Science Magazine Podcast

588 Episodes

1. Metaresearchers take on meta-analyses, and hoary old myths about science

   Published: 9/20/2018
2. The youngest sex chromosomes on the block, and how to test a Zika vaccine without Zika cases

   Published: 9/13/2018
3. Should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and why were chemists baffled by soot for so long?

   Published: 9/6/2018
4. <i>Science</i> and <i>Nature</i> get their social science studies replicated—or not, the mechanisms behind human-induced earthquakes, and the taboo of claiming causality in science

   Published: 8/30/2018
5. Sending flocks of tiny satellites out past Earth orbit and solving the irrigation efficiency paradox

   Published: 8/23/2018
6. Ancient volcanic eruptions, and peer pressure—from robots

   Published: 8/16/2018
7. Doubts about the drought that kicked off our latest geological age, and a faceoff between stink bugs with samurai wasps

   Published: 8/9/2018
8. How our brains may have evolved for language, and clues to what makes us leaders—or followers

   Published: 8/2/2018
9. Liquid water on Mars, athletic performance in transgender women, and the lost colony of Roanoke

   Published: 7/26/2018
10. Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds

    Published: 7/19/2018
11. The South Pole’s IceCube detector catches a ghostly particle from deep space, and how rice knows to grow when submerged

    Published: 7/12/2018
12. A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America’s first dogs

    Published: 7/5/2018
13. Increasing transparency in animal research to sway public opinion, and a reaching a plateau in human mortality

    Published: 6/28/2018
14. New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb

    Published: 6/21/2018
15. The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains

    Published: 6/14/2018
16. Science books for summer, and a blood test for predicting preterm birth

    Published: 6/7/2018
17. The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production

    Published: 5/31/2018
18. Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes

    Published: 5/24/2018
19. Tracking ancient Rome’s rise using Greenland’s ice, and fighting fungicide resistance

    Published: 5/17/2018
20. Ancient DNA is helping find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conservation

    Published: 5/10/2018