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- Why are armadillos moving up north? 13:33
- When, and where, did bats first take to the sky? 12:23
- People are microdosing GLP-1s for weight loss. Is it safe? 18:51
- Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point 22:55
- What was life like for Tyrannosaurus rex? 18:00
- Isabella Rossellini on how acting connects to animal cognition 19:33
- Why are we changing the way we keep time? 14:03
- Kazuo Ishiguro on emotional truth in sci-fi and in our AI reality 25:08
- Is that garbage can bear resistant? These bears will find out 18:39
- Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist 29:38
- Getting the billion-dollar PRIMA space telescope off the ground 15:42
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool 12:04
- Could a whale swallow a human, 'Whalefall' style? 18:18
- Why do politicians talk like that? 18:15
- Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic 12:41
- Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet 17:30
- Are attachment styles more than a social media trend? 17:42
- The science and politics of the new mRNA flu vaccine 12:08
- What is the Kelvin wave on the West Coast? 12:35
- The punk rock life of cephalopods 18:16
- The Nobel winner searching for deep-space neutrinos in Antarctica 13:06
- How important ideas get reawakened, with David Byrne 16:17
- 'The History of Concrete' with John Wilson 15:22
- The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block 12:45
- Are natural history museums going extinct? 17:37
- Examining a new lunar crater + searching for signs of alien technology 18:11
- Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development? 21:52
- How do concussions affect the brain? 18:05
- Are new treatments for celiac disease on the horizon? 11:30
- Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean? 22:45
- Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans 18:18
- Climate change is increasing hurricane risk for Hawaiʻi 12:30
- Bringing hard electronics into soft and squishy bodies 18:28
- What is lymphatic drainage, anyway? 18:03
- Hot flashes, hormone therapy, and the science of perimenopause 18:34
- Telling the tale of human origins, one fossil tooth at a time 25:33
- Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back? 14:08
- Black bears are moving into the neighborhood. How do we coexist? 18:08
- Is a shorter course of antibiotics OK? + Genetic risk of fibromyalgia 17:58
- Why cannabis’s health effects are so hard to study 18:28
- Did scientists just find a dark matter particle? Maybe 12:47
- Why physics and philosophy need each other 18:00
- Recall rodeo: A food safety update + Why cars are catching fire 18:27
- Is there science behind the ‘nervous system reset’? 18:04
- For Jennifer Chayes, math is a 'native tongue' 30:46
- What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment 11:54
- Why it's so hard to tell the age of a fungus 9:59
- The power of the stories we tell about the ocean 18:10
- What should astronauts do first when they reach Mars? 18:14
- AI is everywhere in healthcare now. Doctors are conflicted 18:18
- How much worse was that storm because of climate change? 12:22
- How GPS shaped our world 18:07
- The ancient Roman doctrine guiding modern environmental fights 14:54
- What are the mysterious ‘little red dots’ in images of space? 13:26
- Could we live in a dinosaur world? 5:25
- Do microplastics in the body affect pregnancy? 12:34
- Making a case for physicists to join climate research 12:36
- Creating 'world models' for robots + An AI math shakeup 17:47
- What can moments of lucidity teach us about Alzheimer’s? 17:46
- Colorado’s snow drought deals a major blow to recreation 11:44
- How do you find a ‘lost’ species? 18:08
- What we get wrong about vaccine hesitancy 12:14
