2016
Podcast: Altering time perception, purifying blueberries with plasma, and checking in on ocelot latrines
Dec 08, 2016
Podcast: What ants communicate when kissing, stars birthed from gas, and linking immune strength and social status
Dec 01, 2016
Podcast: Scientists on the night shift, sucking up greenhouse gases with cement, and repetitive stress in tomb builders
Nov 24, 2016
Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi
Nov 17, 2016
Podcast: How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you
Nov 10, 2016
Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome
Nov 03, 2016
Podcast: A close look at a giant moon crater, the long tradition of eating rodents, and building evidence for Planet Nine
Oct 27, 2016
Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison
Oct 20, 2016
Podcast: When we pay attention to plane crashes, releasing modified mosquitoes, and bacteria that live off radiation
Oct 13, 2016
Podcast: Bumble bee emotions, the purpose of yawning, and new insights into the developing infant brain
Oct 06, 2016
Podcast: Why we murder, resurrecting extinct animals, and the latest on the three-parent baby
Sep 29, 2016
Podcast: An atmospheric pacemaker skips a beat, a religious edict that spawned fat chickens, and knocking out the ‘sixth sense’
Sep 22, 2016
Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
Sep 15, 2016
Podcast: Double navigation in desert ants, pollution in the brain, and dating deal breakers
Sep 08, 2016
Podcast: Ceres’s close-up, how dogs listen, and a new RNA therapy
Sep 01, 2016
Podcast: Quantum dots in consumer electronics and a faceoff with the quiz master
Aug 25, 2016
Podcast: How mice mess up reproducibility, new support for an RNA world, and giving cash away wisely
Aug 18, 2016
Podcast: 400-year-old sharks, busting a famous scientific hoax, and clinical trials in pets
Aug 11, 2016
Podcast: Pollution hot spots in coastal waters, extreme bees, and diseased dinos
Aug 04, 2016
Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor
Jul 28, 2016
Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors
Jul 21, 2016
Podcast: The science of the apocalypse, and abstract thinking in ducklings
Jul 14, 2016
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Jul 07, 2016
Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
Jun 30, 2016
Podcast: A farewell to Science’s editor-in-chief, how mosquito spit makes us sick, and bears that use human shields
Jun 23, 2016
Podcast: Treating cocaine addiction, mirror molecules in space, and new insight into autism
Jun 16, 2016
Podcast: Scoliosis development, antiracing stripes, and the dawn of the hobbits
Jun 09, 2016
Podcast: Bionic leaves that make fuel, digging into dog domestication, and wars recorded in coral
Jun 02, 2016
Podcast: The economics of the Uber era, mysterious Neandertal structures, and an octopus boom
May 26, 2016
Podcast: Tracking rats in a city slum, the giraffe genome, and watching human evolution in action
May 19, 2016
Podcast: Rocky remnants of early Earth, plants turned predator, and a new artificial second skin
May 12, 2016
Podcast: Why animal personalities matter, killer whale sanctuaries, and the key to making fraternal twins
May 05, 2016
Podcast: Patent trolls, the earthquake-volcano link, and obesity in China
Apr 28, 2016
Podcast: Sizing up a baby dino, jolting dead brains, and dirty mice
Apr 21, 2016
Podcast: Tracking Zika, the evolution of sign language, and changing hearts and minds with social science
Apr 14, 2016
Podcast: Spreading cancer, sacrificing humans, and transplanting organs
Apr 07, 2016
Podcast: Building a portable drug factory, mapping yeast globally, and watching cliffs crumble
Mar 31, 2016
Podcast: Battling it out in the Bronze Age, letting go of orcas, and evolving silicon-based life
Mar 24, 2016
Podcast: The latest news from Pluto, a rock-eating fungus, and tracking storm damage with Twitter
Mar 17, 2016
Podcast: Nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of lies, and how sliced meat drove human evolution
Mar 10, 2016
Podcast: Glowing robot skin, zombie frogs, and viral fossils in our DNA
Mar 03, 2016
Podcast: A recipe for clean and tasty drinking water, a gauge on rapidly rising seas, and fake flowers that can fool the most discerning insects
Feb 25, 2016
Podcast: Combatting malnutrition with gut microbes, fighting art forgers with science, and killing cancer with gold
Feb 18, 2016
Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions
Feb 11, 2016
Podcast: Taking race out of genetics, a cellular cleanse for longer life, and smart sweatbands
Feb 04, 2016
Podcast: Babylonian astronomers, doubly domesticated cats, and outrunning a T. Rex
Jan 28, 2016
Podcast: A planet beyond Pluto, the bugs in your home, and the link between marijuana and IQ
Jan 21, 2016
Podcast: Wounded mammoths, brave birds, bright bulbs, and more
Jan 14, 2016
Podcast: Dancing dinosaurs, naked black holes, and more
Jan 08, 2016
The Science breakthrough of the year, readers' choice, and the top news from 2015.
