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Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives

24 juli | 36 min

Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria

17 juli | 38 min

A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes

10 juli | 27 min

Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars

3 juli | 31 min

Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia

26 juni | 46 min

How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy

19 juni | 38 min

Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change

12 juni | 38 min

Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science

5 juni | 43 min

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

8 maj | 34 min

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

1 maj | 33 min

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

24 april | 47 min

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

17 april | 28 min

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

10 april | 30 min

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

3 april | 33 min

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

27 mars | 34 min

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

20 mars | 39 min

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

13 mars | 44 min

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

6 mars | 56 min

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

27 februari | 37 min

Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability

20 februari | 43 min

Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants

13 februari | 40 min

How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth

6 februari | 28 min

Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration

30 januari | 28 min

Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

23 januari | 34 min

Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters

16 januari | 35 min

Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

9 januari | 34 min

On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

2 januari | 30 min

Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates

12 december 2024 | 46 min

Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech

5 december 2024 | 32 min

Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted

28 november 2024 | 28 min

Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity

21 november 2024 | 38 min

Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains

14 november 2024 | 32 min

Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers

7 november 2024 | 26 min

The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity

31 oktober 2024 | 40 min

Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination

24 oktober 2024 | 47 min

How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete

17 oktober 2024 | 40 min

Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water

10 oktober 2024 | 32 min

Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms

3 oktober 2024 | 29 min

Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins

26 september 2024 | 49 min

Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat

19 september 2024 | 45 min

Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound

12 september 2024 | 29 min

Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

5 september 2024 | 34 min

A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism

29 augusti 2024 | 54 min

Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote

22 augusti 2024 | 32 min

The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise

15 augusti 2024 | 29 min

The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine

8 augusti 2024 | 29 min

Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy

1 augusti 2024 | 29 min

Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots

25 juli 2024 | 47 min

New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game

18 juli 2024 | 32 min

How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations

11 juli 2024 | 36 min

What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer

4 juli 2024 | 32 min

Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money

27 juni 2024 | 50 min

The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution

20 juni 2024 | 32 min

How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice

13 juni 2024 | 42 min

Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up

6 juni 2024 | 38 min

Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials

30 maj 2024 | 45 min

Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud

23 maj 2024 | 34 min

How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters

16 maj 2024 | 33 min

A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects

9 maj 2024 | 30 min

Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice

2 maj 2024 | 25 min

The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series

25 april 2024 | 43 min

Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut

18 april 2024 | 38 min

Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene

11 april 2024 | 33 min

When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?

4 april 2024 | 31 min

Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career

28 mars 2024 | 30 min

Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture

21 mars 2024 | 36 min

Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

14 mars 2024 | 29 min

A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair

7 mars 2024 | 30 min

The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

29 februari 2024 | 30 min

What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all

22 februari 2024 | 48 min

What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

15 februari 2024 | 46 min

A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators

8 februari 2024 | 31 min

A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs

1 februari 2024 | 30 min

A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior

25 januari 2024 | 28 min

Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw

19 januari 2024 | 36 min

The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth

11 januari 2024 | 44 min

The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease

4 januari 2024 | 34 min

The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender

22 december 2023 | 40 min

Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins

14 december 2023 | 32 min

Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives

7 december 2023 | 38 min

Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots

30 november 2023 | 35 min

Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy

23 november 2023 | 55 min

AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills

16 november 2023 | 22 min

The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics

9 november 2023 | 35 min

Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs

2 november 2023 | 39 min

Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science

26 oktober 2023 | 33 min

The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves

19 oktober 2023 | 30 min

Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors

13 oktober 2023 | 42 min

How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?

