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Subscribers: 1715
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 1542

SK93
 May 21, 2024

phxguy
 May 12, 2022
Love Calli and Nate but this is quite cheesy, almost cringeworthy at times.

Anthony
 May 7, 2022
Not so good. I started listening after hearing a snippet from this show when it had the previous hosts. For a show about science it lacks something the previous hosts had: chemistry. I'd like it more if they dropped to scripted jokes.

DeanPel
 Apr 7, 2022
This used to be a great podcast. Then Discovery took over and ruined it. First came a bunch of ads, then new episodes only three days a week, then they apparently fire creator/host Cody Gaugh and longtime host Ashley Hamer. After that, the

chumley
 Nov 13, 2021

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The award-winning Curiosity Daily podcast from CuriosityDaily.com will help you get smarter about the world around you. In less than 10 minutes, you’ll get a unique mix of research-based life hacks, the latest science and technology news, and more. Nate Bonham and Calli Gade will help you learn about your mind and body, outer space and the depths of the sea, and how history shaped the world into what it is today.Head to discovery+ to stream even more science content, from Animal Planet to Science Channel. Go to discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms Apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Re-release: B12, Healthy Forests, Ketamine & the Brain
Dec 27, 2024
Re-release: Microgravity Gardening, AI Learns Language, Elephant Numbers
Dec 26, 2024
Re-release: Silk-Making Bacteria, Deep Coral, CRISPR Agriculture
Dec 25, 2024
Re-release: Powerful Polymer, Exoplanet CO2, Adoption Science
Dec 20, 2024
Re-release: Daydream Brain, Power of a Laugh, Caffeine & Soccer
Dec 19, 2024
Re-release: Baby Language, AI Medicine, Human Collaboration
Dec 18, 2024
Re-release: Organ Age, Comfort Food, Speedy Snails
Dec 13, 2024
Re-release: 3D Ink, RSVP No, Old Dogs
Dec 12, 2024
Re-release: Healthy Tongue, Slippery Surface, Curious for Answers
Dec 11, 2024
Re-release: Brain Rewiring, Rat Imagination, Dogs & PTSD
Dec 06, 2024
Re-release: Bilingual Brain, Morning Sickness, Cat Purrs
Dec 05, 2024
Re-release: Origin of Life, Self Control vs Willpower, Puppy Love
Dec 04, 2024
Liquid Cats, Spider Silk, Sound Printing
Nov 29, 2024
Barnacle Polymers, Two Week Brain, Elephant Memory
Nov 28, 2024
Tractor Beam, Crystal Palace, Botany Dark Spots
Nov 27, 2024
Whale Talk, Foster Care History, Blood Pressure Test
Nov 22, 2024
Fly Brains, Comb Jelly Fusion, Dog Voice
Nov 21, 2024
Static Electricity, Stroke Headband, Exploding Craters
Nov 20, 2024
Water Molecules, Mount Everest Growth, Turtle Backpacks
Nov 15, 2024
Solar Cell Charging, Nazca Glyphs, Singing & Brain Health
Nov 14, 2024
Heart Cells in Space, Ancient Log, Day Chapters
Nov 13, 2024
Plant Jet Fuel, 3D-Printed Glass, Feeding Coral
Nov 08, 2024
Asteroid Blast, Power Wash Positivity, Picky Eaters
Nov 07, 2024
Stem Cells & Diabetes, Rare Earth Metals, Leaping Sharks
Nov 06, 2024
Gold Nuggets, New Cell Type, Redefining Sustainability
Nov 01, 2024
Defib Placement, Octopus Hunting, Keys to Happiness
Oct 31, 2024
Cow Slime, City Rainfall, Golden Lettuce
Oct 30, 2024
Pressure & Performance, Bone Concrete, Cancer Decline
Oct 25, 2024
Remote Surgery, Isolated Neanderthals, Greenspace & ADHD
Oct 24, 2024
Baby Brain Device, CO2 Protein, 15-Minute Cities
Oct 23, 2024
Risky Play, Mold in Space, Brain Cravings
Oct 18, 2024
Positive Side Effects, Mega El Niño, Bee Protector
Oct 17, 2024
Bacteria Behavior, Ant Cannibals, Brain Plastic
Oct 16, 2024
Sinuses & Mental Health, Vaporizing Plastic, Monkey Names 
Oct 11, 2024
Salt & Cancer, Ancient Bridge, Nuclear Clock
Oct 10, 2024
Injectable Pacemaker, Starving Black Holes, Bat Blood Sugar
Oct 09, 2024
AC Not Conditioned, False Memories, Cat Grief 
Oct 04, 2024
Microbiome Map, Insect Metalwork, Animal Colors
Oct 03, 2024
Mushroom Robot, Horse Smarts, Strongman Muscles
Oct 02, 2024
Phones & Brain Cancer, Fungus Food, Crocs & Toads
Sep 27, 2024
Moon Clock, Meat Allergy, Bird Culture
Sep 26, 2024
Mantle Drill, Tongue Exam, Stonehenge Discovery
Sep 25, 2024
Bionic Leg, First Impressions, Nanoplastic Detection
Sep 20, 2024
Smart Soil, Smell Preferences, Mars Moss
Sep 19, 2024
Larynx Transplant, Sleep Studies, Mammal Brains
Sep 18, 2024
Super Synchronizers, Quantum Compass, Seabirds & Cyclones
Sep 13, 2024
Rejection Prediction, Cool Fabric, Serotonin & Fertility
Sep 12, 2024
Epilepsy Preventer, Tiny 3D Printer, Acts of Kindness
Sep 11, 2024
Sunk Cost Fallacy, Wheat Genes, Sweat Monitor
Sep 06, 2024
Out-Of-Body Experience, Brain Cell Computing, Cheese & Aging
Sep 05, 2024
Maternal Bonds, Jumping Leeches, Urban Birds
Sep 04, 2024
Kidneys & Space, Boxing Pride, Art & The Artist
Aug 30, 2024
Stroke Blood Test, Hate Speech Monitoring, Healthy Chocolate
Aug 29, 2024
Space Firefighting, Sleep Schedules, Polystyrene
Aug 28, 2024
Nature & Healthy Food, T.Rex Intelligence, Baby Sawfish
Aug 23, 2024
Cryopreservation, Personality Transplant, Fungal Azoles
Aug 22, 2024
Peanut Allergy, Ancient Cancer Treatment, Cuckoo Evolution
Aug 21, 2024
Chimp Tools, Space Radio, Hyperthermia Treatment
Aug 16, 2024
Chimpanzee Learning, Breast Cancer Gel, Singing Brain Repair
Aug 15, 2024
Chimp Memory, Bacterial Tumor Killer, Gene Disc Repair
Aug 14, 2024
Elite Athlete Hearts, Oxytocin & Loneliness, Nail Diagnosis
Aug 09, 2024
Sleepwalker Brain, Games & Navigation, Endurance Hunting
Aug 08, 2024
HIV Vaccine, CO2 New Uses, No Noise Fabric
Aug 07, 2024
No Inner Voice, Yoga & Brain Health, Monogamous Mice
Aug 02, 2024
Anti-Drunk Gel, Hot Spring Viruses, Tiger Beetles
Aug 01, 2024
Leeches & Blood Tests, Algae & Carbon, Asthma Cause
Jul 31, 2024
Hair Loss Treatment, Aphantasia, Ultrasound Coffee
Jul 26, 2024
Asthma & ADHD, Whale Codas, Hidden Lithium
Jul 25, 2024
Brainstem Dial, Centipedes & Kidneys, AI Ghosts
Jul 24, 2024
Sleeping Brain, Bamboo Glass, Leprosy & Squirrels
Jul 19, 2024
Fiction Readers, Bird Flu Transmission, Beluga Heads
Jul 18, 2024
Tobacco Treatment, Clean Touchscreen, Parrot Stepdads
Jul 17, 2024
Shark Oil, Eco-Friendly Lubricant, Historic Land Management
Jul 12, 2024
Ghost Shark, Grief Treatment, Blood Vessel Coordination
Jul 11, 2024
Thresher Shark, Laron Syndrome, Sad Music
Jul 10, 2024
Newborn Great White, Long-Term Flu Shot, Consciousness Map
Jul 05, 2024
Hammerhead Embryos, Free Throw Touch, Kinky Alloy
Jul 04, 2024
Giant Shark, Barred Owl Cull, Misophonia Stress
Jul 03, 2024
Robotic Nerve Cuffs, Orangutan Medicine, Ritual Nostalgia
Jun 28, 2024
Universal Donors, Exercise & Time, Eggshell Plastic
Jun 27, 2024
Microgravity Effects, Octocoral, Menstrual Sync
Jun 26, 2024
Venus Environment, Forest Stewardship, Auto-Brewery Syndrome
Jun 21, 2024
Thistle Extract, Artificial Cells, Autism Language
Jun 20, 2024
Clean Water Walking, Metafluid, Underwater Bees
Jun 19, 2024
Dragon History, Gold Atom Layer, Low Pressure Diamonds
Jun 14, 2024
CO2 Into Electricity, Shapeshifting Cancer, Zebrafish
Jun 13, 2024
Left Hand Gene, Heat Wave Trees, Europa
Jun 12, 2024
When is Old Age?, Sensitive Mothers, Neanderthal Homes
Jun 07, 2024
New Antibiotics, H2O Pollution Test, Cooperative Camouflage
Jun 06, 2024
Bird Dreams, Whales & Noise, Fruit-Eaters Save Forest
Jun 05, 2024
Paralysis Recovery, Bee Architecture, Perinatal Treatment
May 31, 2024
Brain Stimulation, Fractal Molecule, Bonobos
May 30, 2024
AI Medical Research, Watching Sports, Blinking
May 29, 2024
Romantic Traits, Heart & Gut, Canine Play
May 24, 2024
Diversified Farming, Sense of Smell, Simple Rhythms
May 23, 2024
Dark Energy, Electric Rain, Chickadees
May 22, 2024
Recovered Whales, Old Salmon Cans, Climate Change & Time
May 17, 2024
Cooling Windows, Mars & Erosion, Didgeridoo Slumber
May 16, 2024
Artificial Reef, Glasses & Income, AC DNA
May 15, 2024
Solar Drinking Water, Forgetting Memories, Super-Earth
May 10, 2024
New Marine Species, Teen Drivers, Animal Microchips
May 09, 2024
Gossip, Zooplankton, School Bus Science
May 08, 2024
Grooving to Music, Horse Burial, Coffee & Cancer
May 03, 2024
ChatGPT in School, Quiet Covid, Healing Contact Lens
May 02, 2024
Bigger Brains, Reef Songs, AI Speech
May 01, 2024
Sleep Spray, Insecticide Paint, UK Redwoods
Apr 26, 2024
Palm-Less Oil, Polyglot Brain, Ayahuasca & Fear
Apr 25, 2024
Extinction Risk, Living Fossils, Asteroid vs Birds
Apr 24, 2024
Twin Trauma, Bee Mystery, Sequence Bias
Apr 19, 2024
Brewer’s Yeast, Constructed Languages, Memory Direction
Apr 18, 2024
Frostbite Treatment, Blood in Space, Small Classes
Apr 17, 2024
Printed Skin, Mammoth De-Extinction, Learning Happiness
Apr 12, 2024
Glacier Curtain, Good Vibrations, PFAS Water Detox
Apr 11, 2024
Chernobyl Worms, Barnacle Proteins, Foot-Eye Coordination
Apr 10, 2024
Eclipse 2024, Boiling Microplastics, Self-Control
Apr 05, 2024
Geoengineering, Artificial Sweeteners, Butterfly Mimicry
Apr 04, 2024
Shark Hunter, Asbestos Cancer Treatment, Creative Flow
Apr 03, 2024
Human Diversity, Ancient Tool Use, Deep Sea Discoveries
Mar 29, 2024
Learning From Friends, Hair & Heart, Feeding Weeds
Mar 28, 2024
ADHD Foraging, Pollution & Pollinators, Big Cats Listen
Mar 27, 2024
Mind-Reading, Universe’s Brightest Object, Cinnamon
Mar 22, 2024
Category 6, Colo-Rectal Bacteria, Meteorite Loot
Mar 21, 2024
Stress & Immunity, Crop Resilience, Psychedelic Scale
Mar 20, 2024
Depression Temp, Cold Water Menopause, Ultrasound Sticker
Mar 15, 2024
Psychosis Blood Test, Altitude Genes, PCOS Cognition
Mar 14, 2024
Fentanyl Rapid Test, Lead Detector, Bach & Math
Mar 13, 2024
Chimp Menopause, Ancient Tsunami, Sexism in Science
Mar 08, 2024
Ovarian Cancer Treatment, Passive Learning, Lions & Ants
Mar 07, 2024
Aging & Colors, First Continents, Phones & Infant Health
Mar 06, 2024
Microgravity Gardening, AI Learns Language, Elephant Numbers
Mar 01, 2024
Leap Year, Tailored Microgreens, Teenage Advice
Feb 29, 2024
Racism & The Brain, Rhino Embryos, Handwriting
Feb 28, 2024
Silk-Making Bacteria, Deep Coral, CRISPR Agriculture
Feb 23, 2024
Hunter-Gatherer Diets, Self-Checkouts, Penguin Colonies
Feb 22, 2024
Insect Robots, Bigfoot & Bears, Chronic Stress
Feb 21, 2024
Organ Age, Comfort Food, Speedy Snails
Feb 16, 2024
Ant Doctors, Sequestered Carbon, Menstrual Brain
Feb 15, 2024
Long-Term Memories, Ear Infections, Mercury Salt
Feb 14, 2024
Powerful Polymer, Exoplanet CO2, Adoption Science
Feb 09, 2024
Hearing Aids, Quantum Error Eraser, Smalltalk
Feb 08, 2024
Dreamtalk, Super Melanin, Garter Snakes
Feb 07, 2024
Origin of Life, Self Control vs Willpower, Puppy Love
Feb 02, 2024
B12, Healthy Forests, Ketamine & the Brain
Feb 01, 2024
Ears & Eyes, Psilocybin & Depression, ADHD & Hoarding
Jan 31, 2024
3D Ink, RSVP No, Old Dogs
Jan 26, 2024
Daydream Brain, Power of a Laugh, Caffeine & Soccer
Jan 25, 2024
Human Genes, Dry Mouth Relief, Yawning Psychopaths
Jan 24, 2024
Bilingual Brain, Morning Sickness, Cat Purrs
Jan 19, 2024
Baby Language, AI Medicine, Human Collaboration
Jan 18, 2024
Brain Game, Goal Paralysis, Salt Cycle
Jan 17, 2024
Brain Rewiring, Rat Imagination, Dogs & PTSD
Jan 12, 2024
Lab on a Chip, Trauma Headaches, Mantle Blobs
Jan 11, 2024
Bipolar Blood Test, Music & Pain, Puffin Hybrid
Jan 10, 2024
Healthy Tongue, Slippery Surface, Curious for Answers
Jan 05, 2024
Speech Reconstruction, Weighted Blankets, Space Radio Burst
Jan 04, 2024
Sixth Taste, HIV Immunity Battle, Altruistic Bees
Jan 03, 2024
Re-release: Young Blood, Cinnamon Memory, Microplastic Filter
Dec 29, 2023
Re-release: Zombie Virus, Back From the Brink, Bad Cholesterol 
Dec 28, 2023
Re-release: Roman Concrete Magic, Virovore, Placebo Guilt  
Dec 27, 2023
Re-release: AI Animal Translator, Big Old Galaxies, Inner Inner Core 
Dec 22, 2023
Re-release: Podcast Friends, Drunk Plants, Hot Temper 
Dec 21, 2023
Re-release: Boyhood Nickname, Vampire Grave, Wrecked By Success  
Dec 20, 2023
Healing Algae, Mayan Reservoirs, Humpback Skincare
Dec 15, 2023
Smells and Colors, Bee Preferences, Science and Well-Being
Dec 14, 2023
Monkey Pig Kidney Transplant, Goalie Reflexes, Clean Snow
Dec 13, 2023
OCD Decisions, Albatross Sound Waves, Ice & Fungi
Dec 08, 2023
Bionic Hand, Satellites Watch Crops, AI & Our Moral Compass
Dec 07, 2023
Brain & Chronic Pain, Frogs Play Dead, Avian Flu Gene Edit
Dec 06, 2023
Nasal Vaccine, Dino Killer Volcano, Pied Tamarins
Dec 01, 2023
Hair Loss Clues, Renewable Energy Transition, Citrus History
Nov 30, 2023
Stopping Superbugs, Powerful Pulsar, Hippo Poop
Nov 29, 2023
Genetic Vegetarianism, Roman Sarcophagus, Homework
Nov 24, 2023
3D Print Stem Cells, Puzzling Elephants, Believing Delusion
Nov 23, 2023
Steroid Psychopathy, Iceberg Crash, Stand Up Dizziness
Nov 22, 2023
Hypno Pain Killer, Mosquito Secrets, Important Worms
Nov 17, 2023
Happiest Age, Compassion Fatigue, Arthritis Treatment
Nov 16, 2023
Tasmanian Tigers, Intensifying Hurricanes, Dog-Fox Hybrid
Nov 15, 2023
PTSD in the Brain, Dopamine Decisions, Love Body Connection
Nov 10, 2023
New Mom Pareidolia, Soapy Cilantro, Problem-Solving Birds
Nov 09, 2023
Chameleon Buildings, Math Pattern of Cells, Gravity Waves
Nov 08, 2023
Water Breakthrough, Suppress Stress, Ancient Wood
Nov 03, 2023
Nano Zit Zapper, Super Strong Silk, Plant Communication
Nov 02, 2023
Leaf Swab Tell All, Taffy Science, Persistence of Memory
Nov 01, 2023
Misophonia, Self-Relevant Artwork, Ancient Artillery
Oct 27, 2023
Dirty Toothbrush, Smart Crows, Rare Supermassive Black Hole
Oct 26, 2023
Death Experiences, Breast Milk Cancer Test, Job Skill Value
Oct 25, 2023
False Memory, Logic in Toddlers, Cake Cutting Math
Oct 20, 2023
Microbot Tumor Killer, Keto & PCOS, Do Opposites Attract?
