Aug 19

Why can’t I remember being a baby?

And if babies forget their earliest experiences, do they still matter?This episode is a collaboration with Vox's Explain It to Me podcastGuests: Kristin Ohlson, writer; Tristan Yates, cognitive psychologist at Columbia University; Dana Suskind, professor of surgery and pediatrics ... Show More

26m 36s

Aug 17

Can these corals take the heat?

Warming waters are an existential threat to coral reefs, and for people who want to restore them. But in the Republic of Palau, researchers are testing out an approach to help restored reefs survive hotter temperatures — before it's too late. To watch this episode on video, find ... Show More

30m 57s

Aug 10

Why Hank Green takes pseudoscience seriously

Dismissing pseudoscience is too easy. Understanding why it spreads so quickly is harder. It can teach us why real science works and how to spot the difference between the two. To watch this episode on video, find us on Netflix! Guest: Hank Green, creator of SciShow and Crash Cour ... Show More

27m 5s

Mar 2021

Skeleton Lake | Unexplainable

When scientists examined the DNA of ancient bones found near a Himalayan lake, they were forced to confront a seemingly impossible conclusion. For further reading, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to sign up for our newsletter, view show transcripts, and read ... Show More

4m 59s

Oct 2024

The Mystery of the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake

One of the greatest unsolved historic mysteries is found in a lake atop a mountain glacier high up in the Indian Himalayas. The skeletons of as many as 800 people are inexplicably in and around the lake. No one knows who they are or what happened to them.See omnystudio.com/listen ... Show More

43m 59s

Apr 2021

From the Vault: The Bone Palace, Part 1

From an imagined palace constructed out of bone to the curious ways in which animals and humans use bone for tools and construction materials, take a stroll through halls of bone with Robert and Joe in this pair of episodes from Stuff to Blow Your Mind. (Originally published 4/7/ ... Show More

58m 16s

Apr 2023

The Deadliest Lake (Classic)

<p>In 1986 an unknown natural disaster at Lake Nyos in Menchum, Cameroon left more than 1700 people dead in one night - and puzzled scientists. Listen to learn how they solved the mystery. </p><p>READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-nyos-the-d ... Show More

15 m

Dec 2024

Debunking 'junk' DNA

In this episode of Naked Genetics: What new DNA techniques are revealing about human sacrifices in Mayan culture; we debunk the 'junk', in junk DNA; and, the upside down sea snail that makes rafts of its own snot... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scient ... Show More

32m 47s

May 2018

Can a New Egyptian Dinosaur Fossil Explain How the Continents Formed?

Scientists have figured out a lot about Earth's history, but there are still a few gaps. Learn how a dinosaur may help fill in one of those gaps in this episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for ... Show More

6m 6s

Mar 2024

Is This the Earliest Evidence of Human Cannibalism?

A newly-examined munch mark on a tibia has become a real pleistocene whodunit. By Natalia Raegan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16m 18s

Feb 2024

Whale songs, fake fossils and "Forever Chemicals"

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs, In this week's episode...scientists unveil prehistoric cases of Down’s syndrome, but how did they find them? How whales really produce whale songs and the famous fake fossil t ... Show More

52m 41s

Aug 2024

Will It Sequence? 700-year-old DNA

In this episode of Naked Genetics: A mammoth discovery in ancient DNA structure; on the subject of ancient DNA, what can we sequence for a centuries old body? And, in quirks of evolution, the animal that drinks its own offspring's blood... Like this podcast? Please help us by sup ... Show More

21m 17s

Mar 2022

The Case of the Most Famous Fake Human Fossil

This episode is a mystery in the most classic literary sense of the word. It’s a whodunit detective story that spans more than a century - the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax. From a gravel pit in Sussex, we follow the faked fossils through history, to what’s now the Natural Histor ... Show More

19m 22s