Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: Science’s editor-in-chief discusses vaccine hesitancy in the age of coronavirus, a Chinese scientist at the center of controversial COVID-19 origins theories speaks out, and researchers use a new technique to peer under old paintings

On this week’s show: What a study of survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reveal about the long-term damage to people of radiation exposure, and a modeling study shows what it would take to cut global plastic pollution by 40%

On this week’s show: What we know about keeping children and teachers safe from coronavirus in schools, and a highly efficient way to parse petroleum

On this week’s show: What’s behind the success of the United Kingdom’s Recovery megatrial, and transferring the cognitive benefits of exercise from one mouse to another

On this week’s show: How unique microbes in a Mexican desert tell the story of Earth’s early life, and making miniature speakers with heat

On this week’s show: Masking up to stop the spread of COVID-19, and why Greenland’s sled dogs are so different from other modern dogs

On this week’s show: Balancing university budgets during a pandemic, and a drone programmed to release sterile mosquitoes

On this week’s show: How to know whether coronavirus-fighting contact tracing apps are working, and an extensive cost-benefit analysis of reintroducing sea otters to the Northern Pacific Ocean

On this week’s show: New research suggests male sex hormones may be behind more deadly coronavirus infections in men, and using DNA-barcoded bacterial spores to mark and track vegetables

On this week’s show: Researchers race to understand Kawasaki-like syndrome in children that has been linked to coronavirus, and exploring “grounding lines” on the ocean floor to track Antarctica’s glaciers