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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.

Episode Date
How a small fish makes big sounds
Apr 08, 2024
History of flight in dinosaurs
Mar 25, 2024
Bee communication in a changing world
Mar 04, 2024
Adult talk and children’s speech
Feb 12, 2024
Modeling illuminates pitcher plant evolution
Jan 29, 2024
How children perceive gendered division of household work
Jan 15, 2024
Reversing hearing loss in mice
Jan 02, 2024
50 years of DNA cloning
Dec 18, 2023
Carbon emission benefits of remote work
Dec 05, 2023
Skeletal records and gender bias
Nov 20, 2023
Genetic shield against neurodegeneration
Nov 06, 2023
Penalties tied to motherhood
Oct 09, 2023
Motherese in bottlenose dolphins
Sep 25, 2023
Racial disparities and climate policy
Sep 11, 2023
What illusions tell us about silence
Aug 28, 2023
Growth mindset and educational outcomes
Aug 14, 2023
How dehorning affects rhino behavior
Jul 31, 2023
Why legalese persists
Jul 17, 2023
Gender gap among migrant scientists
Jul 03, 2023
Communal nesting in bird-like dinosaur
Jun 19, 2023
Racial disparities in air pollution exposure
Jun 05, 2023
How vertebrates acquired a gene for vision
May 22, 2023
Genomic insights for sea turtle conservation
Apr 24, 2023
Jump, bend, and roll: The rise of bioinspired robots
Apr 04, 2023
Math learning through videos
Mar 20, 2023
Impressionism and air pollution
Mar 06, 2023
How lizards adapt to urban living
Feb 14, 2023
Revisiting the history of animal extinctions
Jan 30, 2023
The music of Mesozoic bush crickets
Jan 16, 2023
How a neural network taught itself chess
Jan 03, 2023
Honeybees: Nature’s puzzle solvers
Dec 19, 2022
Cultural identity in sperm whales
Dec 05, 2022
Tuning into nature’s music
Nov 14, 2022
Point sources of methane emission
Oct 31, 2022
How climate warming releases ocean methane
Oct 17, 2022
U-turn in occupational gender segregation
Oct 03, 2022
Activated patients reduce implicit bias
Sep 19, 2022
How bumblebees respond to noxious stimuli
Sep 06, 2022
Science of Misinformation
Aug 15, 2022
Bias and the placebo effect
Aug 01, 2022
Epigenetic clocks for humans and dogs
Jul 18, 2022
Peopling of the Americas
Jun 27, 2022
How the saw sings
Jun 13, 2022
Underrepresentation of women in economics
May 31, 2022
How bias impedes women’s ascent to political leadership
May 16, 2022
Treating cystic fibrosis
Apr 25, 2022
Rising temperatures and European bird traits
Apr 11, 2022
Origin of the Great Unconformity
Mar 28, 2022
Ethnoracial identity of MENA Americans
Mar 14, 2022
Disparities in scholarly output
Feb 28, 2022
Frontiers in coral conservation – Part 2
Feb 14, 2022
Frontiers in coral conservation – Part 1
Jan 31, 2022
Racial disparities in communication
Jan 18, 2022
Tropical forests in the Anthropocene – Part 2
Dec 27, 2021
Tropical forests in the Anthropocene – Part 1
Dec 13, 2021
CRISPR use in agriculture: Part 2
Nov 29, 2021
CRISPR use in agriculture: Part 1
Nov 15, 2021
Language loss and medicinal plant knowledge
Nov 02, 2021
How Zen stones form
Oct 18, 2021
Greenhouse gas emissions tied to concrete
Oct 04, 2021
Racial and ethnic disparities in pollutant exposure
Sep 20, 2021
Soil microbes and hybrid vigor
Sep 07, 2021
Racial disparities in air pollution
Aug 23, 2021
Genome sequencing of extinct giant lemur
Aug 09, 2021
Upslope advance of forest fires
Jul 26, 2021
How bats know the speed of sound
Jul 12, 2021
Animal behavior and ecosystem effects
Jun 28, 2021
Patient–physician racial concordance
Jun 14, 2021
How HIV infects human cells
Jun 01, 2021
Self-cleaving ribozymes
May 17, 2021
Designing synthetic organisms
May 03, 2021
Exploring electron bifurcation
Apr 19, 2021
Exploring the length of human conversations
Apr 05, 2021
Climate history of Mars
Mar 22, 2021
How click beetles jump
Mar 08, 2021
Eruption of Steamboat Geyser
Feb 22, 2021
Geological history of Mars
Feb 08, 2021
Learning the language of facial expressions
Jan 25, 2021
Hazards of ozone polution to birds
Jan 04, 2021