Oct 19, 2023
Embryo Model, Breathing Ball, End of a Dynasty
Oct 18, 2023
Depression, Penguin Chicks, Peeing In The Cold
Oct 13, 2023
The Iceman, Y Chromosome Puzzle, Planets 
Oct 12, 2023
Climate Change, Group Fitness, Online Dating
Oct 11, 2023
Indian Moon Landing, Love or Money?, Giant Sea Lizard
Oct 06, 2023
Pink Eye Cause, Seven Year Itch, Andes Dance Floor
Oct 05, 2023
MH370 Barnacles, Polar Bear Town, Dino Discovery
Oct 04, 2023
Urban Greening, Power Crystals, Darwin’s Paradox
Sep 29, 2023
Carbon & Plants, Healthy Walking, Self Esteem in Kids
Sep 28, 2023
Pink Floyd Brain Activity, Superhero Science, Bathroom Germs
Sep 27, 2023
Comatose Consciousness, Glowing Frogs, Race Car Blinks
Sep 22, 2023
Dirty Fog to Clean Water, Hookworms, Paranoia & Memory
Sep 21, 2023
Teenage Activism, Sleep Apnea Danger, Aggressive Driving
Sep 20, 2023
Chronic Pain Treatment, Tree Planting, Nose Pickers
Sep 15, 2023
Early Breakfast, Nanotech & Blindness, Crocodile Crying
Sep 14, 2023
TSS Bacto-Battles, Why We Walk, Saber-Tooth Cat Party
Sep 13, 2023
Korean Rockfish Power, Machu Picchu DNA, Breastfed Benefits
Sep 08, 2023
Ovarian Failure Cure, Honeypot Ants, AI Insomnia
Sep 07, 2023
Genetic Eye Drops, Kimberlite Explosion, Creative Bots
Sep 06, 2023
Healing Electronics, Grocery Cart Sensors, Large Telescopes
Sep 01, 2023
Pain of Uncertainty, Nearsightedness, Doctors Join Forces
Aug 31, 2023
Locked-in Syndrome, Anxiety & Nostalgia, Continental Shift
Aug 30, 2023
Healing Metals, Sensitive Teeth, Sports Supplements
Aug 25, 2023
Time Perception, Heart in a Box, Flying Ticks
Aug 24, 2023
Partner Look-alikes, CRISPR Wood, Aggressive Self-Control
Aug 23, 2023
Mars Organics, Cognitive Flexibility, Copper Age Leadership
Aug 18, 2023
Pine Tree Painkiller, Cell Spitting Creature, Manifestation
Aug 17, 2023
Smart Drugs, Frozen Organ Transplant, Curly Hair Cool
Aug 16, 2023
High Voice Gene, Egyptian Art X-Ray, Finding Fresh Water
Aug 11, 2023
Octopus Death Frenzy, Wildlife Tracking, Fungi to the Rescue
Aug 10, 2023
Space Swells Brain Cavity, Cave Fossils, Keeping Cool
Aug 09, 2023
Vaccine Menstrual Length, Lonely in a Crowd, Aussie ‘Roos
Aug 04, 2023
Amino Acid Fountain of Youth, Plan Ahead, Keto for Cancer
Aug 03, 2023
Cartilage Regeneration, Chatbot Virus, Hit Song Prediction
Aug 02, 2023
Sharkphones, Cave Engravings, Diaper Houses
Jul 28, 2023
Shark Deterrents, Earth Axis Tilt, Hair Loss Reversal
Jul 27, 2023
Shark-Eating Eels, Lonely Parrots, Whales Repair DNA
Jul 26, 2023
Catatonic Wake Up, Forever Chemicals, Crops With No Sun
Jul 21, 2023
Post-Paralysis Walking, Important Naps, History of Kissing
Jul 20, 2023
Space Hibernation, New York is Sinking, Baby Talk
Jul 19, 2023
Stem Cell Meat, Antarctica Cavern and Ants Playing Dead
Jul 14, 2023
Brain Activity Decoder, No Pain Molecules and Psych Tech
Jul 13, 2023
Hallucinations, Music, And Invasions
Jul 12, 2023
Medicine Patch, Fast Learner Myth, Mediterranean Mega Flood
Jul 07, 2023
Spider Silk, Family Meals, Pregnancy Ultrasounds
Jul 06, 2023
Lightning Material, Typing Stress, Domesticated Elephants
Jul 05, 2023
Brain Language, Ancient Hallucinogens, Unreliable Memory
Jun 30, 2023
Lying Signals, Hibernation Blood Clots, Moon Creation
Jun 29, 2023
Shark Repellant, Brain Internal Compass, Sleeping Seals
Jun 28, 2023
Robotic Beehive, Oral Transmission, Cranberry Juice & UTIs
Jun 23, 2023
Noise Pollution, Quantum Light, Pets & Food Allergies
Jun 22, 2023
Viagra, Inclusive AI, Mind-Body Connection in Dogs
Jun 21, 2023
Real Life Flash, Stomach Cancer, Hole in Coffee Bag
Jun 16, 2023
Psychedelic Brain Health, Giant Dinosaur, Donkey Family Tree
Jun 15, 2023
Odor Receptors, Whale Vocal Fry, Body Donation
Jun 14, 2023
Parkinson’s Chemical, Far Away Love, Secrets of Catnip
Jun 09, 2023
Chronic Fatigue, Positive Thinking, Ancient Wine
Jun 08, 2023
Plastic Waste Fuel, Colds Got Worse?, Trees and Mushrooms
Jun 07, 2023
Chernobyl Dogs, Venus Volcanoes, Cold Mushrooms
Jun 02, 2023
Greenwashing, F1 Sustainability, Unhealthy Loneliness
Jun 01, 2023
Social Media Saves, Sickle Cell Cure, Breadcrumbs On Mars
May 31, 2023
Hope for Mass Extinction, Mild Fever, Wax Worm Saliva
May 26, 2023
Sleep and Vaccines, Moth-Eating Bears, Feeling the Metaverse
May 25, 2023
Chocolate Mouthfeel, Teaching Moms, Daylight Saving
May 24, 2023
Immortality Tech, Please Is Not Polite, Snap Fit Physics
May 19, 2023
Time Relationship, Aerosol Injections, Psych Participants
May 18, 2023
Double Lung Transplant, Blue Whale Behavior, Lie Detector
May 17, 2023
Social Rewards, Broken Heart Syndrome, 5 Min Walks
May 12, 2023
Notre-Dame Fire, Hypoxia, Gravity and IBS
May 11, 2023
SpaceX Crew Returns, Robots With Brains, Cancer Treatment
May 10, 2023
Zoom Doom, Denali Fault, Modern Moon Suit
May 05, 2023
Ice Age Survivors, Micro Knots, Octopus Farm
May 04, 2023
Anxiety Blood Test, Mommy Brain, Linkedin Spy
May 03, 2023
Genetic Fertility, CO2 Suck Up, 2 Dad Mice
Apr 28, 2023
Basketball Positions, Self-Healing Plastic, IQ Decline
Apr 27, 2023
Species-Ending Asteroids, Air Into Electricity, Female Mice
Apr 26, 2023
Zombie Virus, Back From the Brink, Bad Cholesterol
Apr 21, 2023
Endometriosis Shot, Bee Puzzles, Lemonade Kidney Stones
Apr 20, 2023
Remote Work Baby Boom, Acne Antibiotics, Chagas Infection
Apr 19, 2023
Foreign Accent Syndrome, AI Reads Minds, Alien Marsh
Apr 14, 2023
Men At Work, Whale Interrupted, Gender Equality
Apr 13, 2023
Birth Order, Braincell Computers, Zimbabwe Hydro
Apr 12, 2023
3D-Printed Community, Secret Chamber in Giza, Migraine Hope
Apr 07, 2023
GERD Anxiety, Crowd Math, Insect Catapult
Apr 06, 2023
Same Sex Same Kids, Face Blindness, Paid Sick Leave
Apr 05, 2023
Ancient Brain Surgery, 3D Heart, Supermassive Black Hole
Mar 31, 2023
Infant Common Sense, Magnetoreception, Depression Posture
Mar 30, 2023
One Drop Robot, Malaria Forecast, Naked Mole Rat Fertility
Mar 29, 2023
AI Animal Translator, Big Old Galaxies, Inner Inner Core
Mar 24, 2023
School Sleep, Ancient Runestone, Postpartum Depression Pill
Mar 23, 2023
Male Contraceptive, Winter Snooze, Whale Fight Songs
Mar 22, 2023
Poseidon Temple, Time to Exercise, Queen of Scots Letters
Mar 17, 2023
Moon Dust, Mammal Groups, Roman Sex Toy
Mar 16, 2023
Fingerprint Formation, I Love This Song, Ancient Tools
Mar 15, 2023
Peanut Allergy Blocker, Unreachable Itch, Debt Fear
Mar 10, 2023
To Re-Caf Choose Decaf, How Smart Are Rich People?, Cavities
Mar 09, 2023
Rockets Ruin Ozone, Neanderthal Smells, Orca Moms
Mar 08, 2023
Young Blood, Cinnamon Memory, Microplastic Filter
Mar 03, 2023
Social Media Fatigue, Brainwave Tuning, Self-Cooling Tent
Mar 02, 2023
Global Singlehood, Anti-Drinking Pill, Moon Ice
Mar 01, 2023
Speech Signals of Depression, What Time to Eat?, Monet Haze
Feb 24, 2023
Pandemic Brain, Magnetic Migration, Short Pregnancies
Feb 23, 2023
Melatonin Anxiety, Lightning Laser, Toddler’s Best Friend
Feb 22, 2023
Roman Concrete Magic, Virovore, Placebo Guilt
Feb 17, 2023
Gasthma, Sleep Memory, Frozen Reefs
Feb 16, 2023
Covid Brain Fog, Freemium Failure, Fungal Vaccine
Feb 15, 2023
The Puppy Bowl, Human Candles, Cancer Rate Down
Feb 10, 2023
Net Energy Gain, Weak Ankles, Hot Musicians
Feb 09, 2023
Mauna Loa Eruption, Wifi Windows, Catching Vapor
Feb 08, 2023
Helicon Thruster, Smart Bandage, Stress IBS
Feb 03, 2023
Cancer-Fighting Grapes, Dog Brain, Sea Forests
Feb 02, 2023
Dangerous Dishwashers, PTSD Prevention, Game Brain
Feb 01, 2023
Winchcombe Meteorite, Aya-What Now?, Toxic Cleanup
Jan 27, 2023
World Population Reaches 8 Billion, Leprosy, Planet-Killer
Jan 26, 2023
Internet Chip, Tomato Diet, Wrong Time Meds
Jan 25, 2023
Podcast Friends, Drunk Plants, Hot Temper
Jan 20, 2023
Strong Muscle Gene, The Secrets of Viking Poop, Parrot Chat
Jan 19, 2023
3-Parent Babies, Shrinking Moles, Being Kind to Narcissists
Jan 18, 2023
Aging Clock, Mental Health in Your Gut, Brain Tumor Vaccine
Jan 13, 2023
Pain Worse at Night, Who Needs Water, Covid Nasal Spray
Jan 12, 2023
Delusion Science, S.A.D. About Day Length, Fentanyl Vaccine
Jan 11, 2023
Boyhood Nickname, Vampire Grave, Wrecked By Success
Jan 06, 2023
Mosquito Magnets, Laughing Rats, Roman Relics
Jan 05, 2023
Decluttering the Mind, Never Forget Faces, Paralysis Neurons
Jan 04, 2023
Re-release: Covid’s Bright Side, Frog’s Out On a Limb, Fertilizing Fuel
Dec 30, 2022
Re-release: Solar Salads, Cursed Caffeine, Webb’s First Photo
Dec 29, 2022
Re-release: Fabric with Ears, Dreaming of E.T., Fast Evolution
Dec 28, 2022
Re-release: To the Moon Artemis, Oh Snap!, The Skunky Funk of Cannabis
Dec 23, 2022
Re-release: The True Cavity Culprit, Modular Meds, Enzymes vs Plastic
Dec 22, 2022
Re-release: A Pill Made from Poop, Universal Organs, Soothing Baby Pain
Dec 21, 2022
The Power of the Face, Ultrasound Glasses, Listening Cat
Dec 16, 2022
Time Flies, Human Microbiome, Smartphone Death Predictor
Dec 15, 2022
Body Map, Brain 2.0, Pig Bystanders
Dec 14, 2022
Astronaut Blood, Screen Wrinkles, Save the Snow Crab
Dec 09, 2022
Happy Healthy Kids, Hearing Data, Oystersong
Dec 08, 2022
Healthy Breaks, Diarrhea Gene, Motorcycle Light
Dec 07, 2022
Techno-Lonely, TV Glasses, Snooze Button
Dec 02, 2022
Mental Health Robot, Seaweed Coffee, Brain Stimulation for ED
Dec 01, 2022
Health and Connection, 3D Dam, Reliance on English
Nov 30, 2022
Shower Ideas, Medicinal Chocolate, Black Holes Burping
Nov 25, 2022
Smart Contacts, Stoned Dolphins, Birdsongs vs Traffic
Nov 24, 2022
Cognitive Bias, Body Battery, 3D Printed School
Nov 23, 2022
Asthma Cure, Shark Intestines, Human Brain Cells in Rats
Nov 18, 2022
Small Talk, Crab Battery, Ancient Dragons
Nov 17, 2022
Remote Mines, Mouse Embryos, Down Syndrome Treatment
Nov 16, 2022
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PPE Concrete, Steroid Use and ADHD, Butterfly Chastity
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Undead Spiders, Dandelion Drones, Dark Energy Made Light
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Gates of Hell, Cancer Clues, Hidden Jungle Cities
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Making Dragon Fire, Dating Ghosts, Blazing Fast Covid Tests
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Poop of Youth, Robot Roaches, Chatty Fungus
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Nostalgia Blocks Pain, Uploaded Brains, Sand vs. Nanoplastic
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Healing Hearing Hairs, Sun Phones, Chicken Gods
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Murdering Murder Hornets, ADHD & Hoarding, Pain Pill Ills
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Blood Brothers, Seeing-Eye Shark, Bark vs. Bite
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Sleepy Sharks, Sharks Love Grass, Glow-In-The-Shark
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Natalie Schmitt
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Wait Less Weight Loss, Birth Control For Men, Seed Bombing
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Why Symmetry Wins, Solar-Covered Canals, Plants on the Moon
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Victor Vescovo
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Cyanide Seeds, Workout When?, Covid But Ghosts
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Sian Proctor
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Blood Pressures, Mercury’s Crusty Diamonds, Dad or Mom Genes
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Steve Elkins
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Drink = Brain Shrink, Secret Tree Species, L.H.C. Round 3
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Peter Tattersfield
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Gray Matter Gabfest, Our Pulsating Earth, Smarty Cats
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Hungry Plants, Concussion Confusion, An Alzheimer’s Theory
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with George Nield
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Shoo Shoes!, Murmuration Information, Nanoplastic Particles
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Fusion: Homeward Bound, The Last Light Show, Burnout Blues
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Nina Lanza
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Human Venom, Car Battery Blues, Magic and Personalities
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An Eternal Hug, Flea Jump Facts, Fitness Feedback Loops
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Richard Garriott
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The Amazon’s Future, Sugar Rush Retcon, A Study on Studies
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A Clutterful Mind, Heir To The Earth, Partnership
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The Explorers Club - An Interview with Josh Gates
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Seeing Stars, Seagull Staredown, Itsy Bitsy Microdrones
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Whiff of Victory, Bones be Chattin’, Desalination Innovation
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Solar Salads, Cursed Caffeine, Webb’s First Photo
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De-agin’ Sensation, Indiana Jones Needs A.I., Rapid-est Test
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Stoked Tech, We’ve Got Beef?, Success Against M.S.
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The True Cavity Culprit, Modular Meds, Enzymes vs Plastic
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Fading into Memories, Music for the Mind, Air Diamonds
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Zero G Romance, Our Sixth Sense, Oinking at A.I.
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A Pill Made from Poop, Universal Organs, Soothing Baby Pain
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Burn Them Cals, Magic of Mushrooms, Flying at Mach 16
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5 Seconds to Sick, Animal Spidey Sense, Upset Pterosaur Tummies
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Fabric with Ears, Dreaming of E.T., Fast Evolution
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Death to Skeeters, Swapping Saliva, Messing with Lightspeed
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Otterly Amazing, Let’s Go Bananas, Blingy Mayan Grills
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To the Moon Artemis, Oh Snap!, The Skunky Funk of Cannabis
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Dirty Disinfectant, Hot Iron Blobs, Infinite Versions of You
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Sex! And COVID, The Biggest Comet Ever, Wave of The Future
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Curiosity Daily Presents: Monsters Inside Me
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Arctic Alien-ish Life, A Nuclear Donut, Babies Curing HIV
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Covid’s Bright Side, Frogs Out on a Limb, Fertilizing Fuel
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Volcanic Violence, a Salt & Battery, Crustacean Conspiracy
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16 Psyche, Xenotransplantation, Ocean Waves Become a Rave
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Introducing: Curiosity Daily
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Remembering Gifts, Animal Diets, Amazon-Sahara Connection
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The Medicinal Power of Plants, World Record Internet Speed
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How Science Works (w/ Bill Nye), Noise-Canceling Lungs, Stomach Growls
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Tool Use and Language in the Brain, Why Black Holes Get Bigger
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Why You Should Reveal Your Failures, WASP-12b, Tulip Mania
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Quitting Smoking, Over-Practicing, Bill Nye on Believing Science
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David Copperfield Talks Technology and Magic History
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Christmas Music Psychology, Most Influential Films, Mistletoe Science
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Future GMO Foods, The Thought Gap, How Your Brain Knows You’re Uncomfortable
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Introducing: Dogs 101
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GMO Food Science 101 and How to Hear Someone in a Noisy Room
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Why You Get Carsick, Climate-Saving Whales, Jupiter’s Rings
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Irrational Fear of Robots; Mozart’s Epilepsy-Reducing Sonata
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Why Limits Make You Lash Out, Cash vs Cards, Odds of Dying
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Medical Value of Mystical Experiences and the Neutron’s Lifetime
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Heat Through Your Head, Red Blood Cell Immunity, Venus Oceans
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Socializing Too Much, Rogue Planets, Ancient Persian AC
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Hostile Holiday Shopping, Why Cats Love Boxes, Beethoven’s 10th
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Sports Fans’ Brains, Hunger After Overeating, the IKEA Effect
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Family Meal Peacekeeping, Food Coma Science, Etiquette Tips
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A New Stonehenge Discovery and Why Females Feel Colder
Nov 23, 2021
Psychedelic Therapy History, Cold Showers, Only Child Myth
Nov 22, 2021
Birthday Effect, Psychological Richness, Star or Satellite?
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Left Digit Bias w/ Dr. Bapu Jena and Bird-Catching Neanderthals
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How to Clean Your Teeth, 52 Blue, Best Way to Argue with a Partner
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Magic Mushroom Evolution and When Kids Gain Theory of Mind
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Circumtriple Planets, Deep Convos with Strangers, Thomassons in Architecture
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Changing Someone’s Identity, Mushballs on Uranus and Neptune, Curiosity Challenge
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How to Talk to a Science Denier and Raining Sulfur in Sodom
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Finding Dark Energy, Coelacanth Revival, Words of Persuasion
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Why Asthma Gets Worse at Night, Earth’s Largest Living Thing
Nov 09, 2021
Smallest Flying Tech, Myers-Briggs Myth, Brazil Nut Effect
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Adjusting to Time Changes, Saving Jungles, Spiky Ice Cubes
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Jungles’ Impact on Climate Change and a Music-Epidemic Link
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Specialness Spirals and How Much You Will (and Have) Changed (1000th Episode!)
