Night Science
By Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher
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Apr 6, 2025
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Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday.
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84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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80 | Why greatness cannot be planned with Kenneth Stanley
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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79 | Maria Leptin and creativity in grant writing
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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78 | Stephen Nachmanovitch on free play and chivalry
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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77 | Akiko Iwasaki and the art of creativity maintenance
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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76 | Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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75 | Eve Marder and how Recipe Science ruins creativity
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May 26, 2025 |
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74 | Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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72 | David Baker and the lab's communal brain
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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71 | Victor Ambros and the unique ways we perceive wonder
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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70 | Meghan O’Rourke on being the artist and their caretaker
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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68 | Peter Godfrey-Smith and middle class science
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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67 | A hypothesis is a liability
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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65 | James Kaufman and the art of creativity maintenance
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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64 | Robert Weinberg and the perils of being a Fachidiot
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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63 | Manu Prakash and how the discovery changes you
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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62 | Dianne Newman and the visceral and intentional sides of science
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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61 | Tina Seelig on what to do with a really bad idea
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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60 | Venki Ramakrishnan and the secrets of doing science over tea
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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59 | Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv and the point of creative frustration
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May 27, 2024 |
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58 | Guy Yanai on Pentimenti
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May 14, 2024 |
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57 | George Church and shooting for the stars
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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56 | Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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55 | Isaac Newton and a new kind of science
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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54 | Bo Xia and a tale of tails
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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53 | Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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52 | Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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51 | Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz of impossible problems
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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50 | It takes two to think
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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49 | Rich White on living on the edge cases
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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48 | Carolyn Bertozzi and a long game called science
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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47 | Stephen Quake and the Creative Network
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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46 | John Mattick and doing what your mother taught you
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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45 | Peter Ratcliffe on being the Master of Daydreams
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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44 | Christina Curtis and keeping the faith in the process
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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43 | Daniel Dennett’s intuition pumps
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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42 | Howard Stone on how to tilt your head for discovery
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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41 | Prisca Liberali and the junkies of discovery
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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40 | Tom Mullaney & Chris Rea on giving thanks to bias
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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39 | Bonnie Bassler and living on the edge in a nerdy kind of way
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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38 | Yukiko Yamashita, the queen of analogies
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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37 | Stephen Wolfram is the Worldly Scientist
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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35 | Edith Heard and the feeling for the system
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May 22, 2023 |
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34 | Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery
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May 08, 2023 |
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33 | Paola Arlotta and science as a walk in the dark woods
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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32 | Marty Martin and Art Woods on science podcasting
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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31 | Alfred Russel Wallace and night science by candlelight
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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30 | Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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29 | Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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28 | Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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27 | Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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25 | Galit Lahav and the Night Science Tuesday
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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24 | Eric Topol on thinking big about AI in medicine
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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23 | Aviv Regev on how to be generous with your ideas
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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22 | Cassandra Extavour and the language of creativity
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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21 | Daniel Kahneman and the sunk-cost fallacy
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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20 | Peer Bork and the scientific candy shop
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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19 | Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork
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May 31, 2022 |
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16 | Agnel Sfeir on science as an obsession
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May 16, 2022 |
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15 | Nikolaus Rajewsky on how to think like a bacterium
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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14 | Bill Martin on paying attention
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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13 | Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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12 | Samantha Morris on building your own creative lineage
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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11 | Ruth Lehmann and the Saturday afternoon experiment
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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10 | Tom McLeish on the poetry of science
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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9 | Ben Lehner on how to start your own scientific field
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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8 | Yana Bromberg on getting creative with machine learning
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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7 | Michael Strevens on how science really works
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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6 | Harmit Malik’s dark alleys to discovery
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May 24, 2021 |
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5 | Sarah Teichmann’s artist colony of scientists
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May 17, 2021 |
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4 | Oded Rechavi: biology’s Indiana Jones
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May 07, 2021 |
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3 | Arjun Raj’s bag of tricks
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May 03, 2021 |
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2 | Tzachi Pilpel on channeling other people’s minds for creativity
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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1 | Ellen Rothenberg: inhabiting the data
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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