Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.
Former NASA Leaders Are Sounding the Alarm on Budget Cuts
16 mins; August 06, 2025
Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics
11 mins; August 04, 2025
Is AI Conscious? Claude 4 Raises the Question
22 mins; August 01, 2025
Your Guide to Summer’s Extreme Weather, from Corn Sweat to Flash Floods
9 mins; July 30, 2025
Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods
8 mins; July 28, 2025
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is at Risk—And So Are We
22 mins; July 25, 2025
What to Read on the Beach This Summer
10 mins; July 23, 2025
Time Travel to Tide Pool 101 from Our July 1925 Issue
8 mins; July 21, 2025
Dungeons and Dragons’ Popularity Grows—And Science Follows
21 mins; July 18, 2025
The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research
17 mins; July 16, 2025
This Surgery Can Lead to Weight Loss—But Stigma Is Harder to Shake Off
15 mins; July 14, 2025
Why Do We Sing? Musicologists and Neuroscientists Seek an Answer
24 mins; July 11, 2025
What Does an Ailing Coral Reef Sound Like?
16 mins; July 09, 2025
An Astronaut Shares His Passion for Space Photography—Live, from the ISS Cupola
17 mins; July 07, 2025
Move Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the Skies
16 mins; July 02, 2025
Talking to the Host of Drilled about the Legal Battles around Standing Rock
13 mins; June 30, 2025
How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)
32 mins; June 27, 2025
Bird Flu’s Jump to Cattle Took Dairy Farmers by Surprise (Part 2)
22 mins; June 25, 2025
How Bird Flu Went from an Isolated Avian Illness to a Human Pandemic Threat (Part 1)
31 mins; June 23, 2025
What No One Tells You about Testosterone Replacement Therapy
12 mins; June 20, 2025
Why Your Gut Loves a Good Workout
9 mins; June 18, 2025
CDC Vaccine Panel Fired by RFK, Jr., Oceans Grow More Acidic, and Pangolins Threatened by Hunting
10 mins; June 16, 2025
These Adorable Hamster Dads Take Fatherhood Seriously
12 mins; June 13, 2025
What ‘Immortal’ Jellyfish and Famously Old Tortoises Tell Us about Aging
14 mins; June 11, 2025
Cosmic Coin Toss, Record Heat in the North Atlantic and Living Worm Towers
8 mins; June 09, 2025
Is the National Weather Service Ready for an Extreme Summer?
14 mins; June 06, 2025
Megalodon Diets, Teeth Sensitivity and a Bunch of Vaccine News
8 mins; June 02, 2025
Are You Flourishing? This Global Study Has Surprising Takeaways
18 mins; May 30, 2025
Diagnosing Male Infertility with a Mechanical Engineering Twist
10 mins; May 28, 2025
Could We Speak to Dolphins? A Promising LLM Makes That a Possibility
19 mins; May 23, 2025
Do Mitochondria Talk to Each Other? A New Look at the Cell’s Powerhouse
27 mins; May 21, 2025
How to Make Gold, Flamingo Food Tornado, and Kosmos-482 Lands
8 mins; May 19, 2025
Could Freezing Arctic Sea Ice Combat Climate Change?
25 mins; May 16, 2025
How a West Texas Outbreak Threatens Measles Elimination Status
10 mins; May 14, 2025
Sinking Cities, Waving Cuttlefish and Falling Spacecraft
8 mins; May 12, 2025
This Podcast Was Recorded Inside a Particle Collider
18 mins; May 09, 2025
Rejecting Toxic Fitness Culture with Casey Johnston
17 mins; May 07, 2025
Jupiter’s Cyclones, Amazon’s Satellites and T. rex Collagen
9 mins; May 05, 2025
The Fungi Facing Extinction and the Conservationists Working Hard to Protect Them
12 mins; May 02, 2025
Griefbots Offer AI Connections with Deceased Loved Ones
16 mins; April 30, 2025
Scientific American in 1925: Solar Eclipses, Seances and Some Strange Inventions
9 mins; April 28, 2025
How to Become an Urban Naturalist
25 mins; April 25, 2025
Our Fear and Fascination around Snakes
16 mins; April 23, 2025
Childhood Illnesses Surge, Magnetic Poles Wandered, and a Colossal Squid Is Found
8 mins; April 21, 2025
From the Internet’s Beginnings to Our Understanding of Consciousness, This Editor Has Seen It All
20 mins; April 18, 2025
A Disinfectant That’s More Powerful Than Bleach—And Safe for Your Skin
14 mins; April 16, 2025
A Long Day on Uranus, a Better Method of Making Coffee and Dinos Fossils in Decline
8 mins; April 14, 2025
How Are Prenatal Blood Tests Detecting Cancer?
