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Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Stitcher & Bill Nye

Bill Nye is on a mission to change the world — one voicemail at a time. Bill and science writer Corey S. Powell take your burning questions and put them to the world's leading experts on just about every topic in the universe. Should you stop eating cheeseburgers to combat climate change? Could alien life be swimming inside the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? Does your pet parakeet learn to sing the way that you learned to speak? Bill, Corey, and their special guests will answer those questions and convince you that... science rules!

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  • 151 episodes
  • Updated Nov 1, 2023

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  • Sep 10, 2020 · 42 min

    Jane Fonda Fights Climate Change With Fire... Drills

    The famed actress and activist says she’s learned a lot from getting arrested at her own climate rallies in D.C. last year. She fills us in on the need to address injustice while we fight global warming, how the COVID pandemic has changed her activism, and how individuals can step up when governments fail them.

  • Sep 3, 2020 · 46 min

    Failed Stars and Other Strange New Worlds

    Jacqueline Faherty from the American Museum of Natural History explains the mysteries of brown dwarfs — bigger than planets, smaller than stars — and reveals how she's improving STEM by making it more diverse.

  • Aug 27, 2020 · 49 min

    Bringing Psychology to Disney, Iraq, and You

    Eric Haseltine reveals how he used neuroscience to create best-selling toys and to protect U.S. troops from roadside explosives. He also shares some tips to help you (yes, you!) fix your suboptimal behaviors.

  • Aug 20, 2020 · 48 min

    Conspiracies? Fake News? We Connect the Dots

    You'd never fall for a conspiracy theory, right? Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Psychologist Rob Brotherton explores the history of conspiracy theories — including a famous fake-news scare that was itself fake news — and explains why it's so hard to avoid them.

  • Aug 18, 2020 · 25 min

    Coronavirus: Long-Term Health Effects

    More than 99 percent of people who get COVID-19 recover. But many unknown chronic effects may await those people all the same.

  • Aug 13, 2020 · 44 min

    The Day the Dinosaurs Died

    It’s the most famous mass extinction of all time, but we’re only just starting to understand the impact that killed the (ancient) dinosaurs. Geophysicist Joanna Morgan takes us to the crater to imagine the day the asteroid hit and the nightmarish aftermath.

  • Aug 6, 2020 · 46 min

    Natalie Portman Is Keeping Science in the Family

    She’s famous for her science fiction movies (the “Star Wars” prequels, Thor, Annihilation), but hard science runs through Natalie Portman’s veins. We discuss her early research in chemistry and psychology, her environmental activism, and her strategies to keep her kids’ curiosity alive during the pandemic.

  • Aug 4, 2020 · 34 min

    Coronavirus: Back to School?

    Arne Duncan — former Secretary of Education under President Obama — walks us through what needs to be done for schools to reopen safely in the fall.

  • Jul 30, 2020 · 45 min

    Architecture vs. Waste

    For decades, William McDonough has been leading the movement toward sustainable architecture. His goal is to create a garbage-free society through what he calls “cradle to cradle” design.

  • Jul 23, 2020 · 44 min

    Save the Bears, Save the World!

    There are just eight species of bear on Earth — and when they do well, we do well, according to conservation ecologist Chris Morgan, host of The Wild.

  • Jul 21, 2020 · 27 min

    Coronavirus: Can a Stranger’s Blood Save Your Life?

    Dr. Arturo Casadevall has been promoting “convalescent plasma” as a treatment for disease since before the pandemic took hold in the U.S. He explains what it is, how it helps with COVID-19, and why we need much, much more.

  • Jul 9, 2020 · 44 min

    Do You Need More Grit in Your Life?

    Psychologist Angela Duckworth studies the ways some people muster grit — passion and perseverance — to overcome adversity. She joins Bill and Corey to answer your questions about how the same psychological techniques could change your own behavior ... for good.

  • Jul 2, 2020 · 43 min

    How to Do Anything — With xkcd!

    Randall Munroe, creator of the sciency webcomic, offers ridiculously complex ways to do simple things and indulges all our scientific “what-ifs.”

  • Jun 25, 2020 · 42 min

    How We Humans Found Our Voices

    Erich Jarvis studies songbirds to understand how humans evolved speech. Along the way, he’s made discoveries about why we stutter, which animals can dance, and how to thrive as an underrepresented minority scientist. His research can be seen in the Netflix docuseries Babies.