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mRNA Vaccines Are Decades Old and Why White Animal Bellies?
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Crowds Fix Fake News, Choking Under Pressure, Punching Robot Shrimp
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New Twist on Merlin, Giraffe Hearts, What Carbon Neutral Means
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Leeches in Medicine, Potty Training Cows, the Math of Eggs
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Fidget-Hating Misokinesia, Blood Fainting, Infrasound Ghosts
Oct 27, 2021
Synced Heartbeats During Stories, Vampire Bats’ Social Meals
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Early Warning Birds, Ancient Fairy Tales, Breaks vs. Sprains
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Art in Space, Screen Time in Lockdown, Mold vs. Chemicals
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How Space Changed NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott’s Perspective; Plus, Whistled Languages
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A Historic Friendship, Pumpkin Care, Declaring Sovereignty
Oct 20, 2021
Animals Shapeshifting to Stay Cool, Albert Einstein’s Brain
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Your Extra Artery, Emotional Hangovers, LEDs Are Bad for Bugs
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Overfeeding Dogs, Suffrajitsu, and Does Wind Affect Sound?
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Protecting Pets from Home Chemicals and How Resilience Works
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Bacterial Electric Grid, Females Fight Back, Why Tea Leaves Sink
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Muscles Remember Training and a Black Hole Made a Star Explode
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School Should Start Later, Daydreaming Perks, Hycean Planets
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Simple Wildlife Solutions, Sunlight’s Sexy Hormones, Trivia
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Human-Wildlife Conflict and Believing Leisure Is a Waste of Time
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Pills Can Detect Radiation, Metabolism Myth, Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
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“Mini Brains” That Grew Eyes and How the FDA Saved Babies
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Psychology of Online Trolls, Rattlesnake Illusions, Blazars
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Blowhole Origins, Weather Manipulation, How to Slow Aging
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Could Science Stop Aging? And the Milky Way’s “Broken Arm”
Sep 30, 2021
Future You Is a Stranger, Babylonian Trig, Reversed Organs
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Your Second Brain, Jupiter’s Hot Atmosphere, Placebo Buttons
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Moral Outrage Online, Cuttlefish Memory, Sounds Have Shapes
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Mass Hysteria, Why You Say “Like,” Beauty’s Moral Value
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Psychosomatic Illnesses and Seeing Behind a Black Hole
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Time Crystals, Freeze-Dried Sperm, and Batching Tasks
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Monks Meditating After Death and a Marathoning Woolly Mammoth
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Sleep Munchies, Ancient Greek Ship Found, Relationship Trick
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Nudge Theory’s Dark Side (w/ Richard Thaler), Hybrid Fruit Science, Words for “Pirate”
Sep 17, 2021
Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler on How Nudge Changed the World — Plus, Squirrel-Inspired Robots
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Apes Say Hello, Life on Snowball Earth, Learn Twice as Fast
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Earth’s Core Growing Lopsided and the Science of Gut Feelings
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Backward Letters, Dogs Detect Lies, Neutron Star Mountains
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Learning to Read Right, Risks of Trusting Science, Trivia
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Emily Oster on Parenting Decisions, A New Type of Supernova
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Why Facts Don’t Win Arguments, SETI 101, Self-Control Pitfalls
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Mapping the Ocean, Soap-Making Cells, Crows Comprehend Zero
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Road to the 8-Hour Workday, the Liking Gap, Shocking Tomatoes
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Fossil Prep Mistakes, 1840s Electric Cars, Tip of Your Tongue
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Dino Fossil Preparation and Newborns “Dream” About the World
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Diderot Effect, Animated Cave Art, Running Benefits Your Knees
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Infinity in a Used Prayer Book and Vampire-Like Sea Slugs
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Talkers Are Leaders, DNA Evidence Myth, Thinking Sans Brain
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How COVID Tests Work, Making Decisions with Math, Dog Talent
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Turning the Table on Addictive Apps, Black Hole Reflections
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Alibi Memory, Denisova Cave History, Cleaning Fruit & Veggies
Aug 25, 2021
Pirates Plundered the Metric System, What Marsquakes Teach Us
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Romanesco Fractals, Dolphin Names & Evolution vs. Mating
Aug 23, 2021
Hamster Microwave, Are Humans Still Evolving?, Art Is Better in a Museum
Aug 20, 2021
Easter Island Mythbusting and the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Aug 19, 2021
Volcano Perks, Club Soda vs. Seltzer, How to Procrastinate Correctly
Aug 18, 2021
Hygiene Hypothesis, Ancient Coronavirus, Black Hole Eats Neutron Star
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Cognitive Flexibility, Arctic Dinosaurs, Noctilucent Clouds
Aug 16, 2021
How to Talk to Strangers, Red Dead Redemption 2 Naturalists, July Curiosity Challenge
Aug 13, 2021
History of Talking to Strangers, Dark Matter Between Galaxies
Aug 12, 2021
Meat Disgust, Cosmic Rays for Medicine, Immortal Battery
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New Human Species, Digital Library of Babel, Running to Music
Aug 10, 2021
Earworms Aid Memory, How Auroras Happen, Don’t Give Cats Milk
Aug 09, 2021
Tool to Cure Hiccups, Corvid Childhoods, How Spacecraft Move
Aug 06, 2021
An Out-of-Body Experience Without Drugs and Earth’s “Pulse”
Aug 05, 2021
Your Biggest Regret, Tall Mountain Myths, The Deep Web
Aug 04, 2021
Anger Looks Guilty, Quantum Microscope, Good News About Cancer
Aug 03, 2021
Kids v. Sarcasm, 24,000-Year-Old Worm, Why Betelgeuse Dimmed
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Your Brain on Music, Super-Singing Songbirds, Animal Sunburns
Jul 30, 2021
Alien Dataomes, How Animals Smell Viruses, Why to Read Aloud
Jul 29, 2021
Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”
Jul 28, 2021
Brain Replays Memories at 20x Speed & A Real Maxwell’s Demon
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Dog Days of Summer, Magic Tricks for Birds, Planck Time
Jul 26, 2021
Letting Wounds Breathe, Grocery App Benefits, Tardigrade Guns
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Speech-to-Song Illusion and a High-Tech Use for Tree Rings
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Daddy Longlegs, Dyson Spheres, and Exercising with a Partner
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Missions to Venus and How to Extract DNA from Strawberries
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back
Jul 19, 2021
Why Megalodon Was So Huge, Misophonia in the Brain, Trivia
Jul 16, 2021
Glowing Sharks, Cities’ Unique Microbes, Milky Way Mistake
Jul 15, 2021
Shark Week Tech, Crime & Birth Year, Sharks’ Near-Extinction
Jul 14, 2021
Bomb-Detected Whales & What It’s Like to Film Shark Week
Jul 13, 2021
Scary Shark Music, Your Brain Predicts the Future, Hydrobot
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Does ESP Exist?
Jul 09, 2021
Could You Adapt to Having an Extra Thumb?
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How to Improve Your Sense of Direction
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Weird Dreams Might be a Brain Feature, Not a Bug
Jul 06, 2021
Why Song Lyrics Are Getting Simpler
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Are Facial Expressions Universal?
Jul 02, 2021
The Phantom Torso Experiment Protected Astronauts in a Very Creepy Way
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How Life Expectancy Doubled in Just 150 Years (w/ Author Steven Johnson)
Jun 30, 2021
We Found the Earliest Evidence of Ancient Human Activity
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Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Butts
Jun 25, 2021
Bats Map the World By Time, Not Distance
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Why We Won’t Have “Robot Butlers” Any Time Soon (w/ AI Researcher Michael Wooldridge)
Jun 23, 2021
We Found the First Pregnant Mummy Ever Documented
Jun 22, 2021
How to Manage Your Work-from-Home Paranoia
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Will Future Civilizations Get Oil From Human Fossils?
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What Does Your Digital Body Language Say?
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Pollen Is Not Actually Plant Sperm
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Painless Tips to Help the Environment (w/ Paul Greenberg)
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Move Over, CRISPR — New Gene Editing Tech is Here
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A Good Reason to Resolve Your Arguments
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The Oldest Kids in Class Are Also the Most Popular
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Why We Always Forget that Less Is More (w/ Leidy Klotz)
Jun 09, 2021
Stress During Pregnancy Might Affect the Baby’s Sex
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A Robot That Talks to Itself Might Be Easier to Interact With
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What Rain is Like on Other Planets
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What Elevators Can Teach Us About Autonomous Cars (w/ Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur Magazine)
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We’re Morbidly Curious About What “Might Have Been”
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Is Exercise for Work as Good as Exercise for Play?
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How a Plant Gene Ended Up in an Insect’s DNA
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What’s the Deal with Hot Flashes? (w/ OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter)
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The World’s Oldest Thumb Belongs to a Dinosaur
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When the Pursuit of Knowledge Goes Wrong (w/ Physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)
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Science Is a Process — and Bill Nye Explains Why
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Why Do I Cough When I Clean My Ears?
Feb 19, 2021
How Copper Changed Our Language (w/ Materials Scientist Ainissa Ramirez)
Feb 18, 2021
‘Wanting’ and ‘Liking’ Are Different to Your Brain
Feb 17, 2021
What Came Before the Big Bang?
Feb 16, 2021
The Dark Ages Weren’t Really Dark
Feb 15, 2021
This Trait Could Be Key to Lasting Romance
Feb 12, 2021
Your Dog’s Personality Can Change Over Time
Feb 11, 2021
Biological Race Is a Myth (w/ Agustín Fuentes)
Feb 10, 2021
How Does Fever Help You Get Better?
Feb 09, 2021
Why Scientists Made Ants Walk on Stilts
Feb 08, 2021
The Safest Way to Ride in a Car During the Pandemic
Feb 05, 2021
Was Farming Really a Step Up for Hunter-Gatherers?
Feb 04, 2021
You’re Probably Breathing Wrong (w/ James Nestor)
Feb 03, 2021
This Ring May Detect COVID-19 Before You Feel It
Feb 02, 2021
Why Does February have 28 Days?
Feb 01, 2021
Why Do Wombats Poop Cubes?
Jan 29, 2021
The Big Mistakes We Make in Virtual Gatherings (w/ Priya Parker)
Jan 28, 2021
How to Make Gatherings More Meaningful (w/ Priya Parker)
Jan 27, 2021
A Trick for Making Vaccinations Less Painful
Jan 26, 2021
Small Talk Is Important, and Remote Workers Aren’t Getting Enough
Jan 25, 2021
Why Is Static Worse in Winter?
Jan 22, 2021
A Distant Galaxy Is Warping the Milky Way
Jan 21, 2021
What Most People Miss When Building Habits (w/ Jen Sincero)
Jan 20, 2021
We Still Don’t Know How Ice Skating Works
Jan 19, 2021
Why Your Dog’s Paws Smell Like Corn Chips
Jan 18, 2021
Disgusting Sights Literally Turn Your Stomach
Jan 15, 2021
A New Discovery About That Weird “Aurora” Named STEVE
Jan 14, 2021
Beat Stress with Laughter Yoga (w/ Madan Kataria, MD)
Jan 13, 2021
Why Are the COVID-19 Vaccines Kept So Cold?
Jan 12, 2021
People Respond to Music Even When They Can’t Hear It
Jan 11, 2021
Your Brain Treats Human Beauty Differently from Artistic Beauty
Jan 08, 2021
Why We Call Computer Glitches “Bugs”
Jan 07, 2021
What’s the Shortest Amount of Time Ever Recorded?
Jan 06, 2021
Swedish Death Cleaning Can Declutter Your Life
Jan 05, 2021
How “Flow” Can Help in Quarantine
Jan 04, 2021
The Right Way to Set Goals
Jan 01, 2021
When Smokers Quit, Dormant Lung Cells Wake Up
Dec 31, 2020
Do People Think More in Words or Pictures?
Dec 30, 2020
The Stinky Science of the World’s Smelliest Fruit
Dec 29, 2020
Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses for Science
Dec 28, 2020
Do Opposites Really Attract?
Dec 25, 2020
Why Toilet Paper Is White
Dec 24, 2020
The Time Pi Was Almost Legally Changed to 3.2
Dec 23, 2020
Why Do Bats Cause So Many Virus Outbreaks?
Dec 22, 2020
Why It's Good to Reveal Your Failures
Dec 21, 2020
Do Single-A Batteries Exist?
Dec 18, 2020
Early Female Hunters Were More Common Than We Thought
Dec 17, 2020
How Psilocybin Therapy Can Ease Depression
Dec 16, 2020
What Are Monoclonal Antibodies? (w/ Dr. Lawrence Purpura)
Dec 15, 2020
Why Birds Wore Funny Hats for Science
Dec 14, 2020
Are Sleep-Deprived Men More Masculine?
Dec 11, 2020
Insecure People Use More Jargon
Dec 10, 2020
Why Don’t We Have Battery-Powered Airplanes?
Dec 09, 2020
Laziness Isn’t What You Think (w/ Dr. Devon Price)
Dec 08, 2020
Why You Need Self-Compassion for Self-Improvement
Dec 07, 2020
Why It’s Relaxing to Breathe in Through Your Nose
Dec 04, 2020
Why Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs
Dec 03, 2020
The Smells That Existed Before Earth (w/ Harold McGee)
Dec 02, 2020
Scientists Finally Found a Dinosaur Cloaca
Dec 01, 2020
The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email
Nov 30, 2020
Is That Real Money or Fun Money? The Trap of Mental Accounting
Nov 27, 2020
The More You Wish for Self-Control, the Less of It You Have
Nov 26, 2020
Do Turkeys Really Drown in Rainstorms?
Nov 25, 2020
What People Get Wrong About Evolution (w/ Neil Shubin)
Nov 24, 2020
Venus Flytraps Store Short-Term “Memories”
Nov 23, 2020
Do Rocket Stages Ever Hit Ships? (w/ NASA’s Cody Chambers)
Nov 20, 2020
Why Is Life Based on Carbon and Not Silicon?
Nov 19, 2020
What to Do When You Make the Wrong Decision (w/ Annie Duke)
Nov 18, 2020
The Best Time to Make a Gut Decision (w/ Annie Duke)
Nov 17, 2020
4 of the World's Weirdest Weather Phenomena
Nov 16, 2020
Why Are Spacesuits White?
Nov 13, 2020
Befriend Cats with the Slow Blink
Nov 12, 2020
Why Bugs Are Basically Robots (w/ Alie Ward)
Nov 11, 2020
Ask Smart People Stupid Questions (w/ Alie Ward)
Nov 10, 2020
Why You Need a Virtual Commute
Nov 09, 2020
You Can Control Your Dreams with Science
Nov 06, 2020
A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness
Nov 05, 2020
5G Might Impair Weather Forecasts
Nov 04, 2020
How to Make the Most of Your Negativity Bias (w/ John Tierney)
Nov 03, 2020
Can a Selfie Screen You for Heart Disease?
Nov 02, 2020
The Door to Hell Is a Fiery Pit That’s Been Burning Since 1971
Oct 30, 2020
Baby Tortoises Love Faces, and That’s a Big Deal for Science
Oct 29, 2020
Einstein Worried That Science Can't Explain "The Now"
Oct 28, 2020
How Hollywood Gets Seances Wrong
Oct 27, 2020
How 19th-Century Body-Snatchers Contributed to Medical Science
Oct 26, 2020
Could Parasites Turn Us into Zombies?
Oct 23, 2020
The Martian Moon Phobos Creates a Yearly Solar Eclipse
Oct 22, 2020
Viking Was a Job Description, Not Heredity
Oct 21, 2020
Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey into Extinction?
Oct 20, 2020
Why Social Isolation Could Breed Conspiracy Theorists
Oct 19, 2020
How Romantic Partners Influence Each Other's Relationship Goals
Oct 16, 2020
Our Ability to Drink Milk Evolved Way Faster Than Scientists Thought
Oct 15, 2020
How Superstitions Can Reduce Anxiety
Oct 14, 2020
Hacking Earth to Fight Climate Change
Oct 13, 2020
Earth's Atmosphere May Be Rusting the Moon
Oct 12, 2020
It’s “Patient O,” Not “Patient Zero”
Oct 09, 2020
How Cold Was the Last Ice Age?
Oct 08, 2020
How Scientists Teleported Fish Behavior
Oct 07, 2020
How Cancer Evolves in the Body (w/ Dr. Kat Arney)
Oct 06, 2020
3 Mythological Creatures That Were Inspired by Real Fossils
Oct 05, 2020
Why The Mantis Shrimp Can Punch So Hard Without Damage
Oct 02, 2020
What Happens When You Pull a Muscle?
Oct 01, 2020
The Dirty, Smelly History of Soap (w/ Cody Cassidy)
Sep 30, 2020
Who Ate the First Oyster? (w/ Cody Cassidy)
Sep 29, 2020
Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science (Again!)
Sep 28, 2020
Why Don't We Sneeze in Our Sleep?
Sep 25, 2020
The Math Bias That Makes You Misjudge COVID-19
Sep 24, 2020
Wildfires Can Create Their Own Storms
Sep 23, 2020
Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking
Sep 22, 2020
Why Do Young People Have More Déjà Vu?
Sep 21, 2020
Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling
Sep 18, 2020
Why You Think You’re Too Smart for Ads, Studying Violinists to Understand Human Synchrony, and Relieving Pain by Holding Hands
Sep 17, 2020
A Dark Sense of Humor May Mean a High IQ, Origin of the Word Orange, and Zombie Fires in the Arctic
Sep 16, 2020
Can Smiling Actually Make You Happier? And Why a Clockmaker Figured Out Longitude
Sep 15, 2020
Two Types of Empathy, Why Razors Dull, and Can You Learn Perfect Pitch?
Sep 14, 2020
We All Think We’re Bad With Names, The Genius of Hobo Code, and How Attractive Do You Think You Are?