Preserving muscle and bone mass in space
Dec 14, 2020
Predicting the Asian giant hornet’s spread
Nov 23, 2020
Supernova and mass extinction
Nov 09, 2020
Future of artificial intelligence
Oct 26, 2020
Origin and diversification of penguins
Oct 12, 2020
Economics of Greenland ice sheet melting
Sep 28, 2020
Military conscription and public sector employment
Sep 14, 2020
Transitions tied to early farming
Aug 31, 2020
Soil bacterium that lives on air
Aug 17, 2020
Exploring bivalve shell design
Aug 03, 2020
Origins of the kinetochore
Jul 20, 2020
Breaking the STEM ceiling
Jul 06, 2020
Size limits of ice
Jun 22, 2020
How marine reptiles moved from land to sea
Jun 08, 2020
Nutrient dilution and grasshopper decline
May 26, 2020
Protein design and its applications
May 11, 2020
Active learning in STEM
May 04, 2020
Designing street networks
Apr 20, 2020
Engineering T cells to fight disease
Apr 06, 2020
Dynamics of RNA frameshifting
Mar 23, 2020
Albatross patrol
Mar 09, 2020
Stardust predating the Solar System
Feb 24, 2020
The Science of Science Communication
Feb 10, 2020
Impact crater in southern Laos
Jan 21, 2020
Human–clam cohistory
Dec 30, 2019
Artificial intelligence in the laboratory
Dec 16, 2019
Rhetoric of the French Revolution
Dec 02, 2019
Ocean eddies and shark foraging
Oct 28, 2019
Signs of admixture in fossil record
Oct 15, 2019
Nucleic acid liquid crystals
Sep 30, 2019
Eye movement and visual perception
Sep 16, 2019
Serotonin, platelets, and immunity
Sep 04, 2019
Interfaces and Mixing
Aug 19, 2019
Origin of sunflower family
Aug 05, 2019
Nutrients and Chesapeake Bay recovery
Jul 22, 2019
Physics of chocolate-making
Jul 08, 2019
Adapting to climate change
Jun 24, 2019
Climate change and global economic inequality
Jun 11, 2019
Bacterial symbiosis with bobtail squid
Jun 11, 2019
Aftermath of Chicxulub asteroid
Jun 11, 2019
Immigration and economic mobility
Jun 11, 2019
Parenting and STEM careers
Jun 11, 2019
Tracing the origin of Europe’s megaliths
Jun 11, 2019
Pollution across borders
Jun 11, 2019
Unraveling hagfish evolution
Jun 11, 2019
Climate change and forest diversity
Jun 11, 2019
Network theory and climate change
Jun 11, 2019
Quantum computing
Jun 11, 2019
Fur grooming in cats
Jun 11, 2019
Biodiversity loss in Haiti
Jun 11, 2019
Mapping the galactic plane in X-rays
Jun 11, 2019
Ancient Maya salt industry
Jun 11, 2019
Social mobility across generations
Jun 11, 2019
Paintbrush for butterfly wings
Jun 11, 2019
Nondestructive sampling of cell contents
Jun 11, 2019
Deep subseafloor microbial life
Jun 11, 2019
Origins of bread
Jun 11, 2019
Natural selection in sea stars
Jun 11, 2019
Respectfulness in police-community relations
Jun 11, 2019
Biodiversity hypothesis
Jun 11, 2019
RNA origin in warm little ponds
Jun 11, 2019
Manipulation of ant behavior by parasites
Jun 11, 2019
Gut microbiota and human health
Jun 11, 2019
Wearable health monitors
Jun 11, 2019
Gene therapy for retinal disease
Jun 11, 2019
Global hydrologic models and water storage
Jun 11, 2019
Project MindScope
Jun 11, 2019
Science and Philanthropy
Jun 11, 2019
Gene editing in mosquitoes
Jun 11, 2019
Big data
Jun 11, 2019
Molecular contraception
Jun 11, 2019
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Jun 11, 2019
Early evidence of winemaking
Jun 11, 2019
Bird feathers reveal past air pollution
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Vadim Backman
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Jonathan Sears
Jun 11, 2019
Zebrafish avatars for cancer treatment
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Sandu Popescu and Jeff Tollaksen
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yayoi Obata
Jun 11, 2019
The Deep Hot Biosphere after 25 years
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Russell Graham
Jun 11, 2019
How Sherpas adapt to high altitudes
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Fernando Colchero, Roland Rau, and Susan Alberts
Jun 11, 2019
Oyster Harvest
Jun 11, 2019
Improving endoscopy for disease diagnosis
Jun 11, 2019
