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Praising Competitors, Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, Rock Paper Scissors History

4 mars 2022 | 22 min

“Like Riding a Bike,” Paradoxes, That Fresh Rain Smell

3 mars 2022 | 14 min

Glow-in-the-Dark Cities, Feeling Holes, Max Volume on Earth

2 mars 2022 | 19 min

Remembering Gifts, Animal Diets, Amazon-Sahara Connection

25 februari 2022 | 13 min

The Medicinal Power of Plants, World Record Internet Speed

24 februari 2022 | 17 min

Butterfly Effect, How to Cry at Work, Eggcorns in Language

23 februari 2022 | 14 min

How Science Works (w/ Bill Nye), Noise-Canceling Lungs, Stomach Growls

18 februari 2022 | 16 min

Tool Use and Language in the Brain, Why Black Holes Get Bigger

17 februari 2022 | 13 min

Back Pain in Space, Cats’ Mental Maps, Diamond Davemaoite

16 februari 2022 | 18 min

Opposites Don’t Attract, Liking What’s Nearby, Last Name History

11 februari 2022 | 11 min

Puppy Anxiety Fixes and Avoiding “Back Burner” Relationships

10 februari 2022 | 18 min

Mimetic Desires, Testing Witness Memories, Fermilab’s Ferret

9 februari 2022 | 18 min

Your Romantic Relationships Are All Similar, Oldest Material on Earth, Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses

4 februari 2022 | 11 min

Giant Cheese Race, “Morning You,” Consciousness-Altering Eye Contact

3 februari 2022 | 16 min

Talking to Whales, Pedestrian Patterns, Women’s Competitiveness

2 februari 2022 | 14 min

Virtual Gathering Tips, Bilingual Pain, Largest Waterfalls

28 januari 2022 | 13 min

A Lost Roman Sauce, Earlier Puberty, Elephants Getting Tusks Back

27 januari 2022 | 16 min

Bombing Volcanoes, Gold from Neutron Stars, Mind Wandering

26 januari 2022 | 13 min

Brain Freeze, Neural Networks, Spaced Repetition for Memory

21 januari 2022 | 13 min

Turn Anxiety into Productivity and Grapefruit Juice vs. Meds

20 januari 2022 | 17 min

Pre-Performance Routines, Panda Camouflage, Baby Sign Language

19 januari 2022 | 13 min

Why You Should Reveal Your Failures, WASP-12b, Tulip Mania

14 januari 2022 | 12 min

Linguistic Laws in Nature and Fatherless Condor Chicks from Parthenogenesis

13 januari 2022 | 11 min

Exercising for Body Image, Ideal Deadlines, Longer Days from Climate Change

12 januari 2022 | 13 min

Quitting Smoking, Over-Practicing, Bill Nye on Believing Science

7 januari 2022 | 14 min

David Copperfield’s Magic on the Moon, Fish and Whale Tails, a Giant Magnetic Tunnel

6 januari 2022 | 14 min

David Copperfield Talks Technology and Magic History

5 januari 2022 | 17 min

Christmas Music Psychology, Most Influential Films, Mistletoe Science

20 december 2021 | 23 min

Future GMO Foods, The Thought Gap, How Your Brain Knows You’re Uncomfortable

17 december 2021 | 13 min

Introducing: Dogs 101

17 december 2021 | 41 min

GMO Food Science 101 and How to Hear Someone in a Noisy Room

16 december 2021 | 16 min

Why You Get Carsick, Climate-Saving Whales, Jupiter’s Rings

15 december 2021 | 15 min

Cartoony Robots, Naloxone Myths, Why Dishwashers Dull Knives

10 december 2021 | 16 min

Irrational Fear of Robots; Mozart’s Epilepsy-Reducing Sonata

9 december 2021 | 16 min

Why Limits Make You Lash Out, Cash vs Cards, Odds of Dying

8 december 2021 | 13 min

Medical Value of Mystical Experiences and the Neutron’s Lifetime

7 december 2021 | 12 min

Heat Through Your Head, Red Blood Cell Immunity, Venus Oceans

6 december 2021 | 12 min

#NoMakeup Fail, Photosynthetic Frogs, Why Atoms Don’t Collapse

3 december 2021 | 14 min

Mars’ Jezero Crater Was a Lake and AR to Cure Fear of Spiders

2 december 2021 | 12 min

Drinking to Cope, Human Brains Shrank, High Heels History

1 december 2021 | 16 min

Does Truth Serum Really Work? and Geology from Indigenous Myth

30 november 2021 | 11 min

Socializing Too Much, Rogue Planets, Ancient Persian AC

29 november 2021 | 13 min

Hostile Holiday Shopping, Why Cats Love Boxes, Beethoven’s 10th

26 november 2021 | 16 min

Sports Fans’ Brains, Hunger After Overeating, the IKEA Effect

25 november 2021 | 11 min

Family Meal Peacekeeping, Food Coma Science, Etiquette Tips

24 november 2021 | 13 min

A New Stonehenge Discovery and Why Females Feel Colder

23 november 2021 | 15 min

Psychedelic Therapy History, Cold Showers, Only Child Myth

22 november 2021 | 15 min

Birthday Effect, Psychological Richness, Star or Satellite?

19 november 2021 | 20 min

Left Digit Bias w/ Dr. Bapu Jena and Bird-Catching Neanderthals

18 november 2021 | 14 min

How to Clean Your Teeth, 52 Blue, Best Way to Argue with a Partner

17 november 2021 | 13 min

Magic Mushroom Evolution and When Kids Gain Theory of Mind

16 november 2021 | 10 min

Circumtriple Planets, Deep Convos with Strangers, Thomassons in Architecture

15 november 2021 | 13 min

Changing Someone’s Identity, Mushballs on Uranus and Neptune, Curiosity Challenge

12 november 2021 | 15 min

How to Talk to a Science Denier and Raining Sulfur in Sodom

11 november 2021 | 17 min

Finding Dark Energy, Coelacanth Revival, Words of Persuasion

10 november 2021 | 12 min

Why Asthma Gets Worse at Night, Earth’s Largest Living Thing

9 november 2021 | 10 min

Smallest Flying Tech, Myers-Briggs Myth, Brazil Nut Effect

8 november 2021 | 13 min

Adjusting to Time Changes, Saving Jungles, Spiky Ice Cubes

5 november 2021 | 16 min

Jungles’ Impact on Climate Change and a Music-Epidemic Link

4 november 2021 | 15 min

Specialness Spirals and How Much You Will (and Have) Changed (1000th Episode!)

3 november 2021 | 19 min

mRNA Vaccines Are Decades Old and Why White Animal Bellies?

2 november 2021 | 11 min

Crowds Fix Fake News, Choking Under Pressure, Punching Robot Shrimp

1 november 2021 | 13 min

New Twist on Merlin, Giraffe Hearts, What Carbon Neutral Means

29 oktober 2021 | 16 min

Leeches in Medicine, Potty Training Cows, the Math of Eggs

28 oktober 2021 | 15 min

Fidget-Hating Misokinesia, Blood Fainting, Infrasound Ghosts

27 oktober 2021 | 16 min

Synced Heartbeats During Stories, Vampire Bats’ Social Meals

26 oktober 2021 | 9 min

Early Warning Birds, Ancient Fairy Tales, Breaks vs. Sprains

25 oktober 2021 | 14 min

Art in Space, Screen Time in Lockdown, Mold vs. Chemicals

22 oktober 2021 | 17 min

How Space Changed NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott’s Perspective; Plus, Whistled Languages

21 oktober 2021 | 14 min

A Historic Friendship, Pumpkin Care, Declaring Sovereignty

20 oktober 2021 | 14 min

Animals Shapeshifting to Stay Cool, Albert Einstein’s Brain

19 oktober 2021 | 10 min

Your Extra Artery, Emotional Hangovers, LEDs Are Bad for Bugs

18 oktober 2021 | 13 min

Overfeeding Dogs, Suffrajitsu, and Does Wind Affect Sound?

15 oktober 2021 | 16 min

Protecting Pets from Home Chemicals and How Resilience Works

14 oktober 2021 | 15 min

Bacterial Electric Grid, Females Fight Back, Why Tea Leaves Sink

13 oktober 2021 | 14 min

Muscles Remember Training and a Black Hole Made a Star Explode

12 oktober 2021 | 11 min

School Should Start Later, Daydreaming Perks, Hycean Planets

11 oktober 2021 | 14 min

Simple Wildlife Solutions, Sunlight’s Sexy Hormones, Trivia

8 oktober 2021 | 15 min

Human-Wildlife Conflict and Believing Leisure Is a Waste of Time

7 oktober 2021 | 14 min

Pills Can Detect Radiation, Metabolism Myth, Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed

6 oktober 2021 | 15 min

“Mini Brains” That Grew Eyes and How the FDA Saved Babies

5 oktober 2021 | 10 min

Psychology of Online Trolls, Rattlesnake Illusions, Blazars

4 oktober 2021 | 14 min

Blowhole Origins, Weather Manipulation, How to Slow Aging

1 oktober 2021 | 16 min

Could Science Stop Aging? And the Milky Way’s “Broken Arm”

30 september 2021 | 16 min

Future You Is a Stranger, Babylonian Trig, Reversed Organs

29 september 2021 | 14 min

Your Second Brain, Jupiter’s Hot Atmosphere, Placebo Buttons

28 september 2021 | 15 min

Moral Outrage Online, Cuttlefish Memory, Sounds Have Shapes

27 september 2021 | 13 min

Mass Hysteria, Why You Say “Like,” Beauty’s Moral Value

24 september 2021 | 17 min

Psychosomatic Illnesses and Seeing Behind a Black Hole

23 september 2021 | 14 min

Time Crystals, Freeze-Dried Sperm, and Batching Tasks

22 september 2021 | 15 min

Monks Meditating After Death and a Marathoning Woolly Mammoth

21 september 2021 | 11 min

Sleep Munchies, Ancient Greek Ship Found, Relationship Trick

20 september 2021 | 14 min

Nudge Theory’s Dark Side (w/ Richard Thaler), Hybrid Fruit Science, Words for “Pirate”

17 september 2021 | 18 min

Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler on How Nudge Changed the World — Plus, Squirrel-Inspired Robots

16 september 2021 | 14 min

Apes Say Hello, Life on Snowball Earth, Learn Twice as Fast

15 september 2021 | 14 min

Earth’s Core Growing Lopsided and the Science of Gut Feelings

14 september 2021 | 13 min

Backward Letters, Dogs Detect Lies, Neutron Star Mountains

13 september 2021 | 13 min

Learning to Read Right, Risks of Trusting Science, Trivia

10 september 2021 | 14 min

Emily Oster on Parenting Decisions, A New Type of Supernova

9 september 2021 | 16 min

Why Facts Don’t Win Arguments, SETI 101, Self-Control Pitfalls

8 september 2021 | 13 min

Mapping the Ocean, Soap-Making Cells, Crows Comprehend Zero

7 september 2021 | 14 min

Road to the 8-Hour Workday, the Liking Gap, Shocking Tomatoes

6 september 2021 | 14 min

Fossil Prep Mistakes, 1840s Electric Cars, Tip of Your Tongue

3 september 2021 | 16 min

Dino Fossil Preparation and Newborns “Dream” About the World

2 september 2021 | 14 min

Diderot Effect, Animated Cave Art, Running Benefits Your Knees

1 september 2021 | 15 min

Infinity in a Used Prayer Book and Vampire-Like Sea Slugs

31 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Talkers Are Leaders, DNA Evidence Myth, Thinking Sans Brain

30 augusti 2021 | 14 min

How COVID Tests Work, Making Decisions with Math, Dog Talent

27 augusti 2021 | 16 min

Turning the Table on Addictive Apps, Black Hole Reflections

26 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Alibi Memory, Denisova Cave History, Cleaning Fruit & Veggies

25 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Pirates Plundered the Metric System, What Marsquakes Teach Us

24 augusti 2021 | 12 min

Romanesco Fractals, Dolphin Names & Evolution vs. Mating

23 augusti 2021 | 15 min

Hamster Microwave, Are Humans Still Evolving?, Art Is Better in a Museum

20 augusti 2021 | 14 min

Easter Island Mythbusting and the Universe’s Expansion Rate

19 augusti 2021 | 11 min

Volcano Perks, Club Soda vs. Seltzer, How to Procrastinate Correctly

18 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Hygiene Hypothesis, Ancient Coronavirus, Black Hole Eats Neutron Star

17 augusti 2021 | 14 min

Cognitive Flexibility, Arctic Dinosaurs, Noctilucent Clouds

16 augusti 2021 | 14 min

How to Talk to Strangers, Red Dead Redemption 2 Naturalists, July Curiosity Challenge

13 augusti 2021 | 14 min

History of Talking to Strangers, Dark Matter Between Galaxies

12 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Meat Disgust, Cosmic Rays for Medicine, Immortal Battery

11 augusti 2021 | 13 min

New Human Species, Digital Library of Babel, Running to Music

10 augusti 2021 | 14 min

Earworms Aid Memory, How Auroras Happen, Don’t Give Cats Milk

9 augusti 2021 | 14 min

Tool to Cure Hiccups, Corvid Childhoods, How Spacecraft Move

6 augusti 2021 | 12 min

An Out-of-Body Experience Without Drugs and Earth’s “Pulse”

5 augusti 2021 | 11 min

Your Biggest Regret, Tall Mountain Myths, The Deep Web

4 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Anger Looks Guilty, Quantum Microscope, Good News About Cancer

3 augusti 2021 | 13 min

Kids v. Sarcasm, 24,000-Year-Old Worm, Why Betelgeuse Dimmed

2 augusti 2021 | 12 min

Your Brain on Music, Super-Singing Songbirds, Animal Sunburns

30 juli 2021 | 13 min

Alien Dataomes, How Animals Smell Viruses, Why to Read Aloud

29 juli 2021 | 14 min

Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”

28 juli 2021 | 13 min

Brain Replays Memories at 20x Speed & A Real Maxwell’s Demon

27 juli 2021 | 11 min

Dog Days of Summer, Magic Tricks for Birds, Planck Time

26 juli 2021 | 11 min

Letting Wounds Breathe, Grocery App Benefits, Tardigrade Guns

23 juli 2021 | 11 min

Speech-to-Song Illusion and a High-Tech Use for Tree Rings

22 juli 2021 | 14 min

Daddy Longlegs, Dyson Spheres, and Exercising with a Partner

21 juli 2021 | 12 min

Missions to Venus and How to Extract DNA from Strawberries

20 juli 2021 | 12 min

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back

19 juli 2021 | 13 min

Why Megalodon Was So Huge, Misophonia in the Brain, Trivia

16 juli 2021 | 13 min

Glowing Sharks, Cities’ Unique Microbes, Milky Way Mistake

15 juli 2021 | 14 min

Shark Week Tech, Crime & Birth Year, Sharks’ Near-Extinction

14 juli 2021 | 15 min

Bomb-Detected Whales & What It’s Like to Film Shark Week

13 juli 2021 | 13 min

Scary Shark Music, Your Brain Predicts the Future, Hydrobot

12 juli 2021 | 11 min

Does ESP Exist?

9 juli 2021 | 13 min

Could You Adapt to Having an Extra Thumb?

8 juli 2021 | 13 min

How to Improve Your Sense of Direction

7 juli 2021 | 12 min

Weird Dreams Might be a Brain Feature, Not a Bug

6 juli 2021 | 11 min

Why Song Lyrics Are Getting Simpler

5 juli 2021 | 14 min

Are Facial Expressions Universal?

2 juli 2021 | 14 min

The Phantom Torso Experiment Protected Astronauts in a Very Creepy Way

1 juli 2021 | 13 min

How Life Expectancy Doubled in Just 150 Years (w/ Author Steven Johnson)

30 juni 2021 | 13 min

We Found the Earliest Evidence of Ancient Human Activity

29 juni 2021 | 13 min

Looking Into Space Is Looking Back in Time

28 juni 2021 | 11 min

Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Butts

25 juni 2021 | 12 min

Bats Map the World By Time, Not Distance

24 juni 2021 | 13 min

Why We Won’t Have “Robot Butlers” Any Time Soon (w/ AI Researcher Michael Wooldridge)

23 juni 2021 | 14 min

We Found the First Pregnant Mummy Ever Documented

22 juni 2021 | 12 min

How to Manage Your Work-from-Home Paranoia

21 juni 2021 | 12 min

Will Future Civilizations Get Oil From Human Fossils?

18 juni 2021 | 14 min

What Does Your Digital Body Language Say?

17 juni 2021 | 15 min

Pollen Is Not Actually Plant Sperm

16 juni 2021 | 11 min

Painless Tips to Help the Environment (w/ Paul Greenberg)

15 juni 2021 | 13 min

Move Over, CRISPR — New Gene Editing Tech is Here

14 juni 2021 | 12 min

A Good Reason to Resolve Your Arguments

11 juni 2021 | 13 min

The Oldest Kids in Class Are Also the Most Popular

10 juni 2021 | 11 min

Why We Always Forget that Less Is More (w/ Leidy Klotz)

9 juni 2021 | 14 min

Stress During Pregnancy Might Affect the Baby’s Sex

8 juni 2021 | 13 min

A Robot That Talks to Itself Might Be Easier to Interact With

7 juni 2021 | 12 min

How Do Wild Animals Know What to Eat?