Sep 11, 2020
A Harmful Mutation Evolved for Good, Why Astronauts Are Using Old Sailing Tech in Space, and Cody’s Message
Sep 10, 2020
The Rando Who Translated Gilgamesh, Why Horses Lost Their Toes, and a Sperm-Swimming Discovery
Sep 09, 2020
Difference Between Unscented & Fragrance-Free and Cow Gene Editing for More Male Offspring
Sep 08, 2020
Short-Term Pleasures Are Important Too, the Smelly Armpit Enzyme, and a Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star
Sep 07, 2020
The Myth of Pregnancy Cravings, Why Raindrops Don’t Damage Insect Wings, and August’s Curiosity Challenge Trivia
Sep 04, 2020
Aggression and Epigenetics (w/ Bill Sullivan), Calm Down with Box Breathing, and How Anglerfish Fuse Without Immune Rejection
Sep 03, 2020
The Invisible Forces Controlling You (w/ Bill Sullivan), You Daydream Surprisingly Often, and Ancient Greek Temples Were Built on Fault Lines on Purpose
Sep 02, 2020
Normalcy Bounces Back Quickly in Times of Stress and the Female Astronauts of the Mercury 13
Sep 01, 2020
How Blind People Describe Animals, Plague Myths About “Ring Around the Rosie,” and Radiation Shields Made from Fungus
Aug 31, 2020
Do Masks Stunt Emotional Development? Plus: Human Ears Perk Up, Too, and Why Your Shower Curtain Clings To You
Aug 28, 2020
What to Do When Your Pet Is Scared, You Have Microbes Inside Your Cells, and Meet Natalia Reagan (Again!)
Aug 27, 2020
Dying People Can Probably Hear You, Mapmakers Catch Copycats with Paper Towns, and How Woodpeckers Shut Down a NASA Launch
Aug 26, 2020
What If You Stopped Showering (w/ James Hamblin) and Are Some Trees Immortal?
Aug 25, 2020
A Science-Backed Workout in 10 Minutes, How Collective Narcissism Makes Groups Toxic, and How Dolphins Make Friends
Aug 24, 2020
Zoos Have Their Own Dating Apps, Why Grease Is Hard to Clean Off Plastic, and You Don’t Have to Be Married to Be Happy
Aug 21, 2020
Are There Really Wasps in Figs? Plus: People Like Round Numbers Even When They’re Bad
Aug 20, 2020
Building Healthier Cities (w/ Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar), 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor Core, and Why Spaghetti Breaks in Three
Aug 19, 2020
How the Environment Affects Your Health (w/ Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar) and How Polynesians Mingled with Native Americans 800 Years Ago
Aug 18, 2020
You Create False Memories of Daily Tasks, Dogs Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field, and There’s No Up or Down in Space
Aug 17, 2020
Why the US Military Made Shark Repellant, Why Moths Are Drawn to Lights, and the Difference Between Mummies and Fossils
Aug 14, 2020
Finding Lost Shark Species (w/ Forrest Galante) and the 2 Types of Nostalgia
Aug 13, 2020
Sharks Aren’t Just Apex Predators (w/ Forrest Galante), How Cats Affect Online Dating, and When Giant Prehistoric Sea Scorpions Ruled the Seas
Aug 12, 2020
Can Sharks Smell Blood from a Mile Away? Plus: Dual-Uterus Sharks and How Interstellar Travel Will Change Language
Aug 11, 2020
Why People Are Afraid of Sharks, Discovery of 4 “Walking” Shark Species, and Fighting Climate Change with Rocks
Aug 10, 2020
Parents’ Brains Sync When They’re Together, the Genius Math Behind Credit Card Numbers, and July’s Curiosity Challenge Trivia
Aug 07, 2020
Why Religious People Have More Children, Sea Turtles’ Clumsy Navigation Skills, and the Real Center of Our Solar System Isn’t the Sun
Aug 06, 2020
How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, The Venomous Dinosaur from Jurassic Park IRL, and All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe
Aug 05, 2020
You Have Tiny Rocks in Your Ears, How Artists’ Personas Influence Your Music Choices, and Chemotherapy Began as a Chemical Weapon
Aug 04, 2020
Why Some Words Are More Memorable, How Hair Growth Works, and How Fish End Up in Landlocked Lakes
Aug 03, 2020
Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App
Jul 31, 2020
Why New Habits Have to Be Tiny (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and Why Human Infants Are Late Bloomers
Jul 30, 2020
A New Way to Build Habits (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and the Best Time of Day to Exercise
Jul 29, 2020
Why Stress Sweat Smells Worse, Studying Wildlife During the Pandemic, and Do Men Just Not See Messes?
Jul 28, 2020
You Navigate with Your Nose, Busting 5 Summer Myths, and Using Horseshoe Crabs’ Blue Blood to Develop New Medicine
Jul 27, 2020
Fannie Farmer Created the Modern Cooking Recipe, the Shepard Scale Audio Illusion, and How Scientists Test the COVID-19 Vaccine
Jul 24, 2020
Why Some People Can’t Recognize Faces, Weight-Lifting Strengthens Your Nerves Too, and Why Earth’s Core Doesn’t Melt
Jul 23, 2020
Teaching Kids to Not Be Prejudiced, Why Cats Have Vertical Pupils, and a Massive Stonehenge Discovery
Jul 22, 2020
The Need for Nature During Lockdown, Why Plants Are Green, and How Microbes and Parasites Might Make Us Healthier
Jul 21, 2020
Stay Happy and Healthy by Maintaining Your Routines, How Dolphins Learn to Use Tools, and Can Adults Grow New Brain Cells?
Jul 20, 2020
Waiting for the Best Option Lowers Your Standards, Spies Can Eavesdrop Using Light Bulbs, and Why Atoms Don’t Look Like the Solar System
Jul 17, 2020
Hack Your Short-Term Memory, The Wild Origins of Gallbladder Surgery, and Does Chocolate Cause Acne Breakouts?
Jul 16, 2020
The First Prescription Video Game, Solving the Mystery of Short-Term Memory, and Hummingbirds’ Extraordinary Vision
Jul 15, 2020
Blame Trolling on “Everyday Sadism,” How to Sleep Better During Lockdown, and a Breakthrough in Random Number Generation
Jul 14, 2020
Saturated Fat Could Kill Your Focus, Animals Have Regional Accents, and Rings Around Mars
Jul 13, 2020
Black Hole Holograms, How We Make Sense of the Nonsensical, and June’s Curiosity Challenge
Jul 10, 2020
Human Hair Was Created in a Lab, You See Less Color Than You Think, and Mapping an Underground City Without Digging
Jul 09, 2020
A Better Way to Stop Implicit Bias, the Murderous “Femme Fatale” Firefly, and Finding the Universe’s Missing Matter
Jul 08, 2020
Wearables and AI Analytics Are Changing Medicine (w/ Dr. Lloyd Minor) and What Happens to Your Brain After a Breakup
Jul 07, 2020
How Summer Affects COVID-19, Why So Many Mars Missions Are Launching in July, and Exercise More by Copying Your Friends
Jul 06, 2020
Why You Should Argue to Learn, Dogs Want to Rescue You, and Do Blind People Dream?
Jul 03, 2020
What Neanderthal Genes Are Doing in Your DNA, The Time Photosynthesis Killed Nearly All Life on Earth, and the Inventor of “Do, Re, Mi” Notation
Jul 02, 2020
Qualified Immunity in Police Misconduct, Why Longing Is Important in Relationships, and Wandering Stars Regularly Visit Our Solar System
Jul 01, 2020
Loving Your Job May Lead to Unethical Behavior, Bumblebees Bite Plants to Make Them Bloom, and Jupiter’s Moons Formed from Specks of Dust
Jun 30, 2020
Periodical Cicadas 101, Why Smarter People Choke Under Pressure, and Analyzing DNA to Solve the Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery
Jun 29, 2020
The Psychology of ‘Animal Crossing,’ How a Failed Death Ray Led to Radar, and Intrusive Thoughts Explained
Jun 26, 2020
Tap into the 4 Pillars of Learning (w/ Stanislas Dehaene) and How We Get Seedless Fruit
Jun 25, 2020
New Science on How We Learn (w/ Stanislas Dehaene), Why Stores Use Air Curtains, and Desert Microbes that Dissolve Rocks with Acid
Jun 24, 2020
Virtual Therapy vs. In-Person Therapy, How Redlining Deepened Segregation in US Cities, and Earth’s Drifting Magnetic Poles
Jun 23, 2020
Lockdown Is Changing Our Perception of Time, a Devastating Meteor that Never Landed, and Elephants Can Catch Yawns from Humans
Jun 22, 2020
Juneteenth’s Origins, Change Your Routine to Be Happier, and Why Americans Don’t Say “Maths”
Jun 19, 2020
Climate Justice 101 (w/ Katharine Hayhoe), Why Peanut Butter Gets Gum Out of Hair, and How Gaslighting Makes You Question Your Sanity
Jun 18, 2020
What Science Says About Fat-Burning Foods, Do Great Things by Being a Part of Something Greater, and Telling Male and Female Dinosaurs Apart
Jun 17, 2020
Modern Benefits from Archaeological Discoveries (w/ Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk) and Hearing Body Language
Jun 16, 2020
Making Life Decisions on a Coin Flip, How You Respond to 2 Types of Injustice, and Why Otters Juggle Rocks
Jun 15, 2020
Why People Protest According to Psychology, How Scientists Made Blind People “See” Shapes, and May’s Curiosity Challenge
Jun 12, 2020
Hope in the Fight Against Climate Change (w/ Katharine Hayhoe) and Overcoming Bedtime Procrastination
Jun 11, 2020
Why Rainy Days Make You Sleepy, A Fix for AI’s Energy Appetite, and Solving Geology’s Mystery of the “Great Unconformity”
Jun 10, 2020
Extinct Human Species (w/ Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast) and Moody Teenage Dogs
Jun 09, 2020
Differences in CEO and Murdering Psychopaths, How Deep Sleep Cleans Your Brain, and the Mystery of Our Inactive Sun
Jun 08, 2020
Fighting Coronavirus with Llamas, Why Rain Stops Rocket Launches, and Listener Questions About Cold Things
Jun 05, 2020
How We Know Climate Change Is Caused by Humans (w/ Katharine Hayhoe) and the Myth of “Common Sense”
Jun 04, 2020
Defending Against “Murder Hornets” with Bee Balls, Aphantasia and the Two Extremes of the “Mind’s Eye,” and Venus’s Freaky-Fast Atmosphere
Jun 03, 2020
How Technology Is Enabling Archeological Discoveries (w/ Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast) and the Privacy Risks of Eye-Tracking Tech
Jun 02, 2020
Your Ancestors May Influence Your Work Hours, Coral Reproduced in Captivity, and the First Known Water-Dwelling Dinosaur
Jun 01, 2020
Selfish People Remember Being Generous, Why We Can’t Transplant Brains, and Buying Life Insurance from Vending Machines
May 29, 2020
“Rub Some Dirt on It” to Heal Wounds, Funny Memes Can Save Endangered Species, and Space Changes the Shape of Astronauts’ Hearts
May 28, 2020
What Makes People Cultural Omnivores, Archaeologists’ Prehistoric Poop Problem, and How to Tell Stars and Planets Apart in the Sky
May 27, 2020
Y2K Was Actually a Success Story, Sleeping Brains Replay Waking Experience, and Plants Can Hear When They’re Being Eaten
May 26, 2020
Elephants Get Drunk (and They’re Lightweights), Pigeons Helped Win Wars, and Night Owls May Struggle to Regulate Their Emotions
May 25, 2020
Marijuana Categories Aren’t Based in Science, Scientists Staged Bronze-Age Swordfights, and How Clean Are Your Clothes, Really?
May 22, 2020
Why People Ignore Facts in Medical Emergencies, Victorian-Era Credit Cards, and Adding a New Row to the Periodic Table
May 21, 2020
World of Warcraft Could Help Fight COVID-19, Social Rejection Can Fuel Creativity, and What Mouse Facial Expressions Teach Us About Emotion
May 20, 2020
An Interstellar Object’s Origin Revealed, Why Superstitions Evolved, and How the Sense of Smell Is More Complicated Than We Thought
May 19, 2020
Therapy for Parents Can Ease Kids’ Anxiety, What Makes Fruit Mealy, and Lessons from the “Second Earth” Biosphere 2
May 18, 2020
What Is the Grand Unified Field Theory? (w/ Dr. Adam Becker), Should You Wad or Fold Toilet Paper, and Why You Judge Your Own Hoarding Differently
May 15, 2020
Where Our Emotions Come From and How to Hack Them (w/ Lisa Feldman Barrett) and Tarantula Venom Could Be an Opioid Alternative
May 14, 2020
How Antibiotics in Agriculture Changed How We Eat (w/ Maryn McKenna), When Daydreaming Goes Wrong, and Dogs Recognize Faces in Photos
May 13, 2020
The Universe Might Expand Unevenly, Using a Camera to De-Clutter Your House, and 3 Hominins Lived in the Same Place and Time
May 12, 2020
Pigeons Can Be Superstitious, Why Allergy Drugs Make You Sleepy, and The 5 Ages of the Universe
May 11, 2020
Play a Game to Help Cure Alzheimer’s, Building the Perfect Swear Word, and May’s Curiosity Challenge
May 08, 2020
Gut Neurons Influence Brain Neurons, Why We Still Use the QWERTY Keyboard, and Why You “Shoot the Messenger”
May 07, 2020
Using Urine to Build a Moon Base, Musicians and Audiences Sync Brain Activity, and Why “Size Matters” for Narwhal Tusks
May 06, 2020
Early Career Choices Influence Your Personality, Why We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and Psychedelic Effects from Placebos
May 05, 2020
Null Misadventures (w/ Matt Parker), Why Reheated Coffee Tastes Bad, and the Ancestor of Most Living Animals
May 04, 2020
Why We Get Warning Fatigue, Prehistoric Monkeys Crossed the Atlantic on Rafts, and Why New Lovebirds Feel So Familiar
May 01, 2020
5 Coronavirus Myths Debunked, Why You Shouldn’t Get Your News on Social Media, and the Discovery of a Black Hole Missing Link
Apr 30, 2020
Why Soft Drinks Taste Different Out of Cans, Why Housecats Are Dangerous for Wildlife, and 100 Minor Planets Discovered Beyond Neptune
Apr 29, 2020
The Battle of Brains vs Brawn in Aging, Perils of Ultra-Processed Food, and Bats Surviving White-Nose Syndrome
Apr 28, 2020
Using Lava Lamps to Generate Randomness (w/ Matt Parker), How Ritalin Makes You Focus, and What Bacteria Beneath the Sea Floor Means for Life on Mars
Apr 27, 2020
Quarantine Survival Tips (w/ Dr. Renée Lertzman and “Deadliest Catch” Captains Sig & Keith) and Why We Have Birthmarks
Apr 24, 2020
Anniversary Episode! Supersonic Packing Tape, Chronological vs. Biological Age, Why Mirrors Are Next to Elevators, and Anti-Asteroid Spacecraft
Apr 23, 2020
Dealing with Uncertainty During the Coronavirus Pandemic (w/ Dr. Renée Lertzman) and One Dog Year Doesn’t Equal Seven Human Years
Apr 22, 2020
Fishing Science (w/ “Deadliest Catch” Captains Sig & Keith) and the Psychology of Sour Grapes
Apr 21, 2020
Stealing Money with Salami Slicing Attacks (w/ Matt Parker), You Don’t Know the Back of Your Hand, and Tylenol Eases Social Exclusion
Apr 20, 2020
Do Masks Prevent Coronavirus, How Tuvan Throat Singers Sing Two Notes at Once, and Predicting Viral Content by Measuring Brain Activity
Apr 17, 2020
Why Stress Makes You Eat Differently, Humpback Whales Hunt with Bubble Nets, and the Surprising Genetic Reason Females Outlive Males
Apr 16, 2020
Parents Rarely Pass Their Politics to Their Kids, Source of Peanut Allergies Found in the Gut, and Why Stars Don’t Make the Night Sky Bright
Apr 15, 2020
Blame Evolution for Back Pain, Showing Off Your Status Doesn’t Make Friends, and Make Babies Smarter by Pretending to Understand Them
Apr 14, 2020
The Skyscraper-Shaking Fitness Class (w/ Matt Parker), When Hanger Is Most Likely to Strike, and Studying the Human Brain’s Jiggle
Apr 13, 2020
Why So Many Outbreaks (Like the Coronavirus) Come from Bats, Older Siblings’ Surprising Influence, and April’s Curiosity Challenge
Apr 10, 2020
Anticipatory Grief During a Pandemic, the Smallest Dinosaur Ever (Maybe), and How Your Brain Processes Music and Speech Differently
Apr 09, 2020
How Wildlife Crossings Work (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and Get Happy by Doing One Creative Thing a Day
Apr 08, 2020
Building the World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing to Save P-22 (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and the Health Benefits of the “Helper’s High”
Apr 07, 2020
Why Women Feel More Pain than Men, Why Toothpaste Makes Food Taste Bad, and Earth Formed Way Faster Than We Thought
Apr 06, 2020
Where Does Mold Come From? Plus: Torture Scenes in Movies vs. Real Life and Why the World’s Smelliest Fruit Smells So Bad
Apr 03, 2020
Astronauts Grew Lettuce in Space, Why Smelling a Dirty Shirt Can Help You Sleep, and Early Animals That Acted Like an Ancient Internet
Apr 02, 2020
Ducks Are Employees at a Vineyard, the Victorian Version of Spotify, and A Mathematical Theorem for Cutting a Ham Sandwich
Apr 01, 2020
The Invisible Harm of Thirdhand Smoke, Why Whales Get Lost During Solar Storms, and A Massive Virus That Blurs the Line Between Life and Non-Life
Mar 31, 2020
Laughter Might Be the Best Medicine, How Your Romantic Style Affects Your Finances, and Why Some Amphibians Glow
Mar 30, 2020
Coronavirus Vaccine Development: Scientific Challenges and Timelines with Dr. Julia Schaletzky (COVID-19 Bonus Episode)
Mar 29, 2020
Coronavirus Test Shortages Explained (w/ Dr. Julia Schaletzky), Anonymous Anime Fan Helps Solve 25-Year-Old Math Mystery, and Can Ketamine Help with Depression?
