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Science Magazine Podcast

626 episodes

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

Science Magazine Podcast

39:47Feb 5, 2026

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

Science Magazine Podcast

32:27Jan 22, 2026

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

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27:31Jan 8, 2026

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

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33:58Dec 18, 2025

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

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38:00Dec 4, 2025

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

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32:35Nov 20, 2025

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

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

Science Magazine Podcast

45:27Oct 30, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

26:38Oct 16, 2025

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

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

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46:22Sep 25, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

35:14Sep 11, 2025

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

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55:07Aug 28, 2025

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?

Science Magazine Podcast

31:53Aug 14, 2025

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

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51:33Jul 31, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

36:50Jul 17, 2025

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

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

Science Magazine Podcast

44:57Jun 26, 2025

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

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

Science Magazine Podcast

42:05Jun 5, 2025

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’

Science Magazine Podcast

40:13May 22, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

30:27May 15, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

33:17May 8, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

32:28May 1, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

45:52Apr 24, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

26:36Apr 17, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

28:34Apr 10, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

31:56Apr 3, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

32:46Mar 27, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

38:13Mar 20, 2025

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

Science Magazine Podcast

42:40Mar 13, 2025

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

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55:09Mar 6, 2025

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

Science Magazine Podcast

35:58Feb 27, 2025