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Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.

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September 25 · 34 min
Unexplainable: Dark matter and the end of answers
What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?
September 24 · 20 min
Rethinking Age-Related Vision Loss [Sponsored]
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September 23 · 16 min
Should you be ‘poop maxxing’?
Is it possible to optimize our poop?
September 21 · 15 min
Space weapons are here, and AI experts are sounding alarms
From orbital weapons to AI risks and weaker emissions rules
September 18 · 19 min
Can you hear a forest disappear?
Filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes listeners inside an Indonesian forest that’s quickly changing as the country attempts to move its capital city
September 16 · 26 min
Unexplainable: What happened before the big bang?
Rachel Feltman joins Vox’s Unexplainable
September 14 · 12 min
From 9/11’s lasting legacy to AI’s disruptive future
As new 9/11 documents emerge, AI transforms power and progress
September 11 · 26 min
Is AI making us less human?
What do we lose when machines become our closest confidants?
September 9 · 17 min
The surprising science of friendship
New research challenges assumptions about the kind of friendships we need
September 4 · 15 min
What if a dating app matched you with a dead body?
A novelist imagines the extreme answer
September 2 · 15 min
The hackers fighting to keep our water safe
Critical infrastructure needs a cybersecurity glow-up
August 31 · 14 min
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches
On a mission to probe dark energy, hunt for distant worlds and transform our view of the universe
August 28 · 19 min
Is Trump abandoning endangered species?
Recent changes to the implementation of the Endangered Species Act could put wildlife at risk
August 26 · 12 min
Could damaged sperm be causing miscarriages?
New recommendations spotlight sperm’s role in recurrent miscarriage
August 24 · 11 min
What happens when Arctic ice melts and forests lose protection?
Forests, extreme weather and the realities of a warming world
August 21 · 24 min
Can magic mushrooms help treat anorexia?
What happened when people with anorexia tried psilocybin
August 19 · 15 min
Is AI making the creativity crisis worse?
Moiya McTier explores what makes human creativity unique in the age of AI
August 17 · 12 min
A stunning solar eclipse, a vaccine shake-up and coffee’s big win
From eclipse awe to vaccine debate, earthquake recovery and coffee’s benefits
August 14 · 24 min
How AI helped a nonspeaking opera star find his voice
What if AI is used to amplify human creativity rather than replace it?
August 12 · 23 min
Could humans learn to speak in music?
Linguists may have the answers

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