Science Magazine Podcast
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Science Magazine Podcast

by Science Magazine

Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

100 episodes
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1
What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills
42:50 Mar 12, 2026
2
An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon
38:19 Mar 5, 2026
3
Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery
32:17 Feb 26, 2026
4
Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting
41:16 Feb 19, 2026
5
Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form
34:00 Feb 12, 2026
6
Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses
39:47 Feb 5, 2026
7
Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels
38:39 Jan 29, 2026
8
Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes
32:27 Jan 22, 2026
9
Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface
30:26 Jan 15, 2026
10
The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows
27:31 Jan 8, 2026
11
Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too
43:29 Jan 1, 2026
12
This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories
33:58 Dec 18, 2025
13
Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat
27:59 Dec 11, 2025
14
Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics
38:00 Dec 4, 2025
15
When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat
26:21 Nov 27, 2025
16
A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research
32:35 Nov 20, 2025
17
Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink
28:13 Nov 13, 2025
18
Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse
35:03 Nov 6, 2025
19
Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends
45:27 Oct 30, 2025
20
The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish
27:13 Oct 23, 2025
21
Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease
26:38 Oct 16, 2025
22
How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine
37:00 Oct 9, 2025
23
A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh
34:48 Oct 2, 2025
24
Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world
46:22 Sep 25, 2025
25
Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery
35:00 Sep 18, 2025
26
An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor
35:14 Sep 11, 2025
27
Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket
32:57 Sep 4, 2025
28
A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead
55:07 Aug 28, 2025
29
New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America
32:07 Aug 21, 2025
30
Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?
31:53 Aug 14, 2025
31
Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live
28:08 Aug 7, 2025
32
Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead
51:33 Jul 31, 2025
33
Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives
34:45 Jul 24, 2025
34
Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria
36:50 Jul 17, 2025
35
A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes
25:52 Jul 10, 2025
36
Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars
31:12 Jul 3, 2025
37
Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia
44:57 Jun 26, 2025
38
How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy
37:25 Jun 19, 2025
39
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change
37:22 Jun 12, 2025
40
Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science
42:05 Jun 5, 2025
41
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research
52:30 May 29, 2025
42
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’
40:13 May 22, 2025
43
A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes
30:27 May 15, 2025
44
Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science
33:17 May 8, 2025
45
Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’
32:28 May 1, 2025
46
A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series
45:52 Apr 24, 2025
47
Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander
26:36 Apr 17, 2025
48
The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH
28:34 Apr 10, 2025
49
Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
31:56 Apr 3, 2025
50
Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots
32:46 Mar 27, 2025
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