Podcast Episodes

How Pregnancy Changes the Brain, and How Lizards Make DIY Scuba Gear

In this week’s news roundup: Earth might have previously had a giant ring of space rocks like the one around Saturn, “scuba diving” lizards are using…

1 year, 3 months ago

Finding Math’s Beauty and Power with Drag Queen Kyne Santos

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne Santos will help you discover the beauty and power of math in this three-part Friday miniseries. Kyne ta…

1 year, 3 months ago

Why Black Men Should Consider Earlier Screening for Prostate Cancer

In recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month this September, host Rachel Feltman sits down with Alfred Winkler, chief of urology at NewYork-Pres…

1 year, 3 months ago

AI Could Help Save Us from Conspiracy Theories, and Massachusetts Could Help Save Us from Our Trash

This week's news roundup: The European Space Agency’s Juice mission tested its instruments with a flyby of Earth in preparation for studying habitabi…

1 year, 3 months ago

This Episode Was Recorded from Space

Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman interviewed NASA flight engineer Matthew Dominick live—from space! In this first-ever interview conducted from th…

1 year, 4 months ago

How 9/11 Transformed Forensic Science

Content warning: This episode contains some details about the 9/11 attacks and victims’ remains.

Twenty-three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, …

1 year, 4 months ago

Jellyfish Clones Swarm British Columbian Lakes, and Measles Cases Surge in Oregon

In this week’s new roundup, a new study finds no clear connection between phone use and brain or head cancers, putting some fears to rest. Meanwhile …

1 year, 4 months ago

In Sickness and Age: Finding Balance between Caregiving and Self-Care (Part 2)

As people live longer and family sizes shrink, fewer relatives are available to share the burden of caregiving for aging loved ones. The second episo…

1 year, 4 months ago

How Racism Might Be Accelerating Aging and Menopause

Discrimination may be speeding up the aging process for people of color and other minoritized groups. Research is revealing that structural and inter…

1 year, 4 months ago

In Sickness and Age: Changing Family Structures and Caregiving (Part 1)

In this first episode of a two-part miniseries on caregiving, Tanya Lewis, Scientific American’s senior editor of health and medicine, shares her per…

1 year, 4 months ago