Fungicides and honey bee health
Jun 11, 2019
Vision and transition to land
Jun 11, 2019
Self-driving cars
Jun 11, 2019
Science for the general public
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2017 Breakthrough Prize winner Steve Elledge
Jun 11, 2019
DNA folding by loop extrusion
Jun 11, 2019
Maize domestication in Mexico
Jun 11, 2019
Future of infectious disease research
Jun 11, 2019
Honeybees and biofuel crops
Jun 11, 2019
Recoding an organism
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2016 Kavli Prize Winners Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss
Jun 11, 2019
20th-century excess male mortality
Jun 11, 2019
Remodelling brain function
Jun 11, 2019
Climate change and irrigation water
Jun 11, 2019
Modeling disease spread
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Amanda Woerman
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Anne Case and Angus Deaton
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Mark Jacobson
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Will Castleman and Cuneyt Berkdemir
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yatrik Shah
Jun 11, 2019
Nanoparticles for disease detection
Jun 11, 2019
Origins of mathematical ability
Jun 11, 2019
Building the James Webb Space Telescope
Jun 11, 2019
Tracking endemic tuberculosis
Jun 11, 2019
Brain clarity
Jun 11, 2019
Gene drive for malaria mosquito control
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Anthony Vecchiarelli
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Jintai Lin
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Frank Bates
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Abigail Marsh
Jun 11, 2019
Search rankings and voter manipulation
Jun 11, 2019
Timeline of the end-Permian extinction
Jun 11, 2019
Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Yaara Oren and Tal Pupko
Jun 11, 2019
Uniqueness of olfactory perception
Jun 11, 2019
Candidate vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus
Jun 11, 2019
Improving global scientific engagement
Jun 11, 2019
Blaming those who harm intentionally
Jun 11, 2019
Biocontainment safeguards
Jun 11, 2019
Exploring tropical glaciers
Jun 11, 2019
Gatekeeping in scientific publishing
Jun 11, 2019
Designing theoretical molecules
Jun 11, 2019
Genome editing
Jun 11, 2019
An overdependence on p-values
Jun 11, 2019
Retina cell transplantation
Jun 11, 2019
Heart regeneration
Jun 11, 2019
Global collaboration against HIV
Jun 11, 2019
Molecular profiling of cancer
Jun 11, 2019
Growing stem cells in 3D
Jun 10, 2019
Astrocytes and ALS
Jun 10, 2019
Taming an unwieldy cancer target
Jun 10, 2019
Genetic switchboards
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2013 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Francesco Pennacchio
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2013 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Caroline Roullier
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2013 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Yoel Sadovsky and Carolyn Coyne
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2013 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Tad Patzek
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2013 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Mimi Kao and Allison Doupe
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2013 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Erik Petigura and Geoffrey Marcy
Jun 10, 2019
Modeling human cognition
Jun 10, 2019
Exchanging kidneys
Jun 10, 2019
Nicotine addiction and relapse
Jun 10, 2019
Where breast cancer meets brain size
Jun 10, 2019
Supernova chemistry
Jun 10, 2019
The postdoctoral problem
Jun 10, 2019
Understanding citrus greening
Jun 10, 2019
Genetic screening for adults
Jun 10, 2019
Synthesizing fuels and chemicals from CO2
Jun 10, 2019
Speech perception and language acquisition in infants
Jun 10, 2019
Menopause, mitochondria, and memory
Jun 10, 2019
A microbial map for wine
Jun 10, 2019
