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Science Magazine Podcast

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

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

Science Magazine Podcast

50:31Apr 16, 2026
The Normals | Episode 2 artwork

The Normals | Episode 2

Science Magazine Podcast

27:19Apr 14, 2026
A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

42:15Apr 9, 2026
The Normals | Episode 1 artwork

The Normals | Episode 1

Science Magazine Podcast

23:42Apr 7, 2026
Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

33:32Apr 2, 2026
Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

36:52Mar 26, 2026
Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

33:28Mar 19, 2026
What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

42:50Mar 12, 2026
An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

38:19Mar 5, 2026
Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

32:17Feb 26, 2026
Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

41:16Feb 19, 2026
Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form artwork

Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

Science Magazine Podcast

34:00Feb 12, 2026
Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses artwork

Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses

Science Magazine Podcast

39:47Feb 5, 2026
Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

38:39Jan 29, 2026
Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

32:27Jan 22, 2026
Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

30:26Jan 15, 2026
The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

27:31Jan 8, 2026
Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

43:29Jan 1, 2026
This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories artwork

This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

Science Magazine Podcast

33:58Dec 18, 2025
Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat artwork

Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat

Science Magazine Podcast

27:59Dec 11, 2025
Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics artwork

Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics

Science Magazine Podcast

38:00Dec 4, 2025
When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat artwork

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

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26:21Nov 27, 2025
A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research artwork

A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

Science Magazine Podcast

32:35Nov 20, 2025
Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

28:13Nov 13, 2025
Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse artwork

Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse

Science Magazine Podcast

35:03Nov 6, 2025
Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

45:27Oct 30, 2025
The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

27:13Oct 23, 2025
Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

26:38Oct 16, 2025
How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

37:00Oct 9, 2025
A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

34:48Oct 2, 2025
Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

46:22Sep 25, 2025
Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

35:00Sep 18, 2025
An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

35:14Sep 11, 2025
Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

32:57Sep 4, 2025
A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

55:07Aug 28, 2025
New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America artwork

New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America

Science Magazine Podcast

32:07Aug 21, 2025
Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing? artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

31:53Aug 14, 2025
Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

28:08Aug 7, 2025
Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

51:33Jul 31, 2025
Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

34:45Jul 24, 2025
Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

36:50Jul 17, 2025
A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

25:52Jul 10, 2025
Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

31:12Jul 3, 2025
Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

44:57Jun 26, 2025
How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

37:25Jun 19, 2025
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

37:22Jun 12, 2025
Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

42:05Jun 5, 2025
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

52:30May 29, 2025
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’ artwork

Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’

Science Magazine Podcast

40:13May 22, 2025
A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

30:27May 15, 2025