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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

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• Why an early Alzheimer’s theory is making a comeback, the U.S.’s electricity crisis, and improving precision medicine

  Nov 12, 2026 · 50:41

  First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with staff writer Jennie Erin Smith about a new old idea for Alzheimer’s disease. They discuss how the cholinergic hypothesis…

• GLP-1 targets beyond obesity, and misusing brain data

  Nov 5, 2026 · 46:13

  First up on the podcast, people are buying consumer-grade brain wave detectors ostensibly to help with sleep, concentration, and meditation. But as freelance investigative…

• Destroying forever chemicals, hyperlocal pollution sensing, and an experiment in queer parenthood

  Oct 29, 2026 · 50:00

  First up on the podcast, thousands of tons of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been released into the environment. It’s not always that difficult to round them up,…

• Birds make decisions faster than we do, rewriting DNA’s history, and combining science and poetry

  Oct 22, 2026 · 43:34

  First up on the podcast, News Editor Tim Appenzeller joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about an x-ray image that is upsetting the narrative of DNA’s discovery as told by James…

• Cheese history, redating the Inca empire, and the source of the breath’s rhythm

  Oct 15, 2026 · 56:44

  First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell and Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox discuss a few stories from ScienceAdviser, including why Nazi Germany was unlikely to ever…

• A moon heist, lava fountains, and predicting doomsday

  Oct 8, 2026 · 48:40

  First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Robin George Andrews describes Japan’s upcoming Martian Moons eXploration mission that will nab a sample from the surface of…

• Stimulating the brain for women’s health, and the long-term implications of menopausal symptoms

  Oct 1, 2026 · 37:23

  First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Jennie Erin Smith joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about new research on how noninvasive technologies such as transcranial magnetic…

• Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss

  Sep 24, 2026 · 48:42

  First up on the podcast, Staff Reporter Tom Howarth joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the language artificial intelligence agents evolve inside their swarms. Next on the…

• Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science

  Sep 17, 2026 · 39:57

  First up on the podcast, as the planet warms and forests burn, can we replant them with new trees that will thrive in the decades ahead? Associate Editor Katie Langin joins host…

• Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education

  Sep 10, 2026 · 33:12

  First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell and freelance journalist Andrew Lawler discuss how psychoactive drugs might have shaped culture in pre-Inca Andean societies.…

• Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease

  Sep 3, 2026 · 27:40

  First up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how climate is pushing the disease-carrying tick Hyalomma marginatum…

• Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas

  Aug 27, 2026 · 49:46

  First up on the podcast, will it ever make economic sense to produce drugs and biomedical supplies in space? Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko discusses his story on…

• Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome

  Aug 20, 2026 · 28:54

  First up on the podcast, the News team’s Diverse Voices in Science Journalism interns Mona Patterson and Laura Martín Agudelo join host Sarah Crespi to talk over some of their…

• A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

  Aug 13, 2026 · 26:51

  First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi for the latest science policy news. The two discuss recent grant cancellations by the U.S.…

• Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA

  Aug 6, 2026 · 38:04

  First up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Michael Price discusses the history of the North American bison population, its decline, and resurrection—and links to Indigenous…

• AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography

  Jul 30, 2026 · 46:56

  First up on the podcast, we catch up with Celina Zhao, a staff reporter for Science’s AI In Science reporting initiative. She talks with host Sarah Crespi about artificial…

• Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters

  Jul 23, 2026 · 37:24

  First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Brendan Borrell talks about his work reporting on the previously undisclosed death of a 6-year-old girl in a gene-editing…

• Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere

  Jul 16, 2026 · 41:53

  First up on the podcast, we continue our coverage of the fallout from cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), this time focusing on how one of the largest…

• Owl wars and the immune system’s memory

  Jul 9, 2026 · 35:10

  First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall goes on an owl hunt in the woods of Northern California. After surviving logging and habitat destruction in…

• How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic

  Jul 2, 2026 · 32:46

  First up on the podcast, relationships turn chilly in the polar research haven of Svalbard in Norway. Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to…

• Cracking color vision, U.S. science policy changes, and a trailblazing biography

  Jun 25, 2026 · 45:06

  First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big policy stories from the past month, including a proposal from President…

• An electronic nose that detects spoiled chicken, and wolves make a spectacular comeback in Europe

  Jun 18, 2026 · 46:56

  First up on the podcast, wrangling wolves in Europe. After near extermination in much of the continent, wolf numbers have surged up to about 20,000 individuals. Contributing…

• How childhood environments shape the brain, and how susceptible is the Atlantic Ocean’s current to climate change?

