Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: what we can learn about autism and intellectual disability from a cluster of people with fragile X syndrome, and some greener alternatives to the urban lawn

On this week’s show: Strange particles detected by a balloon-based instrument may shake up physicists’ standard model, and how town size affects flu outbreaks

On this week’s show: Modeling the future of killer whales exposed to PCBs, Indigenous people tackle genomics projects on their own terms, and our monthly books segment

On this week’s show: visiting the trenches in the meta-analysis wars, and debunking myths about science

On this week’s show: finding the strawberry’s sex-determining genes and testing the effectiveness of a Zika vaccine by intentionally infecting people

On this week’s show: How should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and how can complex molecules like soot assemble inside a flame?

On this week’s show: the latest social science replication study, the mechanisms behind human-induced earthquakes, and Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie’s The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

On this week’s show: tiny satellites that go where no tiny satellite has gone before, and the irrigation efficiency paradox

On this week’s show: how finding a date for an ancient volcanic eruption may affect all radiocarbon calculations, and how robots might exert peer pressure on kids

On this week’s show: a fight over the global drought that defines our new geological age, and battling stink bugs with samurai wasps