Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the
Researchers from across the scientific disciplines share the unpublished stories behind their recently published research, along with the background of their scientific discoveries.Podcasts
Science Writing as Storytelling (rebroadcast) Ryan Kelly
Published: June 8, 2021, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds
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Cold War Ice Core Reveals Historic Glacial Melt Andrew Christ
Published: May 11, 2021, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
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DNA Evidence of Denisovan Interbreeding Joao Teixeira
Published: April 20, 2021, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 57 seconds
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The Dyatlov Pass incident Alexander Puzrin
Published: April 6, 2021, 2:29 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 16 seconds
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Monkey Business Jean-Baptiste JB Leca
Published: March 23, 2021, 6:03 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 15 seconds
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Positively Negative Shiri Melumad
Published: March 9, 2021, 4:37 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds
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How Mosquitoes Target Us Zhilei Zhao & Lindy McBride
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds
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Epistemic Puzzles in The Witness Luke Cuddy
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 9:51 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 57 seconds
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Unintended Consequences of Legal Reforms Angela Zorro Medina
Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 22 seconds
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Bots Meddling in the 2020 Presidential Election Emilio Ferrara
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 4:48 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 18 seconds
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Pet Project Eric Tourigny
Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 8:09 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds
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Drones Revealing the Past Jesse Casana
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11:32 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 21 seconds
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Early Galaxies Formation Arianna Long
Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 5 seconds
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Silencing an ALS Gene Tim Miller
Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 5:08 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes
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Fool Me Once Again Darwin Guevarra
Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 1:09 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds
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Hot Girl Summer Kyesha Jennings
Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds
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Why Narcissists Are Never Wrong Tori Howes and Ed Kausel
Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 4:16 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds
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Adhering to Prohibitive Taboos Manvir Singh
Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 1:47 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds
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Moderating Spankings Lasting Impacts Nicole Barbaro
Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 8:20 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds
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Picking Apart Conspiracy Theories Tim Tangherlini
Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds
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The Metaethics of Moral Claims Jordan Theriault
Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 39 seconds
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A Marijuana Breathalyzer Neil Garg
Published: July 21, 2020, 7:28 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds
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Mosquito-inspired Biotechnology Richard Bomphrey
Published: July 7, 2020, 7:09 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 38 seconds
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How Black Politicians Matter Trevon Logan
Published: June 23, 2020, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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When Ignorance is Bliss Emily Ho
Published: June 9, 2020, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 7 seconds
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Birds Evolution Across Mass Extinctions Daniel Field
Published: May 27, 2020, 1:06 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds
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Parroting Probabilities Amalia Bastos
Published: May 12, 2020, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds
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Anything but Pedestrian Courtney Coughenour & Jennifer Pharr
Published: April 29, 2020, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 34 seconds
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The Plight of the Tiger Akchousanh Rasphone
Published: April 15, 2020, 12:55 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds
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Why We Love & Exploit Animals Veronica Sevillano
Published: April 1, 2020, 12:21 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds
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The Minds of Single-celled Organisms Jeremy Gunawardena
Published: March 17, 2020, 7:24 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds
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Cuttlefish in 3D Glasses Trevor Wardill
Published: March 3, 2020, 3:37 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds
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Undergraduates Formerly in Foster Care Royel Johnson
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 8:32 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 15 seconds
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Ivory Towers and Abattoirs Temple Grandin
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 7:42 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds
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Hiding in Plain Sight Katherine Wood
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 7:59 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds
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Transmitting Placebo Effects Luke Chang
Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 4:54 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds
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Global Decline of Homicide Mateus Renno Santos
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 7:15 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 6 seconds
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Extraordinary Claims, Ordinary Evidence Susan Gelman
Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 7:24 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds
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Ritual Pain for Social Gain Dimitris Xygalatas
Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 4 seconds
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Hearing Better than a Barn Owl Saptarshi Das
Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 1:22 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds
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Enduring Effects of Neurofeedback Michelle Hampson
Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds
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Does Practice Make Perfect? Brooke Macnamara
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 8:34 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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The Neuroscience of Terrorism Nafees Hamid
Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 10:48 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 9 seconds
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Not-So Big Personality Traits? Karen Macours
Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 7:02 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds
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Taking Heat in Space Naia Butler-Craig
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 7:21 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds
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Fishing for Color Zuzana Musilova
Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds
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Collective Memories Ida Momennejad & Ajua Duker
Published: July 24, 2019, 1:15 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 41 seconds
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Behind the Curtain of Algorithms Been Kim
Published: July 10, 2019, 2:36 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds
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Bending the Laws of Physics Andreas Schilling
Published: June 25, 2019, 2:18 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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Double Trouble Elisabeth Bik
Published: June 11, 2019, 4:39 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds
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Wisdom & Madness of Crowds Wataru Toyokawa
Published: May 28, 2019, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds
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Men Without Work Carol Graham
Published: May 14, 2019, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
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Sampling Music Networks Mason Youngblood
Published: April 30, 2019, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 1 second
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Forking Paths of Kids Screen Time Amy Orben
Published: April 16, 2019, 4:52 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 45 seconds
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Trusting Our Machines Neera Jain
Published: April 2, 2019, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds
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The Wonder of STEVE Liz MacDonald
Published: March 19, 2019, 4:39 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 48 seconds
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Becoming Deaf Laura Mauldin
Published: March 5, 2019, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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p-Hacking Business Ron Berman
Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 9:29 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds
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Voyeuristic Birds Masayo Soma
Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds
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A Sniff Test of Stress Jonathan Williams
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 4:16 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds
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Cognitive Biases on the Supreme Court Jonathan Feingold & Evelyn Carter
Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 1:41 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 6 seconds
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Archaeology of the Recent Past (Part 2 of 2) P.J. Capelotti
Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 1 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 32 seconds
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Archaeology of the Recent Past (Part 1 of 2) P.J. Capelotti
Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 35 seconds
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Illusions in the Periphery Ben Balas
Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
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Plasticity & Face Recognition Marlene Behrmann
Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds
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Playing with Science History Jean-Francois Gauvin
Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 3:16 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 23 seconds
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Decoding Cancers Expression Mike Feigin
Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds
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Halting Cancers Spread John Lewis
Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 6:13 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 37 seconds
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Speech-to-Song Illusion Mike Vitevitch
Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 11:27 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 14 seconds
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Nothing to a Bee Adrian Dyer
Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds
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Hearing Loss and Cognition Yune Lee
Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 3:34 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 58 seconds
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Differing Interpretations of Difficulty Neil Lewis, Jr.
Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 3:18 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds
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Debunking Pterosaurs Flight Armita Manafzadeh
Published: July 24, 2018, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds
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Prehistoric Origins of Birds Bhart-Anjan Bhullar
Published: July 10, 2018, 4:11 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds
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Retaining LGBQ Undergraduates in STEM Bryce Hughes
Published: July 5, 2018, 7:01 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
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Multiple Work Identities Brianna Caza, Sherry Moss & Heather Vough
Published: June 11, 2018, 9:45 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 9 seconds
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Structural Racism & Police Shootings Anita Knopov
Published: May 29, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds
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Uncovering Uncertain Identities David Kernot
Published: May 16, 2018, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 47 seconds
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Linguistic Artifacts in Creole Nicole Creanza
Published: May 2, 2018, 6:59 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds
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Defying Unjust Authorities Phil Zimbardo
Published: April 17, 2018, 9 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds
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How Misinformation Spreads Online Soroush Vosoughi
Published: April 3, 2018, 6:59 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds
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Stroke Recovery with Light Anna-Sophia Wahl
Published: March 21, 2018, 1:27 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 6 seconds
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Empathic Accuracy Michael Kraus
Published: March 7, 2018, 7:13 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 13 seconds
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Universals in Song Sam Mehr & Manvir Singh
Published: Feb. 21, 2018, 12:29 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 45 seconds
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Creating Deceptive Performance Niki den Nieuwenboer
Published: Feb. 7, 2018, 7:14 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds
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Deciding to Move Bill Clark
Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds
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Capacity for Number Rafael Nunez
Published: Jan. 10, 2018, 7:59 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds
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Best of 2017 Special
Published: Dec. 26, 2017, 11:59 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds
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Reactivation of Earthquakes Folarin Kolawole
Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 11:31 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds
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Retaliatory Punishment Adam Morris
Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 11:52 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds
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Electoral Systems and Female Candidates Laura Stephenson
Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 2 seconds
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Emotions and Rubber Hand Illusion Beatrice de Gelder
Published: Oct. 31, 2017, 8:18 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 32 seconds
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Open Science and Replications (Part 2 of 2) Tim Errington & Brian Nosek
Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 8:50 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 39 seconds
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Open Science and Replications (Part 1 of 2) Brian Nosek & Tim Errington
Published: Oct. 18, 2017, 3:27 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds
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Archaeology of Space Culture Alice Gorman
Published: Oct. 3, 2017, 10:22 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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Induced Auditory Hallucinations Al Powers & Phil Corlett
Published: Sept. 20, 2017, 12:58 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds
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Semantic Meaning in Images Devi Parikh
Published: Sept. 5, 2017, 11:41 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 47 seconds
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Christians and Science Kim Rios
Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 59 seconds
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Accuracy of Health Outcome Predictions Scott Halpern
Published: Aug. 9, 2017, 9:52 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds
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Science Writing as Storytelling Ryan Kelly
Published: July 25, 2017, 9:12 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds
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