Science Magazine Podcast
Latest Episodes
Podcast: Ceres’s close-up, how dogs listen, and a new RNA therapy
On this week’s show: Debra Buczkowski talks about the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a daily news roundup
Podcast: Quantum dots in consumer electronics and a faceoff with the quiz master
On this week’s show: Cherie Kagan talks about engineering quantum dots into everyday items, and a peek at the daily news quiz
Podcast: How mice mess up reproducibility, new support for an RNA world, and giving cash away wisely
On this week’s show: Kelly Servick talks about how the microbiomes of model mice can change the outcomes of experiments, and a daily news roundup
Podcast: 400-year-old sharks, busting a famous scientific hoax, and clinical trials in pets
On this week’s show: Julius Neilsen talks about the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth, and a daily news roundup
Podcast: Pollution hot spots in coastal waters, extreme bees, and diseased dinos
On this week’s show: Audrey Sawyer talks about new data on groundwater leaking into the oceans around the United States, and a daily news roundup
Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor
On this week’s show: Robert Wayne talks about how knowing more about wolf genetics may affect their protected status in the United States, and a daily news roundup
Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors
On this week’s show: Alyson Yee talks about what the antimicrobial added to soap, toothpaste, and even toys might be doing to our microbiomes; and a daily news roundup
Podcast: The science of the apocalypse, and abstract thinking in ducklings
On this week’s show: Julia Rosen talks about unthinkable catastrophes, and Alex Kacelnik discusses duck imprinting
Podcast: An exoplanet with three suns, no relief for aching knees, and building better noses
On this week’s show: Kevin Wagner discusses direct detection of an exoplanet in a three-star system; plus, a roundup of news stories
Podcast: Ending AIDS in South Africa, what makes plants gamble, and genes that turn on after death
On this week’s show: Jon Cohen talks about plans to shut down AIDS in the country with the most HIV infections; plus, a roundup of news stories