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414 Episodes

1. 262 - How Well Do Ancestry DNA Tests Actually Work?

   Published: 11/20/2017
2. 261 - How Do Water Purifiers Work?

   Published: 11/13/2017
3. 260 - Why Are Coral Reefs Worth Protecting?

   Published: 11/6/2017
4. 259 - How Fast Can a Marathon Be Run?

   Published: 10/30/2017
5. 258 - Can You Smell Fear?

   Published: 10/23/2017
6. 257 - 6 Reasons Why LIGO's Gravitational Wave Discovery is Important

   Published: 10/16/2017
7. 201 - How Memory Works and 6 Tips to Improve It

   Published: 10/9/2017
8. 255 - Citizen Science with NASA GLOBE

   Published: 9/25/2017
9. 254 - What are Extremophiles?

   Published: 9/18/2017
10. 253 EE Why NASA Is Crashing Its Cassini Spacecraft into Saturn

    Published: 9/11/2017
11. 180 EE The Surprising Scientific Reason Behind Physical Attraction

    Published: 9/4/2017
12. 252 EE What Makes Storms Like Hurricane Harvey So Strong?

    Published: 8/28/2017
13. 251 EE How Do We Know the Earth Isn't Flat?

    Published: 8/21/2017
14. 250 EE How Can You Prepare for the August Solar Eclipse?

    Published: 8/14/2017
15. 249 EE Editing the Genes of Human Embryos

    Published: 8/7/2017
16. 248 EE 2 Surpising Ways Scientists Hope to Limit Human Environmental Impact

    Published: 7/31/2017
17. 247 EE How Do We Encourage More Women in STEM?

    Published: 7/24/2017
18. 246 EE Will the Thawing of Arctic Ice Release Diseases?

    Published: 7/17/2017
19. 245 EE Women in Science: Jill Tarter, SETI, and Our Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    Published: 7/10/2017
20. 244 EE How Old Is the Oldest Human Skeleton?

    Published: 6/26/2017