Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: Researchers bring in MRI, artificial intelligence, and CRISPR to figure out the sex of unhatched chickens, and microplastic finds a route to the far north

On this week’s show: Weather forecasters express concerns about new cellphone technology, and what smoke plumes can reveal about the aftermath of nuclear bombs

On this week’s show: Researchers suspect pulling water out of the ground may cause earthquakes, and what we can learn about human cancer from a dog cancer that has been around for about 8000 years

On this week’s show: Using new technology and bee behavior, researchers and beekeepers are working to defeat a mite that has decimated bee colonies worldwide. Meanwhile, other researchers are training an artificial intelligence to recognize the emotional content of images. Plus, our monthly books segment

On this week’s show: Making a permanent liquid magnet, and how nongenetic factors could help parents pass trauma to their children

On this week’s show: How seabirds can be “barometers” for marine ecosystems during times of environmental stress, and the origins of pointing

On this week’s show: Will making gasoline from carbon dioxide soon be cheaper than pulling it out of the ground? And new “autofocal” glasses may soon replace your bifocals

On this week’s show: making chimeras by placing stem cells from one species into the embryo of another, and exploring how bats switch between vision and echolocation. Plus, our monthly books segment!

On this week’s show: what puppy dog eyes and diseased spines mean for our understanding of dog domestication, and a study on honesty that involved placing 17,000 “lost” wallets around the world

On this week’s show: A swarm of satellites helps measure the speed of hurricane winds, and new data on the surface of Europa reveal more about its subsurface oceans