4 juni 2021 | 13 min

What Rain is Like on Other Planets

3 juni 2021 | 14 min

What Elevators Can Teach Us About Autonomous Cars (w/ Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur Magazine)

2 juni 2021 | 14 min

We’re Morbidly Curious About What “Might Have Been”

1 juni 2021 | 12 min

Why Cavities Are So Sensitive to the Cold

31 maj 2021 | 13 min

Is Exercise for Work as Good as Exercise for Play?

28 maj 2021 | 12 min

How a Plant Gene Ended Up in an Insect’s DNA

27 maj 2021 | 13 min

What’s the Deal with Hot Flashes? (w/ OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter)

26 maj 2021 | 16 min

The World’s Oldest Thumb Belongs to a Dinosaur

25 maj 2021 | 12 min

Human Screams Communicate a Rainbow of Emotions

24 maj 2021 | 13 min

Mushrooms Are More Like Humans Than Plants

21 maj 2021 | 12 min

Roses Smell Different in Space

20 maj 2021 | 14 min

How LEDs Work (w/ LED Pioneer George Craford)

19 maj 2021 | 14 min

Octopuses Have Sleep Cycles, Too

18 maj 2021 | 12 min

Introverts Fared Better Than Extroverts During the Pandemic

17 maj 2021 | 13 min

Using AI to Play Ancient Board Games

14 maj 2021 | 14 min

When the Pursuit of Knowledge Goes Wrong (w/ Physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)

13 maj 2021 | 13 min

Go Ahead, Google Your Symptoms

12 maj 2021 | 13 min

Your Roommate Really Doesn’t Know How You’re Feeling

11 maj 2021 | 13 min

Why Koala Fingerprints Look Eerily Human

10 maj 2021 | 12 min

How Astronauts Clean Their Underwear

7 maj 2021 | 13 min

From Music to Bacon, Biology is Everywhere (w/ Biologist Melanie Peffer)

6 maj 2021 | 13 min

This Dino Was Fossilized Incubating Its Eggs

5 maj 2021 | 12 min

How Deadliest Catch Navigates a Deadly Pandemic (w/ Captain Sig Hansen)

4 maj 2021 | 13 min

5 Steps to Hitting Work-Life Balance

3 maj 2021 | 13 min

How to Change Minds (w/ Bill Nye)

30 april 2021 | 14 min

Should You Exercise on an Empty Stomach?

29 april 2021 | 13 min

How to Prepare for a Warmer Future (w/ David Pogue)

28 april 2021 | 13 min

Throbbing Pain Has Nothing to Do With Your Pulse

27 april 2021 | 11 min

The Best Way to Phrase Words of Comfort, According to Science

26 april 2021 | 13 min

Science Is a Process — and Bill Nye Explains Why

23 april 2021 | 16 min

Bill Nye’s Earth Day Tips to Save Our Planet

22 april 2021 | 13 min

Bill Nye on Why Mars 2020 Is So Exciting

21 april 2021 | 14 min

Why Cannabis Gives You the Munchies

20 april 2021 | 12 min

You Can Totally BS a BSer

19 april 2021 | 12 min

Has the Earth Lost Weight?

16 april 2021 | 14 min

Some Viruses Do You Good

15 april 2021 | 14 min

Blind Gamers Take the “Video” Out of Video Games

14 april 2021 | 11 min

Vampire Bats Adopt Babies Too

13 april 2021 | 12 min

If Life Existed on Mars, How Would We Know?

12 april 2021 | 12 min

We Can Use DNA for Data Storage

9 april 2021 | 13 min

The Known Solar System Just Got Bigger

8 april 2021 | 14 min

An Outsider’s Guide to Humans (w/ Scientist Camilla Pang)

7 april 2021 | 12 min

Post-Traumatic Growth Is a Pandemic Silver Lining

6 april 2021 | 12 min

Most Conversations Go On Longer Than We Want Them To

5 april 2021 | 12 min

Bad News About Your Wearable Sleep Tracker

2 april 2021 | 14 min

Why April Fool’s Day Exists

1 april 2021 | 15 min

Aleutian Island Secrets and Electrical Ear Activity

31 mars 2021 | 13 min

There’s No Such Thing as a Hypoallergenic Dog

30 mars 2021 | 13 min

Having a Bad Boss Can Make You a Great Boss

29 mars 2021 | 12 min

Why Are There Bubbles in my Day-Old Water?

26 mars 2021 | 13 min

This Language Shift Could Signal an Impending Breakup

25 mars 2021 | 13 min

What Your Ears and Spider Fuzz Have In Common

24 mars 2021 | 11 min

Local Honey Won’t Cure Your Allergies

23 mars 2021 | 13 min

Gaining Weight With Age Might Be Healthier Than Staying Slim

22 mars 2021 | 11 min

How Loud Is the Sun?

19 mars 2021 | 12 min

Why That Thing You Just Learned Is Suddenly Everywhere

18 mars 2021 | 14 min

Why Futurists Don’t Need to Know the Future (w/ “Flash Forward” Host Rose Eveleth)

17 mars 2021 | 14 min

Liars May Imitate Your Body Language

16 mars 2021 | 12 min

Time Management Can Make You Happier

15 mars 2021 | 11 min

Identical Twins Aren’t as Identical as We Thought

12 mars 2021 | 13 min

What a 95% Effective Vaccine Actually Means

11 mars 2021 | 13 min

Did Your Microbiome Come from Dirt?

10 mars 2021 | 9 min

The Duck-Billed Platypus Is Weirder Than You Thought

9 mars 2021 | 13 min

Yeah, About That Phosphine on Venus...

8 mars 2021 | 12 min

Why Can’t You Hold Your Breath to Death?

5 mars 2021 | 13 min

Quadruple-Helix DNA Is a Thing

4 mars 2021 | 13 min

Scientists Finally Know How Sandcastles Work

3 mars 2021 | 11 min

How to Know You’re Running Low on Vitamins

2 mars 2021 | 13 min

What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain

1 mars 2021 | 12 min

The Sun 2.0, “Fresh” Food Fallacies, and Is Math Universal?

26 februari 2021 | 15 min

What Science Says About Putting 2 Spaces After a Period

25 februari 2021 | 12 min

What Would Happen If You Stopped Time?

24 februari 2021 | 12 min

When to Worry About COVID-19 Variants

23 februari 2021 | 15 min

Introducing If/Then

23 februari 2021 | 8 min

“Popular Opinion” Isn’t What You Think

22 februari 2021 | 12 min

Why Do I Cough When I Clean My Ears?

19 februari 2021 | 13 min

How Copper Changed Our Language (w/ Materials Scientist Ainissa Ramirez)

18 februari 2021 | 12 min

‘Wanting’ and ‘Liking’ Are Different to Your Brain

17 februari 2021 | 12 min

What Came Before the Big Bang?

16 februari 2021 | 12 min

The Dark Ages Weren’t Really Dark

15 februari 2021 | 12 min

This Trait Could Be Key to Lasting Romance

12 februari 2021 | 13 min

Your Dog’s Personality Can Change Over Time

11 februari 2021 | 11 min

Biological Race Is a Myth (w/ Agustín Fuentes)

10 februari 2021 | 11 min

How Does Fever Help You Get Better?

9 februari 2021 | 12 min

Why Scientists Made Ants Walk on Stilts

8 februari 2021 | 11 min

The Safest Way to Ride in a Car During the Pandemic

5 februari 2021 | 12 min

Was Farming Really a Step Up for Hunter-Gatherers?

4 februari 2021 | 13 min

You’re Probably Breathing Wrong (w/ James Nestor)

3 februari 2021 | 13 min

This Ring May Detect COVID-19 Before You Feel It

2 februari 2021 | 12 min

Why Does February have 28 Days?

1 februari 2021 | 13 min

Why Do Wombats Poop Cubes?

29 januari 2021 | 12 min

The Big Mistakes We Make in Virtual Gatherings (w/ Priya Parker)

28 januari 2021 | 13 min

How to Make Gatherings More Meaningful (w/ Priya Parker)

27 januari 2021 | 16 min

A Trick for Making Vaccinations Less Painful

26 januari 2021 | 9 min

Small Talk Is Important, and Remote Workers Aren’t Getting Enough

25 januari 2021 | 10 min

Why Is Static Worse in Winter?

22 januari 2021 | 13 min

A Distant Galaxy Is Warping the Milky Way

21 januari 2021 | 11 min

What Most People Miss When Building Habits (w/ Jen Sincero)

20 januari 2021 | 11 min

We Still Don’t Know How Ice Skating Works

19 januari 2021 | 12 min

Why Your Dog’s Paws Smell Like Corn Chips

18 januari 2021 | 12 min

Disgusting Sights Literally Turn Your Stomach

15 januari 2021 | 12 min

A New Discovery About That Weird “Aurora” Named STEVE

14 januari 2021 | 13 min

Beat Stress with Laughter Yoga (w/ Madan Kataria, MD)

13 januari 2021 | 13 min

Why Are the COVID-19 Vaccines Kept So Cold?

12 januari 2021 | 12 min

People Respond to Music Even When They Can’t Hear It

11 januari 2021 | 12 min

Your Brain Treats Human Beauty Differently from Artistic Beauty

8 januari 2021 | 11 min

Why We Call Computer Glitches “Bugs”

7 januari 2021 | 11 min

What’s the Shortest Amount of Time Ever Recorded?

6 januari 2021 | 11 min

Swedish Death Cleaning Can Declutter Your Life

5 januari 2021 | 9 min

How “Flow” Can Help in Quarantine

4 januari 2021 | 10 min

The Right Way to Set Goals

1 januari 2021 | 11 min

When Smokers Quit, Dormant Lung Cells Wake Up

31 december 2020 | 10 min

Do People Think More in Words or Pictures?

30 december 2020 | 13 min

The Stinky Science of the World’s Smelliest Fruit

29 december 2020 | 11 min

Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses for Science

28 december 2020 | 11 min

Do Opposites Really Attract?

25 december 2020 | 12 min

Why Toilet Paper Is White

24 december 2020 | 13 min

The Time Pi Was Almost Legally Changed to 3.2

23 december 2020 | 14 min

Why Do Bats Cause So Many Virus Outbreaks?

22 december 2020 | 13 min

Why It's Good to Reveal Your Failures

21 december 2020 | 12 min

Do Single-A Batteries Exist?

18 december 2020 | 14 min

Early Female Hunters Were More Common Than We Thought

17 december 2020 | 15 min

How Psilocybin Therapy Can Ease Depression

16 december 2020 | 13 min

What Are Monoclonal Antibodies? (w/ Dr. Lawrence Purpura)

15 december 2020 | 12 min

Why Birds Wore Funny Hats for Science

14 december 2020 | 14 min

Are Sleep-Deprived Men More Masculine?

11 december 2020 | 15 min

Insecure People Use More Jargon

10 december 2020 | 12 min

Why Don’t We Have Battery-Powered Airplanes?

9 december 2020 | 14 min

Laziness Isn’t What You Think (w/ Dr. Devon Price)

8 december 2020 | 14 min

Why You Need Self-Compassion for Self-Improvement

7 december 2020 | 13 min

Why It’s Relaxing to Breathe in Through Your Nose

4 december 2020 | 12 min

Why Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs

3 december 2020 | 12 min

The Smells That Existed Before Earth (w/ Harold McGee)

2 december 2020 | 12 min

Scientists Finally Found a Dinosaur Cloaca

1 december 2020 | 13 min

The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email

30 november 2020 | 14 min

Is That Real Money or Fun Money? The Trap of Mental Accounting

27 november 2020 | 14 min

The More You Wish for Self-Control, the Less of It You Have

26 november 2020 | 13 min

Do Turkeys Really Drown in Rainstorms?

25 november 2020 | 13 min

What People Get Wrong About Evolution (w/ Neil Shubin)

24 november 2020 | 12 min

Venus Flytraps Store Short-Term “Memories”

23 november 2020 | 13 min

Do Rocket Stages Ever Hit Ships? (w/ NASA’s Cody Chambers)

20 november 2020 | 14 min

Why Is Life Based on Carbon and Not Silicon?

19 november 2020 | 12 min

What to Do When You Make the Wrong Decision (w/ Annie Duke)

18 november 2020 | 14 min

The Best Time to Make a Gut Decision (w/ Annie Duke)

17 november 2020 | 14 min

4 of the World's Weirdest Weather Phenomena

16 november 2020 | 13 min

Why Are Spacesuits White?

13 november 2020 | 13 min

Befriend Cats with the Slow Blink

12 november 2020 | 12 min

Why Bugs Are Basically Robots (w/ Alie Ward)

11 november 2020 | 13 min

Ask Smart People Stupid Questions (w/ Alie Ward)

10 november 2020 | 13 min

Why You Need a Virtual Commute

9 november 2020 | 13 min

You Can Control Your Dreams with Science

6 november 2020 | 14 min

A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness

5 november 2020 | 11 min

5G Might Impair Weather Forecasts

4 november 2020 | 14 min

How to Make the Most of Your Negativity Bias (w/ John Tierney)

3 november 2020 | 13 min

Can a Selfie Screen You for Heart Disease?

2 november 2020 | 12 min

The Door to Hell Is a Fiery Pit That’s Been Burning Since 1971

30 oktober 2020 | 14 min

Baby Tortoises Love Faces, and That’s a Big Deal for Science

29 oktober 2020 | 12 min

Einstein Worried That Science Can't Explain "The Now"

28 oktober 2020 | 13 min

How Hollywood Gets Seances Wrong

27 oktober 2020 | 12 min

How 19th-Century Body-Snatchers Contributed to Medical Science

26 oktober 2020 | 12 min

Could Parasites Turn Us into Zombies?

23 oktober 2020 | 14 min

The Martian Moon Phobos Creates a Yearly Solar Eclipse

22 oktober 2020 | 13 min

Viking Was a Job Description, Not Heredity

21 oktober 2020 | 14 min

Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey into Extinction?

20 oktober 2020 | 12 min

Why Social Isolation Could Breed Conspiracy Theorists

19 oktober 2020 | 13 min

How Romantic Partners Influence Each Other's Relationship Goals

16 oktober 2020 | 14 min

Our Ability to Drink Milk Evolved Way Faster Than Scientists Thought

15 oktober 2020 | 13 min

How Superstitions Can Reduce Anxiety

14 oktober 2020 | 11 min

Hacking Earth to Fight Climate Change

13 oktober 2020 | 12 min

Earth's Atmosphere May Be Rusting the Moon

12 oktober 2020 | 12 min

It’s “Patient O,” Not “Patient Zero”

9 oktober 2020 | 13 min

How Cold Was the Last Ice Age?

8 oktober 2020 | 10 min

How Scientists Teleported Fish Behavior

7 oktober 2020 | 13 min

How Cancer Evolves in the Body (w/ Dr. Kat Arney)

6 oktober 2020 | 12 min

3 Mythological Creatures That Were Inspired by Real Fossils

5 oktober 2020 | 14 min

Why The Mantis Shrimp Can Punch So Hard Without Damage

2 oktober 2020 | 13 min

What Happens When You Pull a Muscle?

1 oktober 2020 | 12 min

The Dirty, Smelly History of Soap (w/ Cody Cassidy)

30 september 2020 | 12 min

Who Ate the First Oyster? (w/ Cody Cassidy)

29 september 2020 | 13 min

Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science (Again!)

28 september 2020 | 12 min

Why Don't We Sneeze in Our Sleep?

25 september 2020 | 14 min

The Math Bias That Makes You Misjudge COVID-19

24 september 2020 | 13 min

Wildfires Can Create Their Own Storms

23 september 2020 | 13 min

Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking

22 september 2020 | 10 min

Why Do Young People Have More Déjà Vu?

21 september 2020 | 12 min

Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling

18 september 2020 | 10 min

Why You Think You’re Too Smart for Ads, Studying Violinists to Understand Human Synchrony, and Relieving Pain by Holding Hands

17 september 2020 | 10 min

A Dark Sense of Humor May Mean a High IQ, Origin of the Word Orange, and Zombie Fires in the Arctic

16 september 2020 | 10 min

Can Smiling Actually Make You Happier? And Why a Clockmaker Figured Out Longitude

15 september 2020 | 8 min

Two Types of Empathy, Why Razors Dull, and Can You Learn Perfect Pitch?

14 september 2020 | 11 min

We All Think We’re Bad With Names, The Genius of Hobo Code, and How Attractive Do You Think You Are?

11 september 2020 | 13 min

A Harmful Mutation Evolved for Good, Why Astronauts Are Using Old Sailing Tech in Space, and Cody’s Message

10 september 2020 | 11 min

The Rando Who Translated Gilgamesh, Why Horses Lost Their Toes, and a Sperm-Swimming Discovery

9 september 2020 | 11 min

Difference Between Unscented & Fragrance-Free and Cow Gene Editing for More Male Offspring

8 september 2020 | 9 min

Short-Term Pleasures Are Important Too, the Smelly Armpit Enzyme, and a Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star

7 september 2020 | 12 min

The Myth of Pregnancy Cravings, Why Raindrops Don’t Damage Insect Wings, and August’s Curiosity Challenge Trivia

4 september 2020 | 13 min

Aggression and Epigenetics (w/ Bill Sullivan), Calm Down with Box Breathing, and How Anglerfish Fuse Without Immune Rejection

3 september 2020 | 14 min

The Invisible Forces Controlling You (w/ Bill Sullivan), You Daydream Surprisingly Often, and Ancient Greek Temples Were Built on Fault Lines on Purpose

2 september 2020 | 13 min

Normalcy Bounces Back Quickly in Times of Stress and the Female Astronauts of the Mercury 13

1 september 2020 | 9 min

How Blind People Describe Animals, Plague Myths About “Ring Around the Rosie,” and Radiation Shields Made from Fungus

31 augusti 2020 | 10 min

Do Masks Stunt Emotional Development? Plus: Human Ears Perk Up, Too, and Why Your Shower Curtain Clings To You

28 augusti 2020 | 13 min

What to Do When Your Pet Is Scared, You Have Microbes Inside Your Cells, and Meet Natalia Reagan (Again!)