Mar 27, 2020
How a Coronavirus Vaccine Might Work (w/ Dr. Julia Schaletzky) and Why We Call Steak “Beef” and Not “Cow”
Mar 26, 2020
Memory’s Role in Social Anxiety, The First Synthetic Self-Replicating Genome, and Penguins Can Call Underwater
Mar 25, 2020
No One Born Blind Has Had Schizophrenia, Bacteria Engineered to Protect Honeybees, and The Surprising Way WWI Helmets Beat Modern Ones
Mar 24, 2020
First Animal That Doesn’t Breathe Oxygen, Biggest Explosion in the Universe’s History, and Improving Memory with the Brain’s Immune System
Mar 23, 2020
How to Clean Your Phone, More Info About a New Disease Won’t Comfort You, and the Best Workout Music According to Research
Mar 20, 2020
Robot Workers May Change Prejudices, Hormonal Changes in Dads-to-Be, and How Salamanders Regrow Their Limbs
Mar 19, 2020
Hearing Loss and Technology (w/ David Owen) and the Psychology of Reacting to a Crisis (Like COVID-19)
Mar 18, 2020
Coronavirus Myths and FAQs with Dr. Amesh Adalja, Epidemiologist
Mar 18, 2020
Dr. Amesh Adalja Explains Social Distancing for COVID-19, Birds Won’t Spread Fake News, and Using Auroras to Find Exoplanets
Mar 17, 2020
New Antibiotic Discovered by AI, How to Handle Traumatic Memories, and Why Extreme Temperatures Mess with Your Batteries
Mar 16, 2020
Speed Listening’s Effects on Emotion, Surprising Differences Between White and Brown Rice, and Pi Almost Legally Changed to 3.2
Mar 13, 2020
Myths and Science of Binaural Beats, How to Talk About Historical Injustices, and Australian Dingos Evolved from Pet Dogs
Mar 12, 2020
Protecting Yourself from Hearing Loss (w/ David Owen) and Why Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct
Mar 11, 2020
Why Yoga Reduces Depression, Why Plastic Bag Fees Work So Well, and How Bumblebees Can Carry So Much
Mar 10, 2020
Pop Songs Are Getting Sadder, Mysterious Radio Signals from Outer Space, and It Pays to “Just Be Yourself”
Mar 09, 2020
Astronomy’s Problem with Starlink (w/ Vivienne Baldassare) and Why Toilet Paper Is White
Mar 06, 2020
Boost Self-Control by Asking for Support, Gene-Stealing Organisms, and How Lipreading Works in the Brain
Mar 05, 2020
It’s Never Too Early to Protect Your Hearing (w/ David Owen) and Why You Should Work in 90-Minute Spurts
Mar 04, 2020
Fonts Can Send Political Messages, Don’t Always Trust Your First Instinct, and Nucleic Acids Beyond DNA and RNA
Mar 03, 2020
History’s Average Commute Time, Fight Procrastination with Emotions, and the Largest Ever Study of Cancer Genomes
Mar 02, 2020
Quitting Smoking May Reawaken Healthy Cells, Why You Yawn During Exercise, and Telling the Age of Crime Scene Fingerprints
Feb 28, 2020
Lying to Seem Honest, The Physics of the ‘Cheerios Effect,’ and Wasps that Recognize Faces
Feb 27, 2020
Pablo Escobar's Hippos Overtaking Colombia, More Phytoplankton Is Good for the Planet, and Seeing Climate Change in Daily Weather
Feb 26, 2020
Katherine Johnson’s Legacy, The World’s First Living Robots, and Zinc Doesn’t Cure Colds
Feb 25, 2020
Your Dance Style Is as Unique as Your Fingerprint, the Myth of Muscle Confusion, and How Animals Get Color Without Pigment
Feb 24, 2020
Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now, Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake, and Whether People Think in Words or Pictures
Feb 21, 2020
GPS’s Past and Future (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why It's OK to Nap Without Falling Asleep
Feb 20, 2020
How Beauty Sleep Boosts Beauty, Plants Talk to Worms for Self-Defense, and Fighting Deepfakes with Heart Rate
Feb 19, 2020
Tips for Happy, Healthy Aging (w/ Daniel Levitin) and a Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age
Feb 18, 2020
Employees Should Surf the Web at Work, Hear a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Voice, and Being Cold Makes Us Crave Social Contact
Feb 17, 2020
Opposites Don’t Attract, We Like What’s Physically Close to Us, and the History of Last Names
Feb 14, 2020
How GPS Clocks Work (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why Stress Turns Hair Gray
Feb 13, 2020
The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch
Feb 12, 2020
A Reason to Reveal Your Failures, the Time Tulips Cost More Than Houses, and the Death of Planet WASP-12b
Feb 11, 2020
Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth
Feb 10, 2020
Measuring the Deadliness of Viruses (Like Coronavirus), Why We Do the Potty Dance, and Depression’s Cousin “Acedia”
Feb 07, 2020
The Invention of GPS (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals
Feb 06, 2020
Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work, Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies, and Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery
Feb 05, 2020
The 13 Emotions Music Evokes, Surprising Things Pregnancy Does to the Body, and Solving the Tiny T. Rex Mystery
Feb 04, 2020
Your Romantic Relationships Are All Similar, Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses, and the Oldest Material on Earth
Feb 03, 2020
Why Deadhead Logs Are So Rare and Valuable (w/ Kevin O’Connor) and Why Traveling Makes You Tired
Jan 31, 2020
The Invention of the Two-by-Four (w/ Kevin O’Connor) and Common Mistakes You Make in the Shower
Jan 30, 2020
Why Overheard Phone Conversations Are So Distracting, How Big Black Holes Get, and Why Anesthesia Is Risky on Marijuana
Jan 29, 2020
You Learn Better from Success than Failure, Ravens Plan Ahead, and Absolute Zero Is Impossible
Jan 28, 2020
Think of Sadness as a Person, Neanderthals Using Aspirin, and Cow Voices
Jan 27, 2020
Earth Is Greener Than Before, Job-Matching with Your Tweets, and Why Blue Means Sad
Jan 24, 2020
Most Lying Is Done by a Few People, Storing Vaccine History with Invisible Dye, and Emotion Words Vary Across Cultures
Jan 23, 2020
Live Longer by Appreciating Art, Betelgeuse Might Go Supernova, and Birds’ Freaky-Fast Vision
Jan 22, 2020
Saving the Ozone Layer Slowed Climate Change, the Largest Lifeforms on Earth, and Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work
Jan 21, 2020
Real Effects of Paying it Forward, Gorillas Humming Food Songs, and New Crowdsourced Exoplanet Names
Jan 20, 2020
Why Pets Get the Zoomies, How to Avoid Giving Up After a Mistake, and Why Vision Is Important for Babies in the Womb
Jan 17, 2020
2 Forces Determine What a Group Can Accomplish (w/ Safi Bahcall) and the Taste Receptors Beyond Your Tongue
Jan 16, 2020
The 3-Encounter Rule, Why Weak Passwords Survive, and Saturn’s Rings Aren’t as Old as We Thought
Jan 15, 2020
Positive vs. Negative Goal-Setting, Kids Read More with Dogs, and Why Teleportation Is (Probably) Impossible
Jan 14, 2020
What if Earth Stopped Turning, Why We Blurt Things Out, and the Little Black Dots on Your Windshield
Jan 13, 2020
Why Women Started Shaving, Universal Features of Music, and “Split-Brain” Studies
Jan 10, 2020
Why Good Teams Kill Great Ideas (w/ Safi Bahcall) and the Medieval History of Almond Milk
Jan 09, 2020
The Germs Lurking in Your Makeup, Why Progress Feels Better Than Achieving a Goal, and What Horsepower Really Means
Jan 08, 2020
How Cats Land on Their Feet (w/ Greg Gbur) and Why Most People’s Favorite Color Is Blue
Jan 07, 2020
Financial Infidelity, Saving Coral Reefs with Sounds, and Weird Winter Weather Phenomena Explained
Jan 06, 2020
It’s OK to Only Exercise on Weekends, Difference Between Brown and White Eggs, and Setting Expectations for Star Wars
Jan 03, 2020
Where Good Ideas Come From (w/ Safi Bahcall), Why Illness Puts Your Brain in a Fog, and a Place on Earth that Supports No Life
Jan 02, 2020
Strengthen Your New Year’s Resolutions, Rethinking How We Judge a Planet’s Age, and the Truth About Apple Cider Vinegar and Health
Jan 01, 2020
Carl Zimmer on Defining Life, Learning Myths Even Educators Believe, and The Truth About “Dessert Stomach”
Dec 31, 2019
Heredity Isn’t What You Think (w/ Carl Zimmer), How Nudge Theory Changes Behaviors, and Could Cockroaches Survive a Nuclear Blast?
Dec 30, 2019
How the Medicine You Take Knows Where to Go, The Amazing Physics of Baseball, and Boosting Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique
Dec 27, 2019
Chimps Can Play Rock Paper Scissors, a Metamaterial Blocks Sound Without Blocking Light, and Staying Creative by Switching Tasks
Dec 26, 2019
History of Kissing, The Unbelievable True Story of the First Chiropractor, and Moons That Leave Their Planets Are Called “Ploonets”
Dec 25, 2019
A Trick for Unblocking Creativity, Hitting Snooze Can Ruin Your Morning, and How We Know What Color Dinosaurs Were
Dec 24, 2019
Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Beyond the Moon, Hearing Damage from Concerts, and How Music Affects Productivity
Dec 23, 2019
Staying Motivated in the Face of Adversity (w/ Safi Bahcall), Why Things Sound Louder in the Morning, and Winter Solstice Science
Dec 20, 2019
Shaming People Online Can Backfire, the Most Energetic Explosion Ever Observed, and the Link Between Teeth Brushing and Heart Health
Dec 19, 2019
Grizzlies Are Real-Life Superheroes (w/ “Man Vs Bear” Host Casey Anderson) and How People Really Pick Gifts
Dec 18, 2019
Tool-Using Animals (w/ “Man Vs Bear” Host Casey Anderson) and Trees Syncing Seed Production
Dec 17, 2019
Should You Avoid Fever-Reducing Drugs? Plus: Teeth-Replacing Dinosaurs and “Phantosmia” Smell Hallucinations
Dec 16, 2019
Remembering Words on the Tip of Your Tongue, Parkways vs. Driveways, and A Flapping Spacecraft to Explore Venus
Dec 13, 2019
You Don’t Need to “Warm Up” Your Car, Buy Less Instead of Buying Green, and Antarctica’s Ancient Forests
Dec 12, 2019
Customized Medicine (w/ Lauren Black) and How to Tell Someone’s Sick by Looking at Them
Dec 11, 2019
Cutting Sodium by Adding MSG, Measuring When People Give Up on Books, and How Giving Advice May Mean You Crave Power
Dec 10, 2019
Close the Lid Before You Flush, How Men and Women Feel About Their Exes, and a Trait That Makes You More Likely to Exercise
Dec 09, 2019
You Can Discover History by Going Low-Tech (w/ Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah), Plus: Nuclear Explosions in Space
Dec 06, 2019
Why Feet Stink, How NASA Knows Where to Dig for Life On Mars, and Why Ice Is Luxurious
Dec 05, 2019
An Effective Way to Correct Misinformation, an Artificial Leaf that Turns CO2 into Fuel, and the Dino Fossil Death Pose
Dec 04, 2019
Saving Cats from Kidney Disease with AI (w/ Kay O’Donnell) and Eye Contact Reduces Lying
Dec 03, 2019
Evolution of the Violin Hole, Why Static Shock Is Worse in Winter, and How “Sleeping on It” Solves Problems
Dec 02, 2019
History’s Extravagant Gifts (w/ Justin Jampol), Why You Wake Up Hungry After Overeating, and Why Birds Have Hollow Bones
Nov 29, 2019
Food Coma Science, How to Avoid Raising Materialistic Kids, and 3M on Building a Circular Economy
Nov 28, 2019
Self-Control Without Sacrificing Pleasure, Why You Think You Do All the Work, and Why Scientists Use Weather Balloons
Nov 27, 2019
Feeding Birds May Cause a Deformity, Busting the “Only Child” Stereotype, and Why Everyone Draws a Coffee Cup the Same Way
Nov 26, 2019
Steven Strogatz Helps You Get Excited About Math (Plus: How Scientists Predict Asteroid Impacts)
Nov 25, 2019
Cell Phone Radiation, Why It’s OK to Contaminate Other Worlds, and Types of Human Goals
Nov 22, 2019
Phone Typing Is Speeding Up, A Supernova May Be Why Humans Walk Upright, and Rain on Antarctica
Nov 21, 2019
Sneezing with Your Eyes Open, How to Think About Wealth, and Why Bird Poop is 2 Colors
Nov 20, 2019
How to Stop Overspending on Groceries, Tattoos May Toughen Up Your Immune System, and How Physical Activity Boosts Kids’ Learning
Nov 19, 2019
Can Calculus Solve Quantum Physics? (w/ Steven Strogatz), Full Moon Behavior, and Why You Complain About “Kids These Days”
Nov 18, 2019
Maps as Weapons and Art (w/ Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah) and Fidgeting Explained
Nov 15, 2019
Your Internal Compass, How Long a Flu Virus Survives, and the Creativity/Mental Illness Link
Nov 14, 2019
Tracking and Adventuring 101 (w/ Forrest Galante) and Plagiarizing Without Realizing It
Nov 13, 2019
Foods to Curb Sleep Deprivation, Light Levels Affect How Cold You Feel, and Kangaroo Pouches
Nov 12, 2019
How Calculus Is Different (w/ Steven Strogatz), Distraction Can Alter Your Memory, and Why the Hindenburg Used Hydrogen
Nov 11, 2019
History Is About the Present (w/ Justin Jampol), What Makes the Wind, and Blaming Games for Society’s Problems
Nov 08, 2019
Babies’ Heads Smell Distinct, Illegal Drugs That Used to be Medicine, and Lemming Myths
Nov 07, 2019
Finding “Extinct” Animals (w/ Forrest Galante) and How Bacteria Cooperate to Survive
Nov 06, 2019
Smartphones Impair You Even When They’re Off, Eco-Friendly Laundry, and How Babies Laugh
Nov 05, 2019
Why You Should Care About Calculus (w/ Steven Strogatz) and Why Lying to Kids Is Harmful
Nov 04, 2019
How to Have Fun with Simple Curiosity (w/ Alan Alda) and How Toilets Work
Nov 01, 2019
How Long a Decapitated Head Stays Conscious, Autumn Leaf Chemistry, The Batman Effect
Oct 31, 2019
What to Say When Someone’s Upset with You, Bermuda Triangle Myths, Tardigrade Superpowers
Oct 30, 2019
Persuading Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter (w/ Lee Hartley Carter), Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish
Oct 29, 2019
Types of Psychotherapy, Your Urge to Nibble Baby Feet, and Why Animals Don’t Have 3 Legs
Oct 28, 2019
Alan Alda on Communicating Better, Believing in Science, and Building Connections and Empathy
Oct 27, 2019
Alan Alda on How to Communicate Better by Making Connections (Plus: Why Oceans Don’t Sink)
Oct 25, 2019
How to Tell When Someone’s Lying, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Healthiest Way to Cook Broccoli
Oct 24, 2019
Gold Mining (w/ Gold Rush Stars Rick Ness and Tony Beets) and Why Musical Tastes Change
Oct 23, 2019
Sleep Better by Walking More, How Animals Mourn Their Dead, and Words from Backformation
Oct 22, 2019
Focus on the Ending, How to Deal with Impostor Syndrome, and Sit Less or Exercise More?
Oct 21, 2019
Why People Love (or Hate) Horror Movies, Stopping Overpopulation, and Orionids Meteor Shower
Oct 18, 2019
Types of Teen Popularity, Milky Way’s Black Holes, and Are Conspiracy Theories on the Rise?
Oct 17, 2019
Cherenkov Radiation, How to Be More Extroverted, and Changing Your Perception of Time
Oct 16, 2019
How to Deal with Having Too Many Choices, Wormhole Shadows, and a Language “Wug Test”
Oct 15, 2019
Quitting Smoking Doesn’t Lead to Food Cravings, Narcissism Over Time, and Seeing Photons
Oct 14, 2019
The Science of Cooking Meat with ButcherBox Head Chef Yankel Polak (Special Episode)
Oct 13, 2019
Women’s Restroom Lines, Superhuman Memory, and Is Bamboo Good for the Environment?
Oct 11, 2019
Cure for the Common Cold, What Really Killed the Dinosaurs, and Beatboxing in MRI Machines
Oct 10, 2019
We Don’t Know How Gravity Works (w/ Sean Carroll) and the Milky Way’s Bubble Mystery
Oct 09, 2019
Many Worlds Theory Explains the Universe (w/ Sean Carroll) and What Causes Static Electricity
Oct 08, 2019
Signals Dogs Use to Talk to You, NASA’s Lost Moon Photos, and the Sugar Rush Is a Myth
Oct 07, 2019
Where Dogs Get Their Personalities, How Smells Work, and a Skill that Improves with Age
Oct 04, 2019
Destroying Space-Time for Power (w/ Randall Munroe), Hourglass Figure Myths, Clown Science
Oct 03, 2019
Predict the Weather Using Facebook Photos (w/ Randall Munroe) and Spoken Data Speeds
Oct 02, 2019
How to Pick a Profile Photo, Handedness, and Gravitational Wave Detectors Seeking Dark Matter
Oct 01, 2019
Personalities Associated with Certain Names, Working Less to Save the Earth, and Superbolts
Sep 30, 2019
Pure Chance of Political Positions, Why Earth Has Oxygen, Infrared and Ultraviolet in Rainbows
Sep 27, 2019
Cutting Back on Plastic in Your Home (w/ Will McCallum) and How Shapes Can Be Angry
Sep 26, 2019
How to Save the World from Plastic (w/ Will McCallum) and Your Puppies Love Baby Talk
Sep 25, 2019
Constellations Across Cultures, Female vs. Male Hurricanes, and Animals Scientists Study
Sep 24, 2019
A Mutation That Makes You Need Less Sleep, Why “Like” Isn’t Lazy Language, and Zealandia
Sep 23, 2019
3D Printed Fashion (w/ Dana Thomas), Difference Between THC and CBD, Quiet Smart People
Sep 20, 2019
The Price of Fast Fashion (w/ Dana Thomas) and Why You Miss What’s Right in Front of You
Sep 19, 2019
Dark DNA, Why Married Couples Slept in Twin Beds, and Do Baths Get You Clean?
Sep 18, 2019
Don’t Use Your Phone on Breaks, How to Stop Being Materialistic, and Why We Roll Our Eyes
Sep 17, 2019
You Can Enjoy Play Before Work, Life After Asteroid Impacts, and an Eyepatch Eyesight Hack
Sep 16, 2019
Your Brain on Books vs. Podcasts, How Hard Babies Kick in the Womb, and Fart Humor History
Sep 13, 2019
Your Body’s Electromagnetic Field, Winning Pep Talk Tips, and Brightly Colored Ancient Statues
Sep 12, 2019
You Don’t Run Out of Willpower, What Came Before the Big Bang, and Hookah Health Risks
Sep 11, 2019
Emoji Around the World (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and Plants May Have a Sense of Sight
Sep 10, 2019
Beliefs That Boost Grades, Optimism for Better Sleep, and Planets More Habitable Than Earth
Sep 09, 2019
Sibling Rivalry Benefits, Why The Universe Has No Center, and How to Know Yourself Better
Sep 06, 2019
Why Birds Sing, Why Bruises Change Color, and America’s Largest Asteroid Impact
Sep 05, 2019
Sleep Better with a Bath, Questions That Stump Computers, and the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste
Sep 04, 2019
International Internet Languages (w/ Gretchen McCulloch), Chances of Rain, and Mars in Spain
Sep 03, 2019
Censoring Information Backfires, Social Media’s Mental Health Benefits, and Tailgating Myths
Sep 02, 2019
Pets Can Be Allergic to You, Why Insecure People Brag, and an Algorithm’s Science Discovery
Aug 30, 2019
Control Your Spending Without a Budget, How Toxo Controls Mice, and Trial By Fire Brilliance
Aug 29, 2019
Gratitude Must Be Learned, You Go Blind Every Day, and Passive Echolocation of Dolphins
Aug 28, 2019
Online Boomer Speak (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and Is “Money Can’t Buy Happiness” True?