- Why this lab studies the speed of bug pee and other curiosities 18:22
- Some primates undergo even more extreme childbirth than humans 11:49
- Deb Haaland is a politician, and proud of it 17:21
- Sitting all day is terrible for us. Moving a little can help 18:59
- A Nagasaki survivor and physician recounts his life's work 18:18
- What do people eat? Plant and animal DNA in sewage provide clues 12:32
- 3D images of galaxies will rock you (ft. Queen) 22:37
- The evolution of an enzyme engineer who changed chemistry 30:07
- Why is brain cancer so hard to treat? 17:41
- How can astronaut food be better? 17:48
- The reality of living with extreme heat in India 14:51
- Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time 18:07
- The Black women codebreakers of the Cold War 12:42
- Asha de Vos’ journey from deck hand to marine science leader 18:09
- Why worry about my data If I have nothing to hide? 16:10
- Peering through dust clouds to the center of the galaxy 30:10
- Why a paper about relocating coastal communities hit a nerve 12:17
- How do you piece together what life was like in Pompeii? 22:13
- Hold the lettuce: Updates on the 'explosive' cyclospora outbreak 12:21
- A space telescope launch + Alvin submersible check-up 17:54
- How does a tick bite cause a red meat allergy? 17:58
- What will our reaction be when we discover aliens? 18:04
- Beautiful botflies, luscious leeches, and the wonder of parasites 19:49
- China's booming biotech, from a brain implant to drug discovery 18:25
- Reconnecting with the night sky and reining in light pollution 17:54
- Amid shifting politics, can we build stable global health systems? 18:06
- How does the gut-brain connection work? 36:46
- Investigating ‘flow state’ with the bassist from Phish 18:16
- How the US patent system keeps drug prices high 12:22
- What was science like in America 250 years ago? 29:57
- An artificial cell eats, grows, and reproduces. Is it alive? 18:01
- Growing lunar potatoes + Dealing with razor-sharp moon dust 17:40
- Even Nobel Prize winners deal with imposter syndrome 36:02
- Squirrel poop drops Ice Age clues + The neuroscience of laughter 17:46
- Promising new treatments for pancreatic cancer and ALS 18:52
- That chlorine smell at the pool? It’s pee 12:24
- Under proposed rule, science funding must pass political review 12:56
- Can you learn to love the scorpion? 18:00
- FDA approves a well-known sunscreen ingredient—finally 12:25
- Why do sports announcers talk like that? 13:14
- Swords, cannibalism, poison: inside the world of killer microbes 21:14
- When music transports you to a different place 18:39
- A vast whale graveyard + Zombie sea cucumbers 18:03
- Should we bring mountain lions back to the Northeast? 12:39
- Blue Origin explosion hits NASA timeline + Artemis III crew 12:19
- Why can I handle tequila but not rum? 21:00
- AI + turfgrass science in the most high-tech World Cup yet 19:56
- How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool 22:49
- Parenting tips from the animal kingdom 21:08
- Wait, is my washing machine playing Schubert? 6:04
- A virus hunter in Nigeria has thoughts on the Ebola outbreak 20:12
- How did Neanderthals deal with illness and injuries? 18:03
- Looking for life in the clouds of Venus 27:11
- Meet the drug developer taking on wildlife diseases 12:20
- Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia? 17:38
- Inside the Nebraska quarantine facility responding to hantavirus 12:13
- Surveying wildlife along Lewis and Clark's route, 220 years later 17:00
- Pope Leo's encyclical on AI, and the Vatican science advisors 18:31
- Bizarre exoplanet clouds + Counting insects with weather radar 20:16
- A trailblazing geneticist reflects on her life and work 47:13
- Is that spooky old house full of ghosts, or just infrasound? 17:47
- How do clinical trials work, and who can participate? 21:44
- Use of herbicide linked to Parkinson's is on the rise in the US 12:29
- Why does fashion repeat in 20-year cycles? Math has the answer 15:17
- Earth's ancient hydrogen, and fossilized vomit 17:55
- How yawning might help clear dirty fluid from the brain 18:11
- The new frontier of cancer research is in space 17:28
- Who's composing music for my washing machine? 17:37
- How El Niño shapes the world’s weather trends 12:19
- Planning your photo ops for a trip around the moon 18:15
- Understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women 17:54
- Data about your body is up for sale. Who's buying it? 11:53
- Sci-fi thriller combines aliens, robots, and Cherokee culture 17:56
- Beavers could be humans' biggest ally, if we let them 20:44
- Searching for dark matter, deep in the Earth 14:40
- The decades-long movement to kill FEMA 12:53
- What cats and dogs hear + A 'smell map' of the nose 17:50
- How do you study microplastics in a plastic-filled lab? 10:38
- What is ibogaine, and why is it in the news? 19:02
- The long history of birds, from velociraptors to pigeons 21:55
- Your DNA is constantly mutating, and that’s a good thing 17:20
- Maine nearly became the first state to ban data centers 12:27
- What urban design tells us about democracy 17:44
- Listening for the cosmic ‘dark ages,’ from the lunar far side 12:33
- How do you describe nature? Two poets help us 23:33
- The lucky breaks that make our Earth home 17:30
- How New Jersey tamped down PFAS in drinking water 12:19
- How a particle accelerator illuminated 56 human organs 17:58
- Simone Giertz’s journey from robot comedy to high-end design 18:22
- When a dolphin whistles, what does it mean? 14:15
- Inside the lives of astronauts’ families 18:59
- Green stuff, brown stuff: Secrets to a great compost pile 17:57
- Why so many studies can’t be replicated 18:01
- How a sound designer gave an alien its voice (and 250 words) 18:04
- Can GLP-1 drugs treat addiction? 19:06
- What a sperm whale’s birth tells us about whale culture 12:51
- Is the US backing out of the electric vehicle market? 13:54
- Can algae help pull microplastics out of our water supply? 13:12
- Artemis II test flight heads toward the moon 18:01
- Should Pluto be a planet again? 19:05
- How to poop better, according to a gastroenterologist 28:49
- Harnessing the superpowers of silk 18:41
- CERN finds a new particle + News alerts for the cosmos 12:58
- Move over, vibe-coding. Vibe-proving is here for math 18:37
- Is Punch the monkey really just like us? 12:18
- Could bird flu still spark a pandemic? 18:42
- The secret powers of flowers 16:51
- Apple: trying to think different for 50 years 17:58
- ‘Project Hail Mary’ brings a new kind of alien to the big screen 24:46
- Building a digital ant gallery, from the ground up 12:39
- The heaviness and (not) hope of climate change 18:01
- Could a ‘digital twin’ help you get better health care? 17:44
- Who uses Farmers’ Almanacs? + Zebra finch home design 18:14
- Slow Breaking News: A Giant Tortoise Revival 12:41
- How Is AI Being Used In The Iran War? 14:25
- Is There Science Behind The ‘Nervous System Reset’? 17:50
- AI Music Is On The Charts. Where Does It Go From Here? 21:11
- The Surprising Science Of Why Sneakers Squeak 14:13
- Can ‘Suggestion-Box Science’ Make Public Health More Useful? 17:51
- Fixing Society's Toughest Problems? ‘It’s On You’ 18:02
- 3D Images Of Galaxies Will Rock You (Ft. Queen) 22:30
- Slow Release Of Federal Science Funds Holds Up Research 12:43
- The Evolution Of An Enzyme Engineer Who Changed Chemistry 29:57
- The Art And Science Of Staving Off Cognitive Decline 17:19
- Into the Woods, From Chestnut Genetics To Tiny Forests 18:21
- EPA Rescinds The Legal Basis For Regulating Greenhouse Gases 12:28
- How One Gene Affects Alzheimer’s Risk 12:30
- Are My THC Gummies Going Away? 18:40
- Why Aren’t There Biomarkers For Mental Illness? 12:22
- Autism Rates Appear To Be Even Across Sexes. Diagnosis Is Not 18:04
- AMA Joins Effort To Launch Independent Vaccine Review Panel 12:16
- What A Snow Drought In The West Means For The Rest Of 2026 17:57
- Jump, Spin, Glide: The Science Of Figure Skating 17:38
- How Are State-Run Psilocybin Therapy Programs Going? 19:12
- A Little Grime Can Boost Kids’ Health. But What Kind? 17:25
- Mating, Marriage, And Monogamy In The Age Of Apps 17:36
- What A Tea Party With A Bonobo Taught Us About Imagination 12:34
- How Is Screen Time Affecting My Kid? 23:33
- Who Wants To Smell An Ancient Embalmed Mummy? 19:02
- Stressed About The World? Take A Cue From Cyanobacteria 17:34
- The Largest US Particle Collider Stops Its Collisions 12:54
- Olympic Ski Mountaineering, And Mountain Goat Climbing Feats 18:56
- Why Worry About My Data If I Have Nothing To Hide? 16:07
- Should Ultraprocessed Foods Be Off The Menu? 29:57
- The Growing Experiment Of Putting Solar Panels On Farmland 22:43
- We’re All Being Played By Metrics 29:20
- The Middle + SciFri: How Can Trust In Science Be Restored? 20:06
- Untangling The History Of Dog Domestication 17:57
- A Science Historian Tackles Ghostwriting In Scientific Papers 20:20
- How China Is Driving Down Electricity Costs With Renewables 12:35
- Managing The Risks Of Spaceflight, 40 Years After Challenger 18:21
- How A Mutation Made This Year’s Flu Season So Bad 12:27
- Tracking The Toxic Fallout Of The LA Fires 17:28
- Deepfakes Are Everywhere. What Can We Do? 22:36
- Looking Beyond Statins For New Ways To Lower Cholesterol 29:46
- States Expected To See More ‘Anti-Science’ Bills This Year 16:35
- What’s Happening On The Slippery Surface Of Ice? 12:38
- Teasing Apart The Causes And Early Signs Of Parkinson’s 18:42
- What Greenland Sharks Are Teaching Us About Aging Eyes 17:54
- Secrets Of Ancient Concrete, And... Data Centers In Space? 18:13
- One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand? 18:04
- Drilling Into The Details Of Venezuela’s Oil 12:34
- ‘The Kissing Bug’ And The Story Of A Neglected Disease 18:15
- Are Raccoons On The Road To Domestication? 18:10
- The Community Group Rethinking LA's Approach To Wildfires 14:18
- What Should Astronauts Do First When They Reach Mars? 17:55
- Can The Rise In Solar Power Balance Out Clean Energy Cuts? 17:13
- Are Ultramarathoners Just Built Different? 17:31
- Your Cells Are Always Building A Whole New You 18:04
- A Look Back At 2025 In Science, From Federal Cuts To Space Junk 15:51
- How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations 13:42
- What The Sigma Is Algospeak? 18:48
- Tangling With Entanglement And Other Big Ideas In Physics 35:55
- The Science Of Thriving In Winter—By Embracing It 17:34
- A Neurologist Investigates His Own Musical Hallucinations 10:50
- ‘Prehistoric Planet’ Defrosts Strange Animals Of The Ice Age 17:56
- How Did Vaccine Policies Actually Change In 2025? 12:21
- Why Astronomers Are Excited About Comet 3I/ATLAS’ Close Approach 18:33
- ‘Fire Amoeba’ Likes It Hot, And A Faraway Lava Planet 18:08
- What’s The Reality Behind The Humanoid Robot Hype? 12:19
- 'Just' A Blue Jay? Don't Overlook These Magnificent Common Birds 17:55
- Can We Just Throw Our Plastic Garbage Into A Volcano? 17:16
- How Did Ancient Humans Use The Acoustics Of Spaces Like Caves? 18:55
- What The Sounds Of Melting Glaciers Can Tell Us 18:26
- How A Fringe Idea Led To Lifesaving Cancer Treatments 30:08
- Why Is Bubonic Plague Still With Us? 12:24
- Don’t Let Their Name Fool You—Sea Slugs Are Awesome 23:31
- As Companies Build Data Centers For AI, Communities Push Back 11:48