5 oktober 2023 | 36 min

Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’

28 september 2023 | 51 min

Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall

21 september 2023 | 37 min

Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions

14 september 2023 | 34 min

Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid

7 september 2023 | 33 min

Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell

31 augusti 2023 | 38 min

The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender

24 augusti 2023 | 52 min

What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated

17 augusti 2023 | 48 min

Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh

10 augusti 2023 | 27 min

Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum

3 augusti 2023 | 36 min

Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa

27 juli 2023 | 49 min

Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones

20 juli 2023 | 39 min

The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo

13 juli 2023 | 30 min

Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero

6 juli 2023 | 31 min

Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction

29 juni 2023 | 48 min

A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes

22 juni 2023 | 29 min

Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course

15 juni 2023 | 23 min

Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry

8 juni 2023 | 29 min

How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals

1 juni 2023 | 29 min

Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females

25 maj 2023 | 41 min

The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves

18 maj 2023 | 33 min

Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands

11 maj 2023 | 43 min

Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes

4 maj 2023 | 41 min

The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable

27 april 2023 | 32 min

Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep

20 april 2023 | 39 min

More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series

13 april 2023 | 42 min

Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants

6 april 2023 | 32 min

How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille

30 mars 2023 | 30 min

New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories

23 mars 2023 | 27 min

An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer

16 mars 2023 | 24 min

Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts

9 mars 2023 | 41 min

Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry

2 mars 2023 | 31 min

Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love

23 februari 2023 | 34 min

Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus

16 februari 2023 | 30 min

Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth

9 februari 2023 | 32 min

Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets

2 februari 2023 | 29 min

Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world

26 januari 2023 | 26 min

Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change

19 januari 2023 | 39 min

Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries

12 januari 2023 | 34 min

A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases

5 januari 2023 | 27 min

Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights

22 december 2022 | 33 min

Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books

15 december 2022 | 32 min

The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci

8 december 2022 | 36 min

A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano

1 december 2022 | 29 min

Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?

24 november 2022 | 27 min

Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus

17 november 2022 | 27 min

Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators

10 november 2022 | 43 min

Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy

3 november 2022 | 28 min

Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction

27 oktober 2022 | 49 min

Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet

20 oktober 2022 | 23 min

Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks

13 oktober 2022 | 30 min

Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores

6 oktober 2022 | 42 min

Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog

29 september 2022 | 40 min

Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms

22 september 2022 | 28 min

Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’

15 september 2022 | 29 min

Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars

8 september 2022 | 26 min

Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry

1 september 2022 | 42 min

Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age

25 augusti 2022 | 37 min

Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing

18 augusti 2022 | 27 min

Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose

11 augusti 2022 | 26 min

Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity

4 augusti 2022 | 27 min

Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition

28 juli 2022 | 41 min

Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus

21 juli 2022 | 45 min

The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy

14 juli 2022 | 36 min

Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India

7 juli 2022 | 33 min

Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis

30 juni 2022 | 23 min

Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation

23 juni 2022 | 45 min

A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits

16 juni 2022 | 41 min

Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid

9 juni 2022 | 32 min

The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning

2 juni 2022 | 29 min

Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa

26 maj 2022 | 40 min

Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names

19 maj 2022 | 44 min

Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic

12 maj 2022 | 30 min

Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral

5 maj 2022 | 24 min

Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food

28 april 2022 | 45 min

Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit

21 april 2022 | 40 min

Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars

14 april 2022 | 27 min

A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses

7 april 2022 | 26 min

Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date

31 mars 2022 | 28 min

Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather

24 mars 2022 | 30 min

The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense

17 mars 2022 | 31 min

Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic

10 mars 2022 | 33 min

A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists

3 mars 2022 | 22 min

Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction

24 februari 2022 | 34 min

COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts

17 februari 2022 | 26 min

Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media

10 februari 2022 | 30 min

Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions

3 februari 2022 | 22 min

Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels

27 januari 2022 | 26 min

A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships

20 januari 2022 | 30 min

Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths

13 januari 2022 | 31 min

Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines

6 januari 2022 | 30 min

The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books

16 december 2021 | 33 min

Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water

9 december 2021 | 25 min

The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano

2 december 2021 | 27 min

Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity

25 november 2021 | 45 min

Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites

18 november 2021 | 22 min

The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span

11 november 2021 | 27 min

The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve

4 november 2021 | 31 min

Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression

28 oktober 2021 | 42 min

Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood

20 oktober 2021 | 44 min

The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?

