Science Podcasts

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

On this week’s show: Advances and complications after 20 years of human genome sequencing

On this week’s show: Why the Biden administration decided to change the social cost of carbon on day one, and why naked mole rats chirp to each other

On this week’s show: A new estimate for the number of rats and mice in U.S. labs, a possible explanation for irritable bowel syndrome, and how cobras evolved to spit venom

On this week’s show: A look at the past, present, and future of the fabled Arecibo Observatory, and what we can learn about how the environment alters human behavior

On this week’s show: Federal regulators in the United States give up on quarantining a forest pest and researchers rattle robots around to organize them

On this week’s show: Looking at the year ahead in research and science policy, and how living microbes in wildfire smoke could impact human health and ecosystems

On this week’s show: We round up the best of science and science books from this year