  Jun 11, 2026 · 31:32

  First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the latest on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC. Researchers have…

• Will AI replace astronomers, how healthy are ultraprocessed foods, and a peek behind the scenes of ‘The Normals’

  Jun 4, 2026 · 50:03

  First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Joshua Sokol talks about the intense discussion happening in the astrophysics community as artificial intelligence and…

• Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time

  May 28, 2026 · 45:22

  First up on the podcast, a company is using whole brains—maintained with specialized life support—to study new drugs. Freelance science journalist Sara Reardon joins host Sarah…

• USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world

  May 21, 2026 · 41:21

  First up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the surprising commonalities between our immune systems and the tools…

• Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body

  May 14, 2026 · 31:54

  First up on the podcast, Meagan Cantwell produced a segment with Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt on the fight against deepfakes. Kupferschmidt talks with Hany Farid,…

• A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment

  May 7, 2026 · 53:53

  First up on the podcast, along Brazil’s Juruá River, local residents have been working with scientists to manage a giant fish called the arapaima—affecting the land, the people,…

• Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame

  Apr 30, 2026 · 46:43

  First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a batch of fun stories with podcast host Sarah Crespi—from spider hearts racing when traffic gets loud to a…

• Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

  Apr 23, 2026 · 30:48

  First up on the podcast, freelance science and environmental journalist Quentin Septer joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a controversial uranium mine getting fast-tracked in…

• The normals | Episode 3

  Apr 21, 2026 · 33:22

  The final of a three-part limited Science Podcast series that looks at the history of normal human subjects in research In episode two, we heard what happened to the normals…

• How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting

  Apr 16, 2026 · 50:31

  First up on the podcast, quantum computers require extremely low temperatures—less than 1°C away from absolute zero. But getting down to those temperatures has usually required…

• The Normals | Episode 2

  Apr 14, 2026 · 27:19

  Last time on The Normals, we learned that in the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to recruit many healthy volunteers for basic research. Two peace churches,…

• A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion

  Apr 9, 2026 · 42:15

  First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Hannah Richter joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss NASA’s plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in less than 3…

• The Normals | Episode 1

  Apr 7, 2026 · 23:42

  How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start studying normal…

• Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

  Apr 2, 2026 · 33:32

  First up on the podcast, a new path to calculating the Hubble constant. This value for the universe’s speed of expansion is typically determined in one of two ways, one favored…

• Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

  Mar 26, 2026 · 36:52

  First up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink talks about so-called resurrection plants. These specialized plants can survive up to 95% water loss, whereas most…

• Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

  Mar 19, 2026 · 33:28

  First up on the podcast, we discuss a finding that’s likely to reignite debate over how humans first spread through the Americas. In the late 1990s, a site in southern Chile…

• What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

  Mar 12, 2026 · 42:50

  First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Evan Howell traveled to Cape Blossom, Alaska, where the receding coastline has revealed an ancient trove of glacial ice that may…

• An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

  Mar 5, 2026 · 38:19

  First up on the podcast, a peek into the roiling seas of U.S. science policy. ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser talks about shifting leadership at the National Science…

• Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

  Feb 26, 2026 · 32:17

  First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell talks to Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about his visit to Brazil, where he observed firsthand what it takes for…

• Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

  Feb 19, 2026 · 41:16

  First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox, Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko, and intern Perri Thaler share their experiences from the AAAS annual…

• Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

  Feb 12, 2026 · 34:00

  First up on the podcast, more than half of all dogs going through service animal training don’t make it to graduation. Producer Kevin McLean journeys with Online News Editor…

• Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses

  Feb 5, 2026 · 39:47

  First up on the podcast, host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Adrian Cho talk football and the latest science behind helmets engineered to reduce head injuries. Have better…

• Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels

  Jan 29, 2026 · 38:39

  First up on the podcast, how do we protect astronauts when they leave the shelter of Earth’s protective magnetic fields and face the slow, constant bombardment of space…

• Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

  Jan 22, 2026 · 32:27

  First up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome, when microbes inside the human gut make too much alcohol; how…

• Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface

  Jan 15, 2026 · 30:26

  First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Sofia Quaglia talks about her visit to the Galápagos archipelago and how researchers there are working to restore the…

• The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows

  Jan 8, 2026 · 27:31

  First up on the podcast, scholars are on a quest to find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA. With no direct descendants, the hunt involves sampling the famous polymath’s papers, paintings,…

• Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too

  Jan 1, 2026 · 43:29

  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 even varying colors. To improve…

• This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

  Dec 18, 2025 · 33:58

  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 staff picks alike. Together…

• Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat

  Dec 11, 2025 · 27:59

  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 science journalist Robin…

• Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics

  Dec 4, 2025 · 38:00

  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. News Contributing…

• When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat

  Nov 27, 2025 · 26:21

  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 measured in real time. Instead,…

• A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

  Nov 20, 2025 · 32:35

  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 land across Europe. Five…

• Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink

  Nov 13, 2025 · 28:13

  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 dine on dino bones, the physics…

• Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse

  Nov 6, 2025 · 35:03

  First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Sofia Moutinho visited the Xingu Indigenous territory in Brazil to learn about a long-standing collaboration between…

• Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends

  Oct 30, 2025 · 45:27

  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 water column, is incredibly…

• The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish

  Oct 23, 2025 · 27:13

  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 what’s going to happen to…

• Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease

  Oct 16, 2025 · 26:38

  First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt takes a trip to Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where ancient RNA viruses may lie buried in the permafrost.…

• How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine

  Oct 9, 2025 · 37:00

  First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko about the impact of wildfires on wine; a couple horse stories, one modern,…

• A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh

  Oct 2, 2025 · 34:48

  First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Robert F. Service joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a boom in nuclear medicine, from new and more powerful radioisotopes to improved…

• Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world

  Sep 25, 2025 · 46:22

  First up on the podcast, Science News Editor Tim Appenzeller joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss why a salty layer of permafrost undergirding Arctic ice is turning frozen…

• Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery

  Sep 18, 2025 · 35:00

  First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the long journey to a vaccine for group B streptococcus, a microbe that…

• An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor

  Sep 11, 2025 · 35:14

  First up on the podcast, aggressive tumors have a secret cache of DNA that may help them beat current drug treatments. Freelance journalist Elie Dolgin joins host Sarah Crespi to…

• Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket

  Sep 4, 2025 · 32:57

  First up on the podcast, despite so many advances in treatment, HIV drugs can suppress the virus but can’t cure the infection. Where does suppressed HIV hide within the body?…

• A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead

  Aug 28, 2025 · 55:07

  First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Rodrigo Pérez Ortega joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a megafauna megafind that rivals the La Brea Tar Pits. In addition to revealing…

• New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America

  Aug 21, 2025 · 32:07

  First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss recent advances in understanding endometriosis—a disease where tissue that resembles the…

• Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?

  Aug 14, 2025 · 31:53

  First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell and Contributing Correspondent Sara Reardon discuss alternative approaches to animal testing, from a heart on a chip to a…

• Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live

  Aug 7, 2025 · 28:08

  First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm brings stories on peacock feathers’ ability to emit laser light, how anteaters have evolved at least 12 times, and why we…

• Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead

  Jul 31, 2025 · 51:33

  First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the toll of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and how researchers have been…

• Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives

  Jul 24, 2025 · 34:45

  First up on the podcast, South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind is home to the world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, including our own genus, Homo,…

• Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria

  Jul 17, 2025 · 36:50

  First up on the podcast, Réunion Island had a shark attack crisis in 2011 and closed its beaches for more than a decade. Former News Intern Alexa Robles-Gil joins host Sarah…

• A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes

  Jul 10, 2025 · 25:52

  First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of ScienceAdviser with many stories about the amazing water…

• Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars

  Jul 3, 2025 · 31:12

  First up on the podcast, U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came President Donald Trump. Senior News Correspondent Jon Cohen talks with producer Kevin McLean…

• Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia

  Jun 26, 2025 · 44:57

  First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a pair of Science papers on kinship and culture in Neolithic Anatolia. The…

• How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy

  Jun 19, 2025 · 37:25

  First up on the podcast, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is just coming online, and once fully operational, it will take a snapshot of the entire southern sky every 3 days.…

• Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change

  Jun 12, 2025 · 37:22

  First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about how scientists are probing the world’s hottest forests to better understand how plants will…

• Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science

  Jun 5, 2025 · 42:05

  First up on the podcast, we hear from Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the tricky problem of regional climate prediction. Although global climate change models have held up for the…

• Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research

  May 29, 2025 · 52:30

  First up on the podcast, Online News Editor Michael Greshko joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about stories set high above our heads. They discuss capturing fungal spores high in…

• Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’

  May 22, 2025 · 40:13

  First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the strange metal state. Physicists are probing the behavior of electrons in…

• A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes

  May 15, 2025 · 30:27

  First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Jonathan Moens talks with host Sarah Crespi about a forensic test called brain electrical oscillation signature (BEOS) profiling,…

• Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science

  May 8, 2025 · 33:17

  First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell worked with the Science News team to review how the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have impacted…

• Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’

  May 1, 2025 · 32:28

  First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry talks with host Sarah Crespi about his visit to 17th century crypts under an old hospital in Italy. Researchers…

• A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series

  Apr 24, 2025 · 45:52

  First up on the podcast, bringing Gregor Mendel’s peas into the 21st century. Back in the 19th century Mendel, a friar and naturalist, tracked traits in peas such as flower color…

• Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander

  Apr 17, 2025 · 26:36

  First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how an Egyptian cult that killed cats may have also tamed them. Next on the show, we…

• The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH

  Apr 10, 2025 · 28:34

  First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big changes in science funding and government jobs this month, including an order…

• Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

  Apr 3, 2025 · 31:56

  Geoengineering experiments face an uphill battle, and a way to combat the pregnancy complication hyperemesis gravidarum First up on the podcast, climate engineers face tough…

• Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots

  Mar 27, 2025 · 32:46

  First up this week, urban wildfires raged in Los Angeles in January. Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall discusses how researchers have come together to study how…

• Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea

  Mar 20, 2025 · 38:13

  First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss stories from the sea, including why scientists mounted cameras on seabirds, backward and…

• Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH

  Mar 13, 2025 · 42:40

  First up this week, science policy editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the latest news about the National Institutes of Health—from reconfiguring review…

• Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker

  Mar 6, 2025 · 55:09

  First up this week, International News Editor David Malakoff joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the most recent developments in U.S. science under Donald Trump’s second term,…

• Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

  Feb 27, 2025 · 35:58

  First up this week, Kata Karáth, a freelance journalist based in Ecuador, talks with host Sarah Crespi about an effort to identify traditionally prepared shrunken heads in…

• Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability

  Feb 20, 2025 · 42:25

  First up this week, researchers face impossible decisions as U.S. aid freeze halts clinical trials. Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how…

• Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants

  Feb 13, 2025 · 39:05

  First up this week, International News Editor David Malakoff joins the podcast to discuss the big change in NIH’s funding policy for overhead or indirect costs, the outrage from…

• How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth

  Feb 6, 2025 · 26:55

  First up this week, Staff Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss mapping clogs and flows in Earth’s middle layer—the mantle. They also talk about recent policy…

• Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration

  Jan 30, 2025 · 26:59

  First up this week, we catch up with the editor of ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser. She talks about changes at the major science agencies that came about with the transition to…

• Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

  Jan 23, 2025 · 33:12

  First up this week, although long touted as a green fuel, the traditional approach to hydrogen production is not very sustainable. Staff writer Robert F. Service joins producer…

• Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters

  Jan 16, 2025 · 33:57

  First up this week, growing numbers of Valley fever cases, also known as coccidioidomycosis, has researchers looking into the disease-causing fungus. They’re exploring its links…

• Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

  Jan 9, 2025 · 32:34

  First up this week, as preprint publications ramped up during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, so did media attention for these pre–peer-review results. But what do the…

• On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

  Jan 2, 2025 · 28:33

  First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox talks with host Sarah Crespi about truffle hunting for science. Wilcox accompanied Heather Dawson, a Ph.D. student at the…

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