PNAS Science Sessions
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PNAS Science Sessions

by PNAS

Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.

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1
Reconstructing extinct species' sense of smell
10:43 Mar 23, 2026
2
The hidden costs of AI
9:53 Feb 23, 2026
3
How mosquitoes time their bites
9:53 Feb 9, 2026
4
Impact of flu vaccines on hospital burden
10:17 Jan 26, 2026
5
Secrets of Earth's climate in six-million-year-old ice
9:39 Jan 12, 2026
6
China, ascendent
10:21 Dec 29, 2025
7
Genetic history of dog domestication
15:23 Dec 8, 2025
8
Air pollution and pet health
9:40 Nov 24, 2025
9
Probing the die-off of Pacific oysters
10:09 Nov 10, 2025
10
Swamp lights and bat sight
10:26 Oct 27, 2025
11
Enzyme linked with brain evolution
10:42 Oct 13, 2025
12
Where primates evolved
10:48 Sep 29, 2025
13
How climate change alters lake oxygen levels
10:06 Sep 15, 2025
14
Unpacking the unreturnable squash nick shot
10:07 Sep 1, 2025
15
North America's oldest pterosaur fossil
10:40 Aug 18, 2025
16
Exploring the origins of a glacial relict seal
10:39 Aug 4, 2025
17
Conservation of the Eastern Black Rhinoceros
10:48 Jul 21, 2025
18
Rescuing the northern white rhino
10:50 Jul 7, 2025
19
Water and the possibility of life on Mars
15:07 Jun 16, 2025
20
Machine learning and climate risk adaptation
10:41 Jun 2, 2025
21
Parsing the Knowledge of London cabbies
11:42 May 19, 2025
22
Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior
12:45 Apr 21, 2025
23
Modeling extreme heat waves
10:35 Apr 7, 2025
24
Estimating the social cost of carbon
9:39 Mar 24, 2025
25
How hula hoops stay aloft
9:03 Mar 10, 2025
26
Climate effects and shifting Arctic coastlines
10:56 Feb 17, 2025
27
Movies, neurons, and AI
10:39 Feb 3, 2025
28
Sustainability of plant-based meat alternatives
14:53 Jan 6, 2025
29
Plumeworld ocean and snowball Earth
10:25 Dec 23, 2024
30
The curious case of the comb jelly
10:28 Dec 9, 2024
31
Air pollution and economic mobility
10:36 Nov 25, 2024
32
Long-term impact of wildfire smoke pollution
10:32 Nov 18, 2024
33
Indigenous communities and subsistence whale hunting
10:30 Nov 4, 2024
34
Perceiving musical boundaries
10:06 Oct 21, 2024
35
How python hearts grow and shrink
8:46 Oct 7, 2024
36
Neighborhood travel and racial segregation
10:48 Sep 30, 2024
37
Ocean voyages and disease spread
10:06 Sep 16, 2024
38
Why twisters target the United States
10:44 Sep 3, 2024
39
Creating culturally inclusive schools
10:00 Aug 19, 2024
40
How redlining affects biodiversity
10:27 Aug 5, 2024
41
Animal's eye view of the ocean
8:55 Jul 15, 2024
42
Inequitable exposure to wildfire smoke
10:40 Jul 1, 2024
43
Gentrification and biodiversity
10:07 Jun 17, 2024
44
School enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic
10:10 Jun 3, 2024
45
Emotional power of live music
9:31 May 20, 2024
46
Adapting to poor air quality
10:30 May 6, 2024
47
Measuring Poverty
9:13 Apr 22, 2024
48
How a small fish makes big sounds
6:17 Apr 8, 2024
49
History of flight in dinosaurs
10:02 Mar 25, 2024
50
Bee communication in a changing world
16:31 Mar 4, 2024
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