Science Magazine Podcast

Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease

Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas

Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome

A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA

AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography

Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters

Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere

Owl wars and the immune system’s memory

How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic

Cracking color vision, U.S. science policy changes, and a trailblazing biography

An electronic nose that detects spoiled chicken, and wolves make a spectacular comeback in Europe

How childhood environments shape the brain, and how susceptible is the Atlantic Ocean’s current to climate change?

Will AI replace astronomers, how healthy are ultraprocessed foods, and a peek behind the scenes of ‘The Normals’

Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time

USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world

Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body

A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment

Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame

Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

The normals | Episode 3

How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting

The Normals | Episode 2

A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion

The Normals | Episode 1

Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses

Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels

Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface

The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows

Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too

This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat

Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics

When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat

A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink

Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse

Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends

The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish

Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease

How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine