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Science Magazine Podcast

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

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

Science Magazine Podcast

38:04Aug 6, 2026
AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

46:56Jul 30, 2026
Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters artwork

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

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37:24Jul 23, 2026
Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere artwork

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

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41:53Jul 16, 2026
Owl wars and the immune system’s memory artwork

Owl wars and the immune system’s memory

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35:10Jul 9, 2026
How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic artwork

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

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32:46Jul 2, 2026
Cracking color vision, U.S. science policy changes, and a trailblazing biography artwork

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

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45:06Jun 25, 2026
An electronic nose that detects spoiled chicken, and wolves make a spectacular comeback in Europe artwork

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

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46:56Jun 18, 2026
How childhood environments shape the brain, and how susceptible is the Atlantic Ocean’s current to climate change? artwork

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

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31:32Jun 11, 2026
Will AI replace astronomers, how healthy are ultraprocessed foods, and a peek behind the scenes of ‘The Normals’ artwork

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

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50:03Jun 4, 2026
Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time artwork

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

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45:22May 28, 2026
USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world artwork

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

Science Magazine Podcast

41:21May 21, 2026
Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body artwork

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

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31:54May 14, 2026
A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment artwork

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

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53:53May 7, 2026
Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame artwork

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

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46:43Apr 30, 2026
Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer artwork

Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

Science Magazine Podcast

30:48Apr 23, 2026
The normals | Episode 3 artwork

The normals | Episode 3

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33:22Apr 21, 2026
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

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

The Normals | Episode 2

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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

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

The Normals | Episode 1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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35:14Sep 11, 2025