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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

33 episodes
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Avg 40 min
English

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Thursday · 50 min
Destroying forever chemicals, hyperlocal pollution sensing, and an experiment in queer parenthood
New techniques for breaking down PFAS, a better gauge on impacts of local polluters, and the last in our biography series
October 22 · 43 min
Birds make decisions faster than we do, rewriting DNA’s history, and combining science and poetry
A newly uncovered x-ray image changes the story of the discovery of DNA, birds seem to make decisions much faster than primates, and how poetry can inspire action based on science
October 15 · 56 min
Cheese history, redating the Inca empire, and the source of the breath’s rhythm
: A roundup of stories with our newsletter editor, new radiocarbon dates shake up the Inca timeline, and a detailed look at how the brain regulates breathing
October 8 · 48 min
A moon heist, lava fountains, and predicting doomsday
A space mission aims to retrieve samples from a martian moon, insights from more than a year of ongoing episodic lava fountaining, and a demographic “doomsday” misses the mark
October 1 · 37 min
Stimulating the brain for women’s health, and the long-term implications of menopausal symptoms
We focus on women’s health, including the latest research on menopause hormone therapy and efforts to use neuromodulation to treat postpartum depression
September 24 · 48 min
Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss
How chatbots chat when they only have each other to chat to, learning in animals with long childhoods, and the latest in our scientific autobiography series
September 17 · 39 min
Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science
How can we help forests recover from intense wildfires with climate change in the mix, and what does it look like to incorporate philosophy into research?
September 10 · 33 min
Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education
How to implement the results of education research at a global scale, and whether mind-altering rituals drove pre-Inca societies to new heights
September 3 · 27 min
Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease
On this week’s show, we look at unexpected effects of climate change on two very different animals: a tick that transmits Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and a frog that changes sex at elevated temperatures
August 27 · 49 min
Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas
The unique benefits of making pharmaceuticals in zero gravity, narwhals point to warming of East Greenland fjords, and the latest in our series of biographies
August 20 · 28 min
Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome
Stories from our summer news interns, and a probe that sends signals about the gut via the breath
August 13 · 26 min
A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding
NIH finds new ways to cancel grants, and researchers test a way to protect astronauts from deep-space radiation
August 6 · 38 min
Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA
An examination of aDNA from bison bones shows the modern population is more genetically diverse than expected but needs conservation help going into the future, and doing the math on glucose requirements for our ancient hominin ancestors
July 30 · 46 min
AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography
A news roundup on artificial intelligence’s role in science and society, using radar to measure muscle forces in vivo, and the latest in our series of science biographies
July 23 · 37 min
Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters
Secrecy surrounds the death of a young girl in a clinical trial, and researchers learn the secrets of an insect that migrates hundreds of meters underwater
July 16 · 41 min
Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere
Malawians seek to strengthen health services as foreign aid shrinks, and escaping helium detected at nearby planet LHS 1140b
July 9 · 35 min
Owl wars and the immune system’s memory
Researchers protect one owl species by hunting another, and we mark the 10th anniversary of Science Immunology
July 2 · 32 min
How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic
As geopolitical tensions rise, scientific collaborations on the Norwegian archipelago are strained, and the role of continental uplift in the glaciation of Antarctica
June 25 · 45 min
Cracking color vision, U.S. science policy changes, and a trailblazing biography
A roundup of the latest ScienceInsider stories on changes to science wrought by the Trump administration, solving the structure for the proteins behind color vision, and an interview with science writer Georgina Ferry
June 18 · 46 min
An electronic nose that detects spoiled chicken, and wolves make a spectacular comeback in Europe
Wolves have made a comeback in Europe but attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence, and using a range of gas sensors on a chip to detect rotting food or peanut contamination

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