27 augusti 2020 | 12 min

Dying People Can Probably Hear You, Mapmakers Catch Copycats with Paper Towns, and How Woodpeckers Shut Down a NASA Launch

26 augusti 2020 | 11 min

What If You Stopped Showering (w/ James Hamblin) and Are Some Trees Immortal?

25 augusti 2020 | 12 min

A Science-Backed Workout in 10 Minutes, How Collective Narcissism Makes Groups Toxic, and How Dolphins Make Friends

24 augusti 2020 | 12 min

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

21 augusti 2020 | 12 min

Are There Really Wasps in Figs? Plus: People Like Round Numbers Even When They’re Bad

20 augusti 2020 | 9 min

Building Healthier Cities (w/ Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar), 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor Core, and Why Spaghetti Breaks in Three

19 augusti 2020 | 12 min

How the Environment Affects Your Health (w/ Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar) and How Polynesians Mingled with Native Americans 800 Years Ago

18 augusti 2020 | 13 min

You Create False Memories of Daily Tasks, Dogs Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field, and There’s No Up or Down in Space

17 augusti 2020 | 11 min

Why the US Military Made Shark Repellant, Why Moths Are Drawn to Lights, and the Difference Between Mummies and Fossils

14 augusti 2020 | 14 min

Finding Lost Shark Species (w/ Forrest Galante) and the 2 Types of Nostalgia

13 augusti 2020 | 14 min

Sharks Aren’t Just Apex Predators (w/ Forrest Galante), How Cats Affect Online Dating, and When Giant Prehistoric Sea Scorpions Ruled the Seas

12 augusti 2020 | 13 min

Can Sharks Smell Blood from a Mile Away? Plus: Dual-Uterus Sharks and How Interstellar Travel Will Change Language

11 augusti 2020 | 11 min

Why People Are Afraid of Sharks, Discovery of 4 “Walking” Shark Species, and Fighting Climate Change with Rocks

10 augusti 2020 | 11 min

Parents’ Brains Sync When They’re Together, the Genius Math Behind Credit Card Numbers, and July’s Curiosity Challenge Trivia

7 augusti 2020 | 11 min

Why Religious People Have More Children, Sea Turtles’ Clumsy Navigation Skills, and the Real Center of Our Solar System Isn’t the Sun

6 augusti 2020 | 12 min

How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, The Venomous Dinosaur from Jurassic Park IRL, and All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe

5 augusti 2020 | 14 min

You Have Tiny Rocks in Your Ears, How Artists’ Personas Influence Your Music Choices, and Chemotherapy Began as a Chemical Weapon

4 augusti 2020 | 14 min

Why Some Words Are More Memorable, How Hair Growth Works, and How Fish End Up in Landlocked Lakes

3 augusti 2020 | 11 min

Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App

31 juli 2020 | 11 min

Why New Habits Have to Be Tiny (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and Why Human Infants Are Late Bloomers

30 juli 2020 | 12 min

A New Way to Build Habits (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and the Best Time of Day to Exercise

29 juli 2020 | 12 min

Why Stress Sweat Smells Worse, Studying Wildlife During the Pandemic, and Do Men Just Not See Messes?

28 juli 2020 | 12 min

You Navigate with Your Nose, Busting 5 Summer Myths, and Using Horseshoe Crabs’ Blue Blood to Develop New Medicine

27 juli 2020 | 12 min

Fannie Farmer Created the Modern Cooking Recipe, the Shepard Scale Audio Illusion, and How Scientists Test the COVID-19 Vaccine

24 juli 2020 | 13 min

Why Some People Can’t Recognize Faces, Weight-Lifting Strengthens Your Nerves Too, and Why Earth’s Core Doesn’t Melt

23 juli 2020 | 12 min

Teaching Kids to Not Be Prejudiced, Why Cats Have Vertical Pupils, and a Massive Stonehenge Discovery

22 juli 2020 | 13 min

The Need for Nature During Lockdown, Why Plants Are Green, and How Microbes and Parasites Might Make Us Healthier

21 juli 2020 | 12 min

Stay Happy and Healthy by Maintaining Your Routines, How Dolphins Learn to Use Tools, and Can Adults Grow New Brain Cells?

20 juli 2020 | 11 min

Waiting for the Best Option Lowers Your Standards, Spies Can Eavesdrop Using Light Bulbs, and Why Atoms Don’t Look Like the Solar System

17 juli 2020 | 13 min

Hack Your Short-Term Memory, The Wild Origins of Gallbladder Surgery, and Does Chocolate Cause Acne Breakouts?

16 juli 2020 | 12 min

The First Prescription Video Game, Solving the Mystery of Short-Term Memory, and Hummingbirds’ Extraordinary Vision

15 juli 2020 | 11 min

Blame Trolling on “Everyday Sadism,” How to Sleep Better During Lockdown, and a Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

14 juli 2020 | 12 min

Saturated Fat Could Kill Your Focus, Animals Have Regional Accents, and Rings Around Mars

13 juli 2020 | 10 min

Black Hole Holograms, How We Make Sense of the Nonsensical, and June’s Curiosity Challenge

10 juli 2020 | 13 min

Human Hair Was Created in a Lab, You See Less Color Than You Think, and Mapping an Underground City Without Digging

9 juli 2020 | 11 min

A Better Way to Stop Implicit Bias, the Murderous “Femme Fatale” Firefly, and Finding the Universe’s Missing Matter

8 juli 2020 | 13 min

Wearables and AI Analytics Are Changing Medicine (w/ Dr. Lloyd Minor) and What Happens to Your Brain After a Breakup

7 juli 2020 | 13 min

How Summer Affects COVID-19, Why So Many Mars Missions Are Launching in July, and Exercise More by Copying Your Friends

6 juli 2020 | 10 min

Why You Should Argue to Learn, Dogs Want to Rescue You, and Do Blind People Dream?

3 juli 2020 | 12 min

What Neanderthal Genes Are Doing in Your DNA, The Time Photosynthesis Killed Nearly All Life on Earth, and the Inventor of “Do, Re, Mi” Notation

2 juli 2020 | 12 min

Qualified Immunity in Police Misconduct, Why Longing Is Important in Relationships, and Wandering Stars Regularly Visit Our Solar System

1 juli 2020 | 11 min

Loving Your Job May Lead to Unethical Behavior, Bumblebees Bite Plants to Make Them Bloom, and Jupiter’s Moons Formed from Specks of Dust

30 juni 2020 | 11 min

Periodical Cicadas 101, Why Smarter People Choke Under Pressure, and Analyzing DNA to Solve the Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery

29 juni 2020 | 13 min

The Psychology of ‘Animal Crossing,’ How a Failed Death Ray Led to Radar, and Intrusive Thoughts Explained

26 juni 2020 | 13 min

Tap into the 4 Pillars of Learning (w/ Stanislas Dehaene) and How We Get Seedless Fruit

25 juni 2020 | 10 min

New Science on How We Learn (w/ Stanislas Dehaene), Why Stores Use Air Curtains, and Desert Microbes that Dissolve Rocks with Acid

24 juni 2020 | 11 min

Virtual Therapy vs. In-Person Therapy, How Redlining Deepened Segregation in US Cities, and Earth’s Drifting Magnetic Poles

23 juni 2020 | 12 min

Lockdown Is Changing Our Perception of Time, a Devastating Meteor that Never Landed, and Elephants Can Catch Yawns from Humans

22 juni 2020 | 10 min

Juneteenth’s Origins, Change Your Routine to Be Happier, and Why Americans Don’t Say “Maths”

19 juni 2020 | 13 min

Climate Justice 101 (w/ Katharine Hayhoe), Why Peanut Butter Gets Gum Out of Hair, and How Gaslighting Makes You Question Your Sanity

18 juni 2020 | 13 min

What Science Says About Fat-Burning Foods, Do Great Things by Being a Part of Something Greater, and Telling Male and Female Dinosaurs Apart

17 juni 2020 | 11 min

Modern Benefits from Archaeological Discoveries (w/ Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk) and Hearing Body Language

16 juni 2020 | 9 min

Making Life Decisions on a Coin Flip, How You Respond to 2 Types of Injustice, and Why Otters Juggle Rocks

15 juni 2020 | 12 min

Why People Protest According to Psychology, How Scientists Made Blind People “See” Shapes, and May’s Curiosity Challenge

12 juni 2020 | 12 min

Hope in the Fight Against Climate Change (w/ Katharine Hayhoe) and Overcoming Bedtime Procrastination

11 juni 2020 | 13 min

Why Rainy Days Make You Sleepy, A Fix for AI’s Energy Appetite, and Solving Geology’s Mystery of the “Great Unconformity”

10 juni 2020 | 12 min

Extinct Human Species (w/ Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast) and Moody Teenage Dogs

9 juni 2020 | 11 min

Differences in CEO and Murdering Psychopaths, How Deep Sleep Cleans Your Brain, and the Mystery of Our Inactive Sun

8 juni 2020 | 10 min

Fighting Coronavirus with Llamas, Why Rain Stops Rocket Launches, and Listener Questions About Cold Things

5 juni 2020 | 13 min

How We Know Climate Change Is Caused by Humans (w/ Katharine Hayhoe) and the Myth of “Common Sense”

4 juni 2020 | 13 min

Defending Against “Murder Hornets” with Bee Balls, Aphantasia and the Two Extremes of the “Mind’s Eye,” and Venus’s Freaky-Fast Atmosphere

3 juni 2020 | 12 min

How Technology Is Enabling Archeological Discoveries (w/ Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast) and the Privacy Risks of Eye-Tracking Tech

2 juni 2020 | 10 min

Your Ancestors May Influence Your Work Hours, Coral Reproduced in Captivity, and the First Known Water-Dwelling Dinosaur

1 juni 2020 | 10 min

Selfish People Remember Being Generous, Why We Can’t Transplant Brains, and Buying Life Insurance from Vending Machines

29 maj 2020 | 11 min

“Rub Some Dirt on It” to Heal Wounds, Funny Memes Can Save Endangered Species, and Space Changes the Shape of Astronauts’ Hearts

28 maj 2020 | 10 min

What Makes People Cultural Omnivores, Archaeologists’ Prehistoric Poop Problem, and How to Tell Stars and Planets Apart in the Sky

27 maj 2020 | 12 min

Y2K Was Actually a Success Story, Sleeping Brains Replay Waking Experience, and Plants Can Hear When They’re Being Eaten

26 maj 2020 | 11 min

Elephants Get Drunk (and They’re Lightweights), Pigeons Helped Win Wars, and Night Owls May Struggle to Regulate Their Emotions

25 maj 2020 | 11 min

Marijuana Categories Aren’t Based in Science, Scientists Staged Bronze-Age Swordfights, and How Clean Are Your Clothes, Really?

22 maj 2020 | 11 min

Why People Ignore Facts in Medical Emergencies, Victorian-Era Credit Cards, and Adding a New Row to the Periodic Table

21 maj 2020 | 11 min

World of Warcraft Could Help Fight COVID-19, Social Rejection Can Fuel Creativity, and What Mouse Facial Expressions Teach Us About Emotion

20 maj 2020 | 10 min

An Interstellar Object’s Origin Revealed, Why Superstitions Evolved, and How the Sense of Smell Is More Complicated Than We Thought

19 maj 2020 | 11 min

Therapy for Parents Can Ease Kids’ Anxiety, What Makes Fruit Mealy, and Lessons from the “Second Earth” Biosphere 2

18 maj 2020 | 10 min

What Is the Grand Unified Field Theory? (w/ Dr. Adam Becker), Should You Wad or Fold Toilet Paper, and Why You Judge Your Own Hoarding Differently

15 maj 2020 | 12 min

Where Our Emotions Come From and How to Hack Them (w/ Lisa Feldman Barrett) and Tarantula Venom Could Be an Opioid Alternative

14 maj 2020 | 11 min

How Antibiotics in Agriculture Changed How We Eat (w/ Maryn McKenna), When Daydreaming Goes Wrong, and Dogs Recognize Faces in Photos

13 maj 2020 | 12 min

The Universe Might Expand Unevenly, Using a Camera to De-Clutter Your House, and 3 Hominins Lived in the Same Place and Time

12 maj 2020 | 10 min

Pigeons Can Be Superstitious, Why Allergy Drugs Make You Sleepy, and The 5 Ages of the Universe

11 maj 2020 | 11 min

Play a Game to Help Cure Alzheimer’s, Building the Perfect Swear Word, and May’s Curiosity Challenge

8 maj 2020 | 11 min

Gut Neurons Influence Brain Neurons, Why We Still Use the QWERTY Keyboard, and Why You “Shoot the Messenger”

7 maj 2020 | 11 min

Using Urine to Build a Moon Base, Musicians and Audiences Sync Brain Activity, and Why “Size Matters” for Narwhal Tusks

6 maj 2020 | 9 min

Early Career Choices Influence Your Personality, Why We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and Psychedelic Effects from Placebos

5 maj 2020 | 10 min

Null Misadventures (w/ Matt Parker), Why Reheated Coffee Tastes Bad, and the Ancestor of Most Living Animals

4 maj 2020 | 9 min

Why We Get Warning Fatigue, Prehistoric Monkeys Crossed the Atlantic on Rafts, and Why New Lovebirds Feel So Familiar

1 maj 2020 | 11 min

5 Coronavirus Myths Debunked, Why You Shouldn’t Get Your News on Social Media, and the Discovery of a Black Hole Missing Link

30 april 2020 | 11 min

Why Soft Drinks Taste Different Out of Cans, Why Housecats Are Dangerous for Wildlife, and 100 Minor Planets Discovered Beyond Neptune

29 april 2020 | 12 min

The Battle of Brains vs Brawn in Aging, Perils of Ultra-Processed Food, and Bats Surviving White-Nose Syndrome

28 april 2020 | 11 min

Using Lava Lamps to Generate Randomness (w/ Matt Parker), How Ritalin Makes You Focus, and What Bacteria Beneath the Sea Floor Means for Life on Mars

27 april 2020 | 11 min

Quarantine Survival Tips (w/ Dr. Renée Lertzman and “Deadliest Catch” Captains Sig & Keith) and Why We Have Birthmarks

24 april 2020 | 12 min

Anniversary Episode! Supersonic Packing Tape, Chronological vs. Biological Age, Why Mirrors Are Next to Elevators, and Anti-Asteroid Spacecraft

23 april 2020 | 13 min

Dealing with Uncertainty During the Coronavirus Pandemic (w/ Dr. Renée Lertzman) and One Dog Year Doesn’t Equal Seven Human Years

22 april 2020 | 13 min

Fishing Science (w/ “Deadliest Catch” Captains Sig & Keith) and the Psychology of Sour Grapes

21 april 2020 | 12 min

Stealing Money with Salami Slicing Attacks (w/ Matt Parker), You Don’t Know the Back of Your Hand, and Tylenol Eases Social Exclusion

20 april 2020 | 14 min

Do Masks Prevent Coronavirus, How Tuvan Throat Singers Sing Two Notes at Once, and Predicting Viral Content by Measuring Brain Activity

17 april 2020 | 13 min

Why Stress Makes You Eat Differently, Humpback Whales Hunt with Bubble Nets, and the Surprising Genetic Reason Females Outlive Males

16 april 2020 | 12 min

Parents Rarely Pass Their Politics to Their Kids, Source of Peanut Allergies Found in the Gut, and Why Stars Don’t Make the Night Sky Bright

15 april 2020 | 12 min

Blame Evolution for Back Pain, Showing Off Your Status Doesn’t Make Friends, and Make Babies Smarter by Pretending to Understand Them

14 april 2020 | 10 min

The Skyscraper-Shaking Fitness Class (w/ Matt Parker), When Hanger Is Most Likely to Strike, and Studying the Human Brain’s Jiggle

13 april 2020 | 12 min

Why So Many Outbreaks (Like the Coronavirus) Come from Bats, Older Siblings’ Surprising Influence, and April’s Curiosity Challenge

10 april 2020 | 13 min

Anticipatory Grief During a Pandemic, the Smallest Dinosaur Ever (Maybe), and How Your Brain Processes Music and Speech Differently

9 april 2020 | 12 min

How Wildlife Crossings Work (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and Get Happy by Doing One Creative Thing a Day

8 april 2020 | 12 min

Building the World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing to Save P-22 (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and the Health Benefits of the “Helper’s High”

7 april 2020 | 13 min

Why Women Feel More Pain than Men, Why Toothpaste Makes Food Taste Bad, and Earth Formed Way Faster Than We Thought

6 april 2020 | 11 min

Where Does Mold Come From? Plus: Torture Scenes in Movies vs. Real Life and Why the World’s Smelliest Fruit Smells So Bad

3 april 2020 | 11 min

Astronauts Grew Lettuce in Space, Why Smelling a Dirty Shirt Can Help You Sleep, and Early Animals That Acted Like an Ancient Internet

2 april 2020 | 9 min

Ducks Are Employees at a Vineyard, the Victorian Version of Spotify, and A Mathematical Theorem for Cutting a Ham Sandwich

1 april 2020 | 13 min

The Invisible Harm of Thirdhand Smoke, Why Whales Get Lost During Solar Storms, and A Massive Virus That Blurs the Line Between Life and Non-Life

31 mars 2020 | 12 min

Laughter Might Be the Best Medicine, How Your Romantic Style Affects Your Finances, and Why Some Amphibians Glow

30 mars 2020 | 10 min

Coronavirus Vaccine Development: Scientific Challenges and Timelines with Dr. Julia Schaletzky (COVID-19 Bonus Episode)

29 mars 2020 | 48 min

Coronavirus Test Shortages Explained (w/ Dr. Julia Schaletzky), Anonymous Anime Fan Helps Solve 25-Year-Old Math Mystery, and Can Ketamine Help with Depression?

