Science Magazine Podcast

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

A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh

Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world

Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery

An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor

Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket

A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead

New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America

Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?

Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live

Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead

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