Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMovie Magic Meets Practical Robotics for Netflix’s The Electric State
Dennis Hong, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, discovered a love of robots at an early a…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
A Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposes U.S. Postpandemic Vulnerabilities
It’s been five years since COVID was declared a global pandemic. Local, national and global public health agencies mobilized to contain the spread of…
1 year ago
Measles Misinformation, Ozone Recovery and Woolly Mice
With measles cases on the rise, experts are pushing back against misleading claims about vitamin A as a substitute for vaccination. A Supreme Court r…
1 year ago
Author John Green on How Tuberculosis Shaped Our Modern World
John Green is an author, advocate and one half of the Vlogbrothers. His latest book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, comes out on March 18. Green joins h…
1 year ago
Must Be Microplastics on the Brain
Not much passes into our brain from the rest of our body, to the chagrin of drug makers everywhere. So it should be cause for concern when a study fo…
1 year ago
How Did a Volcano Turn a Brain to Glass? Plus, Measles, Mystery Illness and Microbes
Officials have confirmed the first measles death in an outbreak in West Texas. A meeting to discuss which strains to focus on for next year’s flu vac…
1 year ago
Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?
Have you ever had a song continue to loop in your brain no matter how hard you tried to shake it? These “earworms” are more than just an annoyance—th…
1 year ago
Saying Farewell to the Spacecraft That Mapped the Milky Way
The Gaia spacecraft stopped collecting data this January after about 11 years and more than three trillion observations. Senior space and physics edi…
1 year ago
Measles Outbreaks, Asteroid Risks and Fish Friends
The black hole at the center of our galaxy is emitting near-constant, random light. The European Space Agency has approved astronaut candidate John M…
1 year ago
Where Did Curly Hair Come From? Biological Anthropology May Provide Insights
It’s fairly strange that humans, unlike many other mammals, don’t have hair all over. Our lack of body hair and wide geographic distribution led to t…
1 year ago