Science Magazine Podcast

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

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?