Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: Ancient teeth reveal the origins of milk consumption, and how much we know about how much food we’re wasting

On this week’s show: Tiny teeth, finger, and toe bones found in a cave in the Philippines appear to belong to a new species of ancient human and watching rapid plant evolution in the lab

On this week’s show: A standoff over radioactive waste could slash the global supply of rare earth elements, and historians discover how key plant and animal specimens arrived in Europe via slavers’ ships

On this week’s show: A wave of horse injuries and deaths on a famed racetrack has stumped scientists, and researchers are looking into the impact of jailing—and bailing—people before trial

On this week’s show: the environmental costs of deep-sea mining and a trip to the distant asteroid Ryugu

On this week’s show: A new radio telescope promises to help sort out the more than 40 theories for the origins of fast radio bursts and researchers tackle the long-term health effects of pediatric cancer treatment

On this week’s show: how the Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa, and evidence for human involvement in the extinction of megafauna like giant sloths

On this week’s show: cheap sensors that can monitor a building’s structural integrity after an earthquake, and a new method to determine the paleoelevation of the Tibetan Plateau

On this week’s show: We go to the AAAS annual meeting to talk communication disorders, we use satellites to spy on modern slavery, and we read a book on the neuroscience of addiction

On this week’s show: Chaos puts a limit on how far out we can predict weather, and why researchers are using autonomous robots to sample phytoplankton off of Norway’s coast