14 oktober 2021 | 32 min

Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia

7 oktober 2021 | 30 min

Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM

30 september 2021 | 35 min

Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA

23 september 2021 | 45 min

Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap

16 september 2021 | 20 min

Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people

9 september 2021 | 26 min

Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms

2 september 2021 | 30 min

New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer

26 augusti 2021 | 39 min

Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media

19 augusti 2021 | 29 min

A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning

12 augusti 2021 | 32 min

A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry

5 augusti 2021 | 34 min

Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms

29 juli 2021 | 48 min

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core

22 juli 2021 | 26 min

Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood

15 juli 2021 | 25 min

Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books

8 juli 2021 | 42 min

Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure

1 juli 2021 | 39 min

Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science

24 juni 2021 | 32 min

Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement

17 juni 2021 | 24 min

Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families

10 juni 2021 | 29 min

Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code

3 juni 2021 | 38 min

Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands

27 maj 2021 | 28 min

Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers

20 maj 2021 | 24 min

Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning

13 maj 2021 | 35 min

Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects

6 maj 2021 | 30 min

Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys

29 april 2021 | 22 min

Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel

22 april 2021 | 28 min

Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived

15 april 2021 | 40 min

Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains

8 april 2021 | 28 min

Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate

1 april 2021 | 29 min

Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions

25 mars 2021 | 31 min

COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities

18 mars 2021 | 28 min

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills

11 mars 2021 | 27 min

The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color

4 mars 2021 | 22 min

Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator

25 februari 2021 | 25 min

All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets

18 februari 2021 | 31 min

Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess

11 februari 2021 | 24 min

Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing

4 februari 2021 | 37 min

Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps

28 januari 2021 | 25 min

Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras

21 januari 2021 | 30 min

An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior

14 januari 2021 | 26 min

The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms

7 januari 2021 | 27 min

Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke

31 december 2020 | 28 min

Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights

17 december 2020 | 45 min

Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

10 december 2020 | 25 min

How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants

3 december 2020 | 23 min

Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis

26 november 2020 | 42 min

Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face

19 november 2020 | 41 min

How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes

12 november 2020 | 26 min

What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements

5 november 2020 | 31 min

Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking

29 oktober 2020 | 47 min

Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags

22 oktober 2020 | 26 min

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart

15 oktober 2020 | 23 min

Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus

8 oktober 2020 | 26 min

FDA clinical trial protection failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

1 oktober 2020 | 31 min

How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia

24 september 2020 | 24 min

Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

17 september 2020 | 26 min

Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging

10 september 2020 | 27 min

Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people

3 september 2020 | 32 min

Arctic sea ice under attack, and ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change

27 augusti 2020 | 34 min

Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes

20 augusti 2020 | 27 min

A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports

13 augusti 2020 | 30 min

Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel

6 augusti 2020 | 30 min

Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint

30 juli 2020 | 38 min

How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution

23 juli 2020 | 28 min

Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation

16 juli 2020 | 28 min

A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood

9 juli 2020 | 27 min

An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat

2 juli 2020 | 23 min

Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs

25 juni 2020 | 44 min

Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses

18 juni 2020 | 28 min

The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild

11 juni 2020 | 29 min

Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food

4 juni 2020 | 28 min

A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor

28 maj 2020 | 43 min

How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water

21 maj 2020 | 25 min

How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano

14 maj 2020 | 28 min

Making antibodies to treat coronavirus, and why planting trees won’t save the planet

7 maj 2020 | 25 min

Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?

30 april 2020 | 21 min

From nose to toes—how coronavirus affects the body, and a quantum microscope that unlocks the magnetic secrets of very old rocks

23 april 2020 | 25 min

How countries could recover from coronavirus, lessons from an ancient drought, and feeling tactile waves in the hand

16 april 2020 | 35 min

Does coronavirus spread through the air, and the biology of anorexia

9 april 2020 | 26 min

How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice

2 april 2020 | 32 min

Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals

26 mars 2020 | 31 min

Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music

19 mars 2020 | 25 min

Science’s leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin

12 mars 2020 | 33 min

Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life

5 mars 2020 | 33 min

An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing

27 februari 2020 | 47 min

Brickmaking bacteria and solar cells that turn ‘waste’ heat into electricity

20 februari 2020 | 33 min

NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma

13 februari 2020 | 27 min

Fighting cancer with CRISPR, and dating ancient rock art with wasp nests

6 februari 2020 | 27 min

A cryo–electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia

30 januari 2020 | 22 min

Getting BPA out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment

23 januari 2020 | 27 min

Researchers flouting clinical reporting rules, and linking gut microbes to heart disease and diabetes

