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Science Magazine Podcast

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

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50 episodes

Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds

Dec 19, 2024•—

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

Jan 9, 2025•—

Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

Jan 16, 2025•—

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

Jan 23, 2025•—

Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

Jan 30, 2025•—

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

Feb 6, 2025•—

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

Feb 13, 2025•—

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

Feb 20, 2025•—

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

Feb 27, 2025•—

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

Mar 6, 2025•—

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

Mar 13, 2025•—

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

Mar 20, 2025•—

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

Mar 27, 2025•—

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

Apr 3, 2025•—

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

Apr 10, 2025•—

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

Apr 17, 2025•—

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

Apr 24, 2025•—

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

May 1, 2025•—

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

May 8, 2025•—

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

May 15, 2025•—

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

May 22, 2025•—

Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’

May 29, 2025•—

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

Jun 5, 2025•—

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

Jun 12, 2025•—

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

Jun 19, 2025•—

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

Jun 26, 2025•—

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

Jul 3, 2025•—

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

Jul 10, 2025•—

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

Jul 17, 2025•—

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

Jul 24, 2025•—

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

Jul 31, 2025•—

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

Aug 7, 2025•—

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

Aug 14, 2025•—

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

Aug 21, 2025•—

New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America

Aug 28, 2025•—

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

Sep 4, 2025•—

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

Sep 11, 2025•—

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

Sep 18, 2025•—

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

Sep 25, 2025•—

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

Oct 2, 2025•—

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

Oct 9, 2025•—

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

Oct 16, 2025•—

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

Oct 23, 2025•—

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

Oct 30, 2025•—

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

Nov 6, 2025•—

Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse

Nov 13, 2025•—

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

Nov 20, 2025•—

A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

Nov 27, 2025•—

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

Dec 4, 2025•—

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