Building better batteries
Jun 10, 2019
History of alcohol in human diet
Jun 10, 2019
Tracing development in color
Jun 10, 2019
Changing the way we think about antibiotics
Jun 10, 2019
How humans may have evolved intelligence
Jun 10, 2019
Incentivizing positive behaviors
Jun 10, 2019
Making commercial tomatoes taste better
Jun 10, 2019
Health risks from eating Fukushima-contaminated seafood
Jun 10, 2019
Curbing dishonest form-filling
Jun 10, 2019
Mapping the mouse connectome
Jun 10, 2019
The diets of ancient hominins
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2012 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Andrew Zammit-Mangion, Michael Dewar,Visakan Kadirkamanathan, and Guido Sanguinetti
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2012 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Janet Braam and E. Wassim Chehab
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2012 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, Hanchuan Peng, and Apostolos Georgopoulos
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2012 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Sean Palecek and Xiaojun Lian
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2012 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Clayton R. Magill and Katherine H. Freeman
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with 2012 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Bob MacCallum
Jun 10, 2019
The life beneath our feet
Jun 10, 2019
Engineering bacteria to curb malaria transmission
Jun 10, 2019
The science of microbes
Jun 10, 2019
Taking science to the streets
Jun 10, 2019
Microbial cell factories
Jun 10, 2019
Fly social networks
Jun 10, 2019
What makes us human
Jun 10, 2019
Why music moves us
Jun 10, 2019
Social bacteria
Jun 10, 2019
How mosquitos survive raindrops
Jun 10, 2019
The evolution of music from noise
Jun 10, 2019
The science of biodiversity - Part 2
Jun 10, 2019
The science of biodiversity - Part 1
Jun 10, 2019
Reshuffling in the human genome
Jun 10, 2019
Widespread lead poisoning in condors
Jun 10, 2019
Cancer nanomedicines
Jun 10, 2019
How caffeine can help prevent cancer
Jun 10, 2019
Understanding the brain's architecture
Jun 10, 2019
A systems approach to drug development
Jun 10, 2019
Building new biological objects
Jun 10, 2019
Virus-fighting bacteria
Jun 10, 2019
Bugging the immune system
Jun 10, 2019
Bacterial invisible ink
Jun 10, 2019
Gatekeepers of our immune system
Jun 10, 2019
Thwarting dengue transmission
Jun 10, 2019
Cancer immunotherapy comes of age
Jun 10, 2019
Revolutionizing microscopy
Jun 10, 2019
Making physics palatable
Jun 10, 2019
The benefits of gut bacteria
Jun 10, 2019
Sackler Colloquium on the science of science communication
Jun 10, 2019
Making improved antibodies against HIV
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize winner Roland Kanaar
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize winner Merlin Hanauer
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize winner Jacob Waldbauer
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize winners Robert Saye and James Sethian
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize winner James Smith
Jun 10, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize winners Erica Machlin Cox and Selena Sagan
Jun 10, 2019
Life's building blocks
Jun 10, 2019
The science of sleep
Jun 10, 2019
Rebooting damaged vocal cords
Jun 10, 2019
Drivers of embryonic development
Jun 10, 2019
Stem cells and diabetes
Jun 10, 2019
Sex-specific scientific reporting
Jun 10, 2019
The science of fear - Part 2
Jun 10, 2019
The science of fear - Part 1
Jun 10, 2019
Catalysts for energy storage
Jun 10, 2019
Scent of a predator
Jun 10, 2019
Human lung on a chip
Jun 10, 2019
New Editor-in-Chief of PNAS
Jun 07, 2019
Social computing, mobile phones, and the developing world
Jun 07, 2019
Applications of rapid genome sequencing
Jun 07, 2019
Imaging, information technology, and autism spectrum disorder
Jun 07, 2019