16 januari 2020 | 30 min

Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational

9 januari 2020 | 22 min

Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps

2 januari 2020 | 26 min

Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books

19 december 2019 | 43 min

Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space

13 december 2019 | 30 min

Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid

5 december 2019 | 32 min

Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors

28 november 2019 | 40 min

Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music

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31 oktober 2019 | 22 min

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24 oktober 2019 | 42 min

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26 september 2019 | 39 min

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19 september 2019 | 28 min

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22 augusti 2019 | 28 min

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8 augusti 2019 | 25 min

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Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery

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18 juli 2019 | 23 min

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11 juli 2019 | 25 min

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27 juni 2019 | 33 min

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13 juni 2019 | 24 min

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6 juni 2019 | 22 min

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30 maj 2019 | 41 min

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23 maj 2019 | 25 min

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16 maj 2019 | 24 min

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9 maj 2019 | 25 min

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2 maj 2019 | 30 min

Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales

25 april 2019 | 30 min

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18 april 2019 | 26 min

A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants

11 april 2019 | 23 min

A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade

4 april 2019 | 25 min

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28 mars 2019 | 38 min

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21 mars 2019 | 21 min

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14 mars 2019 | 25 min

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28 februari 2019 | 22 min

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21 februari 2019 | 33 min

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14 februari 2019 | 18 min

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7 februari 2019 | 28 min

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31 januari 2019 | 22 min

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24 januari 2019 | 34 min

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17 januari 2019 | 25 min

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10 januari 2019 | 29 min

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3 januari 2019 | 20 min

End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories

20 december 2018 | 31 min

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13 december 2018 | 24 min

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6 december 2018 | 26 min

The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution

29 november 2018 | 27 min

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22 november 2018 | 25 min

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15 november 2018 | 34 min

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8 november 2018 | 21 min

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1 november 2018 | 29 min

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18 oktober 2018 | 23 min

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27 september 2018 | 34 min

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20 september 2018 | 26 min

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13 september 2018 | 22 min

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30 augusti 2018 | 29 min

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23 augusti 2018 | 22 min

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16 augusti 2018 | 21 min

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19 juli 2018 | 18 min

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12 juli 2018 | 26 min

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28 juni 2018 | 34 min

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24 maj 2018 | 29 min

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3 maj 2018 | 27 min

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26 april 2018 | 31 min

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19 april 2018 | 25 min

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12 april 2018 | 22 min

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22 mars 2018 | 22 min

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22 februari 2018 | 25 min

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11 januari 2018 | 20 min

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21 december 2017 | 32 min

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14 december 2017 | 22 min

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30 november 2017 | 22 min

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22 november 2017 | 29 min

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16 november 2017 | 26 min

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9 november 2017 | 30 min

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2 november 2017 | 23 min

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26 oktober 2017 | 29 min

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19 oktober 2017 | 28 min

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21 september 2017 | 25 min

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14 september 2017 | 30 min

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29 juni 2017 | 33 min

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18 februari 2016 | 24 min

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17 december 2015 | 40 min

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19 november 2015 | 28 min

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12 november 2015 | 21 min

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18 april 2014 | 22 min

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11 april 2014 | 24 min

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4 april 2014 | 24 min

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28 mars 2014 | 25 min

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21 mars 2014 | 18 min

Science Podcast - Checking the hubris of big data harvests and a news roundup (14 Mar 2014)

14 mars 2014 | 23 min

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7 mars 2014 | 33 min

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28 februari 2014 | 24 min

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21 februari 2014 | 20 min

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14 februari 2014 | 22 min

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7 februari 2014 | 23 min

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Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives

Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria

A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes

Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars

Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia

How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy

Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change

Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science

Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research

Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability

Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants

How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth

Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration

Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters

Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds

Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates

Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech

Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted

Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity

Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains

Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers

The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity

Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination

How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete

Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water

Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms

Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins

Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat

Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound

Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism

Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote

The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise

The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine

Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy

Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots

New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game

How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations

What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer

Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money

The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution

How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice

Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up

Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials

Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud

How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters

A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects

Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice

The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series

Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut

Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene

When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?

Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career

Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture

Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair

The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all

What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators

A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs

A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior