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Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too
First up on the podcast, the best images of exoplanets right now are basically bright dots. We can’t see possible continents, potential oceans, or ev…
6 days, 22 hours ago
This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories
First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this year’s best online news stories—top performers and…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat
First up on the podcast, we’ve likely only found about half the so-called city-killer asteroids (objects more than 140 meters in diameter). Freelance…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics
First up on the podcast, Science celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics with a special issue covering the past, present, and future of the field. …
1 month ago
When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat
First up on the podcast, when will the world hit peak carbon emissions? It’s not an easy question to answer because emissions cannot be directly meas…
1 month, 1 week ago
A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research
First up on the podcast: the mysterious fate of Europe’s Neolithic farmers. They arrived from Anatolia around 5500 B.C.E. and began farming fertile l…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink
First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi for a rundown of online news stories. They talk about lichen that din…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse
First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Sofia Moutinho visited the Xingu Indigenous territory in Brazil to learn about a long-standing co…
2 months ago
Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends
First up on the podcast, increased carbon dioxide emissions sink more acidity into the ocean, but checking pH all over the world, up and down the wat…
2 months, 1 week ago
The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish
First up on the podcast, the Bering Sea’s snow crabs are bouncing back after a 50-billion-crab die-off in 2020, but scientists are racing to predict …
2 months, 2 weeks ago