Science Podcasts

On this week’s show: The enormous challenge of returning to research during a pandemic, and modeling the prevalence of arsenic around the world

On this week’s show: Records show past pandemic disease deaths were concentrated in marginalized people, and a surprising series of repetitive quakes deep beneath a Hawaiian volcano

On this week’s show: Researchers are scrambling to produce antibodies to treat and prevent COVID-19, and how to avoid increasing deforestation during a tree-planting campaign

On this week’s show: Blood-based biopsies, and comparing the activity of our Sun to similar stars

On this week’s show: The latest on how COVID-19 infections damage the body, and what can be learned from ancient magnetic traces in rocks on Earth and in space

On this week’s show: Climbing out of a COVID-19 crisis, managing water is not enough to defeat drought, and tracing waves of sensation on the surface of the hands

On this week’s show: A new report suggests coronavirus may spread by air, and looking at the genes and neural circuits linked to anorexia nervosa

On this week’s show: The importance of forecasting in pandemic policy, and artificial intelligence that can detect facial expressions in mice

On this week’s show: An update on the coronavirus pandemic, understanding why diseases wax and wane with the seasons, and the movement to utilize new tools to test the safety of chemicals

On this week’s show: Artifacts surfacing along the coast of Northern Europe bring to light a lost civilization, and brain studies reveal how we perceive—and remember—music