Unexplainable

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Subscribers: 3879
Reviews: 10
Episodes: 175

Reed
 Oct 31, 2024

Chris
 Apr 17, 2024
I liked it more earlier on when there wasn't long clusters of the same or similar topics. In the present form if you're not into the theme you basically have nothing of interest for months.

ahmad
 Jan 11, 2023
Interesting topics and well researched. My problem is with way it is curated. The frequent shift of interlocutors back and forth makes it hard to follow at times.

George Datseris
 Dec 8, 2022
An exceptionally good scientific podcast. As a researcher of 7+ years, I am astonished about the accessible presentation yet highly accurate scientific content. The podcast quality is also very high, with audio and interviews.

2bepainted
 Nov 20, 2022
Very good!

Description

Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know … and then keeps on going. Host Noam Hassenfeld and an all-star team of reporters — Byrd Pinkerton, Meradith Hoddinott, and Mandy Nguyen — tackle scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and everything we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

Episode Date
Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain
Nov 20, 2024
Why are there lefties and righties?
Nov 13, 2024
Placebos work. Why?
Nov 06, 2024
Why is horror so fun?
Oct 30, 2024
Are psychedelics breaking science?
Oct 23, 2024
Your gut’s feelings
Oct 16, 2024
Is insurance doomed?
Oct 09, 2024
My animal heart
Oct 02, 2024
How hot could the world get?
Sep 25, 2024
Should you be eating poison oak?
Sep 18, 2024
Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
Sep 11, 2024
You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
Aug 28, 2024
Viral dark matter
Aug 21, 2024
The good virus
Aug 14, 2024
Ecstasy therapy
Aug 07, 2024
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Jul 31, 2024
Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
Jul 24, 2024
Is good posture actually good?
Jul 17, 2024
Why do we yawn?
Jul 10, 2024
Embracing economic chaos
Jul 03, 2024
We still don’t really know how inflation works
Jun 26, 2024
Can you put a price on nature?
Jun 19, 2024
The deepest spot in the ocean
Jun 12, 2024
What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
Jun 05, 2024
Did trees kill the world?
May 22, 2024
Can we stop aging?
May 15, 2024
Who's the daddy? There isn't one.
May 08, 2024
Itch hunt
May 01, 2024
How did Earth get its water?
Apr 24, 2024
Is Earth alive?
Apr 17, 2024
The alpha myth
Apr 10, 2024
The eclipse chasers
Apr 03, 2024
The Yips
Mar 27, 2024
The bleeding edge, part two
Mar 20, 2024
The bleeding edge
Mar 13, 2024
Aliens from Earth?
Mar 06, 2024
How scientists are searching for aliens
Feb 28, 2024
A universal virus-killer?
Feb 21, 2024
Why do we cry?
Feb 14, 2024
Should you quit Diet Coke?
Feb 07, 2024
The case for cursing
Jan 31, 2024
The math problem that could break the internet
Jan 24, 2024
Garbage patch kids
Jan 17, 2024
A stethoscope for the rainforest
Jan 10, 2024
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Jan 03, 2024
Something weird near the beginning of time
Dec 20, 2023
The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
Dec 13, 2023
Weaponizing uncertainty
Dec 06, 2023
Can we live in space?
Nov 29, 2023
The ice cream effect
Nov 15, 2023
The data vigilantes
Nov 08, 2023
Trouble on Pickles Reef
Nov 01, 2023
Redefining death
Oct 25, 2023
The Orcanizing
Oct 18, 2023
Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac
Oct 04, 2023
Rogue waves
Sep 27, 2023
Does garlic break magnets?
Sep 20, 2023
How to decode a thought
Sep 13, 2023
It’s getting harder to see
Aug 30, 2023
Jumping the gun
Aug 23, 2023
Can we talk to animals?
Aug 16, 2023
Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!
Aug 09, 2023
Who let the wolves in?
Aug 02, 2023
Why do we have a moon?
Jul 26, 2023
The Black Box: In AI we trust?
Jul 19, 2023
The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it
Jul 12, 2023
Do animals grieve?
Jun 28, 2023
Why do we dream?
Jun 21, 2023
Cracking the Indus code
Jun 14, 2023
Awestruck
Jun 07, 2023
Expecting: Weed and pregnancy
May 24, 2023
Expecting: Baby brain
May 17, 2023
Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs
May 10, 2023
The tornado problem
May 03, 2023
How to resurrect a mammoth
Apr 26, 2023
Live show, dead dinosaurs
Apr 19, 2023
Talking trees
Apr 12, 2023
Your questions, unexplained
Apr 05, 2023
What's so funny?
Mar 22, 2023
Origins: The meaning of “life”
Mar 15, 2023
Origins: The first living thing
Mar 08, 2023
Origins: How did Earth get its water?
Mar 01, 2023
What is love?
Feb 15, 2023
Why we hiccup
Feb 08, 2023
We booped an asteroid
Feb 01, 2023
Your creepy, crawly roommates
Jan 25, 2023
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
Jan 18, 2023
Plants with eyes?
Jan 11, 2023
Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates
Jan 04, 2023
Your gut's feelings
Dec 21, 2022
Nuclear fusion breaks through
Dec 14, 2022
Basic instinct
Dec 07, 2022
Why we cry
Nov 30, 2022
Can we live in space?
Nov 16, 2022
Holding on to power
Nov 09, 2022
Redefining death
Nov 02, 2022
Talking to ghosts
Oct 26, 2022
Why is everyone getting food allergies?
Oct 19, 2022
Introducing The Gray Area
Oct 15, 2022
Let’s play Unexplainable or Not
Oct 05, 2022
The math problem that could break the internet
Sep 28, 2022
Jumping the gun
Sep 21, 2022
An Alzheimer's uproar
Sep 14, 2022
Salamander search party
Aug 31, 2022
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Aug 24, 2022
Can ovaries make new eggs?
Aug 17, 2022
Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex?
Aug 10, 2022
Yawn baby yawn
Jul 27, 2022
What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?
Jul 20, 2022
Vitamin X
Jul 13, 2022
Lost Worlds: What killed Venus?
Jun 29, 2022
Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?
Jun 22, 2022
Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon?
Jun 15, 2022
Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth?
Jun 08, 2022
Dropping like flies
May 25, 2022
Is telepathy real?
May 18, 2022
Why do we dream?
May 11, 2022
Should I take a DNA ancestry test?
May 04, 2022
My octopus friend?
Apr 27, 2022
Glow in the dark ocean
Apr 20, 2022
When reality broke
Apr 13, 2022
Making Sense: The sixth sense
Apr 06, 2022
Making Sense: Sight unseen
Mar 30, 2022
Making Sense: The Umami Mama
Mar 23, 2022
Making Sense: No one nose
Mar 16, 2022
Making Sense: The healing power of touch
Mar 09, 2022
Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing
Mar 02, 2022
The methane hunters
Feb 16, 2022
What is love?
Feb 09, 2022
A sonic tour of the solar system
Feb 02, 2022
Finding asteroids before they find us
Jan 26, 2022
Skeleton Lake
Jan 19, 2022
Are humans running out of sperm?
Jan 12, 2022
The quest to build a star
Jan 05, 2022
BONUS: The 2021 song
Dec 31, 2021
The building blocks of the universe
Dec 22, 2021
99% of ocean plastic is missing
Dec 15, 2021
How medicine mansplained women’s health
Dec 08, 2021
How Venus went to hell
Dec 01, 2021
Mind readers
Nov 17, 2021
A brainless yellow goo that does math
Nov 10, 2021
Why whales get beached
Nov 03, 2021
Talking to ghosts
Oct 27, 2021
Honey, we shrunk the birds
Oct 20, 2021
Nobel Prize 2.0
Oct 06, 2021
The James Webb Time Machine
Sep 29, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope
Sep 22, 2021
What causes Alzheimer’s?
Sep 15, 2021
Havana syndrome
Sep 01, 2021
Getting to the bottom of butts
Aug 25, 2021
The mysteries of endometriosis
Aug 18, 2021
A 150-year-old human
Aug 11, 2021
How low can you go?
Aug 04, 2021
The tornado problem
Jul 28, 2021
Moon poop
Jul 21, 2021
Hot pink flying squirrels
Jul 14, 2021
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
Jun 30, 2021
How do animals know where to go?
Jun 23, 2021
Invasion of the jumping worms
Jun 16, 2021
The many heights of Mount Everest
Jun 09, 2021
Unexplainable Flying Objects
Jun 02, 2021
The hunt for a new Pluto
May 26, 2021
Cloudy with a chance of chaos
May 19, 2021
A new force of nature?
May 12, 2021
Placebos work. Why?
May 05, 2021
A virus that could heal people
Apr 28, 2021
The Twilight Zone of the ocean
Apr 21, 2021
The viral ghosts of long Covid
Apr 14, 2021
Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong?
Apr 07, 2021
It’s ball lightning!
Mar 31, 2021
Skeleton Lake
Mar 24, 2021
Journey Toward the Center of the Earth
Mar 17, 2021
No one nose
Mar 10, 2021
Most of the universe is missing
Mar 10, 2021
Introducing Unexplainable
Feb 19, 2021