Dec 17, 2015
Artificial intelligence programs that learn concepts based on just a few examples and a daily news roundup
Dec 10, 2015
How our gut microbiota change as we age and a daily news roundup
Dec 03, 2015
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Nov 26, 2015
Bioengineering functional vocal cords and a daily news roundup
Nov 19, 2015
The consequences of mass extinction and a daily news roundup
Nov 12, 2015
The evolution of Mars' atmosphere and a daily news roundup
Nov 05, 2015
The origins of biodiversity in the Amazon and a daily news roundup
Oct 29, 2015
The neuroscience of reversing blindness and a daily news roundup
Oct 22, 2015
Pluto's mysteries revealed and a daily news roundup
Oct 15, 2015
Can math apps benefit kids? And a daily news roundup
Oct 08, 2015
Safer jet fuels and a daily news roundup
Oct 01, 2015
3-parent gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases and a news roundup
Sep 24, 2015
How future elites view self-interest and equality and a news roundup
Sep 17, 2015
Genes and the human microbiome and a news roundup
Sep 10, 2015
The state of science in Iran and a news roundup
Sep 03, 2015
Moralizing gods, scientific reproducibility, and a daily news roundup
Aug 27, 2015
Human superpredators and a news roundup
Aug 20, 2015
Marmoset monkey vocal development and a news roundup
Aug 13, 2015
Effective Ebola vaccines and a daily news roundup
Aug 06, 2015
Comet chemistry and a news roundup
Jul 30, 2015
Ancient DNA and a news roundup
Jul 23, 2015
AI therapists and a news roundup
Jul 16, 2015
Jumping soft bots and a news roundup
Jul 09, 2015
The scent of a rose and a news roundup
Jul 02, 2015
Metallic hydrogen and a daily news roundup.
Jun 25, 2015
Tracking ivory with genetics, the letter R, and a news roundup
Jun 18, 2015
Tracking aquatic animals, cochlear implants, and a news roundup
Jun 11, 2015
Friction at the atomic level, the acoustics of historical speeches, and a news roundup
Jun 04, 2015
Climate change and China's tea crop and a news roundup
May 28, 2015
Testosterone, women, and elite sports and a news roundup
May 21, 2015
Science in Cuba and a news roundup
May 14, 2015
How the measles virus disables immunity to other diseases and a news roundup
May 07, 2015
Sustainable seafood and a news roundup
Apr 30, 2015
Hubble's 25th anniversary and a news roundup
Apr 23, 2015
The bond between people and dogs and a news roundup
Apr 16, 2015
Mountain gorilla genomes and a news roundup
Apr 09, 2015
The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Five years later.
Apr 02, 2015
Child abuse across generations and a news roundup
Mar 26, 2015
Robotic materials and a news roundup
Mar 19, 2015
The politics of happiness and a news roundup
Mar 12, 2015
Antimicrobial resistance and a news roundup
Mar 05, 2015
Sexual trait evolution in mosquitoes and a news roundup
Feb 26, 2015
Maternal effects in songbirds and a news roundup
Feb 19, 2015
The planetary boundaries framework, marine debris, and a news roundup
Feb 12, 2015
Spatial neurons and a news roundup
Feb 05, 2015
Mathematicians and the NSA and a news roundup
Jan 29, 2015
How comets change seasonally and a news roundup
Jan 22, 2015
High-altitude bird migration and a news roundup
Jan 15, 2015
Deworming buffalo and a news roundup
Jan 08, 2015
Measuring MOOCs
Jan 01, 2015
Our breakthrough of the year and this year's top news stories
Dec 19, 2014
The oldest piece of Mars on Earth and a news roundup (21 November 2014)
Dec 15, 2014
Science Podcast - Lessons from the tsetse fly genome and a news roundup (18 April 2014)
Dec 15, 2014
A flock of genomes and a news roundup (12 December 2014)
Dec 12, 2014
The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel and a news roundup (5 December 2014)
Dec 05, 2014
Gendered brains and a news roundup (21 November 2014)
Nov 21, 2014
How hippos help and a news roundup (14 November 2014)
Nov 14, 2014
A new way to study norovirus and a news roundup (7 November 2014)
Nov 07, 2014
Changing minds on charitable giving and a news roundup (31 October 2014)
Oct 31, 2014
High altitude humans living ~11,000 years ago (24 October 2014)
Oct 24, 2014
Plants and predators and a daily news roundup (17 October 2014)
Oct 17, 2014
Robot relations and a daily news roundup (10 October 2014)
Oct 10, 2014
