Science Podcasts

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

On this week’s show: How drawers of stuffed bats could help predict outbreaks, and what happens inside the brain of a hallucinating mouse

On this week’s show: Using ants and bees to understand aging, and keeping tempers in check on the way to Mars

On this week’s show: How doctors treat coronavirus patients, and why we should use self-healing concrete and metamaterials to build living cities

On this week’s show: Plans for bigger and more sensitive gravitational wave detectors, and cleaning up crude with a special sponge

On this week’s show: A 2000-year-old pet cemetery shows how people care for animals in ancient times, and the surprising find that Caenorhabditis elegans—a tiny roundworm with no eyes—can discriminate colors

On this week’s show: InSAR satellites see centimeter-size changes in Earth’s surface, and generating random numbers with a laser on a chip

On this week’s show: The big questions about vaccines against the novel coronavirus, and the advantages of a new model for terrestrial planet formation

On this week’s show: Using the latest research to buttress Africa’s Great Green Wall, and probing the oceanic crust with whale songs