27 mars 2020 | 15 min

How a Coronavirus Vaccine Might Work (w/ Dr. Julia Schaletzky) and Why We Call Steak “Beef” and Not “Cow”

26 mars 2020 | 12 min

Memory’s Role in Social Anxiety, The First Synthetic Self-Replicating Genome, and Penguins Can Call Underwater

25 mars 2020 | 12 min

No One Born Blind Has Had Schizophrenia, Bacteria Engineered to Protect Honeybees, and The Surprising Way WWI Helmets Beat Modern Ones

24 mars 2020 | 10 min

First Animal That Doesn’t Breathe Oxygen, Biggest Explosion in the Universe’s History, and Improving Memory with the Brain’s Immune System

23 mars 2020 | 11 min

How to Clean Your Phone, More Info About a New Disease Won’t Comfort You, and the Best Workout Music According to Research

20 mars 2020 | 14 min

Robot Workers May Change Prejudices, Hormonal Changes in Dads-to-Be, and How Salamanders Regrow Their Limbs

19 mars 2020 | 10 min

Hearing Loss and Technology (w/ David Owen) and the Psychology of Reacting to a Crisis (Like COVID-19)

18 mars 2020 | 13 min

Coronavirus Myths and FAQs with Dr. Amesh Adalja, Epidemiologist

18 mars 2020 | 19 min

Dr. Amesh Adalja Explains Social Distancing for COVID-19, Birds Won’t Spread Fake News, and Using Auroras to Find Exoplanets

17 mars 2020 | 13 min

New Antibiotic Discovered by AI, How to Handle Traumatic Memories, and Why Extreme Temperatures Mess with Your Batteries

16 mars 2020 | 10 min

Speed Listening’s Effects on Emotion, Surprising Differences Between White and Brown Rice, and Pi Almost Legally Changed to 3.2

13 mars 2020 | 14 min

Myths and Science of Binaural Beats, How to Talk About Historical Injustices, and Australian Dingos Evolved from Pet Dogs

12 mars 2020 | 12 min

Protecting Yourself from Hearing Loss (w/ David Owen) and Why Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct

11 mars 2020 | 10 min

Why Yoga Reduces Depression, Why Plastic Bag Fees Work So Well, and How Bumblebees Can Carry So Much

10 mars 2020 | 10 min

Pop Songs Are Getting Sadder, Mysterious Radio Signals from Outer Space, and It Pays to “Just Be Yourself”

9 mars 2020 | 11 min

Astronomy’s Problem with Starlink (w/ Vivienne Baldassare) and Why Toilet Paper Is White

6 mars 2020 | 13 min

Boost Self-Control by Asking for Support, Gene-Stealing Organisms, and How Lipreading Works in the Brain

5 mars 2020 | 10 min

It’s Never Too Early to Protect Your Hearing (w/ David Owen) and Why You Should Work in 90-Minute Spurts

4 mars 2020 | 11 min

Fonts Can Send Political Messages, Don’t Always Trust Your First Instinct, and Nucleic Acids Beyond DNA and RNA

3 mars 2020 | 10 min

History’s Average Commute Time, Fight Procrastination with Emotions, and the Largest Ever Study of Cancer Genomes

2 mars 2020 | 10 min

Quitting Smoking May Reawaken Healthy Cells, Why You Yawn During Exercise, and Telling the Age of Crime Scene Fingerprints

28 februari 2020 | 11 min

Lying to Seem Honest, The Physics of the ‘Cheerios Effect,’ and Wasps that Recognize Faces

27 februari 2020 | 13 min

Pablo Escobar's Hippos Overtaking Colombia, More Phytoplankton Is Good for the Planet, and Seeing Climate Change in Daily Weather

26 februari 2020 | 13 min

Katherine Johnson’s Legacy, The World’s First Living Robots, and Zinc Doesn’t Cure Colds

25 februari 2020 | 11 min

Your Dance Style Is as Unique as Your Fingerprint, the Myth of Muscle Confusion, and How Animals Get Color Without Pigment

24 februari 2020 | 10 min

Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now, Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake, and Whether People Think in Words or Pictures

21 februari 2020 | 14 min

GPS’s Past and Future (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why It's OK to Nap Without Falling Asleep

20 februari 2020 | 13 min

How Beauty Sleep Boosts Beauty, Plants Talk to Worms for Self-Defense, and Fighting Deepfakes with Heart Rate

19 februari 2020 | 10 min

Tips for Happy, Healthy Aging (w/ Daniel Levitin) and a Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age

18 februari 2020 | 11 min

Employees Should Surf the Web at Work, Hear a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy’s Voice, and Being Cold Makes Us Crave Social Contact

17 februari 2020 | 10 min

Opposites Don’t Attract, We Like What’s Physically Close to Us, and the History of Last Names

14 februari 2020 | 11 min

How GPS Clocks Work (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why Stress Turns Hair Gray

13 februari 2020 | 13 min

The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch

12 februari 2020 | 11 min

A Reason to Reveal Your Failures, the Time Tulips Cost More Than Houses, and the Death of Planet WASP-12b

11 februari 2020 | 12 min

Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth

10 februari 2020 | 10 min

Measuring the Deadliness of Viruses (Like Coronavirus), Why We Do the Potty Dance, and Depression’s Cousin “Acedia”

7 februari 2020 | 10 min

The Invention of GPS (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals

6 februari 2020 | 12 min

Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work, Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies, and Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery

5 februari 2020 | 9 min

The 13 Emotions Music Evokes, Surprising Things Pregnancy Does to the Body, and Solving the Tiny T. Rex Mystery

4 februari 2020 | 10 min

Your Romantic Relationships Are All Similar, Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses, and the Oldest Material on Earth

3 februari 2020 | 10 min

Why Deadhead Logs Are So Rare and Valuable (w/ Kevin O’Connor) and Why Traveling Makes You Tired

31 januari 2020 | 10 min

The Invention of the Two-by-Four (w/ Kevin O’Connor) and Common Mistakes You Make in the Shower

30 januari 2020 | 10 min

Why Overheard Phone Conversations Are So Distracting, How Big Black Holes Get, and Why Anesthesia Is Risky on Marijuana

29 januari 2020 | 10 min

You Learn Better from Success than Failure, Ravens Plan Ahead, and Absolute Zero Is Impossible

28 januari 2020 | 10 min

Think of Sadness as a Person, Neanderthals Using Aspirin, and Cow Voices

27 januari 2020 | 10 min

Earth Is Greener Than Before, Job-Matching with Your Tweets, and Why Blue Means Sad

24 januari 2020 | 10 min

Most Lying Is Done by a Few People, Storing Vaccine History with Invisible Dye, and Emotion Words Vary Across Cultures

23 januari 2020 | 10 min

Live Longer by Appreciating Art, Betelgeuse Might Go Supernova, and Birds’ Freaky-Fast Vision

22 januari 2020 | 12 min

Saving the Ozone Layer Slowed Climate Change, the Largest Lifeforms on Earth, and Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work

21 januari 2020 | 12 min

Real Effects of Paying it Forward, Gorillas Humming Food Songs, and New Crowdsourced Exoplanet Names

20 januari 2020 | 10 min

Why Pets Get the Zoomies, How to Avoid Giving Up After a Mistake, and Why Vision Is Important for Babies in the Womb

17 januari 2020 | 10 min

2 Forces Determine What a Group Can Accomplish (w/ Safi Bahcall) and the Taste Receptors Beyond Your Tongue

16 januari 2020 | 11 min

The 3-Encounter Rule, Why Weak Passwords Survive, and Saturn’s Rings Aren’t as Old as We Thought

15 januari 2020 | 11 min

Positive vs. Negative Goal-Setting, Kids Read More with Dogs, and Why Teleportation Is (Probably) Impossible

14 januari 2020 | 11 min

What if Earth Stopped Turning, Why We Blurt Things Out, and the Little Black Dots on Your Windshield

13 januari 2020 | 9 min

Why Women Started Shaving, Universal Features of Music, and “Split-Brain” Studies

10 januari 2020 | 10 min

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9 januari 2020 | 11 min

The Germs Lurking in Your Makeup, Why Progress Feels Better Than Achieving a Goal, and What Horsepower Really Means

8 januari 2020 | 10 min

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7 januari 2020 | 12 min

Financial Infidelity, Saving Coral Reefs with Sounds, and Weird Winter Weather Phenomena Explained

6 januari 2020 | 12 min

It’s OK to Only Exercise on Weekends, Difference Between Brown and White Eggs, and Setting Expectations for Star Wars

3 januari 2020 | 11 min

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2 januari 2020 | 12 min

Strengthen Your New Year’s Resolutions, Rethinking How We Judge a Planet’s Age, and the Truth About Apple Cider Vinegar and Health

1 januari 2020 | 10 min

Carl Zimmer on Defining Life, Learning Myths Even Educators Believe, and The Truth About “Dessert Stomach”

31 december 2019 | 9 min

Heredity Isn’t What You Think (w/ Carl Zimmer), How Nudge Theory Changes Behaviors, and Could Cockroaches Survive a Nuclear Blast?

30 december 2019 | 10 min

How the Medicine You Take Knows Where to Go, The Amazing Physics of Baseball, and Boosting Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique

27 december 2019 | 7 min

Chimps Can Play Rock Paper Scissors, a Metamaterial Blocks Sound Without Blocking Light, and Staying Creative by Switching Tasks

26 december 2019 | 7 min

History of Kissing, The Unbelievable True Story of the First Chiropractor, and Moons That Leave Their Planets Are Called “Ploonets”

25 december 2019 | 8 min

A Trick for Unblocking Creativity, Hitting Snooze Can Ruin Your Morning, and How We Know What Color Dinosaurs Were

24 december 2019 | 7 min

Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Beyond the Moon, Hearing Damage from Concerts, and How Music Affects Productivity

23 december 2019 | 9 min

Staying Motivated in the Face of Adversity (w/ Safi Bahcall), Why Things Sound Louder in the Morning, and Winter Solstice Science

20 december 2019 | 11 min

Shaming People Online Can Backfire, the Most Energetic Explosion Ever Observed, and the Link Between Teeth Brushing and Heart Health

19 december 2019 | 9 min

Grizzlies Are Real-Life Superheroes (w/ “Man Vs Bear” Host Casey Anderson) and How People Really Pick Gifts

18 december 2019 | 10 min

Tool-Using Animals (w/ “Man Vs Bear” Host Casey Anderson) and Trees Syncing Seed Production

17 december 2019 | 10 min

Should You Avoid Fever-Reducing Drugs? Plus: Teeth-Replacing Dinosaurs and “Phantosmia” Smell Hallucinations

16 december 2019 | 9 min

Remembering Words on the Tip of Your Tongue, Parkways vs. Driveways, and A Flapping Spacecraft to Explore Venus

13 december 2019 | 10 min

You Don’t Need to “Warm Up” Your Car, Buy Less Instead of Buying Green, and Antarctica’s Ancient Forests

12 december 2019 | 10 min

Customized Medicine (w/ Lauren Black) and How to Tell Someone’s Sick by Looking at Them

11 december 2019 | 11 min

Cutting Sodium by Adding MSG, Measuring When People Give Up on Books, and How Giving Advice May Mean You Crave Power

10 december 2019 | 10 min

Close the Lid Before You Flush, How Men and Women Feel About Their Exes, and a Trait That Makes You More Likely to Exercise

9 december 2019 | 12 min

You Can Discover History by Going Low-Tech (w/ Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah), Plus: Nuclear Explosions in Space

6 december 2019 | 10 min

Why Feet Stink, How NASA Knows Where to Dig for Life On Mars, and Why Ice Is Luxurious

5 december 2019 | 10 min

An Effective Way to Correct Misinformation, an Artificial Leaf that Turns CO2 into Fuel, and the Dino Fossil Death Pose

4 december 2019 | 10 min

Saving Cats from Kidney Disease with AI (w/ Kay O’Donnell) and Eye Contact Reduces Lying

3 december 2019 | 10 min

Evolution of the Violin Hole, Why Static Shock Is Worse in Winter, and How “Sleeping on It” Solves Problems

2 december 2019 | 9 min

History’s Extravagant Gifts (w/ Justin Jampol), Why You Wake Up Hungry After Overeating, and Why Birds Have Hollow Bones

29 november 2019 | 10 min

Food Coma Science, How to Avoid Raising Materialistic Kids, and 3M on Building a Circular Economy

28 november 2019 | 12 min

Self-Control Without Sacrificing Pleasure, Why You Think You Do All the Work, and Why Scientists Use Weather Balloons

27 november 2019 | 12 min

Feeding Birds May Cause a Deformity, Busting the “Only Child” Stereotype, and Why Everyone Draws a Coffee Cup the Same Way

26 november 2019 | 10 min

Steven Strogatz Helps You Get Excited About Math (Plus: How Scientists Predict Asteroid Impacts)

25 november 2019 | 10 min

Cell Phone Radiation, Why It’s OK to Contaminate Other Worlds, and Types of Human Goals

22 november 2019 | 10 min

Phone Typing Is Speeding Up, A Supernova May Be Why Humans Walk Upright, and Rain on Antarctica

21 november 2019 | 11 min

Sneezing with Your Eyes Open, How to Think About Wealth, and Why Bird Poop is 2 Colors

20 november 2019 | 10 min

How to Stop Overspending on Groceries, Tattoos May Toughen Up Your Immune System, and How Physical Activity Boosts Kids’ Learning

19 november 2019 | 9 min

Can Calculus Solve Quantum Physics? (w/ Steven Strogatz), Full Moon Behavior, and Why You Complain About “Kids These Days”

18 november 2019 | 10 min

Maps as Weapons and Art (w/ Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah) and Fidgeting Explained

15 november 2019 | 12 min

Your Internal Compass, How Long a Flu Virus Survives, and the Creativity/Mental Illness Link

14 november 2019 | 12 min

Tracking and Adventuring 101 (w/ Forrest Galante) and Plagiarizing Without Realizing It

13 november 2019 | 11 min

Foods to Curb Sleep Deprivation, Light Levels Affect How Cold You Feel, and Kangaroo Pouches

12 november 2019 | 9 min

How Calculus Is Different (w/ Steven Strogatz), Distraction Can Alter Your Memory, and Why the Hindenburg Used Hydrogen

11 november 2019 | 12 min

History Is About the Present (w/ Justin Jampol), What Makes the Wind, and Blaming Games for Society’s Problems

8 november 2019 | 12 min

Babies’ Heads Smell Distinct, Illegal Drugs That Used to be Medicine, and Lemming Myths

7 november 2019 | 11 min

Finding “Extinct” Animals (w/ Forrest Galante) and How Bacteria Cooperate to Survive

6 november 2019 | 12 min

Smartphones Impair You Even When They’re Off, Eco-Friendly Laundry, and How Babies Laugh

5 november 2019 | 10 min

Why You Should Care About Calculus (w/ Steven Strogatz) and Why Lying to Kids Is Harmful

4 november 2019 | 12 min

How to Have Fun with Simple Curiosity (w/ Alan Alda) and How Toilets Work

1 november 2019 | 12 min

How Long a Decapitated Head Stays Conscious, Autumn Leaf Chemistry, The Batman Effect

31 oktober 2019 | 9 min

What to Say When Someone’s Upset with You, Bermuda Triangle Myths, Tardigrade Superpowers

30 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Persuading Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter (w/ Lee Hartley Carter), Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish

29 oktober 2019 | 8 min

Types of Psychotherapy, Your Urge to Nibble Baby Feet, and Why Animals Don’t Have 3 Legs

28 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Alan Alda on Communicating Better, Believing in Science, and Building Connections and Empathy

27 oktober 2019 | 11 min

Alan Alda on How to Communicate Better by Making Connections (Plus: Why Oceans Don’t Sink)

25 oktober 2019 | 10 min

How to Tell When Someone’s Lying, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Healthiest Way to Cook Broccoli

24 oktober 2019 | 8 min

Gold Mining (w/ Gold Rush Stars Rick Ness and Tony Beets) and Why Musical Tastes Change

23 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Sleep Better by Walking More, How Animals Mourn Their Dead, and Words from Backformation

22 oktober 2019 | 8 min

Focus on the Ending, How to Deal with Impostor Syndrome, and Sit Less or Exercise More?

