Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine Podcast


Latest Episodes

Podcast: How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you
November 10, 2016

On this week’s show: Alexa Billow interviews Katelyn Gostic on the importance of our first flu, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome
November 03, 2016

On this week’s show: Greg Miller describes a surprising connection between marijuana and opioids, and Sascha Drewlo talks about profiling fetal genomes.

Podcast: A close look at a giant moon crater, the long tradition of eating rodents, and building evidence for Planet Nine
October 27, 2016

On this week’s show: Maria Zuber discusses results from the GRAIL mission’s exploration of the moon, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison
October 20, 2016

On this week’s show: David Malakoff discusses scientific issues the next U.S. administration will likely face, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: When we pay attention to plane crashes, releasing modified mosquitoes, and bacteria that live off radiation
October 13, 2016

On this week’s show: Alexa Billow interviews Kelly Servick releasing modified mosquitoes into the wild, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: Bumble bee emotions, the purpose of yawning, and new insights into the developing infant brain
October 06, 2016

On this week’s show: Alexa Billow interviews Mercedes Paredes on newborn brain development, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: Why we murder, resurrecting extinct animals, and the latest on the three-parent baby
September 29, 2016

On this week’s show: Alexa Billow interviews Ryan Kennedy on global event trackers, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: An atmospheric pacemaker skips a beat, a religious edict that spawned fat chickens, and knocking out the ‘sixth sense’
September 22, 2016

On this week’s show: Alexa Billow interviews Scott Osprey on a change in the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
September 15, 2016

On this week’s show: Lizzie Wade discusses why a researcher is burning pig bodies in Australia to understand what happened to 43 missing students in Mexico, and a daily news roundup

Podcast: Double navigation in desert ants, pollution in the brain, and dating deal breakers
September 08, 2016

On this week’s show: Matthias Wittlinger talks about desert-dwelling ants that have doubled down on navigation, and a daily news roundup