Podcast Episodes

Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females

Why it’s so hard to understand the tongue, a book on a revolutionary shift toward studying the female of the species, and using proteomics to find be…

2 years, 10 months ago

The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves

Cloning vigorous crops, and finding the first romantic kiss

First up this week, building resilience into crops. Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins ho…

2 years, 10 months ago

Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands

A new approach promises to increase organ transplants but some question whether they should proceed without revisiting the definition of death, and w…

2 years, 10 months ago

Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes

Builders of the largest scientific instruments, and how cracks can add resilience to an ecosystem

First up this week, a story on a builder of the b…

2 years, 10 months ago

The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable

Science’s editor-in-chief and an award-winning broadcast journalist discuss the struggles shared by journalism and science, and we learn about what m…

2 years, 11 months ago

Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep

What does it mean that we have so many more seamounts than previously thought, and finding REM sleep in seals

First up on the show this week: so ma…

2 years, 11 months ago

More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series

Anchoring radiocarbon dates to cosmic events, why hibernating bears don't get blood clots, and kicking off a book series on sex, gender, and science

2 years, 11 months ago

Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants

Why some countries, such as China, vaccinate flocks against bird flu but others don’t, and male ants that are always chimeras

First up this week, h…

2 years, 11 months ago

How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille

On this week’s show: How people in the past thought about their own past, and a detailed look at how Braille is read

First up this week, what did p…

3 years ago

New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories

On this week’s show: Earth’s youngest impact craters could be vastly underestimated in size, and remaking a plant’s process for a creating a complex …

3 years ago