21 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Why People Love (or Hate) Horror Movies, Stopping Overpopulation, and Orionids Meteor Shower

18 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Types of Teen Popularity, Milky Way’s Black Holes, and Are Conspiracy Theories on the Rise?

17 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Cherenkov Radiation, How to Be More Extroverted, and Changing Your Perception of Time

16 oktober 2019 | 8 min

How to Deal with Having Too Many Choices, Wormhole Shadows, and a Language “Wug Test”

15 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Quitting Smoking Doesn’t Lead to Food Cravings, Narcissism Over Time, and Seeing Photons

14 oktober 2019 | 9 min

The Science of Cooking Meat with ButcherBox Head Chef Yankel Polak (Special Episode)

13 oktober 2019 | 20 min

Women’s Restroom Lines, Superhuman Memory, and Is Bamboo Good for the Environment?

11 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Cure for the Common Cold, What Really Killed the Dinosaurs, and Beatboxing in MRI Machines

10 oktober 2019 | 9 min

We Don’t Know How Gravity Works (w/ Sean Carroll) and the Milky Way’s Bubble Mystery

9 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Many Worlds Theory Explains the Universe (w/ Sean Carroll) and What Causes Static Electricity

8 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Signals Dogs Use to Talk to You, NASA’s Lost Moon Photos, and the Sugar Rush Is a Myth

7 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Where Dogs Get Their Personalities, How Smells Work, and a Skill that Improves with Age

4 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Destroying Space-Time for Power (w/ Randall Munroe), Hourglass Figure Myths, Clown Science

3 oktober 2019 | 10 min

Predict the Weather Using Facebook Photos (w/ Randall Munroe) and Spoken Data Speeds

2 oktober 2019 | 9 min

How to Pick a Profile Photo, Handedness, and Gravitational Wave Detectors Seeking Dark Matter

1 oktober 2019 | 8 min

Personalities Associated with Certain Names, Working Less to Save the Earth, and Superbolts

30 september 2019 | 9 min

Pure Chance of Political Positions, Why Earth Has Oxygen, Infrared and Ultraviolet in Rainbows

27 september 2019 | 9 min

Cutting Back on Plastic in Your Home (w/ Will McCallum) and How Shapes Can Be Angry

26 september 2019 | 9 min

How to Save the World from Plastic (w/ Will McCallum) and Your Puppies Love Baby Talk

25 september 2019 | 10 min

Constellations Across Cultures, Female vs. Male Hurricanes, and Animals Scientists Study

24 september 2019 | 9 min

A Mutation That Makes You Need Less Sleep, Why “Like” Isn’t Lazy Language, and Zealandia

23 september 2019 | 8 min

3D Printed Fashion (w/ Dana Thomas), Difference Between THC and CBD, Quiet Smart People

20 september 2019 | 9 min

The Price of Fast Fashion (w/ Dana Thomas) and Why You Miss What’s Right in Front of You

19 september 2019 | 9 min

Dark DNA, Why Married Couples Slept in Twin Beds, and Do Baths Get You Clean?

18 september 2019 | 9 min

Don’t Use Your Phone on Breaks, How to Stop Being Materialistic, and Why We Roll Our Eyes

17 september 2019 | 8 min

You Can Enjoy Play Before Work, Life After Asteroid Impacts, and an Eyepatch Eyesight Hack

16 september 2019 | 9 min

Your Brain on Books vs. Podcasts, How Hard Babies Kick in the Womb, and Fart Humor History

13 september 2019 | 9 min

Your Body’s Electromagnetic Field, Winning Pep Talk Tips, and Brightly Colored Ancient Statues

12 september 2019 | 8 min

You Don’t Run Out of Willpower, What Came Before the Big Bang, and Hookah Health Risks

11 september 2019 | 9 min

Emoji Around the World (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and Plants May Have a Sense of Sight

10 september 2019 | 9 min

Beliefs That Boost Grades, Optimism for Better Sleep, and Planets More Habitable Than Earth

9 september 2019 | 8 min

Sibling Rivalry Benefits, Why The Universe Has No Center, and How to Know Yourself Better

6 september 2019 | 8 min

Why Birds Sing, Why Bruises Change Color, and America’s Largest Asteroid Impact

5 september 2019 | 9 min

Sleep Better with a Bath, Questions That Stump Computers, and the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste

4 september 2019 | 9 min

International Internet Languages (w/ Gretchen McCulloch), Chances of Rain, and Mars in Spain

3 september 2019 | 8 min

Censoring Information Backfires, Social Media’s Mental Health Benefits, and Tailgating Myths

2 september 2019 | 9 min

Pets Can Be Allergic to You, Why Insecure People Brag, and an Algorithm’s Science Discovery

30 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Control Your Spending Without a Budget, How Toxo Controls Mice, and Trial By Fire Brilliance

29 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Gratitude Must Be Learned, You Go Blind Every Day, and Passive Echolocation of Dolphins

28 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Online Boomer Speak (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and Is “Money Can’t Buy Happiness” True?

27 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Surprising Things in Libraries (w/ Alex Lent), Better Brainstorming Tips, and Prairie Vole Love

26 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Does Blowing on Food Make It Cooler? Plus: How to Acquire Tastes, and Carnivore Adaptation

25 augusti 2019 | 10 min

Inside the Human Eye (w/ Dr. Anthony St. Leger), Dating-App Addiction, and Old-Timey Bicycles

23 augusti 2019 | 10 min

Your Eye Microbiome (w/ Dr. Anthony St. Leger) and What Children’s Drawings Say About Gender

22 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Canned Laughter Makes Dad Jokes Funnier, Animals Use Economics, and AI on Rubik’s Cubes

21 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Is Internet Language Bad? (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and How to Remember More Dreams

20 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Is Bee Venom Therapy Safe? Plus: Teeth Cleaning History and How to Change Bad Habits

19 augusti 2019 | 8 min

How Food Nutrients Are Calculated, Why Wrappers Are So Loud, and How to Make Small Talk

18 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Getting Rid of Mosquitoes (w/ Timothy Winegard), the Sargasso Sea, and Leonid Rogozov

16 augusti 2019 | 9 min

History-Changing Mosquitoes (w/ Timothy Winegard) and Stimulating Neurons to Produce Images

15 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Big Five Personality Traits Are WEIRD, Why Mouth Wounds Heal So Quickly, and Snake Island

14 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Improve Your Self-Control, Replace Your Kitchen Sponge, and Naming Our Sun and Moon

13 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Bystanders Help More Often Than You Thought, Avoiding Failure, and Cause and Effect Crows

12 augusti 2019 | 7 min

Achieve Your Goals Faster, Why We Eat 3 Meals a Day, and the NATO Phonetic Alphabet

11 augusti 2019 | 10 min

Cultivate Green Space in Your Home (w/ Summer Rayne Oakes) and Brains of Octopus Arms

9 augusti 2019 | 10 min

Prevent Pit Stains, Medieval Rap Battles, and Why Airplane Boarding Takes So Long

8 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Melt Glass at Home (w/ Nick Uhas), How Matches Make Fire, and Odd Animal Sizes on Islands

7 augusti 2019 | 8 min

Wireless Charging May Be Bad for Your Battery, “Alpha Dog” Myths, and Penicillin’s Full Origins

6 augusti 2019 | 10 min

Future of Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University) and Transferring Data Through Music

5 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Respecting Others with Hanlon’s Razor, What If the World Went Vegan, and Dancing Cockatoos

4 augusti 2019 | 10 min

Bioprinting (w/ Zach Weinersmith), Giant Underground Cities, and Miniature Pigeon Cameras

2 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Space Elevators (w/ Zach Weinersmith) and Why Get Off Your Phone When You Watch TV

1 augusti 2019 | 10 min

You Have A Type, Harmful Shark Myths, and Why Airplane Engines Have Spirals

31 juli 2019 | 8 min

Measure Your Beliefs About the World, the Overview Effect, and a Mercury-Spewing Fountain

30 juli 2019 | 8 min

Communicating with Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University) and Uncanny Valley Science

29 juli 2019 | 10 min

Why We Kiss, Ploonets, and The Unbelievable True Story of D.D. Palmer, the First Chiropractor

28 juli 2019 | 8 min

You May Have Eaten Glass (w/ Nick Uhas), Using Positive Stress, and Identifying Screams

26 juli 2019 | 9 min

Forcing Functions and “Super Thinking,” Rosalind Franklin’s Story, and Dogs Smelling Fear

25 juli 2019 | 9 min

Your Nightmares Help You Survive, Tin Whiskers Break Your Gadgets, and Every Map Is Lying

24 juli 2019 | 9 min

S’more History, How “Text Speak” Affects Literacy Skills, and What Lead Does to Your Body

23 juli 2019 | 9 min

Microscale Machine Manufacturing (w/ Cornell University) and Stopping Hiccups with Science

22 juli 2019 | 8 min

Pomodoro Technique to Stop Procrastination, Where Medicine Goes, and Baseball Physics

21 juli 2019 | 8 min

Simple Quantum Physics (w/ George Greenstein), Parachute-less Falling, and Dog Adoption

19 juli 2019 | 9 min

EPR Paradox and Quantum Strangeness (w/ George Greenstein) and Temperatures for Sleep

18 juli 2019 | 10 min

Self-Defense Amputations, Unique English Words, and How Puppy-Dog Eyes Evolved

17 juli 2019 | 9 min

A Normal Body Temperature Isn't 98.6 Degrees, Fettuccine-Like Rocks, and Toothbrush Tips

16 juli 2019 | 8 min

Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University), Learning Styles Don’t Exist, and Why Pulsars Matter

15 juli 2019 | 10 min

Songs in Tonal Languages (w/ James Kirby) and Neanderthal DNA in Human Chromosomes

14 juli 2019 | 10 min

Smartphone Technology and the Future of Innovation

13 juli 2019 | 18 min

Surprising Science of Glass (w/ Nick Uhas), Satellite Tethers, and Map Coloring Math

12 juli 2019 | 10 min

AI Translating Babies’ Cries, Being Suckered by the Barnum Effect, and City of Lies and Truth

11 juli 2019 | 9 min

Finding What You Love to Do (w/ David Epstein) and How to Deliver Bad News

10 juli 2019 | 10 min

Why Generalists Triumph (w/ David Epstein) and What Causes Puffy Eyes After Crying

9 juli 2019 | 10 min

Never Hit the Snooze Button, Unblock Your Creativity with a 4-Year-Old, and Dinosaur Colors

8 juli 2019 | 8 min

Black Hole Edges (w/ Ralph Crewe), Your Brain’s Backup Plan, and Healthy Tanning Tips

7 juli 2019 | 10 min

Spontaneous Human Combustion, Your Terrible Creep Radar, and Employee Honesty

5 juli 2019 | 10 min

Fireworks Technology, Human Body’s Energy Limit, and Making Meat-Like Burgers from Plants

4 juli 2019 | 9 min

Admit What You Don’t Know, Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars, and Revolving Door Origins

3 juli 2019 | 10 min

Individuals Really Can Slow Climate Change, Muscle Memory Is Real, and Penguin Waddles

2 juli 2019 | 9 min

Sweat is Not Detoxifying, How to Educate People About GMOs, and Mascara Mouth

1 juli 2019 | 9 min

Without Space, We Die (w/ Kevin J. DeBruin), Breeding New Apples, and Ceres’ Ice Volcano

30 juni 2019 | 10 min

Educating and Innovating for the Future with Sustainable Solutions

29 juni 2019 | 15 min

Game Transfer Phenomena (w/ Angelica Ortiz de Gortari) and the Methane Spike on Mars

28 juni 2019 | 10 min

Nuclear Survival Guide, Physical Health Benefits of Being Kind to Yourself, Snakes and Ladders

27 juni 2019 | 10 min

Weirdest Types of Lightning, Spotting Audio Lies Easily, and the Traveling Salesman Problem

26 juni 2019 | 10 min

Find Out if You’re an Echoist, Pluto Swapping with Neptune, and Our Ancestors’ Healthy Living

25 juni 2019 | 9 min

History-Changing Chewing Gum, How to Spot Bad Nutrition Tips, and Why Dogs Love Humans

24 juni 2019 | 9 min

Godzilla’s Deeper Meaning, Exoplanets (w/ Ralph Crewe from SNaQ), and Turing Machines

23 juni 2019 | 10 min

Planning for and Investing in New Technologies

22 juni 2019 | 13 min

Fighting the Most Common Form of Prejudice, Autokinetic Effect, and Fermat’s Last Theorem

21 juni 2019 | 10 min

Developing Drugs to Fight Superbugs (w/ Dr. Matt McCarthy) and What Dark Mode Does

20 juni 2019 | 10 min

Superbugs and Antibiotic Resistance (w/ Dr. Matt McCarthy) and Third-Person Pep Talks

19 juni 2019 | 8 min

Boost Productivity with a Potted Plant, Why Coffee Makes You Poop, and Nuclear Semiotics

18 juni 2019 | 9 min

Overcoming the Incredible Power of Exclusion (w/ Vivian Zayas) and a One-Way Sound Device

17 juni 2019 | 13 min

Difference Between 5G and 4G Networks (w/ Trace Dominguez) and Self-Repairing Batteries

16 juni 2019 | 10 min

How to Push the Limits of Innovation

15 juni 2019 | 17 min

Solar Sail Testing, Benefits of Debating Politics Online, and Tongue Map Mythbusting

14 juni 2019 | 9 min

Wine Myths, The Case for Code-Switched Classes, and The Most Dangerous Tree in the World

13 juni 2019 | 8 min

Hairy Ball Theorem, the Secret to Effective Practice, and Disposable Water Bottle Dangers

12 juni 2019 | 8 min

Leaders Can Be Too Extroverted, The Cutest Age for a Puppy, and Goldbach’s Conjecture

11 juni 2019 | 9 min

How Badly We Need to Feel Socially Connected (w/ Vivian Zayas) and Work Commute Tips

10 juni 2019 | 10 min

Why Itches Spread, Ancient Vending Machine, and Not Realizing When Your Beliefs Change

9 juni 2019 | 9 min

EMD and the Science Behind Today's — and Tomorrow's — Technology

8 juni 2019 | 15 min

Personality Test Role-Playing Game, Antimatter Double-Slit Science, and Asexual Reproduction

7 juni 2019 | 10 min

Life After Life Hacking (w/ Professor Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.) and White Hole Science

6 juni 2019 | 10 min

New Laser Uses Sound Waves, Get Your Kids to Eat Veggies, and Better-Than-Average Effect

5 juni 2019 | 8 min

Passion for Your Job Can Backfire, Ancient Greeks Knew Earth Was Round, and Hair in Food

4 juni 2019 | 9 min

What Determines How Others See You (w/ Vivian Zayas) and Don’t Ask for Too Much Advice

3 juni 2019 | 10 min

Ancient Cities Can Help Us Plan Modern Cities (w/ Monica L. Smith) and Where Light Goes

2 juni 2019 | 8 min

Ingredients for New Friendships, Dark Matter Debate, and How to Make Decisions with Friends

31 maj 2019 | 8 min

Drawbacks and Dangers of Life Hacking (w/ Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.) and Why Wet Fingers Prune

30 maj 2019 | 10 min

What to Do if You Can’t Sleep, Diet Soda Weight Loss Myths, and Gold from Neutron Stars

29 maj 2019 | 9 min

Space Sustainability Rating System, the Chameleon Effect, and How to Blow Your Nose

28 maj 2019 | 9 min

Our Implicit Attitudes: New Research into Human Relationships (w/ Vivian Zayas)

27 maj 2019 | 10 min

Modern and Ancient Cities Faced the Same Problems (w/ Monica L. Smith), Ear Dominance

26 maj 2019 | 8 min

Smiling Can Make You Happier, Maybe Nobody Likes Black Coffee or Beer, and Entropy 101

24 maj 2019 | 10 min

How to Tell What Life Hacks Are Worth Trying (w/ Joseph Reagle) and Microwaves for Cooling

23 maj 2019 | 10 min

Reduce Arachnophobia with Spider-Man, Biggest Volcano Eruption Ever, and 100-Point Plan

22 maj 2019 | 9 min

Drying Laundry to Make It Soft, Why Sad People Listen to Sad Music, and Fossilist Mary Anning

21 maj 2019 | 9 min

Mentally Representing Our Relationships (w/ Vivian Zayas) and a Passion Pursuit Regimen

20 maj 2019 | 9 min

Why Humans Built Cities in the First Place and What They Looked Like (w/ Monica L. Smith)

19 maj 2019 | 9 min

Pill Colors Influence Their Effectiveness, Bizarre Quark-Gluon Plasma Traits, and CEO Hobbies

17 maj 2019 | 10 min

Science’s Replication Crisis (w/ Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.) and Why Squinting Helps You See

16 maj 2019 | 9 min

Birth Order Doesn’t Matter, Your Liver Grows and Shrinks Overnight, and Von Neumann Probes

15 maj 2019 | 9 min

Why Smells Trigger Vivid Memories, Test Your Impostor Syndrome, and Trees Without Rings

14 maj 2019 | 10 min

Finding Life on Eyeball Planets, Our Shrinking Collective Attention Span, and Deep Work Skills

13 maj 2019 | 9 min

Mother’s Day Origins, How Poor Vision Survived Natural Selection, and Muon Facts

12 maj 2019 | 9 min

Sickness Makes You Antisocial, Fruit Fly Facts (w/ Stephanie Mohr), and a Sting Pain Index

