Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: How communication between the brain and organs shapes our thoughts and feelings, and a framework for reuniting families using DNA

On this week’s show: Citizen science helps unearth understanding of periodical cicada broods, and rewriting the genetic code to make novel molecules

On this week’s show: a collaborative, yet adversarial, effort to move forward the understanding of consciousness, and why ground-based measures are crucial for understanding temperature in cities

On this week’s show: pairing therapy with ecstasy for post-traumatic stress disorder is key, and why it’s important to track effects on moms when early childhood development intervention programs are underway

On this week’s show: Concerns about the impact from ship emission regulations on water pollution, and extreme levels of oxidants produced by lightning

On this week’s show: Researchers are keeping a close eye on worrying signals at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and quantum entanglement for bigger and bigger things

On this week’s show: Using renewable energy to charge “gravity batteries,” and how feral donkeys and horses engineer the desert

On this week’s show: A massive project to restore land along the coast of Louisiana, and a new process to recycle plastic waste into fuels and lubricants

On this week’s show: What it means that muons are more magnetic than predicted, and a way to estimate the population of dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago

On this week’s show: New signals from nature’s magnetic monsters, and the evolution of complex human brains