Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine Podcast


Latest Episodes

LIGO spots merging neutron stars, scholarly questions about a new Bible museum, and why wolves are better team players than dogs
October 19, 2017

On this week’s show: Can the Museum of the Bible escape the sins of its past? Plus, a roundup from the daily news site

Evolution of skin color, taming rice thrice, and peering into baby brains
October 12, 2017

On this week’s show: Tracing skin pigment variation in African genomes; plus a roundup from the daily news site

Putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient Scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects
October 05, 2017

On this week’s show: Negative side effects where there is no drug; plus a roundup from the daily news site

Furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating wombats, and puzzling out preprint publishing
September 28, 2017

On this week’s show: Biology pushes into preprint publishing, turning the water cycle virtuous on our books segment, plus a roundup from the daily news site

Podcast: Cosmic rays, color words, and sleeping jellyfish
September 21, 2017

On this week’s show: Cosmic rays detected from a galaxy far, far, away; plus a roundup from the daily news site

Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors
September 21, 2017

On this week’s show: Cosmic rays detected from a galaxy far, far, away; plus a roundup from the daily news site

Cargo-sorting molecular robots, humans as the ultimate fire starters, and molecular modeling with quantum computers
September 14, 2017

On this week’s show: Building molecular robots that can sort things, a look behind this week’s cover photo, plus a roundup from the daily news site

Taking climate science to court, sailing with cylinders, and solar cooling
September 07, 2017

On this week’s show: An expanding role for the U.S. judiciary in climate policy, plus a roundup from the daily news site

Mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of negotiating AIs, and atomic bonding between the United States and China
August 31, 2017

On this week’s show: A rekindling of a U.S.-China nuclear relationship, plus a roundup from the daily news site

What hunter-gatherer gut microbiomes have that we don’t, and breaking the emoji code
August 24, 2017

On this week’s show: Comparing the gut microbes that live in Tanzania’s Hadza people with those in industrialized countries, and our monthly books segment