Science Magazine Podcast

Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker

March 6, 2025

56:09

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

Feb. 27, 2025

36:58

Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability

Feb. 20, 2025

43:25

Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants

Feb. 13, 2025

40:05

How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth

Feb. 6, 2025

27:55

Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration

Jan. 30, 2025

27:59

Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

Jan. 23, 2025

34:12

Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters

Jan. 16, 2025

34:57

Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

Jan. 9, 2025

33:34

On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

Jan. 2, 2025

29:33

Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds

Dec. 19, 2024

38:31

Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates

Dec. 12, 2024

45:46

Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech

Dec. 5, 2024

32:11

Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted

Nov. 28, 2024

27:44

Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity

Nov. 21, 2024

37:36

Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains

Nov. 14, 2024

32:20

Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers

Nov. 7, 2024

26:04

The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity

Oct. 31, 2024

39:40

Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination

Oct. 24, 2024

46:48

How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete

Oct. 17, 2024

40:25

Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water

Oct. 10, 2024

32:16

Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms

Oct. 3, 2024

28:40

Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins

Sept. 26, 2024

48:55

Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat

Sept. 19, 2024

44:51

Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound

Sept. 12, 2024

28:32

Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

Sept. 5, 2024

33:49

A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism

Aug. 29, 2024

53:44

Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote

Aug. 22, 2024

32:02

The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise

Aug. 15, 2024

28:55

The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine

Aug. 8, 2024

28:57

Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy

Aug. 1, 2024

28:49

Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots

July 25, 2024

47:01

New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game

July 18, 2024

31:33

How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations

July 11, 2024

35:46

What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer

July 4, 2024

32:05

Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money

June 27, 2024

50:09

The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution

June 20, 2024

32:03

How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice

June 13, 2024

41:49

Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up

June 6, 2024

37:51

Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials

May 30, 2024

44:52