Paper devices for medical diagnoses
Jun 07, 2019
Social networking and predicting personality
Jun 07, 2019
The science of chocolate
Jun 07, 2019
Ubiquitous computing and smart environments
Jun 07, 2019
Changing public perception of the Smithsonian
Jun 07, 2019
Genetically modified crops and agricultural productivity
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Zvonimir Dogic
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winners Won-Yong Song and Jiyoung Park
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Liza Moscovice
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winners Robina Shaheen and Mark Thiemens
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Cheryl Lyn Walker
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Benjamin tenOever
Jun 07, 2019
The personalized medicine revolution
Jun 07, 2019
Aircraft and Iceland's volcanic ash cloud
Jun 07, 2019
Keeping Congress up-to-date on the latest scientific research
Jun 07, 2019
Clean energy funding in the 2012 research budget
Jun 07, 2019
Electronic artificial noses
Jun 07, 2019
Visual prosthetic devices for the blind
Jun 07, 2019
Call for papers: PNAS Plus
Jun 07, 2019
Nano-healing and the future of surgery
Jun 07, 2019
Identifying the source of HIV infections in criminal cases
Jun 07, 2019
Microexpressions and the science behind "Lie to Me"
Jun 07, 2019
The "missing link" between fish and land animals
Jun 07, 2019
Tracking the spread of flu-like diseases in schools
Jun 07, 2019
Pollution in indoor environments
Jun 07, 2019
Dark matter, dark energy, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Jun 07, 2019
Scientific credibility, public exposure, and irate third-graders
Jun 07, 2019
Public science literacy, and race and gender bias in science education
Jun 07, 2019
The origin of malignant malaria
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Lennart Balk
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Mary Immordino-Yang
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Vera Gorbunova
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Daniel Rugar
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winners Michael Köttgen and Owen Woodward
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner John Dore
Jun 07, 2019
Adaptation and Evolution: The Life of an RNA Virus
Jun 07, 2019
Privacy and Social Security numbers
Jun 07, 2019
Fundamentals of environmental economics
Jun 07, 2019
The future and stem cells
Jun 07, 2019
Simulating material behavior
Jun 07, 2019
Human expansion out of Africa
Jun 07, 2019
Seeing inside cells
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yoshiro Nagao
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Karen McComb
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Marius Wernig
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Albert-Laszlo Barabási
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner John Rossi
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Raymond Jeanloz
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Randy Schekman
Jun 07, 2019
Stem cells in neuromedicine
Jun 07, 2019
Malaria and vector research
Jun 07, 2019
Inside Science
Jun 07, 2019
Examining Proceedings
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Pamela J. Fraker
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Ran Nathan
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Nina Fedoroff
Jun 07, 2019
Interview with Richard T. Durrett
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with C. Owen Lovejoy
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Albert Libchaber
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with John G. Hildebrand
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Kenneth A. Dawson
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Brian Spencer
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Andreas Reichenbach
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Jun 06, 2019
Interview with Cozzarelli Prize Winner Sandra Díaz
Jun 06, 2019