A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how ancient Amazonians improved the soilFirst up on this weeks show: the latest in our series of books on sex, gender, and science. Books host Angela Saini disc

The key to shrinking cartels is cutting recruitment, and a roundup of books, video games, movies, and moreFirst up on this weeks show: modeling Mexicos cartels. Rafael Prieto-Curiel, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Complexity Science Hub in V

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How the Tonga eruption caused some of the fastest underwater flows in history, and why many U.S. renewable energy projects are on holdFirst up on this weeks show, we hear about extremely fast underwater currents after a volcanic eruption. Produce

How active learning improves calculus teaching, and using machine learning to map odors in the smell spaceFirst up on this weeks show, Laird Kramer, a professor of physics and faculty in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International Uni

A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in our series on science, sex, and gender First up on this week’s show, determining the origin of solar wind—the streams of plasma that emerge from the Sun and e

First up on this weeks show, we hear about the skewed perception of our own hands, extremely weird giant viruses, champion regenerating flatworms, and more from Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox. Christie also chats with host Sarah Crespi about her work

Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in African American ancestry, and a reckoning for Philadelphias Mtter MuseumFirst up on this weeks show, ancient DNA researchers and ances

On this weeks show: evaluating scientific collaborations between independent scholars and industry, farming in ancient Europe, and a book from our series on sex, gender, and science.First up on this weeks show, a look behind the scenes at a collabora

A massive effort by African volunteers is ensuring artificial intelligence understands their native languages, and measuring 40,000 skeletonsOur AI summer continues with a look at how to get artificial intelligence to understand and translate the thousan