Podcast: Rescue robots, abandoned villages, and nocebo effects
On this week’s show: Negative side effects where there is no drug; plus a roundup from the daily news site
Science Podcasts
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Podcast: Bat hearts, migrating wombats, and preprint publishing
On this week’s show: Biology pushes into preprint publishing, turning the water cycle virtuous on our books segment, plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: Cosmic rays, color words, and sleeping jellyfish
On this week’s show: Cosmic rays detected from a galaxy far, far, away; plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: Molecular robots, fire starters, and quantum computers
On this week’s show: Building molecular robots that can sort things, a look behind this week’s cover photo, plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: Climate in court, cylindrical sails, and solar cooling
On this week’s show: An expanding role for the U.S. judiciary in climate policy, plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: Macho crocs, negotiating AIs, and nuclear cooperation
On this week’s show: A rekindling of a U.S.-China nuclear relationship, plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: Investigating hunter-gatherer guts, and sending emoji signals
On this week’s show: Comparing the gut microbes that live in Tanzania’s Hadza people with those in industrialized countries, and our monthly books segment -
Podcast: Knee pain on the rise, eclipse science, and brown dwarf skies
On this week’s show: A close look at brown dwarf atmospheres, plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: Coddled puppies, trees that make their own rain, and ancient mariners
On this week’s show: Most archaeologists think the first Americans arrived by boat. Now, they’re beginning to prove it, plus a roundup from the daily news site -
Podcast: The biology of color, a database of espionage, and prions and diabetes
On this week’s show: How do animals see and make color, chemistry haiku, plus a roundup from the daily news site
