Science Magazine Podcast

The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense

March 17, 2022

27:51

Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic

March 10, 2022

30:41

A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists

March 3, 2022

19:24

Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction

Feb. 24, 2022

31:22

COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts

Feb. 17, 2022

23:54

Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media

Feb. 10, 2022

27:21

Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions

Feb. 3, 2022

20:00

Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels

Jan. 27, 2022

23:50

A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships

Jan. 20, 2022

27:25

Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths

Jan. 13, 2022

28:15

Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines

Jan. 6, 2022

27:41

Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism

Dec. 23, 2021

42:06

The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books

Dec. 16, 2021

30:38

Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water

Dec. 9, 2021

22:35

The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano

Dec. 2, 2021

24:14

Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity

Nov. 25, 2021

42:43

Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites

Nov. 18, 2021

19:59

The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span

Nov. 11, 2021

23:33

The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve

Nov. 4, 2021

28:52

Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression

Oct. 28, 2021

39:47

Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood

Oct. 20, 2021

41:10

The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?

Oct. 14, 2021

29:59

Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia

Oct. 7, 2021

27:33

Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM

Sept. 30, 2021

32:10

Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA

Sept. 23, 2021

42:45

Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap

Sept. 16, 2021

17:00

Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people

Sept. 9, 2021

23:02

Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms

Sept. 2, 2021

27:29

New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer

Aug. 26, 2021

36:23

Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media

Aug. 19, 2021

26:33

A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning

Aug. 12, 2021

29:24

A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry

Aug. 5, 2021

31:37

Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms

July 29, 2021

45:57

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core

July 22, 2021

23:59

Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood

July 15, 2021

22:50

Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books

July 8, 2021

39:04

Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure

July 1, 2021

36:45

Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science

June 24, 2021

29:56

Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement

June 17, 2021

21:04

Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families

June 10, 2021

26:02

Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code

June 3, 2021

35:49

Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands

May 27, 2021

25:12

Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers

May 20, 2021

21:50

Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning

May 13, 2021

32:30

Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects

May 6, 2021

27:38

Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys

April 29, 2021

19:36

Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel

April 22, 2021

25:07

Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived

April 15, 2021

37:46

Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains

April 8, 2021

25:36

Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate

April 1, 2021

26:13

Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions

March 25, 2021

29:00

COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities

March 18, 2021

25:45

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills

March 11, 2021

24:15

The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color

March 4, 2021

19:27

Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator

Feb. 25, 2021

22:24

All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets

Feb. 18, 2021

28:53

Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess

Feb. 11, 2021

21:52

Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing

Feb. 4, 2021

34:24

Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps

Jan. 28, 2021

22:23

Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras

Jan. 21, 2021

27:50

An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior

Jan. 14, 2021

23:25

The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms

Jan. 7, 2021

24:05

Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke

Dec. 31, 2020

25:04

Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights

Dec. 17, 2020

42:05

Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

Dec. 10, 2020

22:56

How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants

Dec. 3, 2020

21:43

Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis

Nov. 26, 2020

39:43

Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face

Nov. 19, 2020

38:36

How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes

Nov. 12, 2020

23:38

What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements

Nov. 5, 2020

28:03

Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking

Oct. 29, 2020

44:06

Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags

Oct. 22, 2020

23:40

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart

Oct. 15, 2020

21:58

Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus

Oct. 8, 2020

23:36

FDA clinical trial protection failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

Oct. 1, 2020

28:44

How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia

Sept. 24, 2020

21:10

Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

Sept. 17, 2020

23:53

Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging

Sept. 10, 2020

24:14

Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people

Sept. 3, 2020

29:30

Arctic sea ice under attack, and ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change

Aug. 27, 2020

31:46

Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes

Aug. 20, 2020

24:03

A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports

Aug. 13, 2020

27:51

Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel

Aug. 6, 2020

27:27

Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint

July 30, 2020

35:59

How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution

July 23, 2020

26:02

Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation

July 16, 2020

25:41

A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood

July 9, 2020

24:30

An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat

July 2, 2020

20:49

Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs

June 25, 2020

41:05

Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses

June 18, 2020

25:04