Podcasts

What happened to the mice of Universe 25? (BONUS EPISODE)

Published: May 21, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 55 seconds

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Is solar reflective pavement the cure for hot cities?

Published: May 14, 2020, 5:20 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 54 seconds

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Whats inside a Martian meteorite?

Published: May 7, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds

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Is eating sugar a gut instinct?

Published: April 30, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 12 seconds

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What happened in the Stanford Prison Experiment? (Bonus episode)

Published: April 23, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 34 seconds

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Did Oumuamua come from a destroyed planet?

Published: April 16, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 44 seconds

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Does traffic spread like a virus?

Published: April 9, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds

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Why is Uranus losing its atmosphere?

Published: April 2, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds

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Why do water balloons pop?

Published: March 26, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds

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How can we suppress COVID-19?

Published: March 19, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 10 seconds

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Why do gray whales strand during solar storms?

Published: March 12, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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What has InSight discovered on Mars?

Published: March 5, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

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Can you stimulate consciousness?

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 3 seconds

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Why do extragalactic fast radio bursts repeat?

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds

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Do penguins speak like humans?

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds

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How should you talk to babies?

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds

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How did Mount Vesuvius' victims die?

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes

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How fast is the world's fastest spin?

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 48 seconds

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Does tongue fat cause sleep apnea?

Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 8 seconds

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What's OSIRIS-REx doing at asteroid Bennu?

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 21 seconds

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The best science of 2019

Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 48 seconds

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Christmas special - Why do we believe in Santa?

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds

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Does Europa actually have water plumes?

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 11 seconds

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Why does Enceladus have tiger stripes?

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 45 seconds

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Is eating healthier better for the planet?

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds

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How does hibernation work genetically?

Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Is there a universal "bit rate" of speech?

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 24 seconds

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Can we save penguins from climate change?

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 27 seconds

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Can lasers hack your voice devices?

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds

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Did Google really achieve quantum supremacy?

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 58 seconds

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Could Skin-On make your smartphone ticklish?

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 54 seconds

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Can physical exertion lead to mental burnout?

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 18 seconds

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Nobel Prize edition: what was the first exoplanet?

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds

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Is Planet 9 actually a black hole?

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds

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How is the "darkest black" created?

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 20 seconds

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Whats the difference between vegetarians and meat-eaters?

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 53 seconds

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Is intermittent fasting healthy?

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 22 seconds

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Can you find a supernova in Antarctic snow?

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 14 seconds

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Are self-citations a problem for science?

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 22 seconds

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How does an artificial tongue taste whiskey?

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 45 seconds

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Can you hide secret messages in music?

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 56 seconds

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Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 37 seconds

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How is Neuralink hacking the brain?

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 9 seconds

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Was Stonehenge built using pig fat?

Published: July 25, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 56 seconds

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Can your brain see into the future?

Published: July 18, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds

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How can you measure the expansion of the universe?

Published: July 11, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 9 seconds

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Does caffeine make you burn fat?

Published: July 4, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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Can seals learn to sing and talk?

Published: June 27, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 17 seconds

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Is the Critical Brain Hypothesis correct?

Published: June 20, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds

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Does human endurance have a hard limit?

Published: June 13, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 22 seconds

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Did supernovae make us walk upright?

Published: June 6, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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How deep does "bomb carbon" go?

Published: May 30, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 1 second

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Are synthetic genomes in our future?

Published: May 23, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 57 seconds

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Are moonquakes reshaping the Moon?

Published: May 16, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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How bad is the Replication Crisis? feat. Ood Gallifrey from Occultae Veritatis

Published: May 9, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 48 seconds

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Is there a wrong side of the time zone?

Published: May 2, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds

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Can you bring a dead brain back to life?

Published: April 25, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Do mosquitoes hate Skrillex?

Published: April 18, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 7 seconds

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How do you image a black hole?

Published: April 11, 2019, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds

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Are eggs really bad for you?

Published: April 4, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 19 seconds

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Does space affect male and female astronauts differently?

Published: March 28, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 50 seconds

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Did F-words come from a change in diet?

Published: March 21, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 56 seconds

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Why does pain hurt?

Published: March 14, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 23 seconds

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Is Titan's organic atmosphere coming from inside?

Published: March 7, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 35 seconds

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How did tardigrades become immortal?

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds

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Are female brains really "more youthful?"

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds

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Can you understand talking brain waves?

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds

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How did the Curiosity rover weigh a mountain on Mars?

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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How can 3D printed filters improve chemotherapy?

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 38 seconds

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Why is the giant ice disk in Maine spinning?

Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Can an LED control your nervous system?

Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 5 seconds

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Did Leonardo da Vinci have strabismus?

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds

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How often did humans breed with Neanderthals?

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds

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Does negative mass explain dark matter?

Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 8:05 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 46 seconds

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How does an "ion plane" actually fly?

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 20 seconds

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Did climate change cause the "Great Dying?"

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 32 seconds

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Could you prove you're human in one word?

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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How hard was the InSight Mars landing?

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 36 seconds

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Is paralysis a thing of the past?

Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds

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Is Oumuamua an alien spacecraft?

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 23 seconds

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Does cloud seeding work?

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 22 seconds

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How many faces do you know?

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 22 seconds

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Should we kill all the mosquitoes?

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds

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Can we terraform Mars?

Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds

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Can you hear meteors?

Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds

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Magnetic fields can blow up your lab

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 47 seconds

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Are microwave weapons attacking the US embassy?

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 41 seconds

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Can goats read your face?

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 32 seconds

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Pollution is damaging your cognition

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds

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Saturn is whistling to Enceladus

Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds

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How to find water on Mars

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 4:24 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes

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How do spiders fly?

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 4:09 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 13 seconds

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