10 maj 2019 | 10 min

Best Position for Sleep, Better Learning by Arguing, and Universal Language of Honey Bees

9 maj 2019 | 8 min

Moviegoers Blink in Sync, Rain on the Sun, and Why Flamingos Stand on One Leg

8 maj 2019 | 8 min

A Town Where Wireless Signals Are Banned, Why Fish Stink, and a Personality Health Test

7 maj 2019 | 10 min

Medieval Dancing Plagues, Altruistic Indulgence, and Types of Human Species

6 maj 2019 | 9 min

Analog and Digital Media Preservation (w/ Damon Krukowski) and the Wagon Wheel Illusion

5 maj 2019 | 11 min

New Treatments via Fruit Flies (w/ Stephanie Mohr), South Atlantic Anomaly, White Wine Perks

3 maj 2019 | 10 min

Weight Changes in Different Places, How Shoelaces Come Untied, and Longer Life Mentality

2 maj 2019 | 8 min

Always Ask for a Deadline Extension, Leaded Gasoline, and What Makes Time Stand Still

1 maj 2019 | 8 min

Avoid Productivity Pitfalls, The Bandwagon Effect, and How Holograms Are Becoming A Reality

30 april 2019 | 9 min

Meteorites Probably Don’t Land Hot, Break-Up Struggles, and Why Babies Hardly Ever Blink

29 april 2019 | 9 min

How Digital Audio Has Changed Listening (w/ Damon Krukowski) and How Much You Can Know

28 april 2019 | 10 min

How Fruit Flies Are Like Humans, (w/ Stephanie Mohr), Your Changing Personality, and Pennies

26 april 2019 | 10 min

Fresh, Canned, and Frozen Vegetable Nutrition, Staying in Bed for Science, and IQs on Iodine

25 april 2019 | 8 min

Achieve Goals with the 2-List Strategy, Temperature-Telling Crickets, and Lungs Make Blood

24 april 2019 | 7 min

NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Telescope, the Light Triad, and Where You Spend Your Time

23 april 2019 | 10 min

Never Wash Raw Chicken, Campaign for a 13-Month Calendar, and The Island of the Colorblind

22 april 2019 | 8 min

You’re Almost Entirely Empty Space, What Defines Seconds, and the Lyrid Meteor Shower

21 april 2019 | 9 min

Fruit Fly Research Essentials (w/ Stephanie Mohr) and Why Doctors Work Long Hours

19 april 2019 | 10 min

Einstein’s Greatest Regret, Why Icing an Injury May Not Help It Heal, and Extinction Memories

18 april 2019 | 9 min

What’s Next for Quantum Computers (w/ Chris Bernhardt) and How to Make Yourself Luckier

17 april 2019 | 10 min

Benefits of Audiobooks vs. Reading, Bad Earthworms, and Phineas Gage’s Freak Accident

16 april 2019 | 7 min

Conference Rooms Impair Your Mind, Get a “Toned” Look, and Overcome Friendship Jealousy

15 april 2019 | 9 min

Control Butterflies in Your Stomach, Numbers in Other Languages, and the Titanic’s Savior

14 april 2019 | 9 min

Black Hole Firewall Hypothesis, Polio Vaccine History, and Double Rainbow Science

12 april 2019 | 10 min

Why Older People Get Up Early, Why Hot Water Freezes Quickly, and Recapitulation Myths

11 april 2019 | 8 min

Quantum Computing 101: Qubits and Entanglement (w/ Professor Chris Bernhardt)

10 april 2019 | 10 min

How to Make Excuses and Keep Friends, Early Risers vs. Night People, and Escalator Science

9 april 2019 | 10 min

Using Black Holes as Fuel, How to Run on Top of Water, and Origins of the World-Famous

8 april 2019 | 8 min

Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories, Why Some Colors Look Brighter, and Pre-Dinosaur Fossil Finds

7 april 2019 | 9 min

New Material Blocks Sound and Not Light, Task Switching to Boost Creativity, and Gamer Chimps

5 april 2019 | 9 min

The Reminiscence Bump, The Tetris Effect, and Why We Have Tree-Lined City Streets

4 april 2019 | 9 min

Human Networks Change How We Think (with Stanford Economist Matthew O. Jackson)

3 april 2019 | 9 min

It’s Always Safer to Vaccinate (w/ Virologist Paul Duprex) and How to Use Facts to Beat Beliefs

2 april 2019 | 9 min

New Curiosity Daily Host Chris Jericho Explains Science of Alkaline Water and Sharing Online

1 april 2019 | 9 min

Internet Addiction, Dust in Space (w/ Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell), and Vacation Science

31 mars 2019 | 10 min

Advancing Innovation with TE Connectivity and rFlight (Special Episode)

30 mars 2019 | 24 min

“Breaking the Seal” Myths, Dine Under the Sea in the Maldives, and Tardigrade Superpowers

29 mars 2019 | 10 min

How to Communicate About Science (w/ 3M’s Jayshree Seth) and Get Out of a Creative Rut

28 mars 2019 | 9 min

3M’s 2019 State of Science Index (w/ Jayshree Seth) and How You Can Name Jupiter’s Moons

27 mars 2019 | 10 min

The Four Predictors of Divorce, Why You Love Being Part of a Crowd, and Types of Loneliness

26 mars 2019 | 9 min

You’d Probably Survive A Plane Crash, Why People Still Fax, and How Spleens Can Multiply

25 mars 2019 | 9 min

The Active Learning Initiative Is Transforming Education (Julia Thom-Levy, Cornell University)

24 mars 2019 | 10 min

A Diet That’s Good for You and the World, Milk Temperatures, and the False-Consensus Effect

22 mars 2019 | 10 min

How Babies Handle Vaccines (w/ Paul Duprex), Sniffing Is Contagious, and Albino Ghost Trees

21 mars 2019 | 10 min

Equinox and Solstice Science, Foreign Accent Syndrome, and an 80-Year Harvard Study

20 mars 2019 | 8 min

Metabolic Window Myths, Egg Entropy (w/ Ralph Crewe from SNaQ), and What’s in Tattoo Ink

19 mars 2019 | 10 min

Human Bones on the Red Market (w/ Brian Switek), Stop Venting Anger, and Asparagus Pee

18 mars 2019 | 9 min

Why Hangovers Get Worse, How Quickly You’d Age at Light Speed, and Upright Neanderthals

17 mars 2019 | 8 min

Why Pockets Are Rare in Women’s Clothes, Why Earth Twinkles, and Where Life Originated

15 mars 2019 | 9 min

“What Is Life?” with Carl Zimmer, Why You Always Have Room for Dessert, and Learning Myths

14 mars 2019 | 9 min

Myths About Your Vision, What Your Dog’s “Guilty” Look Really Means, and the Gaokao Exam

13 mars 2019 | 8 min

How Vaccines in Africa Protect Everyone in the World (w/ Paul Duprex), and Semantic Satiation

12 mars 2019 | 10 min

Space Race Stories (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), Why Produce Sparks, and a 1-3-5 To-Do List

11 mars 2019 | 10 min

Bike Balancing, How Big Data Knows What You Like, and Millions of Copper Needles in Space

10 mars 2019 | 9 min

Why Your Muscles Are Sore After Workouts, Daylight Saving Time Myths, and Taj Mahal History

8 mars 2019 | 8 min

Carl Zimmer on What’s “In Your Genes,” Nudge Theory, and Post-Apocalyptic Cockroach Myths

7 mars 2019 | 9 min

How Music Affects Your Work, Damage from Muffled Hearing, and Earth’s Gigantic Atmosphere

6 mars 2019 | 9 min

Natural vs. Artificial Ingredients, Why the Return Trip Feels Shorter, and Africa Splitting in Half

5 mars 2019 | 8 min

Craving Healthy Foods, What Grew Astronomy (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), $1 Million Math Problems

4 mars 2019 | 9 min

Limitations of Science, Top Jobs for Psychopaths, and How Long It Takes to Make a Friend

3 mars 2019 | 9 min

Breathing Trick to Fall Asleep Faster, Wisdom Teeth Removal Revelations, and Lise Meitner

1 mars 2019 | 6 min

Fountain of Youth Bacteria, Temperatures Making You Spend Money, and New Skills in 5 Hours

28 februari 2019 | 8 min

Communicate Using Simple Noises, Find Your House on Pangaea, and Kepler’s Legacy

27 februari 2019 | 9 min

Preserving Old Book Smells, Reacting Before Noticing, and Humans from Outer Space

26 februari 2019 | 9 min

Narcissism Lessons, The War-Stopping Eclipse (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), and Toothed Tumors

25 februari 2019 | 9 min

Writer’s Block Solutions, Life on Europa (w/ SNaQ’s Ralph Crewe), and Why We Wear Pants

24 februari 2019 | 10 min

How to Form New Habits, Evolution on Why Love Is Blind, and Pinks in Your Sinks

22 februari 2019 | 9 min

How to Perform Under Pressure, Physiology of Staying Warm, and Psychology of Circles

21 februari 2019 | 7 min

A New Robot Can Imagine Itself, Williams Syndrome, and The Great Compression

20 februari 2019 | 9 min

Elastic Thinking (w/ Leonard Mlodinow), How People Judge You, and Your Time Perspective

19 februari 2019 | 9 min

Saros Cycles (w/ Dr. David Warmflash), the Eiffel Tower’s Secret, and Announcing Alien Life

18 februari 2019 | 8 min

How RNA Reads DNA (w/ SNaQ’s Ralph Crewe), How Envy Can Be Good, and Coriolis Effect

17 februari 2019 | 8 min

New Algorithm Can Turn Thoughts Into Speech, Airplane Seat Belts, and the 40 Percent Rule

15 februari 2019 | 7 min

A Romantic Way to Beat Stress, the Priest Behind the Big Bang Theory, and the Ivy Lee Method

14 februari 2019 | 7 min

How Time Can Flow Backward, Why Poisonous Pufferfish Are Delicious, and Undersea Cables

13 februari 2019 | 9 min

Parsecs, the Difference Between Weather and Climate, and Scandinavian Life Philosophies

12 februari 2019 | 8 min

Best Ways to Overcome Challenges, What Your Appendix Does, and How You Use Information

11 februari 2019 | 9 min

Too Much Sleep Can Be Harmful, Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself, and Black Hole Light Echoes

10 februari 2019 | 8 min

Hubble Telescope Photobomb, Why Alcohol Burns, and Why Your Cat Puts Its Butt In Your Face

8 februari 2019 | 9 min

How to Look Good in Photos, Trojan Asteroids, and a Technique to Avoid Stress and Stay Calm

7 februari 2019 | 9 min

What No-Kill Animal Shelters Really Mean, Having vs. Making Money, and Replacing Your Cells

6 februari 2019 | 9 min

Quitting Is Underrated, Most-Googled Scientific Misconceptions, and Starquakes in the Universe

5 februari 2019 | 9 min

What Wind Chill Really Means, Learning Skills Faster with a Workout, and the Hypatia Stone

4 februari 2019 | 9 min

Specific Words to Use to Get What You Want (w/ Stella Grizont) and Tweeting Feelings

3 februari 2019 | 11 min

Win Debates by Beating the Gish Gallop, Improve Your VO2max, and 8 Years of Déjà Vu

1 februari 2019 | 8 min

How to Advocate For Yourself (w/ Stella Grizont), Black Hole Travel Possible, and Fossil Licking

31 januari 2019 | 10 min

The Best Time to Break Bad News, Overcome Loss Aversion, and Coin Tosses Aren’t Random

30 januari 2019 | 9 min

Measure Your Mindfulness, Male vs. Female Pain, and Why the Laws of Physics May Be Aliens

29 januari 2019 | 9 min

Bacteria May Save You From the Flu, Red Steak Juice Isn’t Blood, and the Future of Encryption

28 januari 2019 | 8 min

How to Change Your Personality, Why You Jerk Awake While Falling Asleep, and Ainu History

27 januari 2019 | 10 min

Why Uranus Is Sideways, What Blinking Means, and “The Blood Countess”

25 januari 2019 | 9 min

How to Improve Your Self-Control, Why You Shouldn’t Touch Your Plants, and Firehawk Raptors

24 januari 2019 | 9 min

Become A CRISPR Connoisseur (w/ Synthego), Up-and-Coming Batteries, and Microsleep

23 januari 2019 | 8 min

Wash Your Towels and Sheets More Often, Immortality’s Math Problem, and Australia’s Pink Lakes

22 januari 2019 | 8 min

The Phantom Time Hypothesis, Cybersecurity Tips, and New Schizophrenia Revelations

21 januari 2019 | 9 min

Are Women Colder Than Men? Plus: The Worst Year to Be Alive, and Heart Cancer Rarity

20 januari 2019 | 9 min

You Can’t Taste a Drink’s Strength, Soda Can Explosion Taps, and Our Galaxy’s Weird Planets

18 januari 2019 | 10 min

Achieve Goals with the Pareto Principle, How to Think Creatively, and a Simple Sleep Fix

17 januari 2019 | 9 min

What to Tell Friends During a Crisis, the Deep Carbon Observatory, and Gravitational Lensing

16 januari 2019 | 7 min

You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Boost Your Immune System, Pupil Shapes, and CES 2019 Recap

15 januari 2019 | 10 min

Get More Done with Timeboxing, Self-Created Peer Pressure, and the Pitch Drop Experiment

14 januari 2019 | 8 min

Long Lines Are Good, Supernova Archaeology, Key Lime Pie History, and Pain Memory

13 januari 2019 | 10 min

Andros’ Unexplored Blue Holes, Folie à Deux, and How Your Brain Treats Curiosity Like Hunger

11 januari 2019 | 9 min

Exercising at Night Won’t Mess with Your Sleep, Tonka Beans, and Non-Genome -Omes

10 januari 2019 | 8 min

Your Wounds Heal Faster in the Daytime, Only Tame Foxes on Earth, and the Peter Principle

9 januari 2019 | 10 min

A Trick for Being Taken More Seriously, Messy Office Traits, and Human Domestication

8 januari 2019 | 10 min

Overcome Learned Helplessness, Teach Your Kids How to Apologize, and Macrophage Attacks

7 januari 2019 | 9 min

Why You’d Choose Your Biases Over Money, Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth, and Dark Fluid

6 januari 2019 | 10 min

Become an Early Riser, How Temperature Affects Sound, and Do We See the Same Colors?

4 januari 2019 | 8 min

Working from Home FTW, Changing Narratives to Overcome Challenges, and Triple Point Chemistry

3 januari 2019 | 7 min

Choice Blindness, Maintaining Habits and Achieving Goals, and Don’t Give Up If Your Diet Fails

2 januari 2019 | 8 min

Exercise Extravaganza: How to Stretch, Running to Help Your Knees, and Gym Class Myths

1 januari 2019 | 10 min

Beating Procrastination, Sand Science (w/ Vince Beiser), and How to Use Your Vacation Days

31 december 2018 | 8 min

How Humans Can Outsmart AI (w/ Unanimous AI), Pre-Big Bang Existence, and Beating Procrastination

30 december 2018 | 10 min

Incredible Benefits of Leaving Your Phone Out of Your Bedroom, Stopping Time, and “The Goblin” Dwarf Planet

28 december 2018 | 9 min

Hand and Eye Dominance Causes, Real vs. Fake Laughter, and Video Games for Teaching Empathy

27 december 2018 | 8 min

Batch Tasks Instead of Multitasking, Mark Twain’s Procrastination Cure, and Diner Origins

26 december 2018 | 8 min

You Like Talking to Strangers, NASA’s Golden Record, and Your Actual Friend Limit

25 december 2018 | 8 min

What “Pavlovian” Really Means, Wisconsin’s Ultimate Tourist Trap, and Why Cats Love Boxes

24 december 2018 | 8 min

Christmas Music Psychology, Rain Smell Science, Crocodile Paradox, and Pitching the NSF

23 december 2018 | 10 min

The Most Influential Film Ever, Your Memory on Riding A Bike, and Mistletoe’s Poisonous Roots

21 december 2018 | 10 min

Narwhal Adoption Mystery, Île Sainte-Marie’s Pirate Cemetery, and Solving the Candle Problem

20 december 2018 | 7 min

You Believe Your Own Lies Very Quickly, How Dogs Understand Human Speech, and Where to See the Ursids

19 december 2018 | 7 min

Voice Changes When You’re Charmed, Work Motivation Types, and Gin and Tonic Curing Malaria

18 december 2018 | 8 min

Gene Editing with CRISPR and GMOs (w/ Synthego), Fast Radio Bursts, and Angel’s Trumpet

17 december 2018 | 10 min

Donut-Shaped Planets, Hot Aluminum Foil, Why Fish Wiggle, and A Woman Who Can’t Feel Fear

16 december 2018 | 10 min

Science-Based Tips for Better Meetings, Dinosaur Mythbusting, and Staying Awake for 11 Days

14 december 2018 | 10 min

The Problem With Making Sand (w/ Vince Beiser), Happiest Spouses, and How Pyramids Were Built

13 december 2018 | 9 min

How to Take A Compliment, Learn Anything in Four Steps, and Design a New Arecibo Message

12 december 2018 | 8 min

Jet Lag Is Worse When You Travel East, Earth’s Wandering Poles, and Geminid Meteor Shower

