Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSpecies-Ending Asteroids, Air Into Electricity, Female Mice
Today you’ll learn about controversial research by NASA suggesting that extinction-level asteroids may have hit Earth more often than we thought, how…
2 years, 11 months ago
Zombie Virus, Back From the Brink, Bad Cholesterol
Today you’ll learn about a zombie virus recovered from the arctic permafrost and brought back to life, some good news about 26 Australian animal spec…
2 years, 11 months ago
Endometriosis Shot, Bee Puzzles, Lemonade Kidney Stones
Today you’ll learn about how scientists are working on developing an injection to treat endometriosis, how bees solve puzzles, and how lemon juice is…
2 years, 11 months ago
Remote Work Baby Boom, Acne Antibiotics, Chagas Infection
Today you’ll learn about how remote work is resulting in people having more children than before the pandemic, how scientists are searching for new t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Foreign Accent Syndrome, AI Reads Minds, Alien Marsh
Today you’ll learn about how foreign accent syndrome works, how an AI algorithm can create a physical copy of a mental picture, and how invasive mars…
2 years, 11 months ago
Men At Work, Whale Interrupted, Gender Equality
Today you’ll learn about how men with physically strenuous jobs have higher testosterone levels and, ahem, sperm counts, about how a researcher study…
2 years, 11 months ago
Birth Order, Braincell Computers, Zimbabwe Hydro
Today you’ll learn about whether or not birth order affects how rebellious you are, how researchers are working to turn a human brain into a machine,…
2 years, 11 months ago
3D-Printed Community, Secret Chamber in Giza, Migraine Hope
Today you’ll learn about neighborhood 3D-printed by a robot, a 4,500 year-old secret chamber recently discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza, and ab…
3 years ago
GERD Anxiety, Crowd Math, Insect Catapult
Today we discuss the link between gastrointestinal disorders and mental health, how the path you take walking through a crowd can be predicted by mat…
3 years ago
Same Sex Same Kids, Face Blindness, Paid Sick Leave
Today you’ll learn about how children raised by same sex couples are just as psychologically healthy as other kids, how face blindness might be way m…
3 years ago