Science Podcasts

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

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