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Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.

COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters

6 mins; August 27, 2021

Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything'

4 mins; August 24, 2021

Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic

5 mins; August 20, 2021

The Incredible, Reanimated 24,000-Year-Old Rotifer

5 mins; August 17, 2021

Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes

3 mins; August 12, 2021

Inside Millions of Invisible Droplets, Potential Superbug Killers Grow

6 mins; August 10, 2021

The Secret behind Songbirds' Magnetic Migratory Sense

2 mins; August 04, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots

6 mins; July 30, 2021

The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Touch [Sponsored]

5 mins; July 22, 2021

Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats' Radar

2 mins; July 21, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 11: Vaccine Booster Shots, and Reopening Offices Safely

5 mins; July 16, 2021

Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning

4 mins; July 07, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 10: Long Haulers, Delta Woes and Barbershop Shots

7 mins; July 01, 2021

This Newly Discovered Species of Tree Hyrax Goes Bark in the Night

5 mins; June 23, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots

5 mins; June 18, 2021

Animal Kids Listen to Their Parents Even before Birth

5 mins; June 16, 2021

For African Elephants, Pee Could Be a Potent Trail Marker

2 mins; June 11, 2021

A 'Universal' Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic

5 mins; June 09, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic's True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate

5 mins; June 04, 2021

Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age, Most Adorable Study of the Year Confirms

4 mins; June 03, 2021

New 3-D-Printed Material Is Tough, Flexible--and Alive

5 mins; June 02, 2021

Bats on Helium Reveal an Innate Sense of the Speed of Sound

4 mins; May 28, 2021

The Dirty Secret behind Some of the World's Earliest Microscopes

3 mins; May 26, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 7: The Coming Pandemic Grief Wave, and Mask Whiplash

7 mins; May 21, 2021

Math and Sleuthing Help to Explain Epidemics of the Past

7 mins; May 20, 2021

Who Laps Whom on the Walking Track--Tyrannosaurus rex or You? Science Has a New Answer

2 mins; May 14, 2021

Artificial Light Keeps Mosquitoes Biting Late into the Night

4 mins; May 11, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 6: The Real Reason for India's Surge and Mask Liftoff

5 mins; May 07, 2021

Male Lyrebirds Lie to Get Sex

5 mins; May 04, 2021

Lovebirds Adore Our Inefficient Air-Conditioning

4 mins; April 27, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 5: Vaccine Safety in Pregnancy, Blood Clots and Long-Haul Realities

5 mins; April 23, 2021

Beehives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes

2 mins; April 20, 2021

These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs

2 mins; April 16, 2021

To Fight Climate Change: Grow a Floating Forest, Then Sink It

5 mins; April 12, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 4: The Virtual Vaccine Line and Shots for Kids

5 mins; April 09, 2021

Big Physics News: The Muon g-2 Experiment Explained

7 mins; April 07, 2021

Boston's Pigeons Coo, 'Wicked'; New York's Birds Coo, 'Fuhgeddaboudit'

3 mins; April 05, 2021

Imperiled Freshwater Turtles Are Eating Plastics--Science Is Just Revealing the Threat

5 mins; March 31, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 3: Vaccine Inequality--plus Your Body the Variant Fighter

5 mins; March 26, 2021

Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors

2 mins; March 24, 2021

Smartphones Can Hear the Shape of Your Door Keys

3 mins; March 18, 2021

Chimpanzees Show Altruism while Gathering around the Juice Fountain

4 mins; March 16, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 2: Lessons from a Pandemic Year

5 mins; March 11, 2021

That Mouse in Your House--It's Smarter, Thanks to You

2 mins; March 09, 2021

Kangaroos with Puppy Dog Eyes

4 mins; March 04, 2021

COVID, Quickly, Episode 1: Vaccines, Variants and Diabetes

4 mins; February 26, 2021

Machine Learning Pwns Old-School Atari Games

7 mins; February 25, 2021

E-Eggs Track Turtle Traffickers

4 mins; February 22, 2021

Bromances Could Lead to More Romances for Male Hyenas

3 mins; February 10, 2021

A Heroic Effort to Measure Helium

4 mins; February 05, 2021

Science News Briefs from around the World

2 mins; February 01, 2021

Scientists Take a Cattle Head Count in India

2 mins; January 28, 2021

Ancient Dogs Had Complex Genetic Histories

3 mins; January 21, 2021

Bees Use 'Bullshit' Defense to Keep Giant Hornets at Bay

5 mins; January 11, 2021

Humans May Have Befriended Wolves with Meat

1 min; January 07, 2021

How to Avoid Becoming a Meal for a Cheetah

4 mins; January 06, 2021

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Shaped Our Language in 2020

2 mins; January 01, 2021

Science News Briefs from around the Planet

1 min; December 28, 2020

Ravens Measure Up to Great Apes on Intelligence

2 mins; December 22, 2020

Baby Bees Deprive Caregivers of Sleep

3 mins; December 21, 2020

How the Wolves Change the Forest

5 mins; December 17, 2020

Brain Sides Are Both Busy in New Language Learning

3 mins; December 16, 2020

A Nurse's Message about the COVID-19 Vaccine

2 mins; December 15, 2020

Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum

3 mins; December 12, 2020

This Bat Wears a Face Mask

3 mins; December 11, 2020

The Denisovans Expand Their Range into China

2 mins; December 02, 2020

Undersea Earthquakes Reveal Sound Warming Info

3 mins; November 30, 2020

Duckbill Dino Odyssey Ended in Africa

3 mins; November 24, 2020

Early Mammals Had Social Lives, Too

2 mins; November 18, 2020

Science News Briefs from All Over

2 mins; November 17, 2020

Divide and Conquer Could Be Good COVID Strategy

2 mins; November 12, 2020

Zebra Coloration Messes With Fly Eyes

3 mins; November 10, 2020

Science Sound(E)scapes: Head Banging and Howling in the Amazon

9 mins; November 06, 2020

Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Frog Choruses at Night

6 mins; November 05, 2020

Science Sound(E)scapes: Amazon Pink River Dolphins

9 mins; November 04, 2020

Frog Vocals Lead to Small Preference

3 mins; November 03, 2020

Science News Briefs from around the Globe

2 mins; November 02, 2020

Election Science Stakes: Technology

3 mins; November 01, 2020

Election Science Stakes: Energy

3 mins; October 30, 2020

Election Science Stakes: Environment

2 mins; October 29, 2020

Election Science Stakes: Climate

4 mins; October 28, 2020

Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health

3 mins; October 27, 2020

Election 2020: The Stakes for Science

2 mins; October 26, 2020

Why Some Easter Island Statues Are Where They Are

2 mins; October 25, 2020

Acorn Woodpeckers Fight Long, Bloody Territorial Wars

3 mins; October 23, 2020

Funky Cheese Rinds Release an Influential Stench

2 mins; October 22, 2020

Dinosaur Asteroid Hit Worst-Case Place

3 mins; October 21, 2020

River Ecosystem Restoration Can Mean Just Add Water

3 mins; October 20, 2020

3,000-Year-Old Orbs Provide a Glimpse of Ancient Sport

1 min; October 18, 2020

Humans Make Wild Animals Less Wary

3 mins; October 16, 2020

Play Helped Dogs Be Our Best Friends

3 mins; October 13, 2020

Neandertal DNA May Be COVID Risk

2 mins; October 10, 2020

Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses

3 mins; October 08, 2020

Blue Whale Song Timing Reveals Time to Go

3 mins; October 07, 2020

New Nobel Laureate Talks Today's Virology

3 mins; October 05, 2020

Greenland Is Melting Faster Than Any Time in Past 12,000 Years

2 mins; October 03, 2020

Sloths Slowly Cavort by Day Now

3 mins; October 02, 2020

Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too

3 mins; September 28, 2020

Fluttering Feathers Could Spawn New Species

2 mins; September 24, 2020

Science News from around the World

2 mins; September 22, 2020

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