11 december 2018 | 9 min

Kickstart Your Memory with the Jennifer Aniston Neuron, Black Hole Pictures, and Increasing Human Lifespans

10 december 2018 | 9 min

Why Humans Are Symmetrical, Fish Electrocution Physics, A Misplaced Equator Theme Park, and Silent Places

9 december 2018 | 10 min

Be Brave Using the Science of Vulnerability, Boost Productivity with Fika, and Burn Calories via the Afterburn Effect

7 december 2018 | 8 min

Meteorite Hunting with The Aquarius Project, Roommate Drama In Space, and Language Based On Senses

6 december 2018 | 10 min

You Can Learn and Unlearn Emotions, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and Loveland Castle’s Weird History

5 december 2018 | 8 min

See if You’re a Covert Narcissist, Michelson-Morley Experiment, and The Monty Hall Problem

4 december 2018 | 9 min

How Asteroids Can Have Rings, Spiders That Nurse Their Young, and “Lord of the Forest” Tāne Mahuta

3 december 2018 | 7 min

Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Think, Storm-Predicting Joints, Barber Pole Origins, and Mary Toft

2 december 2018 | 10 min

Keeping Secrets Makes Life Harder, Emotions Change Your Perception of Time, and How We Proved the Earth Rotates

30 november 2018 | 8 min

Exercising on an Empty Stomach, How to Measure Curiosity (w/ SurveyMonkey and INSEAD), and Effects of Relapsing with Your Ex

29 november 2018 | 10 min

Why You’re Bad at Fact-Checking, Reducing Anxiety with Horror Movies, and Why Urine is Yellow

28 november 2018 | 8 min

Your Brain’s Binary Bias, How to Choose Charities, and Why Dogs Look Like Their Owners

27 november 2018 | 9 min

Moral Dilemmas of Driverless Cars, How Many Friends You Can Have, and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft

26 november 2018 | 9 min

Why Hand Dryers Blow Bacteria, Color Meanings Around the World, Losing Your Foreign Accent, and Lesser-Known Body Parts

25 november 2018 | 10 min

Gifts Requiring Assembly Are More Treasured, Why You May Not Be Hard To Shop For, and Types of Perfectionists

23 november 2018 | 10 min

Rival Sports Fans Experience Games Completely Differently, Mount Rushmore’s Secret Room, and World’s Shortest IQ Test

22 november 2018 | 10 min

Be the Best Host or Guest (w/ Jihan Murray-Smith), Avoid Conflict at Family Meals, and High Heels for Men

21 november 2018 | 10 min

How to Like Bitter Flavors, Airplane Ticket Price Factors, and the Physics-Challenging Hubble Constant

20 november 2018 | 9 min

We May Have Already Found Aliens (w/ Mike Wall), Arrow Method for Productivity, and ADHD Creativity

19 november 2018 | 9 min

Expiration Dates Explained, How to Make A Great First Impression, Your Quantum Life, and Endangered Words

18 november 2018 | 10 min

Relationship-Deepening TV, Elon Musk and Bill Gates' Productivity Hacks, and Why You Don't Hear Your Own Footsteps

16 november 2018 | 9 min

Why You Listen to Songs on Repeat, Aluminum Foil Wi-Fi Boosting, and High-Income Morning Routines

15 november 2018 | 8 min

Achieve Goals with the WOOP Method, What To Do During Layovers, and Megapixels In Your Eyes

14 november 2018 | 9 min

Measure Your Sleepiness, What Happens When Galaxies Collide, and Space Junk Damage

13 november 2018 | 9 min

Sniff Out Fake News with Machine Learning and Increase Productivity with Don’t-Do Lists and Morning Pages

12 november 2018 | 8 min

Nobody Is “Normal,” Quantum Bacteria, Déjà Rêvé, and Why You Might Smell Like Maple Syrup

11 november 2018 | 10 min

Contacting Aliens with Lasers, African-American Polymath Benjamin Banneker, and The Seinfeld Strategy

9 november 2018 | 9 min

Curiosity in the Workplace (w/ Spencer Harrison), New Flying with Dandelions, and Physical Relationship Benefits

8 november 2018 | 10 min

Taurids and Leonids Meteor Showers, Willpower-Boosting Workouts, and Marie Curie’s Secret University

7 november 2018 | 8 min

Prince Rupert’s Drop, Why Earth’s Core Is Younger Than Its Surface, and Newborn Babies May Be Super Smart

6 november 2018 | 9 min

Scientific Method Inventor, America’s First Beach, and How Many Faces You Can Recognize

5 november 2018 | 8 min

Acoustic Levitation, Stephen Hawking’s Science Bets, Helmholtz Resonance, and Where Your Body Feels Emotions

4 november 2018 | 10 min

“Drunkard’s Walk” Sunlight, The Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and the Only Universal Word

2 november 2018 | 8 min

Real-Life Zombification (w/ author Matt Simon), Most Annoying Sounds, and Leaders Who Are Too Smart

1 november 2018 | 10 min

The First Telepathic Brainstorm, Ghost-Creating Toxic Mold, and Cropsey: the Real Boogeyman

31 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Measure Your Passionate Relationships, How to Spot Psychopaths and Narcissists, and the Car-Crushing Meteorite

30 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Pink Noise Sleep Hack, Saturn’s Moon Dione Habitability, and Giving Versus Receiving Advice

29 oktober 2018 | 8 min

Exercising for Different Body Types, New England Vampire Panic, Non-Vertical List Benefits, and Constellations on Mars

28 oktober 2018 | 10 min

The Science of Hauntings, Sleep Deprivation Effects, and Maximizing Benefits From Nature

26 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Mystery Code of The 4,000-Year-Old Phaistos Disk, The Necrobiome, and 7 Beliefs of Emotionally Healthy People

25 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Cooked vs. Uncooked Fruits and Veggies (w/ The Nutrition Wonk), Food Poisoning Facts, and Milky Way’s Second Life

24 oktober 2018 | 10 min

Greyson Near-Death Experience Scale, A Diet to Prevent Jet Lag, and Several States of Matter

23 oktober 2018 | 9 min

What If Mosquitoes Disappeared, Facebook Relationships, and Hidden Messages in Backwards Music

22 oktober 2018 | 8 min

Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini’s Friendship, How to Read Food Labels, Jack-O’-Lantern Maintenance, and Declaring Sovereignty

21 oktober 2018 | 10 min

The Habitable Epoch, Mars 2020’s Search for Life, and 4 Research-Based Personality Types

19 oktober 2018 | 9 min

The Sinister Darkness Factor Trait, Why Pluto’s Definition Matters, and World Record Pumpkins

18 oktober 2018 | 10 min

Adult Bedtime Benefits, Cerberin Toxin, and A Word to Convince Others You’re Not A Robot

17 oktober 2018 | 8 min

Moonmoons, Why You Get Sick When Seasons Change, and a Quiz Measuring Forgiveness

16 oktober 2018 | 8 min

Your Exposome Germ Cloud, The Tree That Owns Itself, and Bosses Don’t Encourage Curiosity

15 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Where Online Lingo Comes From, How to Reinforce Good Habits, Gym Class Fallout, and Why Glue Doesn’t Stick to the Bottle

14 oktober 2018 | 10 min

2018 Ig Nobel Prizes, Flu Shots Don’t Make You Sick, and Setting Broad Goals for Longer Happiness

12 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Time May Be Slowing Down, You Leave Good First Impressions, and Ouija Board Origins

11 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Why Aliens May Be Under Ice, Transnistria, and How Exclamation Points Stress People Out

10 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Measuring Your FOMO, Tashirojima “Cat Island,” and the Man Who Put His Head Inside A Particle Accelerator (and Survived!)

9 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Schrödinger's Second Cat, Asymmetric Insight, and Why You Should Study How You Study

8 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Nuclear Pasta, Belly Button Science, How Lighting Affects Learning and Memory, and the Worst Diet Fads Ever

7 oktober 2018 | 10 min

3-Step Fear Control Method, Quantum Physics Changing the Past, and Red Meat Allergies from Tick Bites

5 oktober 2018 | 9 min

First Moon Beyond Our Solar System Discovery, Jacuzzi of Despair, and The Winner Effect

4 oktober 2018 | 9 min

A New World Beyond Pluto, Neuroscience’s Take on Free Will, and Blue Zones Where People Live Longer

3 oktober 2018 | 8 min

Plants That Light Up When Attacked, A 5-Minute Trick for Falling Asleep, and The Creepy Carleton Villa

2 oktober 2018 | 10 min

Flu Shot Timing, Space Experiment Requirements, and Relationship Deal Breakers, According to Research

1 oktober 2018 | 8 min

Microwaveable Metals, Athlete Nature vs. Nurture, The House On The Rock, and Supernova-Skipping Stars

30 september 2018 | 10 min

Hank Green Talks About His Writing Process and His Debut Novel, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing”

29 september 2018 | 10 min

How Adderall Hurts Studying, 3 Gym Class Mistakes, and How Much Coffee You Should Drink

28 september 2018 | 10 min

5-Minute Hack to Beat Procrastination, Spider Benefits and Dangers, and Philosophical Disciplines

27 september 2018 | 9 min

Gardening with Martian Soil, How to Stop Overspending, and a Technique for Remembering Things

26 september 2018 | 9 min

First All-Female North Pole Expedition, Humans on the Food Chain, and How to Measure Your Meaning in Life

25 september 2018 | 9 min

How to Stop Procrastinating, Astronauts Seeing Cosmic Rays, and What Causes That Fresh Rain Smell

24 september 2018 | 9 min

Sleep vs. Exercise, Milky Way Pictures, Military Method for Sleeping Anywhere, and Voice Recording Science (w/ Matthan Ring Black)

23 september 2018 | 10 min

Hangover Impairment, Moon Landings in the 1600s, and Harmful Effects of 24/7 Workplaces

21 september 2018 | 9 min

Why There Are Monkeys If We Evolved From Them (w/ Natalia Reagan), Adult Chickenpox, and Disaster Survival Traits

20 september 2018 | 8 min

SpaceX’s First Private Passenger in Space, Running Myths Busted, and Bright-Line Rule Goal Setting

19 september 2018 | 9 min

Why You Should Talk to Strangers, How to Find Your Strengths, and Words with Most Definitions

18 september 2018 | 8 min

Doctors Beat AI with Swarm Intelligence (w/ Dr. Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous AI CEO); Plus, Hurricane Prediction Technology

17 september 2018 | 9 min

Pretzel History, How Earth Got Its Water, Runner’s High Origins, and Words Named After People

16 september 2018 | 10 min

Pavlov’s Dog Myths, Three Types of Perfectionism, and What The Universe Is Expanding Into

14 september 2018 | 9 min

String Theory Primer, Night Owl and Morning Person Science, and All-Nighter Study Habits

13 september 2018 | 9 min

Saturn’s Hexagon Hurricane, Planned Obsolescence, and Kaizen for Continuous Improvement

12 september 2018 | 9 min

Odd Historical Overlaps, Closed Doors Save Lives, and Vacation Time Helps A Company’s Bottom Line

11 september 2018 | 10 min

Empathy-Teaching Video Games, Chile Pepper Origins, and A Simple Word Swap to Take Control

10 september 2018 | 9 min

Contagious Yawning, Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Exercising for Mental Health, and Why Glitches Are “Bugs”

9 september 2018 | 10 min

What Would Happen if You Stopped Time, Secret Room of Mount Rushmore, and Dialect Benefits

7 september 2018 | 9 min

Lost National Museum of Brazil Artifacts, Swimming After You Eat, and Weird U.S. State Laws

6 september 2018 | 7 min

NASA’s Voyager Golden Records, Why Cats Love Boxes, and Bacteria Hot Spots in Your Office

5 september 2018 | 9 min

Multitasking Is Impossible, How A Flat Earth Would Even Work, and Nearly Every Country’s Name Origin

4 september 2018 | 8 min

What Came Before the Big Bang, Diner Designs, and The Ancient Greek Crocodile Paradox

3 september 2018 | 8 min

Infidelity Predictors, Buzz Aldrin’s Moon Mementos, Running May Be Good for Your Knees, and Hand/Eye Dominance

2 september 2018 | 10 min

How Long to Date Before Marriage, The NSF 2026 Idea Machine, and Why Buses Cluster

31 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Microvacations, Why Sand Matters and Why We’re Running Out of It (w/ Vince Beiser), and Savings Plan Tricks

30 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Neural Networks, Why You Get Brain Freeze, and A Science-Based Trick for Learning a New Language

29 augusti 2018 | 8 min

How to Get Over Burnout, Darkness is Faster than Light, and How Much Communication is Nonverbal

28 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Marilyn Monroe Murder Conspiracy, Using Monday to Achieve Your Goals, and Good and Bad Bacteria Don’t Exist

27 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Fantasy Stock League, Redhead Pain Tolerance (w/ Natalia Reagan), and the Darkest Town in America

26 augusti 2018 | 10 min

Burning Calories without Exercise, Amelia Earhart’s Last Words, and Bob Dylan and David Bowie’s Writing Technique

24 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Science of Stretching (w/ Get-Fit Guy), Tourette Syndrome Myths, and 3 Ways to Boost Emotional Intelligence

23 augusti 2018 | 10 min

Alaskan Triangle, Viking Interactions with Muslims, and Music Lessons Improve Language Skills

22 augusti 2018 | 9 min

Book Towns, Chlorine Trifluoride, and Why You Shouldn’t Take Your Phone Out in Class

21 augusti 2018 | 9 min

Mosquitoes’ Favorite Blood Types, How Junk Food Resembles Drugs, and Jeff Bezos’ Keys to Business Success

20 augusti 2018 | 9 min

Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Lose Weight, The Moon Museum, Life Lessons from Runner Karl Meltzer, and Wolves Don’t Howl at the Moon

19 augusti 2018 | 10 min

Massive Ocean Beneath Earth’s Surface, Road Trip Game History, and Memory-Boosting Reading Technique

17 augusti 2018 | 8 min

The Temin Effect Power of Hobbies, Immortality with Quantum Suicide, and Does Meditation Kill Motivation?

16 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Sunless Tanners, The Most Poisonous Plant on Earth, and How Steve Jobs Faked the First iPhone

15 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Your Brain on Binge Watching, Talking Monkeys, and What Happens When You’re an Only Child

14 augusti 2018 | 8 min

Relationship Attachment Styles, Why Flamingo Beaks Look Weird, and Finding Life’s Purpose with Ikigai

13 augusti 2018 | 9 min

How to Change Your Habits, Almond and Soy Milk vs. Juices, and the Rio Scale for Alien News

12 augusti 2018 | 10 min

Managing Energy Instead of Time, Psychopath Music Playlists, and “Traditional” 1950s Marriage Myths (w/ Dr. Eli Finkel)

10 augusti 2018 | 10 min

Antimatter 101 (w/ Everyday Einstein), How to Avoid Bed Bugs, and Uberman Sleep Cycle

9 augusti 2018 | 9 min

The Butterfly Effect Is Why We Can’t Predict Weather, How to Cry at Work, and Eggcorns

8 augusti 2018 | 7 min

Tongue Muscles, Marcus Aurelius’ Motivational Advice, and the World’s Shortest IQ Test

7 augusti 2018 | 9 min

Your Earliest Memories May Be Fake, What Makes a Good Boss, and a 1990s Space Billboard

6 augusti 2018 | 8 min

The Healthiest Diet (w/ Michael Greger), Space Volcanoes, Freemasons, and Device-Free Quiet Time

5 augusti 2018 | 10 min

Thank-You Card Science, Sensory Speed Dating, and New UNESCO World Heritage Sites

3 augusti 2018 | 7 min

Why You’re Tired After Work, Air Travel Question Answers, and a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds

2 augusti 2018 | 7 min

Ways Black Holes Can Kill You (w/ Katie Mack), Rituals to Improve Self-Control, and Ice Cream Types

1 augusti 2018 | 9 min

Epileptic Seizure Triggers, Fact vs. Hypothesis vs. Theory vs. Law, and Proust Questionnaire

31 juli 2018 | 8 min

A Real Hangover Cure, UFOs from Ancient History, and a Hermit’s Cold River City: Population 1

30 juli 2018 | 8 min

Odds of Dying (w/ Ken Kolosh), Reactance, Credit Card Psychology, And Best Biking Cities

29 juli 2018 | 10 min

Real vs. Fake Laughter Test, Little-Know Perfectionist Signs, and Scientific Field Expeditions

27 juli 2018 | 8 min

Water Detected on Mars, A Lost Arizona Goldmine, and Zeigarnik Effect Memory Sharpening

26 juli 2018 | 8 min

Mental Trick to Enjoy Running, Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century, and Perceptual Creep

25 juli 2018 | 8 min

ASMR Video Health Benefits, Moonquakes, and Holding Hands to Relieve Pain

24 juli 2018 | 8 min

NASA’s Sun Probe, Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed, and Tongue Rolling Isn’t Genetic

23 juli 2018 | 8 min

Dark Matter, Spite Houses, Digits of Pi Needed, and Measuring Your Passion and Perseverance

22 juli 2018 | 10 min

What Defines Fruits and Veggies, Why Open Offices Are Bad, and Moon Landing Anniversary

20 juli 2018 | 8 min

Is Water Wet? Plus: Neutron Star Weight and A Trick to Keep Experiences Feeling Fresh and New

