Science Magazine Podcast

588 Episodes

1. A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes

   Published: 5/15/2025
2. Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science

   Published: 5/8/2025
3. Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’

   Published: 5/1/2025
4. A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series

   Published: 4/24/2025
5. Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander

   Published: 4/17/2025
6. The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH

   Published: 4/10/2025
7. Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

   Published: 4/3/2025
8. Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots

   Published: 3/27/2025
9. Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea

   Published: 3/20/2025
10. Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH

    Published: 3/13/2025
11. Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker

    Published: 3/6/2025
12. Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

    Published: 2/27/2025
13. Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability

    Published: 2/20/2025
14. Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants

    Published: 2/13/2025
15. How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth

    Published: 2/6/2025
16. Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration

    Published: 1/30/2025
17. Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

    Published: 1/23/2025
18. Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters

    Published: 1/16/2025
19. Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

    Published: 1/9/2025
20. On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

    Published: 1/2/2025