Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: A swarm of satellites helps measure the speed of hurricane winds, and new data on the surface of Europa reveal more about its subsurface oceans

On this week’s show: Perovskites have made it big in solar and are now poised to enter the light-emitting diode business, and what we can learn about the limits of human endurance from transcontinental racers

On this week’s show: why some Ph.D. programs are dropping the General Record Examination requirement for applicants and why DeepMind is teaching artificial agents to play a video game from 1999

On this week’s show: The Large Hadron Collider could be making particles that physicists haven’t looked for and modified wood that can passively cool buildings

On this week’s show: Tainted groundwater from nonstick chemicals and using smartphones for ear-infection detection

On this week’s show: Cats are finally proving their social smarts, and ghost riders help get a gauge on the traffic effects of ride-sharing apps

On this week’s show: how scientists are giving food and flowers a color rarely found in nature, and how a small fish has adapted to pollution—by stealing its cousin’s genes

On this week’s show: what calling race a “risk factor” actually means, and a book on making music with animals

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