588 Episodes

  1. Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole rat chirps

    Published: 1/28/2021
  2. Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras

    Published: 1/21/2021
  3. An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments change our behavior

    Published: 1/14/2021
  4. The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms

    Published: 1/7/2021
  5. Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke

    Published: 12/31/2020
  6. Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights

    Published: 12/17/2020
  7. Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

    Published: 12/10/2020
  8. How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants

    Published: 12/3/2020
  9. Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis

    Published: 11/26/2020
  10. Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face

    Published: 11/19/2020
  11. How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes

    Published: 11/12/2020
  12. What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements

    Published: 11/5/2020
  13. Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking

    Published: 10/29/2020
  14. Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags

    Published: 10/22/2020
  15. Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart

    Published: 10/15/2020
  16. Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus

    Published: 10/8/2020
  17. FDA clinical trial failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

    Published: 10/1/2020
  18. How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia

    Published: 9/24/2020
  19. Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

    Published: 9/17/2020
  20. Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging

    Published: 9/10/2020

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