19 juli 2018 | 8 min

12 Jupiter Moons Discovery, Don’t Drink Post-Workout, and Elon Musk’s Job Interview Question

18 juli 2018 | 8 min

Brettanomyces, Removing Memories with Hypnosis, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

17 juli 2018 | 7 min

Why You Should Stop Playing Hard to Get, Why You Need Goggles, and Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

16 juli 2018 | 8 min

The Universe in Consciousness (w/ Bernardo Kastrup), Intrusive Thoughts, Phones Ruin Drivers, and Baader-Meinhof

15 juli 2018 | 10 min

Why You Should Face Your Fears, Rekindling Romance with Cute Animals, and Naming Black Holes

13 juli 2018 | 8 min

Helicopter Parenting Damage, What Doing Chores Says About You, and Ketchup History

12 juli 2018 | 8 min

Supermoon Science, How to Find Your Passion, and Universes Inside Black Holes

11 juli 2018 | 8 min

Living In A Computer Simulation, Billionaire Success Trick, and Phones Saving the Rainforest

10 juli 2018 | 8 min

High Heels Were Originally Meant for Men, Persuasive Magic Words, and Ancient Graffiti

9 juli 2018 | 8 min

SETI on How We Search for Aliens (w/ Seth Shostak), Facts Don’t Win Arguments, Self-Control, and The Red Baron

8 juli 2018 | 10 min

You’re A Different Person in the Morning, Eye Contact Altering Consciousness, and Racing Against Cheese

6 juli 2018 | 8 min

Why Fake News Spreads, Positive Lightning, and the Habitable Trinity

5 juli 2018 | 8 min

Saving Dogs from Fireworks, Benjamin Franklin’s Productivity Schedule, and Supportive Texting

4 juli 2018 | 8 min

Impostor Syndrome, Moon Landing Photos Explained, and Things You’re Cleaning Too Often

2 juli 2018 | 8 min

Belief Superiority, Why Days Are Getting Longer, and Mr. Rogers’ Checklist

2 juli 2018 | 8 min

How to Get Over a Breakup, Why Cockroaches Exist, Vestigial Traits, and the Lombard Effect

1 juli 2018 | 10 min

How to Remove Pesticides from Produce, the Misattribution of Arousal, and Laihana Noon

29 juni 2018 | 8 min

Space Elevator Science, “HALT” Impulse Control Method, and the 6 Types of Disgust

28 juni 2018 | 8 min

Mars Opportunity Rover Update, Sunscreen SPF Meanings, Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

27 juni 2018 | 7 min

Black Hole Alternatives, Literally Immortal Jellyfish Secrets, and The Best Way to Argue

26 juni 2018 | 8 min

NASA’s Cryosleep Chambers, Your Brain on Puns, and Why Red Delicious Apples Exist

25 juni 2018 | 8 min

How Marriage Changes You, New Dinosaur Discoveries, and Empathy Quirks

24 juni 2018 | 10 min

A Trick for Avoiding Regrets, 3D-Printing Your Brain, and a Medieval Security Alarm

22 juni 2018 | 7 min

Psychopathic AI, Glowing Civil War Soldiers, and Black Lava

21 juni 2018 | 8 min

The US Government’s Science Knowledge Quiz, Facebook’s Brain Effects, and Manufactured British Accents

20 juni 2018 | 8 min

Tips to Win an Argument, How to Wash Your Hands, and Summer Blockbuster Origins

19 juni 2018 | 8 min

How to Stop Overspending, World Population Growth, and Big 5 Personality Traits

18 juni 2018 | 8 min

Famous LGBT Scientists; How to Catch Up on Sleep; Faces Aren’t Emotions

17 juni 2018 | 10 min

Best Guard Dog Breeds, Why Water in Your Nose Hurts, and How to Use Online Reviews

15 juni 2018 | 7 min

How to Form New Habits, Leg Day Helps Brain Health, and a Government Study on Warp Drive

14 juni 2018 | 8 min

Seeing Opinions as Facts, Bird-Killing Pisonia Trees, and How Much the Tooth Fairy Pays

13 juni 2018 | 8 min

Why Time Feels Faster, Sleeping Twice a Day, and Laos’ Massive Stone Jars

12 juni 2018 | 8 min

When to Kill Spiders, How to Exercise when Depressed, and Strange Food Origins

11 juni 2018 | 8 min

The Cutest Kind of Puppy, Rural Happiness, and the Science of “Thank You”

10 juni 2018 | 10 min

Male and Female Brain Differences, a Self-Esteem Quiz, and Words that Make You Say “Um”

8 juni 2018 | 8 min

Your Memory on Social Media, Best Workouts, and Why Grocery Stores Sell Bread in Paper

7 juni 2018 | 8 min

Plastic vs. Wood Cutting Boards, What Water Tastes Like, and Predicting Others’ Behavior

6 juni 2018 | 8 min

Gluten-Free Labels, the FBI’s Most Viewed File, and the Strange Reasons for Pilot Voice, Newscaster Voice, and Poet Voice

5 juni 2018 | 9 min

Is It Bad to Sleep with Your Dog, Insights from Living Abroad, and New Migraine Science

4 juni 2018 | 7 min

How to Wash Your Dishes, British vs. American English, the CSI Effect, and Swedish Lemon Angels

3 juni 2018 | 10 min

American Spending Habits, Reversed Organs, and the Sci-Fi Predictions of “Star Maker”

1 juni 2018 | 8 min

Ongoing Science Debates, Emergency Fund Planning, and Placebo DNA

31 maj 2018 | 8 min

Perks of Procrastination, Volcano Dwellers, and the Difference Between Club Soda and Sparkling Waters

30 maj 2018 | 8 min

The Deep Web, Biggest Regrets, and a Mount Everest Misconception

29 maj 2018 | 9 min

Personality-Predicting Eye Movements, a Mysterious Battery, and “English As She Is Spoke”

28 maj 2018 | 8 min

Noise-Canceling Windows, Knuckle Cracking, and Closer Parent-Child Bonding

25 maj 2018 | 7 min

Tree Heartbeats, Morse Code, and the Silurian Hypothesis of Ancient Earth

24 maj 2018 | 8 min

Local Honey Myths, NASA to the Moon, and a Bisexual 17th-Century Operatic Swordfighter

23 maj 2018 | 7 min

Daily Reading Benefits, Chicken Church, and Machine Learning to Predict Chaos

22 maj 2018 | 8 min

The Curiosity Podcast Wraps Up with Yoga, Volcanoes, and Meditation

22 maj 2018 | 42 min

Money-Earning Personality Traits, Why You Should Sleep in a Cold Bedroom, and Giant Sloths

21 maj 2018 | 7 min

Why Cities Have Squirrels, How Psychopath Brains Are Different, and a Holographic Brain Device

18 maj 2018 | 9 min

A Conscious Universe, Bats Working at Libraries, and Coffee with Co-Workers

17 maj 2018 | 8 min

Project Blue Book, Cooking Hacks Using Chemistry, and “Sea Nomads”

16 maj 2018 | 8 min

Daddy Longlegs Myths, Dyson Spheres, and Benefits of Exercising with a Partner

15 maj 2018 | 7 min

The Science of Swearing and What it Says About Our Values

15 maj 2018 | 45 min

Types of Narcissists, Don’t Garden with Coffee Grounds, and Cleaning Your Keyboard

14 maj 2018 | 8 min

How Your Friendships Change, a Secret Airline to Area 51, and Magic Words to Get What You Want

11 maj 2018 | 7 min

Everything-Repellent Clothing, Resonant Breathing, and Where Lost Luggage Goes

10 maj 2018 | 7 min

Depression in Artificial Intelligence, Smartphones in the Bedroom, and Tetanus Mythbusting

9 maj 2018 | 7 min

How to Clean Your Smartphone, Caffeine Benefits, and the World’s Busiest Air Route

8 maj 2018 | 7 min

Resilience Is the Key to Your Well-Being in a Constantly Changing World

8 maj 2018 | 41 min

Aliens Studying Humans, an AI Fairy Tale, and The Importance of Taking Off Your Shoes

7 maj 2018 | 7 min

NASA's InSight Lander Mars Mission, the Chicken or the Egg, and Common Synesthesia

4 maj 2018 | 6 min

Incompetent Boss Traits, a Backyard Volcano, and Meditation’s Lasting Brain Boost

3 maj 2018 | 8 min

How Laundry Machines Work, Bill Gates’ Recommended Reading, and Why We Judge

2 maj 2018 | 7 min

How to Improve Your Sense of Direction, Pied Piper Mysteries, and Planet Name Origins

1 maj 2018 | 7 min

Natural Disasters Have Transformed How Scientists Communicate

1 maj 2018 | 40 min

How Often Your Mind Wanders, Smiling at Dogs, and Richard Branson's Productivity Hack

30 april 2018 | 7 min

Learn When We’ll Meet Aliens, Hear Singing Sand Dunes, and Understand Your Roommates

27 april 2018 | 7 min

Freezer Burn Science, A Giant Flying Reptile, and How to Learn Twice as Fast

26 april 2018 | 7 min

Touchscreen Arms, Weird Flying Science, and A Bedtime Routine for a Stress-Free Day

25 april 2018 | 6 min

Hubble Telescope History, Selfie Science, and Exercise Myths

24 april 2018 | 8 min

What Makes Your Brain Happy — and Why You Should Do the Opposite

24 april 2018 | 39 min

Slowly Aging Americans, The HAMMER Asteroid Spacecraft, and Elevator Mirrors

23 april 2018 | 6 min

A Surprising Amount of Scientific Research Happens at the Zoo

17 april 2018 | 37 min

The Limits of the Human Body May Be More Mental Than Physical

10 april 2018 | 42 min

LeVar Burton Believes the Stories We Tell Determine Who We Are

3 april 2018 | 38 min

The Future of Learning Is Now, Thanks to Science

20 mars 2018 | 43 min

Michio Kaku on Interstellar Travel, Artificial Intelligence, and Immortality

13 mars 2018 | 43 min

Wisecrack's Jared Bauer on How Movies and TV Shows Like "South Park" and "Rick and Morty" Help Us Understand Ourselves

6 mars 2018 | 38 min

Mathematical Thinking Can Open New Worlds

27 februari 2018 | 39 min

Can Swarm Intelligence Solve Humanity's Biggest Problems?

20 februari 2018 | 38 min

How to Set the Right Goals (and Actually Achieve Them!)

13 februari 2018 | 37 min

Why We Eat What We Eat

6 februari 2018 | 36 min

Klingon and Esperanto Are Important Languages, Too

30 januari 2018 | 37 min

Learn A Little About A Lot From Curiosity Podcast Favorites

19 december 2017 | 44 min

The Importance of Curiosity

5 december 2017 | 37 min

How To Convince Others To Do What You Want

28 november 2017 | 29 min

What Does Your Handwriting Say About Your Personality?

21 november 2017 | 47 min

Why Politeness and Etiquette Matter

14 november 2017 | 54 min

Fighting in the Fourth Dimension: The U.S. Army on Cyber-warfare

7 november 2017 | 54 min

Customizing the Human Race with CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology

31 oktober 2017 | 56 min

Neuroprosthetics And The Future Of Artificial Touch

24 oktober 2017 | 43 min

Teaching Yourself The History, Chemistry, And Business of Spirits

17 oktober 2017 | 65 min

Where Comedy Comes From (Live From Chicago Podcast Festival)

10 oktober 2017 | 50 min

21st Century Composing: Scoring Music For Film And Video Games

3 oktober 2017 | 46 min

Inside Pseudoscience And Conspiracy Theories

26 september 2017 | 54 min

How The Best Marriages Work

19 september 2017 | 33 min

The Past, Present, And Future Of Dating

12 september 2017 | 48 min

The Microscopic Chemical Warfare Of Antibiotics

5 september 2017 | 45 min

The Science of Singing

29 augusti 2017 | 45 min

What Space Can Teach Us About Our World

22 augusti 2017 | 42 min

Magic Or Medicine? Medieval Mysteries

15 augusti 2017 | 47 min

Why The 2017 Solar Eclipse Is Such A Huge Deal

10 augusti 2017 | 41 min

The Psychology Of Happiness

8 augusti 2017 | 55 min

Get a College Scholarship... For eSports

1 augusti 2017 | 43 min

Communicate Like A Mind Reader

27 juli 2017 | 41 min

Why Do Humans Collect Things? Confessions Of A Sports Collectible Expert

24 juli 2017 | 49 min

How Your Sense Of Smell Is Like A Superpower

21 juli 2017 | 45 min

From the Archives: The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence

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DNA Doesn’t Always Solve Crime

Sharks Ghosted South Africa and Alison Towner Has the Receipts

Shark Week Gets Toxic: Forrest Galante Tracks Alien Sharks

Busting Skincare Myths with Dr. Michelle Wong

The Puzzle of AI Ethics with Dr. Cansu Canca

Genetic Data and Black Americans with Dr. Janina Jeff Ringo

Science Loves a Binary. Dr. Shawn Hercules Is Breaking It Down

Ocean Literacy & Conservation

Digital Privacy & Protecting Your Data

The Scramble to Solve Space Scrap

Climate Change in the Pacific Islands

Birding for Beginners in a Changing World

Will AI Replace Scientists?

Indigenous Climate Solutions, Virus Thaw, AI Brain Implant

Iceberg Ahead, Microbiome Map, Non-Alcoholic Wine

Fungal Zombies, Audible Enclaves, mRNA Vaccines

Adolescent Turtles, Measles, Lab-Grown Diamonds

Flower Trade, Climate Tech, Aquafaba

Women In Science & The Future of Male Contraception

Name That Cell, Ancient Genomes, Cell-Cultured Salmon

The Science of Survival

Sea Sponge, Black in Marine Science, Stem Cell Mice

Longevity Tourism, AI & Mental Health, Fracking

Red Dye 3, Extremophiles, Butterflies

Canine Chat, Emotional Support Animals, Sniffer Dogs

Wildfire Tech, #ADHDtest, Human Echolocation

Electro-Agriculture, Space Exploration, Vision Repair

Habit Formation, Space Bacteria, Leftie Musicians

Introducing: Curiosity Weekly

Re-release :Depression Temp, Cold Water Menopause, Ultrasound Sticker

Re-release: Bipolar Blood Test, Music & Pain, Puffin Hybrid

Re-release: Mind-Reading, Universe’s Brightest Object, Cinnamon

Re-release: B12, Healthy Forests, Ketamine & the Brain

Re-release: Microgravity Gardening, AI Learns Language, Elephant Numbers

Re-release: Silk-Making Bacteria, Deep Coral, CRISPR Agriculture

Re-release: Powerful Polymer, Exoplanet CO2, Adoption Science

Re-release: Daydream Brain, Power of a Laugh, Caffeine & Soccer

Re-release: Baby Language, AI Medicine, Human Collaboration

Re-release: Organ Age, Comfort Food, Speedy Snails

Re-release: 3D Ink, RSVP No, Old Dogs

Re-release: Healthy Tongue, Slippery Surface, Curious for Answers

Re-release: Brain Rewiring, Rat Imagination, Dogs & PTSD

Re-release: Bilingual Brain, Morning Sickness, Cat Purrs

Re-release: Origin of Life, Self Control vs Willpower, Puppy Love

Liquid Cats, Spider Silk, Sound Printing

Barnacle Polymers, Two Week Brain, Elephant Memory

Tractor Beam, Crystal Palace, Botany Dark Spots

Whale Talk, Foster Care History, Blood Pressure Test

Fly Brains, Comb Jelly Fusion, Dog Voice

Static Electricity, Stroke Headband, Exploding Craters

Water Molecules, Mount Everest Growth, Turtle Backpacks

Solar Cell Charging, Nazca Glyphs, Singing & Brain Health

Heart Cells in Space, Ancient Log, Day Chapters

Plant Jet Fuel, 3D-Printed Glass, Feeding Coral

Asteroid Blast, Power Wash Positivity, Picky Eaters

Stem Cells & Diabetes, Rare Earth Metals, Leaping Sharks

Gold Nuggets, New Cell Type, Redefining Sustainability

Defib Placement, Octopus Hunting, Keys to Happiness

Cow Slime, City Rainfall, Golden Lettuce

Pressure & Performance, Bone Concrete, Cancer Decline

Remote Surgery, Isolated Neanderthals, Greenspace & ADHD

Baby Brain Device, CO2 Protein, 15-Minute Cities

Risky Play, Mold in Space, Brain Cravings

Positive Side Effects, Mega El Niño, Bee Protector

Bacteria Behavior, Ant Cannibals, Brain Plastic

Sinuses & Mental Health, Vaporizing Plastic, Monkey Names

Salt & Cancer, Ancient Bridge, Nuclear Clock

Injectable Pacemaker, Starving Black Holes, Bat Blood Sugar

AC Not Conditioned, False Memories, Cat Grief

Microbiome Map, Insect Metalwork, Animal Colors

Mushroom Robot, Horse Smarts, Strongman Muscles

Phones & Brain Cancer, Fungus Food, Crocs & Toads

Moon Clock, Meat Allergy, Bird Culture

Mantle Drill, Tongue Exam, Stonehenge Discovery

Bionic Leg, First Impressions, Nanoplastic Detection

Smart Soil, Smell Preferences, Mars Moss

Larynx Transplant, Sleep Studies, Mammal Brains

Super Synchronizers, Quantum Compass, Seabirds & Cyclones