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Life in a Barrel
Episode 687
This week, in an episode we first aired in 2022, we flip the Disney story of life on its head thanks to a barrel of seawater, a 1970s era computer, a…
17 hours ago
Antibiotic Apocalypse
Episode 686
Doctor and special correspondent Avir Mitra takes Executive Editor Soren Wheeler, plus a live studio audience, on a journey from the operating room t…
1 week ago
Staph Retreat
Episode 685
A strange brew that's hard to resist, even for a modern day microbe.
In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. The antib…
2 weeks ago
Return of the Flesh-Eaters
Episode 684
If a species is horrible enough, do we have the right to kill it forever?
Seventy years ago, a nightmare parasite feasted on the live flesh of warm-b…
3 weeks ago
Snail Sex Tape
Episode 683
In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, …
4 weeks ago
Black Box
Episode 682
In this episode, first aired in 2014, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—spaces where we know what’s going in, we know what’s comin…
1 month, 1 week ago
Gray's Donation
Episode 681
Before he was even born, Sarah and Ross Gray knew that their son Thomas wouldn’t live long. But as they let go of him, they made a decision that reve…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Time is Honey
Episode 680
In the early 2000s, Sunil Nakrani felt stuck.
Back then, websites crashed all the time. When Sunil noticed this, he decided he was going to fix the i…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Kleptotherms
Episode 679
In this episode, we break the thermometer and watch the mercury spill out as we discover that temperature is far stranger than it seems. We first ran…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Song of the Cerebellum
Episode 678
One spring evening in 2024, a science journalist named Rachel Gross bombed at karaoke. The culprit was a bleed in a fist-sized clump of neurons tucke…
2 months ago