Aug 27, 2019
Surprising Things in Libraries (w/ Alex Lent), Better Brainstorming Tips, and Prairie Vole Love
Aug 26, 2019
Does Blowing on Food Make It Cooler? Plus: How to Acquire Tastes, and Carnivore Adaptation
Aug 25, 2019
Inside the Human Eye (w/ Dr. Anthony St. Leger), Dating-App Addiction, and Old-Timey Bicycles
Aug 23, 2019
Your Eye Microbiome (w/ Dr. Anthony St. Leger) and What Children’s Drawings Say About Gender
Aug 22, 2019
Canned Laughter Makes Dad Jokes Funnier, Animals Use Economics, and AI on Rubik’s Cubes
Aug 21, 2019
Is Internet Language Bad? (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and How to Remember More Dreams
Aug 20, 2019
Is Bee Venom Therapy Safe? Plus: Teeth Cleaning History and How to Change Bad Habits
Aug 19, 2019
How Food Nutrients Are Calculated, Why Wrappers Are So Loud, and How to Make Small Talk
Aug 18, 2019
Getting Rid of Mosquitoes (w/ Timothy Winegard), the Sargasso Sea, and Leonid Rogozov
Aug 16, 2019
History-Changing Mosquitoes (w/ Timothy Winegard) and Stimulating Neurons to Produce Images
Aug 15, 2019
Big Five Personality Traits Are WEIRD, Why Mouth Wounds Heal So Quickly, and Snake Island
Aug 14, 2019
Improve Your Self-Control, Replace Your Kitchen Sponge, and Naming Our Sun and Moon
Aug 13, 2019
Bystanders Help More Often Than You Thought, Avoiding Failure, and Cause and Effect Crows
Aug 12, 2019
Achieve Your Goals Faster, Why We Eat 3 Meals a Day, and the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
Aug 11, 2019
Cultivate Green Space in Your Home (w/ Summer Rayne Oakes) and Brains of Octopus Arms
Aug 09, 2019
Prevent Pit Stains, Medieval Rap Battles, and Why Airplane Boarding Takes So Long
Aug 08, 2019
Melt Glass at Home (w/ Nick Uhas), How Matches Make Fire, and Odd Animal Sizes on Islands
Aug 07, 2019
Wireless Charging May Be Bad for Your Battery, “Alpha Dog” Myths, and Penicillin’s Full Origins
Aug 06, 2019
Future of Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University) and Transferring Data Through Music
Aug 05, 2019
Respecting Others with Hanlon’s Razor, What If the World Went Vegan, and Dancing Cockatoos
Aug 04, 2019
Bioprinting (w/ Zach Weinersmith), Giant Underground Cities, and Miniature Pigeon Cameras
Aug 02, 2019
Space Elevators (w/ Zach Weinersmith) and Why Get Off Your Phone When You Watch TV
Aug 01, 2019
You Have A Type, Harmful Shark Myths, and Why Airplane Engines Have Spirals
Jul 31, 2019
Measure Your Beliefs About the World, the Overview Effect, and a Mercury-Spewing Fountain
Jul 30, 2019
Communicating with Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University) and Uncanny Valley Science
Jul 29, 2019
Why We Kiss, Ploonets, and The Unbelievable True Story of D.D. Palmer, the First Chiropractor
Jul 28, 2019
You May Have Eaten Glass (w/ Nick Uhas), Using Positive Stress, and Identifying Screams
Jul 26, 2019
Forcing Functions and “Super Thinking,” Rosalind Franklin’s Story, and Dogs Smelling Fear
Jul 25, 2019
Your Nightmares Help You Survive, Tin Whiskers Break Your Gadgets, and Every Map Is Lying
Jul 24, 2019
S’more History, How “Text Speak” Affects Literacy Skills, and What Lead Does to Your Body
Jul 23, 2019
Microscale Machine Manufacturing (w/ Cornell University) and Stopping Hiccups with Science
Jul 22, 2019
Pomodoro Technique to Stop Procrastination, Where Medicine Goes, and Baseball Physics
Jul 21, 2019
Simple Quantum Physics (w/ George Greenstein), Parachute-less Falling, and Dog Adoption
Jul 19, 2019
EPR Paradox and Quantum Strangeness (w/ George Greenstein) and Temperatures for Sleep
Jul 18, 2019
Self-Defense Amputations, Unique English Words, and How Puppy-Dog Eyes Evolved
Jul 17, 2019
A Normal Body Temperature Isn't 98.6 Degrees, Fettuccine-Like Rocks, and Toothbrush Tips
Jul 16, 2019
Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University), Learning Styles Don’t Exist, and Why Pulsars Matter
Jul 15, 2019
Songs in Tonal Languages (w/ James Kirby) and Neanderthal DNA in Human Chromosomes
Jul 14, 2019
Smartphone Technology and the Future of Innovation
Jul 13, 2019
Surprising Science of Glass (w/ Nick Uhas), Satellite Tethers, and Map Coloring Math
Jul 12, 2019
AI Translating Babies’ Cries, Being Suckered by the Barnum Effect, and City of Lies and Truth
Jul 11, 2019
Finding What You Love to Do (w/ David Epstein) and How to Deliver Bad News
Jul 10, 2019
Why Generalists Triumph (w/ David Epstein) and What Causes Puffy Eyes After Crying
Jul 09, 2019
Never Hit the Snooze Button, Unblock Your Creativity with a 4-Year-Old, and Dinosaur Colors
Jul 08, 2019
Black Hole Edges (w/ Ralph Crewe), Your Brain’s Backup Plan, and Healthy Tanning Tips
Jul 07, 2019
Spontaneous Human Combustion, Your Terrible Creep Radar, and Employee Honesty
Jul 05, 2019
Fireworks Technology, Human Body’s Energy Limit, and Making Meat-Like Burgers from Plants
Jul 04, 2019
Admit What You Don’t Know, Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars, and Revolving Door Origins
Jul 03, 2019
Individuals Really Can Slow Climate Change, Muscle Memory Is Real, and Penguin Waddles
Jul 02, 2019
Sweat is Not Detoxifying, How to Educate People About GMOs, and Mascara Mouth
Jul 01, 2019
Without Space, We Die (w/ Kevin J. DeBruin), Breeding New Apples, and Ceres’ Ice Volcano
Jun 30, 2019
Educating and Innovating for the Future with Sustainable Solutions
Jun 29, 2019
Game Transfer Phenomena (w/ Angelica Ortiz de Gortari) and the Methane Spike on Mars
Jun 28, 2019
Nuclear Survival Guide, Physical Health Benefits of Being Kind to Yourself, Snakes and Ladders
Jun 27, 2019
Weirdest Types of Lightning, Spotting Audio Lies Easily, and the Traveling Salesman Problem
Jun 26, 2019
Find Out if You’re an Echoist, Pluto Swapping with Neptune, and Our Ancestors’ Healthy Living
Jun 25, 2019
History-Changing Chewing Gum, How to Spot Bad Nutrition Tips, and Why Dogs Love Humans
Jun 24, 2019
Godzilla’s Deeper Meaning, Exoplanets (w/ Ralph Crewe from SNaQ), and Turing Machines
Jun 23, 2019
Planning for and Investing in New Technologies
Jun 22, 2019
Fighting the Most Common Form of Prejudice, Autokinetic Effect, and Fermat’s Last Theorem
Jun 21, 2019
Developing Drugs to Fight Superbugs (w/ Dr. Matt McCarthy) and What Dark Mode Does
Jun 20, 2019
Superbugs and Antibiotic Resistance (w/ Dr. Matt McCarthy) and Third-Person Pep Talks
Jun 19, 2019
Boost Productivity with a Potted Plant, Why Coffee Makes You Poop, and Nuclear Semiotics
Jun 18, 2019
Overcoming the Incredible Power of Exclusion (w/ Vivian Zayas) and a One-Way Sound Device
Jun 17, 2019
Difference Between 5G and 4G Networks (w/ Trace Dominguez) and Self-Repairing Batteries
Jun 16, 2019
How to Push the Limits of Innovation
Jun 15, 2019
Solar Sail Testing, Benefits of Debating Politics Online, and Tongue Map Mythbusting
Jun 14, 2019
Wine Myths, The Case for Code-Switched Classes, and The Most Dangerous Tree in the World
Jun 13, 2019
Hairy Ball Theorem, the Secret to Effective Practice, and Disposable Water Bottle Dangers
Jun 12, 2019
Leaders Can Be Too Extroverted, The Cutest Age for a Puppy, and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Jun 11, 2019
How Badly We Need to Feel Socially Connected (w/ Vivian Zayas) and Work Commute Tips
Jun 10, 2019
Why Itches Spread, Ancient Vending Machine, and Not Realizing When Your Beliefs Change
Jun 09, 2019
EMD and the Science Behind Today's — and Tomorrow's — Technology
Jun 08, 2019
Personality Test Role-Playing Game, Antimatter Double-Slit Science, and Asexual Reproduction
Jun 07, 2019
Life After Life Hacking (w/ Professor Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.) and White Hole Science
Jun 06, 2019
New Laser Uses Sound Waves, Get Your Kids to Eat Veggies, and Better-Than-Average Effect
Jun 05, 2019
Passion for Your Job Can Backfire, Ancient Greeks Knew Earth Was Round, and Hair in Food
Jun 04, 2019
What Determines How Others See You (w/ Vivian Zayas) and Don’t Ask for Too Much Advice
Jun 03, 2019
Ancient Cities Can Help Us Plan Modern Cities (w/ Monica L. Smith) and Where Light Goes
Jun 02, 2019
Ingredients for New Friendships, Dark Matter Debate, and How to Make Decisions with Friends
May 31, 2019
Drawbacks and Dangers of Life Hacking (w/ Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.) and Why Wet Fingers Prune
May 30, 2019
What to Do if You Can’t Sleep, Diet Soda Weight Loss Myths, and Gold from Neutron Stars
May 29, 2019
Space Sustainability Rating System, the Chameleon Effect, and How to Blow Your Nose
May 28, 2019
Our Implicit Attitudes: New Research into Human Relationships (w/ Vivian Zayas)
May 27, 2019
Modern and Ancient Cities Faced the Same Problems (w/ Monica L. Smith), Ear Dominance
May 26, 2019
Smiling Can Make You Happier, Maybe Nobody Likes Black Coffee or Beer, and Entropy 101
May 24, 2019
How to Tell What Life Hacks Are Worth Trying (w/ Joseph Reagle) and Microwaves for Cooling
May 23, 2019
Reduce Arachnophobia with Spider-Man, Biggest Volcano Eruption Ever, and 100-Point Plan
May 22, 2019
Drying Laundry to Make It Soft, Why Sad People Listen to Sad Music, and Fossilist Mary Anning
May 21, 2019
Mentally Representing Our Relationships (w/ Vivian Zayas) and a Passion Pursuit Regimen
May 20, 2019
Why Humans Built Cities in the First Place and What They Looked Like (w/ Monica L. Smith)
May 19, 2019
Pill Colors Influence Their Effectiveness, Bizarre Quark-Gluon Plasma Traits, and CEO Hobbies
May 17, 2019
Science’s Replication Crisis (w/ Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.) and Why Squinting Helps You See
May 16, 2019
Birth Order Doesn’t Matter, Your Liver Grows and Shrinks Overnight, and Von Neumann Probes
May 15, 2019
Why Smells Trigger Vivid Memories, Test Your Impostor Syndrome, and Trees Without Rings
May 14, 2019
Finding Life on Eyeball Planets, Our Shrinking Collective Attention Span, and Deep Work Skills
May 13, 2019
Mother’s Day Origins, How Poor Vision Survived Natural Selection, and Muon Facts
May 12, 2019
Sickness Makes You Antisocial, Fruit Fly Facts (w/ Stephanie Mohr), and a Sting Pain Index
May 10, 2019
Best Position for Sleep, Better Learning by Arguing, and Universal Language of Honey Bees
May 09, 2019
Moviegoers Blink in Sync, Rain on the Sun, and Why Flamingos Stand on One Leg
May 08, 2019
A Town Where Wireless Signals Are Banned, Why Fish Stink, and a Personality Health Test
May 07, 2019
Medieval Dancing Plagues, Altruistic Indulgence, and Types of Human Species
May 06, 2019
Analog and Digital Media Preservation (w/ Damon Krukowski) and the Wagon Wheel Illusion
May 05, 2019
New Treatments via Fruit Flies (w/ Stephanie Mohr), South Atlantic Anomaly, White Wine Perks
May 03, 2019
Weight Changes in Different Places, How Shoelaces Come Untied, and Longer Life Mentality
May 02, 2019
Always Ask for a Deadline Extension, Leaded Gasoline, and What Makes Time Stand Still
May 01, 2019
Avoid Productivity Pitfalls, The Bandwagon Effect, and How Holograms Are Becoming A Reality
Apr 30, 2019
Meteorites Probably Don’t Land Hot, Break-Up Struggles, and Why Babies Hardly Ever Blink
Apr 29, 2019
How Digital Audio Has Changed Listening (w/ Damon Krukowski) and How Much You Can Know
Apr 28, 2019
How Fruit Flies Are Like Humans, (w/ Stephanie Mohr), Your Changing Personality, and Pennies
Apr 26, 2019
Fresh, Canned, and Frozen Vegetable Nutrition, Staying in Bed for Science, and IQs on Iodine
Apr 25, 2019
Achieve Goals with the 2-List Strategy, Temperature-Telling Crickets, and Lungs Make Blood
Apr 24, 2019
NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Telescope, the Light Triad, and Where You Spend Your Time
Apr 23, 2019
Never Wash Raw Chicken, Campaign for a 13-Month Calendar, and The Island of the Colorblind
Apr 22, 2019
You’re Almost Entirely Empty Space, What Defines Seconds, and the Lyrid Meteor Shower
Apr 21, 2019
Fruit Fly Research Essentials (w/ Stephanie Mohr) and Why Doctors Work Long Hours
Apr 19, 2019
Einstein’s Greatest Regret, Why Icing an Injury May Not Help It Heal, and Extinction Memories
Apr 18, 2019
What’s Next for Quantum Computers (w/ Chris Bernhardt) and How to Make Yourself Luckier
Apr 17, 2019
Benefits of Audiobooks vs. Reading, Bad Earthworms, and Phineas Gage’s Freak Accident
Apr 16, 2019
Conference Rooms Impair Your Mind, Get a “Toned” Look, and Overcome Friendship Jealousy
Apr 15, 2019
Control Butterflies in Your Stomach, Numbers in Other Languages, and the Titanic’s Savior
Apr 14, 2019
Black Hole Firewall Hypothesis, Polio Vaccine History, and Double Rainbow Science
Apr 12, 2019
Why Older People Get Up Early, Why Hot Water Freezes Quickly, and Recapitulation Myths
Apr 11, 2019
Quantum Computing 101: Qubits and Entanglement (w/ Professor Chris Bernhardt)
Apr 10, 2019
How to Make Excuses and Keep Friends, Early Risers vs. Night People, and Escalator Science
Apr 09, 2019
Using Black Holes as Fuel, How to Run on Top of Water, and Origins of the World-Famous
Apr 08, 2019
Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories, Why Some Colors Look Brighter, and Pre-Dinosaur Fossil Finds
Apr 07, 2019
New Material Blocks Sound and Not Light, Task Switching to Boost Creativity, and Gamer Chimps
Apr 05, 2019
The Reminiscence Bump, The Tetris Effect, and Why We Have Tree-Lined City Streets
Apr 04, 2019
Human Networks Change How We Think (with Stanford Economist Matthew O. Jackson)
Apr 03, 2019
It’s Always Safer to Vaccinate (w/ Virologist Paul Duprex) and How to Use Facts to Beat Beliefs
Apr 02, 2019
New Curiosity Daily Host Chris Jericho Explains Science of Alkaline Water and Sharing Online
Apr 01, 2019
Internet Addiction, Dust in Space (w/ Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell), and Vacation Science
Mar 31, 2019
Advancing Innovation with TE Connectivity and rFlight (Special Episode)
Mar 30, 2019
“Breaking the Seal” Myths, Dine Under the Sea in the Maldives, and Tardigrade Superpowers
Mar 29, 2019
How to Communicate About Science (w/ 3M’s Jayshree Seth) and Get Out of a Creative Rut
Mar 28, 2019
3M’s 2019 State of Science Index (w/ Jayshree Seth) and How You Can Name Jupiter’s Moons
Mar 27, 2019
The Four Predictors of Divorce, Why You Love Being Part of a Crowd, and Types of Loneliness
Mar 26, 2019
You’d Probably Survive A Plane Crash, Why People Still Fax, and How Spleens Can Multiply
Mar 25, 2019
The Active Learning Initiative Is Transforming Education (Julia Thom-Levy, Cornell University)
Mar 24, 2019
A Diet That’s Good for You and the World, Milk Temperatures, and the False-Consensus Effect
Mar 22, 2019
How Babies Handle Vaccines (w/ Paul Duprex), Sniffing Is Contagious, and Albino Ghost Trees
Mar 21, 2019
Equinox and Solstice Science, Foreign Accent Syndrome, and an 80-Year Harvard Study
Mar 20, 2019
Metabolic Window Myths, Egg Entropy (w/ Ralph Crewe from SNaQ), and What’s in Tattoo Ink
Mar 19, 2019
Human Bones on the Red Market (w/ Brian Switek), Stop Venting Anger, and Asparagus Pee
Mar 18, 2019
Why Hangovers Get Worse, How Quickly You’d Age at Light Speed, and Upright Neanderthals
