Podcast: Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones
On this week’s show: Tainted groundwater from nonstick chemicals and using smartphones for ear-infection detection
Science Podcasts
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Podcast: Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse
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 -
Podcast: The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish
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 -
Podcast: Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales
On this week’s show: what calling race a “risk factor” actually means, and a book on making music with animals -
Podcast: How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste
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 -
Podcast: A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in plants
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 -
Podcast: A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade
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 -
Podcast: Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system
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 -
Podcast: Vacuuming up valuable metals in the deep sea, and an expedition to an asteroid 290 million kilometers away
On this week’s show: the environmental costs of deep-sea mining and a trip to the distant asteroid Ryugu -
Podcast: Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments
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
