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What Are Monoclonal Antibodies? (w/ Dr. Lawrence Purpura)
12 mins; December 15, 2020
Why Birds Wore Funny Hats for Science
13 mins; December 14, 2020
Are Sleep-Deprived Men More Masculine?
15 mins; December 11, 2020
Insecure People Use More Jargon
12 mins; December 10, 2020
Why Don’t We Have Battery-Powered Airplanes?
13 mins; December 09, 2020
Laziness Isn’t What You Think (w/ Dr. Devon Price)
13 mins; December 08, 2020
Why You Need Self-Compassion for Self-Improvement
13 mins; December 07, 2020
Why It’s Relaxing to Breathe in Through Your Nose
0 secs; December 04, 2020
Why Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs
0 secs; December 03, 2020
The Smells That Existed Before Earth (w/ Harold McGee)
0 secs; December 02, 2020
Scientists Finally Found a Dinosaur Cloaca
0 secs; December 01, 2020
The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email
0 secs; November 30, 2020
Is That Real Money or Fun Money? The Trap of Mental Accounting
0 secs; November 27, 2020
The More You Wish for Self-Control, the Less of It You Have
0 secs; November 26, 2020
Do Turkeys Really Drown in Rainstorms?
0 secs; November 25, 2020
What People Get Wrong About Evolution (w/ Neil Shubin)
0 secs; November 24, 2020
Venus Flytraps Store Short-Term “Memories”
0 secs; November 23, 2020
Do Rocket Stages Ever Hit Ships? (w/ NASA’s Cody Chambers)
0 secs; November 20, 2020
Why Is Life Based on Carbon and Not Silicon?
0 secs; November 19, 2020
What to Do When You Make the Wrong Decision (w/ Annie Duke)
0 secs; November 18, 2020
The Best Time to Make a Gut Decision (w/ Annie Duke)
0 secs; November 17, 2020
4 of the World's Weirdest Weather Phenomena
0 secs; November 16, 2020
Why Are Spacesuits White?
0 secs; November 13, 2020
Befriend Cats with the Slow Blink
0 secs; November 12, 2020
Why Bugs Are Basically Robots (w/ Alie Ward)
0 secs; November 11, 2020
Ask Smart People Stupid Questions (w/ Alie Ward)
0 secs; November 10, 2020
Why You Need a Virtual Commute
0 secs; November 09, 2020
You Can Control Your Dreams with Science
0 secs; November 06, 2020
A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness
0 secs; November 05, 2020
5G Might Impair Weather Forecasts
0 secs; November 04, 2020
How to Make the Most of Your Negativity Bias (w/ John Tierney)
0 secs; November 03, 2020
Can a Selfie Screen You for Heart Disease?
0 secs; November 02, 2020
The Door to Hell Is a Fiery Pit That’s Been Burning Since 1971
0 secs; October 30, 2020
Baby Tortoises Love Faces, and That’s a Big Deal for Science
0 secs; October 29, 2020
Einstein Worried That Science Can't Explain "The Now"
0 secs; October 28, 2020
How Hollywood Gets Seances Wrong
0 secs; October 27, 2020
How 19th-Century Body-Snatchers Contributed to Medical Science
0 secs; October 26, 2020
Could Parasites Turn Us into Zombies?
0 secs; October 23, 2020
The Martian Moon Phobos Creates a Yearly Solar Eclipse
0 secs; October 22, 2020
Viking Was a Job Description, Not Heredity
0 secs; October 21, 2020
Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey into Extinction?
0 secs; October 20, 2020
Why Social Isolation Could Breed Conspiracy Theorists
0 secs; October 19, 2020
How Romantic Partners Influence Each Other's Relationship Goals
0 secs; October 16, 2020
Our Ability to Drink Milk Evolved Way Faster Than Scientists Thought
0 secs; October 15, 2020
How Superstitions Can Reduce Anxiety
0 secs; October 14, 2020
Hacking Earth to Fight Climate Change
0 secs; October 13, 2020
Earth's Atmosphere May Be Rusting the Moon
0 secs; October 12, 2020
It’s “Patient O,” Not “Patient Zero”
0 secs; October 09, 2020
How Cold Was the Last Ice Age?
0 secs; October 08, 2020
How Scientists Teleported Fish Behavior
0 secs; October 07, 2020
How Cancer Evolves in the Body (w/ Dr. Kat Arney)
0 secs; October 06, 2020
3 Mythological Creatures That Were Inspired by Real Fossils
0 secs; October 05, 2020
Why The Mantis Shrimp Can Punch So Hard Without Damage
0 secs; October 02, 2020
What Happens When You Pull a Muscle?
12 mins; October 01, 2020
The Dirty, Smelly History of Soap (w/ Cody Cassidy)
11 mins; September 30, 2020
Who Ate the First Oyster? (With Cody Cassidy)
12 mins; September 29, 2020
Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science (Again!)
11 mins; September 28, 2020
Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science
11 mins; September 28, 2020
Why Don't We Sneeze in Our Sleep?
13 mins; September 25, 2020
The Math Bias That Makes You Misjudge COVID-19
12 mins; September 24, 2020
Wildfires Can Create Their Own Storms
12 mins; September 23, 2020
Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking
10 mins; September 22, 2020
Why Do Young People Have More DĂ©jĂ  Vu?
12 mins; September 21, 2020
Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling
9 mins; September 18, 2020
Why You Think You’re Too Smart for Ads, Studying Violinists to Understand Human Synchrony, and Relieving Pain by Holding Hands
9 mins; September 17, 2020
A Dark Sense of Humor May Mean a High IQ, Origin of the Word Orange, and Zombie Fires in the Arctic
9 mins; September 16, 2020
Can Smiling Actually Make You Happier? And Why a Clockmaker Figured Out Longitude
8 mins; September 15, 2020
Two Types of Empathy, Why Razors Dull, and Can You Learn Perfect Pitch?
11 mins; September 14, 2020
We All Think We’re Bad With Names, The Genius of Hobo Code, and How Attractive Do You Think You Are?
12 mins; September 11, 2020
A Harmful Mutation Evolved for Good, Why Astronauts Are Using Old Sailing Tech in Space, and Cody’s Message
11 mins; September 10, 2020
The Rando Who Translated Gilgamesh, Why Horses Lost Their Toes, and a Sperm-Swimming Discovery
10 mins; September 09, 2020
Difference Between Unscented & Fragrance-Free and Cow Gene Editing for More Male Offspring
9 mins; September 08, 2020
Short-Term Pleasures Are Important Too, the Smelly Armpit Enzyme, and a Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star
12 mins; September 07, 2020
The Myth of Pregnancy Cravings, Why Raindrops Don’t Damage Insect Wings, and August’s Curiosity Challenge Trivia
12 mins; September 04, 2020
Aggression and Epigenetics (w/ Bill Sullivan), Calm Down with Box Breathing, and How Anglerfish Fuse Without Immune Rejection
14 mins; September 03, 2020
The Invisible Forces Controlling You (w/ Bill Sullivan), You Daydream Surprisingly Often, and Ancient Greek Temples Were Built on Fault Lines on Purpose
12 mins; September 02, 2020
Normalcy Bounces Back Quickly in Times of Stress and the Female Astronauts of the Mercury 13
8 mins; September 01, 2020
How Blind People Describe Animals, Plague Myths About “Ring Around the Rosie,” and Radiation Shields Made from Fungus
9 mins; August 31, 2020
Do Masks Stunt Emotional Development? Plus: Human Ears Perk Up, Too, and Why Your Shower Curtain Clings To You
13 mins; August 28, 2020
What to Do When Your Pet Is Scared, You Have Microbes Inside Your Cells, and Meet Natalia Reagan (Again!)
12 mins; August 27, 2020
Dying People Can Probably Hear You, Mapmakers Catch Copycats with Paper Towns, and How Woodpeckers Shut Down a NASA Launch
10 mins; August 26, 2020
What If You Stopped Showering (w/ James Hamblin) and Are Some Trees Immortal?
11 mins; August 25, 2020
A Science-Backed Workout in 10 Minutes, How Collective Narcissism Makes Groups Toxic, and How Dolphins Make Friends
12 mins; August 24, 2020
Zoos Have Their Own Dating Apps, Why Grease Is Hard to Clean Off Plastic, and You Don’t Have to Be Married to Be Happy
12 mins; August 21, 2020
Are There Really Wasps in Figs? Plus: People Like Round Numbers Even When They’re Bad
8 mins; August 20, 2020
Building Healthier Cities (w/ Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar), 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor Core, and Why Spaghetti Breaks in Three
11 mins; August 19, 2020
How the Environment Affects Your Health (w/ Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar) and How Polynesians Mingled with Native Americans 800 Years Ago
12 mins; August 18, 2020
You Create False Memories of Daily Tasks, Dogs Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field, and There’s No Up or Down in Space
10 mins; August 17, 2020
Why the US Military Made Shark Repellant, Why Moths Are Drawn to Lights, and the Difference Between Mummies and Fossils
13 mins; August 14, 2020
Finding Lost Shark Species (w/ Forrest Galante) and the 2 Types of Nostalgia
14 mins; August 13, 2020
Sharks Aren’t Just Apex Predators (w/ Forrest Galante), How Cats Affect Online Dating, and When Giant Prehistoric Sea Scorpions Ruled the Seas
13 mins; August 12, 2020
Can Sharks Smell Blood from a Mile Away? Plus: Dual-Uterus Sharks and How Interstellar Travel Will Change Language
10 mins; August 11, 2020
Why People Are Afraid of Sharks, Discovery of 4 “Walking” Shark Species, and Fighting Climate Change with Rocks
10 mins; August 10, 2020
Parents’ Brains Sync When They’re Together, the Genius Math Behind Credit Card Numbers, and July’s Curiosity Challenge Trivia
10 mins; August 07, 2020
Why Religious People Have More Children, Sea Turtles’ Clumsy Navigation Skills, and the Real Center of Our Solar System Isn’t the Sun
12 mins; August 06, 2020
How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, The Venomous Dinosaur from Jurassic Park IRL, and All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe
13 mins; August 05, 2020
You Have Tiny Rocks in Your Ears, How Artists’ Personas Influence Your Music Choices, and Chemotherapy Began as a Chemical Weapon
13 mins; August 04, 2020
Why Some Words Are More Memorable, How Hair Growth Works, and How Fish End Up in Landlocked Lakes
11 mins; August 03, 2020
Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App
11 mins; July 31, 2020
Why New Habits Have to Be Tiny (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and Why Human Infants Are Late Bloomers
12 mins; July 30, 2020
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