Mapping the sea floor and a daily news roundup (3 October 2014)
Oct 03, 2014
The spread of an ancient technology and a daily news roundup (26 September 2014)
Sep 26, 2014
Monitoring 600 years of upwelling off the California coast (19 September 2014)
Sep 19, 2014
Engineering global health and a news roundup (12 September 2014)
Sep 12, 2014
Scaling up a biofuel and a news roundup (5 Sep 2014)
Sep 05, 2014
The home microbiome and a news roundup (29 August 2014)
Aug 29, 2014
Censorship in China and a news roundup (22 August 2014)
Aug 22, 2014
Preconception parenting and a news roundup (15 Aug 2014)
Aug 15, 2014
Building brain-like computers (8 Aug 2014)
Aug 08, 2014
Galactic gamma rays and a news roundup (1 Aug 2014)
Aug 01, 2014
Science funding for people not projects and a news roundup (25 Jul 2014)
Jul 25, 2014
Altering genes in the wild and a news roundup (18 Jul 2014)
Jul 18, 2014
Oceans of plastic and a news roundup (11 Jul 2014)
Jul 11, 2014
Psychedelic research resurgence and a news roundup (4 Jul 2014)
Jul 04, 2014
Pollen paths and a news roundup (27 Jun 2014)
Jun 27, 2014
Mind reading and a news roundup (20 Jun 2014)
Jun 20, 2014
Mapping Mexico's genetics and a news roundup (13 Jun 2014)
Jun 13, 2014
Rethinking global supply chains and a news roundup (6 Jun 2014)
Jun 06, 2014
25 years after Tiananmen and a news roundup (30 May 2014)
May 30, 2014
Science Podcast - Inequality and health and a news roundup (23 May 2014)
May 23, 2014
Science Podcast - Evading back-action in a quantum system and a news roundup (16 May 2014)
May 16, 2014
Science Podcast -Chine marine archaeology and a news roundup (9 May 2014)
May 09, 2014
Science Podcast - Climate and corn and a news roundup (2 May 2014)
May 02, 2014
Science Podcast - A binary star system that includes a white dwarf and a news roundup (18 April 2014)
Apr 18, 2014
Science Podcast - Biomechanics of fruitflies on the wing and a news roundup (11 April 2014)
Apr 11, 2014
Science Podcast - Life under funding change and a news roundup (4 April 2014)
Apr 04, 2014
Science Podcast - A BRCA1 and breast cancer retrospective and a news roundup (28 Mar 2014)
Mar 28, 2014
Science Podcast - Human odor discrimination and a news roundup (21 Mar 2014)
Mar 21, 2014
Science Podcast - Checking the hubris of big data harvests and a news roundup (14 Mar 2014)
Mar 14, 2014
Science Podcast - 100 years of crystallography, linking malaria and climate, and a news roundup (7 Mar 2014)
Mar 07, 2014
Science Podcast - Treating Down Syndrome and a news roundup (28 Feb 2014)
Feb 28, 2014
Science Podcast - Analyzing soundscapes and a news roundup (21 Feb 2014)
Feb 21, 2014
Science Podcast - Termite-inspired robots and cells with lots of extra genomes (14 Feb 2014)
Feb 14, 2014
Science Podcast - Tracing autism's roots in developlement and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (7 Feb 2014)
Feb 07, 2014
Science Podcast - Quantum cryptography, salt's role in ecosystems, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (31 Jan 2014)
Jan 31, 2014
Science Podcast - The genome of a transmissible dog cancer, the 10-year anniversary of Opportunity on Mars, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (24 Jan 2014)
Jan 24, 2014
Science Podcast - The modern hunter-gatherer gut, fast mountain weathering, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (17 Jan 2014)
Jan 17, 2014
Science Podcast - Abundant bacterial vesicles in the ocean and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (10 Jan 2014)
Jan 10, 2014
Science Podcast - Monstrous stone monuments of old and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (3 Jan 2014)
Jan 03, 2014
Science Podcast - Science's breakthrough of the year, runners-up and the top content from our daily news site (20 Dec 2013)
Dec 20, 2013
Science Podcast - Fear-enhanced odor detection, the latest from the Curiosity mission, and more (13 Dec 2013)
Dec 13, 2013
Science Podcast - Noisy gene expression, the Tohoku-oki fault, and snake venom as a healer (6 Dec 2013)
Dec 06, 2013
Science Podcast - 2013 science books for kids, newlywed happiness, and authorship for sale in China (29 Nov 2013)
Nov 29, 2013
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Nov 22, 2013
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