Mar 17, 2019
Why Pockets Are Rare in Women’s Clothes, Why Earth Twinkles, and Where Life Originated
Mar 15, 2019
“What Is Life?” with Carl Zimmer, Why You Always Have Room for Dessert, and Learning Myths
Mar 14, 2019
Myths About Your Vision, What Your Dog’s “Guilty” Look Really Means, and the Gaokao Exam
Mar 13, 2019
How Vaccines in Africa Protect Everyone in the World (w/ Paul Duprex), and Semantic Satiation
Mar 12, 2019
Space Race Stories (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), Why Produce Sparks, and a 1-3-5 To-Do List
Mar 11, 2019
Bike Balancing, How Big Data Knows What You Like, and Millions of Copper Needles in Space
Mar 10, 2019
Why Your Muscles Are Sore After Workouts, Daylight Saving Time Myths, and Taj Mahal History
Mar 08, 2019
Carl Zimmer on What’s “In Your Genes,” Nudge Theory, and Post-Apocalyptic Cockroach Myths
Mar 07, 2019
How Music Affects Your Work, Damage from Muffled Hearing, and Earth’s Gigantic Atmosphere
Mar 06, 2019
Natural vs. Artificial Ingredients, Why the Return Trip Feels Shorter, and Africa Splitting in Half
Mar 05, 2019
Craving Healthy Foods, What Grew Astronomy (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), $1 Million Math Problems
Mar 04, 2019
Limitations of Science, Top Jobs for Psychopaths, and How Long It Takes to Make a Friend
Mar 03, 2019
Breathing Trick to Fall Asleep Faster, Wisdom Teeth Removal Revelations, and Lise Meitner
Mar 01, 2019
Fountain of Youth Bacteria, Temperatures Making You Spend Money, and New Skills in 5 Hours
Feb 28, 2019
Communicate Using Simple Noises, Find Your House on Pangaea, and Kepler’s Legacy
Feb 27, 2019
Preserving Old Book Smells, Reacting Before Noticing, and Humans from Outer Space
Feb 26, 2019
Narcissism Lessons, The War-Stopping Eclipse (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), and Toothed Tumors
Feb 25, 2019
Writer’s Block Solutions, Life on Europa (w/ SNaQ’s Ralph Crewe), and Why We Wear Pants
Feb 24, 2019
How to Form New Habits, Evolution on Why Love Is Blind, and Pinks in Your Sinks
Feb 22, 2019
How to Perform Under Pressure, Physiology of Staying Warm, and Psychology of Circles
Feb 21, 2019
A New Robot Can Imagine Itself, Williams Syndrome, and The Great Compression
Feb 20, 2019
Elastic Thinking (w/ Leonard Mlodinow), How People Judge You, and Your Time Perspective
Feb 19, 2019
Saros Cycles (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), the Eiffel Tower’s Secret, and Announcing Alien Life
Feb 18, 2019
How RNA Reads DNA (w/ SNaQ’s Ralph Crewe), How Envy Can Be Good, and Coriolis Effect
Feb 17, 2019
New Algorithm Can Turn Thoughts Into Speech, Airplane Seat Belts, and the 40 Percent Rule
Feb 15, 2019
A Romantic Way to Beat Stress, the Priest Behind the Big Bang Theory, and the Ivy Lee Method
Feb 14, 2019
How Time Can Flow Backward, Why Poisonous Pufferfish Are Delicious, and Undersea Cables
Feb 13, 2019
Parsecs, the Difference Between Weather and Climate, and Scandinavian Life Philosophies
Feb 12, 2019
Best Ways to Overcome Challenges, What Your Appendix Does, and How You Use Information
Feb 11, 2019
Too Much Sleep Can Be Harmful, Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself, and Black Hole Light Echoes
Feb 10, 2019
Hubble Telescope Photobomb, Why Alcohol Burns, and Why Your Cat Puts Its Butt In Your Face
Feb 08, 2019
How to Look Good in Photos, Trojan Asteroids, and a Technique to Avoid Stress and Stay Calm
Feb 07, 2019
What No-Kill Animal Shelters Really Mean, Having vs. Making Money, and Replacing Your Cells
Feb 06, 2019
Quitting Is Underrated, Most-Googled Scientific Misconceptions, and Starquakes in the Universe
Feb 05, 2019
What Wind Chill Really Means, Learning Skills Faster with a Workout, and the Hypatia Stone
Feb 04, 2019
Specific Words to Use to Get What You Want (w/ Stella Grizont) and Tweeting Feelings
Feb 03, 2019
Win Debates by Beating the Gish Gallop, Improve Your VO2max, and 8 Years of Déjà Vu
Feb 01, 2019
How to Advocate For Yourself (w/ Stella Grizont), Black Hole Travel Possible, and Fossil Licking
Jan 31, 2019
The Best Time to Break Bad News, Overcome Loss Aversion, and Coin Tosses Aren’t Random
Jan 30, 2019
Measure Your Mindfulness, Male vs. Female Pain, and Why the Laws of Physics May Be Aliens
Jan 29, 2019
Bacteria May Save You From the Flu, Red Steak Juice Isn’t Blood, and the Future of Encryption
Jan 28, 2019
How to Change Your Personality, Why You Jerk Awake While Falling Asleep, and Ainu History
Jan 27, 2019
Why Uranus Is Sideways, What Blinking Means, and “The Blood Countess”
Jan 25, 2019
How to Improve Your Self-Control, Why You Shouldn’t Touch Your Plants, and Firehawk Raptors
Jan 24, 2019
Become A CRISPR Connoisseur (w/ Synthego), Up-and-Coming Batteries, and Microsleep
Jan 23, 2019
Wash Your Towels and Sheets More Often, Immortality’s Math Problem, and Australia’s Pink Lakes
Jan 22, 2019
The Phantom Time Hypothesis, Cybersecurity Tips, and New Schizophrenia Revelations
Jan 21, 2019
Are Women Colder Than Men? Plus: The Worst Year to Be Alive, and Heart Cancer Rarity
Jan 20, 2019
You Can’t Taste a Drink’s Strength, Soda Can Explosion Taps, and Our Galaxy’s Weird Planets
Jan 18, 2019
Achieve Goals with the Pareto Principle, How to Think Creatively, and a Simple Sleep Fix
Jan 17, 2019
What to Tell Friends During a Crisis, the Deep Carbon Observatory, and Gravitational Lensing
Jan 16, 2019
You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Boost Your Immune System, Pupil Shapes, and CES 2019 Recap
Jan 15, 2019
Get More Done with Timeboxing, Self-Created Peer Pressure, and the Pitch Drop Experiment
Jan 14, 2019
Long Lines Are Good, Supernova Archaeology, Key Lime Pie History, and Pain Memory
Jan 13, 2019
Andros’ Unexplored Blue Holes, Folie à Deux, and How Your Brain Treats Curiosity Like Hunger
Jan 11, 2019
Exercising at Night Won’t Mess with Your Sleep, Tonka Beans, and Non-Genome -Omes
Jan 10, 2019
Your Wounds Heal Faster in the Daytime, Only Tame Foxes on Earth, and the Peter Principle
Jan 09, 2019
A Trick for Being Taken More Seriously, Messy Office Traits, and Human Domestication
Jan 08, 2019
Overcome Learned Helplessness, Teach Your Kids How to Apologize, and Macrophage Attacks
Jan 07, 2019
Why You’d Choose Your Biases Over Money, Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth, and Dark Fluid
Jan 06, 2019
Become an Early Riser, How Temperature Affects Sound, and Do We See the Same Colors?
Jan 04, 2019
Working from Home FTW, Changing Narratives to Overcome Challenges, and Triple Point Chemistry
Jan 03, 2019
Choice Blindness, Maintaining Habits and Achieving Goals, and Don’t Give Up If Your Diet Fails
Jan 02, 2019
Exercise Extravaganza: How to Stretch, Running to Help Your Knees, and Gym Class Myths
Jan 01, 2019
Beating Procrastination, Sand Science (w/ Vince Beiser), and How to Use Your Vacation Days
Dec 31, 2018
How Humans Can Outsmart AI (w/ Unanimous AI), Pre-Big Bang Existence, and Beating Procrastination
Dec 30, 2018
Incredible Benefits of Leaving Your Phone Out of Your Bedroom, Stopping Time, and “The Goblin” Dwarf Planet
Dec 28, 2018
Hand and Eye Dominance Causes, Real vs. Fake Laughter, and Video Games for Teaching Empathy
Dec 27, 2018
Batch Tasks Instead of Multitasking, Mark Twain’s Procrastination Cure, and Diner Origins
Dec 26, 2018
You Like Talking to Strangers, NASA’s Golden Record, and Your Actual Friend Limit
Dec 25, 2018
What “Pavlovian” Really Means, Wisconsin’s Ultimate Tourist Trap, and Why Cats Love Boxes
Dec 24, 2018
Christmas Music Psychology, Rain Smell Science, Crocodile Paradox, and Pitching the NSF
Dec 23, 2018
The Most Influential Film Ever, Your Memory on Riding A Bike, and Mistletoe’s Poisonous Roots
Dec 21, 2018
Narwhal Adoption Mystery, Île Sainte-Marie’s Pirate Cemetery, and Solving the Candle Problem
Dec 20, 2018
You Believe Your Own Lies Very Quickly, How Dogs Understand Human Speech, and Where to See the Ursids
Dec 19, 2018
Voice Changes When You’re Charmed, Work Motivation Types, and Gin and Tonic Curing Malaria
Dec 18, 2018
Gene Editing with CRISPR and GMOs (w/ Synthego), Fast Radio Bursts, and Angel’s Trumpet
Dec 17, 2018
Donut-Shaped Planets, Hot Aluminum Foil, Why Fish Wiggle, and A Woman Who Can’t Feel Fear
Dec 16, 2018
Science-Based Tips for Better Meetings, Dinosaur Mythbusting, and Staying Awake for 11 Days
Dec 14, 2018
The Problem With Making Sand (w/ Vince Beiser), Happiest Spouses, and How Pyramids Were Built
Dec 13, 2018
How to Take A Compliment, Learn Anything in Four Steps, and Design a New Arecibo Message
Dec 12, 2018
Jet Lag Is Worse When You Travel East, Earth’s Wandering Poles, and Geminid Meteor Shower
Dec 11, 2018
Kickstart Your Memory with the Jennifer Aniston Neuron, Black Hole Pictures, and Increasing Human Lifespans
Dec 10, 2018
Why Humans Are Symmetrical, Fish Electrocution Physics, A Misplaced Equator Theme Park, and Silent Places
Dec 09, 2018
Be Brave Using the Science of Vulnerability, Boost Productivity with Fika, and Burn Calories via the Afterburn Effect
Dec 07, 2018
Meteorite Hunting with The Aquarius Project, Roommate Drama In Space, and Language Based On Senses
Dec 06, 2018
You Can Learn and Unlearn Emotions, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and Loveland Castle’s Weird History
Dec 05, 2018
See if You’re a Covert Narcissist, Michelson-Morley Experiment, and The Monty Hall Problem
Dec 04, 2018
How Asteroids Can Have Rings, Spiders That Nurse Their Young, and “Lord of the Forest” Tāne Mahuta
Dec 03, 2018
Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Think, Storm-Predicting Joints, Barber Pole Origins, and Mary Toft
Dec 02, 2018
Keeping Secrets Makes Life Harder, Emotions Change Your Perception of Time, and How We Proved the Earth Rotates
Nov 30, 2018
Exercising on an Empty Stomach, How to Measure Curiosity (w/ SurveyMonkey and INSEAD), and Effects of Relapsing with Your Ex
Nov 29, 2018
Why You’re Bad at Fact-Checking, Reducing Anxiety with Horror Movies, and Why Urine is Yellow
Nov 28, 2018
Your Brain’s Binary Bias, How to Choose Charities, and Why Dogs Look Like Their Owners
Nov 27, 2018
Moral Dilemmas of Driverless Cars, How Many Friends You Can Have, and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft
Nov 26, 2018
Why Hand Dryers Blow Bacteria, Color Meanings Around the World, Losing Your Foreign Accent, and Lesser-Known Body Parts
Nov 25, 2018
Gifts Requiring Assembly Are More Treasured, Why You May Not Be Hard To Shop For, and Types of Perfectionists
Nov 23, 2018
Rival Sports Fans Experience Games Completely Differently, Mount Rushmore’s Secret Room, and World’s Shortest IQ Test
Nov 22, 2018
Be the Best Host or Guest (w/ Jihan Murray-Smith), Avoid Conflict at Family Meals, and High Heels for Men
Nov 21, 2018
How to Like Bitter Flavors, Airplane Ticket Price Factors, and the Physics-Challenging Hubble Constant
Nov 20, 2018
We May Have Already Found Aliens (w/ Mike Wall), Arrow Method for Productivity, and ADHD Creativity
Nov 19, 2018
Expiration Dates Explained, How to Make A Great First Impression, Your Quantum Life, and Endangered Words
Nov 18, 2018
Relationship-Deepening TV, Elon Musk and Bill Gates' Productivity Hacks, and Why You Don't Hear Your Own Footsteps
Nov 16, 2018
Why You Listen to Songs on Repeat, Aluminum Foil Wi-Fi Boosting, and High-Income Morning Routines
Nov 15, 2018
Achieve Goals with the WOOP Method, What To Do During Layovers, and Megapixels In Your Eyes
Nov 14, 2018
Measure Your Sleepiness, What Happens When Galaxies Collide, and Space Junk Damage
Nov 13, 2018
Sniff Out Fake News with Machine Learning and Increase Productivity with Don’t-Do Lists and Morning Pages
Nov 12, 2018
Nobody Is “Normal,” Quantum Bacteria, Déjà Rêvé, and Why You Might Smell Like Maple Syrup
Nov 11, 2018
Contacting Aliens with Lasers, African-American Polymath Benjamin Banneker, and The Seinfeld Strategy
Nov 09, 2018
Curiosity in the Workplace (w/ Spencer Harrison), New Flying with Dandelions, and Physical Relationship Benefits
Nov 08, 2018
Taurids and Leonids Meteor Showers, Willpower-Boosting Workouts, and Marie Curie’s Secret University
Nov 07, 2018
Prince Rupert’s Drop, Why Earth’s Core Is Younger Than Its Surface, and Newborn Babies May Be Super Smart
Nov 06, 2018
Scientific Method Inventor, America’s First Beach, and How Many Faces You Can Recognize
Nov 05, 2018
Acoustic Levitation, Stephen Hawking’s Science Bets, Helmholtz Resonance, and Where Your Body Feels Emotions
Nov 04, 2018
“Drunkard’s Walk” Sunlight, The Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and the Only Universal Word
Nov 02, 2018
Real-Life Zombification (w/ author Matt Simon), Most Annoying Sounds, and Leaders Who Are Too Smart
Nov 01, 2018
The First Telepathic Brainstorm, Ghost-Creating Toxic Mold, and Cropsey: the Real Boogeyman
Oct 31, 2018
Measure Your Passionate Relationships, How to Spot Psychopaths and Narcissists, and the Car-Crushing Meteorite
Oct 30, 2018
Pink Noise Sleep Hack, Saturn’s Moon Dione Habitability, and Giving Versus Receiving Advice
Oct 29, 2018
Exercising for Different Body Types, New England Vampire Panic, Non-Vertical List Benefits, and Constellations on Mars
Oct 28, 2018
The Science of Hauntings, Sleep Deprivation Effects, and Maximizing Benefits From Nature
Oct 26, 2018
Mystery Code of The 4,000-Year-Old Phaistos Disk, The Necrobiome, and 7 Beliefs of Emotionally Healthy People
Oct 25, 2018
Cooked vs. Uncooked Fruits and Veggies (w/ The Nutrition Wonk), Food Poisoning Facts, and Milky Way’s Second Life
Oct 24, 2018
Greyson Near-Death Experience Scale, A Diet to Prevent Jet Lag, and Several States of Matter
Oct 23, 2018
What If Mosquitoes Disappeared, Facebook Relationships, and Hidden Messages in Backwards Music
Oct 22, 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini’s Friendship, How to Read Food Labels, Jack-O’-Lantern Maintenance, and Declaring Sovereignty
Oct 21, 2018
The Habitable Epoch, Mars 2020’s Search for Life, and 4 Research-Based Personality Types
Oct 19, 2018
The Sinister Darkness Factor Trait, Why Pluto’s Definition Matters, and World Record Pumpkins
Oct 18, 2018
Adult Bedtime Benefits, Cerberin Toxin, and A Word to Convince Others You’re Not A Robot
Oct 17, 2018
Moonmoons, Why You Get Sick When Seasons Change, and a Quiz Measuring Forgiveness
Oct 16, 2018
Your Exposome Germ Cloud, The Tree That Owns Itself, and Bosses Don’t Encourage Curiosity
Oct 15, 2018
Where Online Lingo Comes From, How to Reinforce Good Habits, Gym Class Fallout, and Why Glue Doesn’t Stick to the Bottle
Oct 14, 2018
2018 Ig Nobel Prizes, Flu Shots Don’t Make You Sick, and Setting Broad Goals for Longer Happiness
Oct 12, 2018
Time May Be Slowing Down, You Leave Good First Impressions, and Ouija Board Origins
Oct 11, 2018
Why Aliens May Be Under Ice, Transnistria, and How Exclamation Points Stress People Out
Oct 10, 2018
Measuring Your FOMO, Tashirojima “Cat Island,” and the Man Who Put His Head Inside A Particle Accelerator (and Survived!)
