Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: A profile of a scientist fighting for her people to be counted, and quantifying how the heart uses fuel

On this week’s show: Checking in on the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu, and testing a new way to treat tinnitus

On this week’s show: How robots are learning to play the tricky sport of curling and an exclusive investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of clinical trials shows “light handed, slow moving, and secretive” enforcement

On this week’s show: A new technique tells the tale of our ancient cousins’ Y chromosomes, and 120,000-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia

On this week’s show: The threat of COVID-19 is focusing new research on decarceration, and how performing magic for animals can give insight into how their minds work

On this week’s show: Private funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence brings in piles of new data to trawl through, and looking at telomeres—the protective caps at the end of our chromosomes—in many people and tissues

On this week’s show: Could a focus on superspreading events help Europe fend off a second pandemic peak, and what to do if a country’s strong economic growth doesn’t alleviate extreme poverty

On this week’s show: Arctic sea ice is under threat from more than just a warming atmosphere, past rapid warming events could help predict how biodiversity will hold up under climate change, and our books segment

On this week’s show: Researchers jump on the chance to study wild animals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and microbes that grow wires

On this week’s show: Cheap, rapid testing could halt COVID-19’s spread in the United States, and using soccer to bring Christians and Muslims together in post–Islamic State group Iraq