20 mins; April 11, 2025
Treating Bacterial Vaginosis as an STI Could Improve Outcomes
19 mins; April 09, 2025
How the Science of Safety Helps Tackle Global Risks [Sponsored]
16 mins; April 08, 2025
Yodeling Monkeys, Increasing Measles Cases and Stressed Out Americans
8 mins; April 07, 2025
Cutting USAID Threatens Public Health around the World
11 mins; April 04, 2025
Understanding the Science of ‘Squirting’
17 mins; April 02, 2025
Shark Sounds, Molecules on Mars and Continued Federal Cuts
9 mins; March 31, 2025
Go Inside M.I.T.'s 50,000 Square Foot Clean Room
20 mins; March 28, 2025
Are These Plants Out of Place? A New Look at Invasive Species
16 mins; March 26, 2025
NASA Astronauts Finally Return, Seals Hold Their Breath, and Penguin Poop Stresses Out Krill
10 mins; March 24, 2025
Severance’s Consulting Neurosurgeon Explains the Science behind the Show’s Brain Procedure
17 mins; March 21, 2025
What Everyone Gets Wrong about Colonoscopies
10 mins; March 19, 2025
NASA Launches New Missions, Saturn Gains Some Moons, and Whale Urine Balances Marine Ecosystems
9 mins; March 17, 2025
Movie Magic Meets Practical Robotics for Netflix’s The Electric State
17 mins; March 14, 2025
A Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposes U.S. Postpandemic Vulnerabilities
14 mins; March 12, 2025
Measles Misinformation, Ozone Recovery and Woolly Mice
10 mins; March 10, 2025
Author John Green on How Tuberculosis Shaped Our Modern World
11 mins; March 07, 2025
Must Be Microplastics on the Brain
14 mins; March 05, 2025
How Did a Volcano Turn a Brain to Glass? Plus, Measles, Mystery Illness and Microbes
9 mins; March 03, 2025
Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?
19 mins; February 28, 2025
Saying Farewell to the Spacecraft That Mapped the Milky Way
17 mins; February 26, 2025
Measles Outbreaks, Asteroid Risks and Fish Friends
7 mins; February 24, 2025
Where Did Curly Hair Come From? Biological Anthropology May Provide Insights
18 mins; February 21, 2025
Exploring the Hidden Life in the Air around Us with Carl Zimmer
16 mins; February 19, 2025
Valentine’s Day Isn’t Just for Romance—The Science of Deep Friendships
17 mins; February 14, 2025
An Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032. What Can We Do about It?
13 mins; February 12, 2025
Microplastics on the Mind, Superstrong Shrimp and Bird Flu Transmission
8 mins; February 10, 2025
Trump’s Executive Orders Create Confusion for Researchers
19 mins; February 07, 2025
Avoiding Outrage Fatigue in Overwhelming Times
8 mins; February 05, 2025
Tuberculosis Outbreak, RFK, Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings and Polar Bear Hair
11 mins; February 03, 2025
Are You Tired of Feeling Cynical? Hopeful Skepticism Could Be a Way Out
16 mins; January 31, 2025
Science Will Stare Directly Into the Sun--And Love It
12 mins; January 29, 2025
WHO Withdrawal, Bird Flu Updates and a Link between Fitness and Treatment Outcomes
10 mins; January 27, 2025
Combatting Climate Anxiety through Community Science
14 mins; January 24, 2025
What the End of U.S. Net Neutrality Means For You
10 mins; January 22, 2025
The Health Risks of Alcohol, a Red Dye Ban and Commercial Space Flights
7 mins; January 20, 2025
Do Pain and Joy Have a Universal Language?
19 mins; January 17, 2025
How the U.S. Mishandled the Early Days of Bird Flu
15 mins; January 15, 2025
Outbreaks of Norovirus, a Death from Bird Flu and Wildfires in L.A.
13 mins; January 13, 2025
Finding Pluto’s Potential Replacement with a Giant New Telescope
18 mins; January 10, 2025
Going Outside Can Change Our Hormones and Improve Microbiome Diversity
18 mins; January 08, 2025
A Farewell to 2024, and What We’re Following in the New Year
21 mins; December 23, 2024
The New Conservationists: Thanks to Conservation Efforts, Pandas, Wolves and Panthers Are Making a Comeback (Part 4)
23 mins; December 20, 2024
The New Conservationists: Meet the Next Generation of Conservationists (Part 3)
19 mins; December 18, 2024
The New Conservationists: AI is Making Meaning from the Sounds and Visuals of Wildlife (Part 2)
17 mins; December 16, 2024
The New Conservationists: Where Do Zoos Fit into the Conservation Puzzle? (Part 1)
18 mins; December 13, 2024
AI-Generated Audio Is Entering the Podcast World
24 mins; December 11, 2024
Leaded Gasoline, Orca Hats and ‘Disease X’
8 mins; December 09, 2024
Iron Deficiency and Anemia May Be More Common Than We Know
10 mins; December 06, 2024
Anthony Fauci Is Worried about Bird Flu—And How Our Divisions Could Help It Hurt Us
21 mins; December 04, 2024
A Psychologist’s Tips for Avoiding Overconsumption This Black Friday
15 mins; November 27, 2024
What RFK, Jr., Could Mean for Public Health, and How Tobacco Use Has Dropped Unevenly
