Making Sense of Science

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Episodes: 68

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Making Sense of Science features interviews with leading medical and scientific experts about the latest developments in health innovation and the big ethical and social questions they raise. The podcast is hosted by science journalist Matt Fuchs


Episode Date
How to Measure Your Stress with Dr. Rosalind Picard
Feb 21, 2024
How to Use the Immune System Against Cancer and Alzheimer's, with Dr. Paul Song
Jan 29, 2024
Leading XPRIZE Healthspan and Beating Negativity, with Dr. Peter Diamandis
Dec 06, 2023
New psychedelics that rewire the brain for more well-being, with Doug Drysdale
Nov 29, 2023
Fast for Longevity, with Less Hunger, with Dr. Valter Longo
Oct 27, 2023
A New Clue in Fighting Alzheimer's, with Dr. Michael Glickman
Oct 17, 2023
How to Use Thoughts to Control Computers with Dr. Tom Oxley
Sep 13, 2023
Will Eating Insects Go Mainstream by 2030?
Aug 18, 2023
We Can Age Later, with Dr. Nir Barzilai
Jun 29, 2023
Meet Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the First Director of President Biden's New Health Agency, ARPA-H
May 31, 2023
Friday Five: New Eye Scans Could Show How Fast You're Aging
Apr 07, 2023
Friday Five: Go to This Type of Event to Improve Well-Being, Research Suggests
Mar 24, 2023
Are You Having a Healthy Change of Heart? An HRV Sensor Can Tell You
Mar 22, 2023
Friday Five: Money Can Buy You Happiness If You're This Type of Person
Mar 10, 2023
Friday Five: Breathe This Way to Increase Well-being, Stanford Study Suggests
Mar 03, 2023
What Causes Aging - and What Could Reverse It - with Dr. David Sinclair
Feb 28, 2023
The Real Solution to Freeing Our Kids - and Ourselves - from Tech Addiction, with Gaia Bernstein
Feb 23, 2023
This Lifestyle Change Could Slow Down Aging, According to New Research
Feb 17, 2023
The Friday Five: Artificial DNA Could Give Cancer the Hook
Feb 03, 2023
The Friday Five: A Surprising Health Benefit for People Who Have Kids
Jan 27, 2023
The Friday Five: You've Never Heard of the Best Sport for Mental Health
Jan 20, 2023
The World's Longest Running Study on Happiness, with Dr. Bob Waldinger
Jan 10, 2023
The Friday Five: A New Blood Test to Detect Alzheimer's
Jan 06, 2023
Repairing Cells and Longevity Myths with Dr. Charles Brenner
Dec 22, 2022
The Friday Five: An mRNA Vaccine Works Against Cancer
Dec 16, 2022
The Friday Five: Sugar Could Help Catch Cancer Early
Dec 09, 2022
The Friday Five: Soon Band-Aids Could Be AIs
Dec 02, 2022
The Friday Five: The Plain Solution to Holiday Stress?
Nov 25, 2022
The Friday Five: How to Exercise for Cancer Prevention
Nov 18, 2022
The Friday Five: Electric Shocks Help People Walk Again
Nov 11, 2022
Friday Five: Boots for Running Faster with Less Effort
Nov 04, 2022
The Friday Five: Lab Made Blood Vessels
Oct 28, 2022
The Friday Five: How to Make Cities of the Future Less Noisy
Oct 21, 2022
The Friday Five: How Young Athletes Can Avoid Lifelong Joint Problems
Oct 14, 2022
Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Boost Health? An Interview with Shai Efrati
Oct 13, 2022
The Friday Five: Armoring our Livers Against Cancer
Oct 07, 2022
Friday Five Lookback on Health Research in September
Sep 29, 2022
The Friday Five: A Mask that Could Detect Covid
Sep 23, 2022
The Friday Five: A Pill to Prevent Lung Cancer?
Sep 16, 2022
The Friday Five: The Need for (Walking) Speed to Reduce Dementia Risk
Sep 09, 2022
The Friday Five: The Best Plants to Suck Toxins from the Air
Sep 02, 2022
The Inner Lives of Human Breasts with Camila dos Santos
Aug 29, 2022
The Friday Five: How to Get the Benefits of Near-Death Experiences
Aug 26, 2022
The Friday Five: A Saliva Test for PTSD
Aug 19, 2022
The Science of Recharging Your Energy with Sara Mednick
Aug 17, 2022
The Friday Five: Sex Differences in Cancer
Aug 12, 2022
The Friday Five: Reviving the Organs of Dead Pigs
Aug 05, 2022
The Friday Five: Stickers that See Inside Your Body
Jul 29, 2022
Wellness Chatbots and Meditation Pods with Deepak Chopra
Jul 23, 2022
Bat Superpowers and Preventing Pandemics with Raina Plowright
Jun 19, 2022
How to Live With and Love Bugs with Jessica Ware
May 24, 2022
Living to Age 150 with Steven Austad
Apr 26, 2022
The Future of Brain Health with Percy Griffin of the Alzheimer's Association
Apr 08, 2022
Podcast: Tech for Mental Wellness with Nanea Reeves, CEO of TRIPP
Mar 26, 2022
Trusting Science with Dr. Sudip Parikh, CEO of AAAS
Mar 12, 2022
The Latest Research on a Nasal Spray COVID Booster Shot, With Dr. Akiko Iwasaki
Feb 26, 2022
Should Scientific Controversies Be Silenced, with Dr. Amesh Adalja
Feb 08, 2022
Solving Food Allergies with Biotech Company Ukko
Jan 25, 2022
All about Paxlovid, the new anti-Covid pill, with Pfizer's Head of Medicine Design
Dec 22, 2021
Kids' Covid Vaccine and Decision-Making with Emily Oster
Nov 10, 2021
George Church Talks Woolly Mammoths, Organ Transplants, and Gene Editing
Oct 05, 2021
The Lead Scientist of NASA's Upcoming Mission to Venus
Sep 20, 2021
Kids and the Delta Variant
Aug 23, 2021
The Risk of Delta and COVID-19’s Possible Origins
Jul 20, 2021
Jessica Malaty Rivera Talks Vaccine Hesitancy
Jun 14, 2021
Tackling COVID-19 Misinformation with Professor Tim Caulfield
May 19, 2021
Why Dr. Ashish Jha Expects a Good Summer
Apr 09, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines and Our Progress Toward Normalcy
Feb 26, 2021