Oct 09, 2018
Schrödinger's Second Cat, Asymmetric Insight, and Why You Should Study How You Study
Oct 08, 2018
Nuclear Pasta, Belly Button Science, How Lighting Affects Learning and Memory, and the Worst Diet Fads Ever
Oct 07, 2018
3-Step Fear Control Method, Quantum Physics Changing the Past, and Red Meat Allergies from Tick Bites
Oct 05, 2018
First Moon Beyond Our Solar System Discovery, Jacuzzi of Despair, and The Winner Effect
Oct 04, 2018
A New World Beyond Pluto, Neuroscience’s Take on Free Will, and Blue Zones Where People Live Longer
Oct 03, 2018
Plants That Light Up When Attacked, A 5-Minute Trick for Falling Asleep, and The Creepy Carleton Villa
Oct 02, 2018
Flu Shot Timing, Space Experiment Requirements, and Relationship Deal Breakers, According to Research
Oct 01, 2018
Microwaveable Metals, Athlete Nature vs. Nurture, The House On The Rock, and Supernova-Skipping Stars
Sep 30, 2018
Hank Green Talks About His Writing Process and His Debut Novel, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing”
Sep 29, 2018
How Adderall Hurts Studying, 3 Gym Class Mistakes, and How Much Coffee You Should Drink
Sep 28, 2018
5-Minute Hack to Beat Procrastination, Spider Benefits and Dangers, and Philosophical Disciplines
Sep 27, 2018
Gardening with Martian Soil, How to Stop Overspending, and a Technique for Remembering Things
Sep 26, 2018
First All-Female North Pole Expedition, Humans on the Food Chain, and How to Measure Your Meaning in Life
Sep 25, 2018
How to Stop Procrastinating, Astronauts Seeing Cosmic Rays, and What Causes That Fresh Rain Smell
Sep 24, 2018
Sleep vs. Exercise, Milky Way Pictures, Military Method for Sleeping Anywhere, and Voice Recording Science (w/ Matthan Ring Black)
Sep 23, 2018
Hangover Impairment, Moon Landings in the 1600s, and Harmful Effects of 24/7 Workplaces
Sep 21, 2018
Why There Are Monkeys If We Evolved From Them (w/ Natalia Reagan), Adult Chickenpox, and Disaster Survival Traits
Sep 20, 2018
SpaceX’s First Private Passenger in Space, Running Myths Busted, and Bright-Line Rule Goal Setting
Sep 19, 2018
Why You Should Talk to Strangers, How to Find Your Strengths, and Words with Most Definitions
Sep 18, 2018
Doctors Beat AI with Swarm Intelligence (w/ Dr. Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous AI CEO); Plus, Hurricane Prediction Technology
Sep 17, 2018
Pretzel History, How Earth Got Its Water, Runner’s High Origins, and Words Named After People
Sep 16, 2018
Pavlov’s Dog Myths, Three Types of Perfectionism, and What The Universe Is Expanding Into
Sep 14, 2018
String Theory Primer, Night Owl and Morning Person Science, and All-Nighter Study Habits
Sep 13, 2018
Saturn’s Hexagon Hurricane, Planned Obsolescence, and Kaizen for Continuous Improvement
Sep 12, 2018
Odd Historical Overlaps, Closed Doors Save Lives, and Vacation Time Helps A Company’s Bottom Line
Sep 11, 2018
Empathy-Teaching Video Games, Chile Pepper Origins, and A Simple Word Swap to Take Control
Sep 10, 2018
Contagious Yawning, Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Exercising for Mental Health, and Why Glitches Are “Bugs”
Sep 09, 2018
What Would Happen if You Stopped Time, Secret Room of Mount Rushmore, and Dialect Benefits
Sep 07, 2018
Lost National Museum of Brazil Artifacts, Swimming After You Eat, and Weird U.S. State Laws
Sep 06, 2018
NASA’s Voyager Golden Records, Why Cats Love Boxes, and Bacteria Hot Spots in Your Office
Sep 05, 2018
Multitasking Is Impossible, How A Flat Earth Would Even Work, and Nearly Every Country’s Name Origin
Sep 04, 2018
What Came Before the Big Bang, Diner Designs, and The Ancient Greek Crocodile Paradox
Sep 03, 2018
Infidelity Predictors, Buzz Aldrin’s Moon Mementos, Running May Be Good for Your Knees, and Hand/Eye Dominance
Sep 02, 2018
How Long to Date Before Marriage, The NSF 2026 Idea Machine, and Why Buses Cluster
Aug 31, 2018
Microvacations, Why Sand Matters and Why We’re Running Out of It (w/ Vince Beiser), and Savings Plan Tricks
Aug 30, 2018
Neural Networks, Why You Get Brain Freeze, and A Science-Based Trick for Learning a New Language
Aug 29, 2018
How to Get Over Burnout, Darkness is Faster than Light, and How Much Communication is Nonverbal
Aug 28, 2018
Marilyn Monroe Murder Conspiracy, Using Monday to Achieve Your Goals, and Good and Bad Bacteria Don’t Exist
Aug 27, 2018
Fantasy Stock League, Redhead Pain Tolerance (w/ Natalia Reagan), and the Darkest Town in America
Aug 26, 2018
Burning Calories without Exercise, Amelia Earhart’s Last Words, and Bob Dylan and David Bowie’s Writing Technique
Aug 24, 2018
Science of Stretching (w/ Get-Fit Guy), Tourette Syndrome Myths, and 3 Ways to Boost Emotional Intelligence
Aug 23, 2018
Alaskan Triangle, Viking Interactions with Muslims, and Music Lessons Improve Language Skills
Aug 22, 2018
Book Towns, Chlorine Trifluoride, and Why You Shouldn’t Take Your Phone Out in Class
Aug 21, 2018
Mosquitoes’ Favorite Blood Types, How Junk Food Resembles Drugs, and Jeff Bezos’ Keys to Business Success
Aug 20, 2018
Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Lose Weight, The Moon Museum, Life Lessons from Runner Karl Meltzer, and Wolves Don’t Howl at the Moon
Aug 19, 2018
Massive Ocean Beneath Earth’s Surface, Road Trip Game History, and Memory-Boosting Reading Technique
Aug 17, 2018
The Temin Effect Power of Hobbies, Immortality with Quantum Suicide, and Does Meditation Kill Motivation?
Aug 16, 2018
Sunless Tanners, The Most Poisonous Plant on Earth, and How Steve Jobs Faked the First iPhone
Aug 15, 2018
Your Brain on Binge Watching, Talking Monkeys, and What Happens When You’re an Only Child
Aug 14, 2018
Relationship Attachment Styles, Why Flamingo Beaks Look Weird, and Finding Life’s Purpose with Ikigai
Aug 13, 2018
How to Change Your Habits, Almond and Soy Milk vs. Juices, and the Rio Scale for Alien News
Aug 12, 2018
Managing Energy Instead of Time, Psychopath Music Playlists, and “Traditional” 1950s Marriage Myths (w/ Dr. Eli Finkel)
Aug 10, 2018
Antimatter 101 (w/ Everyday Einstein), How to Avoid Bed Bugs, and Uberman Sleep Cycle
Aug 09, 2018
The Butterfly Effect Is Why We Can’t Predict Weather, How to Cry at Work, and Eggcorns
Aug 08, 2018
Tongue Muscles, Marcus Aurelius’ Motivational Advice, and the World’s Shortest IQ Test
Aug 07, 2018
Your Earliest Memories May Be Fake, What Makes a Good Boss, and a 1990s Space Billboard
Aug 06, 2018
The Healthiest Diet (w/ Michael Greger), Space Volcanoes, Freemasons, and Device-Free Quiet Time
Aug 05, 2018
Thank-You Card Science, Sensory Speed Dating, and New UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Aug 03, 2018
Why You’re Tired After Work, Air Travel Question Answers, and a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds
Aug 02, 2018
Ways Black Holes Can Kill You (w/ Katie Mack), Rituals to Improve Self-Control, and Ice Cream Types
Aug 01, 2018
Epileptic Seizure Triggers, Fact vs. Hypothesis vs. Theory vs. Law, and Proust Questionnaire
Jul 31, 2018
A Real Hangover Cure, UFOs from Ancient History, and a Hermit’s Cold River City: Population 1
Jul 30, 2018
Odds of Dying (w/ Ken Kolosh), Reactance, Credit Card Psychology, And Best Biking Cities
Jul 29, 2018
Real vs. Fake Laughter Test, Little-Know Perfectionist Signs, and Scientific Field Expeditions
Jul 27, 2018
Water Detected on Mars, A Lost Arizona Goldmine, and Zeigarnik Effect Memory Sharpening
Jul 26, 2018
Mental Trick to Enjoy Running, Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century, and Perceptual Creep
Jul 25, 2018
ASMR Video Health Benefits, Moonquakes, and Holding Hands to Relieve Pain
Jul 24, 2018
NASA’s Sun Probe, Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed, and Tongue Rolling Isn’t Genetic
Jul 23, 2018
Dark Matter, Spite Houses, Digits of Pi Needed, and Measuring Your Passion and Perseverance
Jul 22, 2018
What Defines Fruits and Veggies, Why Open Offices Are Bad, and Moon Landing Anniversary
Jul 20, 2018
Is Water Wet? Plus: Neutron Star Weight and A Trick to Keep Experiences Feeling Fresh and New
Jul 19, 2018
12 Jupiter Moons Discovery, Don’t Drink Post-Workout, and Elon Musk’s Job Interview Question
Jul 18, 2018
Brettanomyces, Removing Memories with Hypnosis, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Jul 17, 2018
Why You Should Stop Playing Hard to Get, Why You Need Goggles, and Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
Jul 16, 2018
The Universe in Consciousness (w/ Bernardo Kastrup), Intrusive Thoughts, Phones Ruin Drivers, and Baader-Meinhof
Jul 15, 2018
Why You Should Face Your Fears, Rekindling Romance with Cute Animals, and Naming Black Holes
Jul 13, 2018
Helicopter Parenting Damage, What Doing Chores Says About You, and Ketchup History
Jul 12, 2018
Supermoon Science, How to Find Your Passion, and Universes Inside Black Holes
Jul 11, 2018
Living In A Computer Simulation, Billionaire Success Trick, and Phones Saving the Rainforest
Jul 10, 2018
High Heels Were Originally Meant for Men, Persuasive Magic Words, and Ancient Graffiti
Jul 09, 2018
SETI on How We Search for Aliens (w/ Seth Shostak), Facts Don’t Win Arguments, Self-Control, and The Red Baron
Jul 08, 2018
You’re A Different Person in the Morning, Eye Contact Altering Consciousness, and Racing Against Cheese
Jul 06, 2018
Why Fake News Spreads, Positive Lightning, and the Habitable Trinity
Jul 05, 2018
Saving Dogs from Fireworks, Benjamin Franklin’s Productivity Schedule, and Supportive Texting
Jul 04, 2018
Impostor Syndrome, Moon Landing Photos Explained, and Things You’re Cleaning Too Often
Jul 02, 2018
Belief Superiority, Why Days Are Getting Longer, and Mr. Rogers’ Checklist
Jul 02, 2018
How to Get Over a Breakup, Why Cockroaches Exist, Vestigial Traits, and the Lombard Effect
Jul 01, 2018
How to Remove Pesticides from Produce, the Misattribution of Arousal, and Laihana Noon
Jun 29, 2018
Space Elevator Science, “HALT” Impulse Control Method, and the 6 Types of Disgust
Jun 28, 2018
Mars Opportunity Rover Update, Sunscreen SPF Meanings, Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
Jun 27, 2018
Black Hole Alternatives, Literally Immortal Jellyfish Secrets, and The Best Way to Argue
Jun 26, 2018
NASA’s Cryosleep Chambers, Your Brain on Puns, and Why Red Delicious Apples Exist
Jun 25, 2018
How Marriage Changes You, New Dinosaur Discoveries, and Empathy Quirks
Jun 24, 2018
A Trick for Avoiding Regrets, 3D-Printing Your Brain, and a Medieval Security Alarm
Jun 22, 2018
Psychopathic AI, Glowing Civil War Soldiers, and Black Lava
Jun 21, 2018
The US Government’s Science Knowledge Quiz, Facebook’s Brain Effects, and Manufactured British Accents
Jun 20, 2018
Tips to Win an Argument, How to Wash Your Hands, and Summer Blockbuster Origins
Jun 19, 2018
How to Stop Overspending, World Population Growth, and Big 5 Personality Traits
Jun 18, 2018
Famous LGBT Scientists; How to Catch Up on Sleep; Faces Aren’t Emotions
Jun 17, 2018
Best Guard Dog Breeds, Why Water in Your Nose Hurts, and How to Use Online Reviews
Jun 15, 2018
How to Form New Habits, Leg Day Helps Brain Health, and a Government Study on Warp Drive
Jun 14, 2018
Seeing Opinions as Facts, Bird-Killing Pisonia Trees, and How Much the Tooth Fairy Pays
Jun 13, 2018
Why Time Feels Faster, Sleeping Twice a Day, and Laos’ Massive Stone Jars
Jun 12, 2018
When to Kill Spiders, How to Exercise when Depressed, and Strange Food Origins
Jun 11, 2018
The Cutest Kind of Puppy, Rural Happiness, and the Science of “Thank You”
Jun 10, 2018
Male and Female Brain Differences, a Self-Esteem Quiz, and Words that Make You Say “Um”
Jun 08, 2018
Your Memory on Social Media, Best Workouts, and Why Grocery Stores Sell Bread in Paper
Jun 07, 2018
Plastic vs. Wood Cutting Boards, What Water Tastes Like, and Predicting Others’ Behavior
Jun 06, 2018
Gluten-Free Labels, the FBI’s Most Viewed File, and the Strange Reasons for Pilot Voice, Newscaster Voice, and Poet Voice
Jun 05, 2018
Is It Bad to Sleep with Your Dog, Insights from Living Abroad, and New Migraine Science
Jun 04, 2018
How to Wash Your Dishes, British vs. American English, the CSI Effect, and Swedish Lemon Angels
Jun 03, 2018
American Spending Habits, Reversed Organs, and the Sci-Fi Predictions of “Star Maker”
Jun 01, 2018
Ongoing Science Debates, Emergency Fund Planning, and Placebo DNA
May 31, 2018
Perks of Procrastination, Volcano Dwellers, and the Difference Between Club Soda and Sparkling Waters
May 30, 2018
The Deep Web, Biggest Regrets, and a Mount Everest Misconception
May 29, 2018
Personality-Predicting Eye Movements, a Mysterious Battery, and “English As She Is Spoke”
May 28, 2018
Noise-Canceling Windows, Knuckle Cracking, and Closer Parent-Child Bonding
May 25, 2018
Tree Heartbeats, Morse Code, and the Silurian Hypothesis of Ancient Earth
May 24, 2018
Local Honey Myths, NASA to the Moon, and a Bisexual 17th-Century Operatic Swordfighter
May 23, 2018
Daily Reading Benefits, Chicken Church, and Machine Learning to Predict Chaos
May 22, 2018
The Curiosity Podcast Wraps Up with Yoga, Volcanoes, and Meditation
May 22, 2018
Money-Earning Personality Traits, Why You Should Sleep in a Cold Bedroom, and Giant Sloths
May 21, 2018
Why Cities Have Squirrels, How Psychopath Brains Are Different, and a Holographic Brain Device
May 18, 2018
A Conscious Universe, Bats Working at Libraries, and Coffee with Co-Workers
May 17, 2018
Project Blue Book, Cooking Hacks Using Chemistry, and “Sea Nomads”
May 16, 2018
Daddy Longlegs Myths, Dyson Spheres, and Benefits of Exercising with a Partner
May 15, 2018
The Science of Swearing and What it Says About Our Values
May 15, 2018
Types of Narcissists, Don’t Garden with Coffee Grounds, and Cleaning Your Keyboard
May 14, 2018
How Your Friendships Change, a Secret Airline to Area 51, and Magic Words to Get What You Want
May 11, 2018
Everything-Repellent Clothing, Resonant Breathing, and Where Lost Luggage Goes
May 10, 2018
Depression in Artificial Intelligence, Smartphones in the Bedroom, and Tetanus Mythbusting
May 09, 2018
How to Clean Your Smartphone, Caffeine Benefits, and the World’s Busiest Air Route
May 08, 2018
Resilience Is the Key to Your Well-Being in a Constantly Changing World
May 08, 2018
Aliens Studying Humans, an AI Fairy Tale, and The Importance of Taking Off Your Shoes
May 07, 2018
NASA's InSight Lander Mars Mission, the Chicken or the Egg, and Common Synesthesia
May 04, 2018
Incompetent Boss Traits, a Backyard Volcano, and Meditation’s Lasting Brain Boost
May 03, 2018
How Laundry Machines Work, Bill Gates’ Recommended Reading, and Why We Judge
May 02, 2018
How to Improve Your Sense of Direction, Pied Piper Mysteries, and Planet Name Origins
May 01, 2018
Natural Disasters Have Transformed How Scientists Communicate
May 01, 2018
How Often Your Mind Wanders, Smiling at Dogs, and Richard Branson's Productivity Hack
Apr 30, 2018
Learn When We’ll Meet Aliens, Hear Singing Sand Dunes, and Understand Your Roommates
Apr 27, 2018
Freezer Burn Science, A Giant Flying Reptile, and How to Learn Twice as Fast
Apr 26, 2018
Touchscreen Arms, Weird Flying Science, and A Bedtime Routine for a Stress-Free Day
Apr 25, 2018
Hubble Telescope History, Selfie Science, and Exercise Myths
Apr 24, 2018
What Makes Your Brain Happy — and Why You Should Do the Opposite
Apr 24, 2018
Slowly Aging Americans, The HAMMER Asteroid Spacecraft, and Elevator Mirrors
Apr 23, 2018
A Surprising Amount of Scientific Research Happens at the Zoo
Apr 17, 2018
The Limits of the Human Body May Be More Mental Than Physical
Apr 10, 2018
LeVar Burton Believes the Stories We Tell Determine Who We Are
Apr 03, 2018
The Future of Learning Is Now, Thanks to Science
Mar 20, 2018
Michio Kaku on Interstellar Travel, Artificial Intelligence, and Immortality
Mar 13, 2018
Wisecrack's Jared Bauer on How Movies and TV Shows Like "South Park" and "Rick and Morty" Help Us Understand Ourselves
Mar 06, 2018
Mathematical Thinking Can Open New Worlds
Feb 27, 2018
Can Swarm Intelligence Solve Humanity's Biggest Problems?
Feb 20, 2018
How to Set the Right Goals (and Actually Achieve Them!)
Feb 13, 2018
Why We Eat What We Eat
Feb 06, 2018
Klingon and Esperanto Are Important Languages, Too
Jan 30, 2018
Learn A Little About A Lot From Curiosity Podcast Favorites
Dec 19, 2017
The Importance of Curiosity
Dec 05, 2017
How To Convince Others To Do What You Want
Nov 28, 2017
What Does Your Handwriting Say About Your Personality?
Nov 21, 2017
Why Politeness and Etiquette Matter
Nov 14, 2017
Fighting in the Fourth Dimension: The U.S. Army on Cyber-warfare
Nov 07, 2017
Customizing the Human Race with CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology
Oct 31, 2017
Neuroprosthetics And The Future Of Artificial Touch
Oct 24, 2017
Teaching Yourself The History, Chemistry, And Business of Spirits
Oct 17, 2017
Where Comedy Comes From (Live From Chicago Podcast Festival)
Oct 10, 2017
21st Century Composing: Scoring Music For Film And Video Games
Oct 03, 2017
Inside Pseudoscience And Conspiracy Theories
Sep 26, 2017
How The Best Marriages Work
Sep 19, 2017
The Past, Present, And Future Of Dating
Sep 12, 2017
The Microscopic Chemical Warfare Of Antibiotics
Sep 05, 2017
The Science of Singing
Aug 29, 2017
What Space Can Teach Us About Our World
Aug 22, 2017
Magic Or Medicine? Medieval Mysteries
Aug 15, 2017
Why The 2017 Solar Eclipse Is Such A Huge Deal
Aug 10, 2017
The Psychology Of Happiness
Aug 08, 2017
Get a College Scholarship... For eSports
Aug 01, 2017
Communicate Like A Mind Reader
Jul 27, 2017
Why Do Humans Collect Things? Confessions Of A Sports Collectible Expert
Jul 24, 2017
How Your Sense Of Smell Is Like A Superpower
Jul 21, 2017