Science Magazine Podcast

A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America’s first dogs

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Wild polio has been hunted to near extinction in a decades-old global eradication program. Now, a vaccine-derived outbreak in the Democratic Republic ...

Increasing transparency in animal research to sway public opinion, and a reaching a plateau in human mortality

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Public opinion on the morality of animal research is on the downswing in the United States. But some researchers think letting the public know more ab...

New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Since the 2016 reports of a mysterious assault on U.S. embassy staff in Cuba, researchers have struggled to find evidence of injury or weapon. Now, ne...

The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing caseloads of HIV. Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joi...

Science books for summer, and a blood test for predicting preterm birth

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What book are you taking to the beach or the field this summer? Science’s books editor Valerie Thompson and host Sarah Crespi discuss a selection of...

The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Astronomers have been able to detect supermassive black holes and teeny-weeny black holes but the midsize ones have been elusive. Now, researchers hav...

Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

DNA fingerprinting has been used to link people to crimes for decades, by matching DNA from a crime scene to DNA extracted from a suspect. Now, invest...

Tracking ancient Rome’s rise using Greenland’s ice, and fighting fungicide resistance

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Two thousand years ago, ancient Romans were pumping lead into the air as they smelted ores to make the silvery coin of the realm. Online News Editor D...

Ancient DNA is helping find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conservation

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Who were the first horse tamers? Online News Editor Catherine Matacic talks to Sarah Crespi about a new study that brings genomics to bear on the ques...

The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To study the biological differences brought on by space travel, NASA sent one twin into space and kept another on Earth in 2015. Now, researchers from...

Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Researchers have found new clues to how the “talking drums” of one Amazonian tribe convey their messages. Sarah Crespi talks with Online News Edit...

Drug use in the ancient world, and what will happen to plants as carbon dioxide levels increase

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Armed with new data, archaeologists are revealing that mind-altering drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies some 5000 years ago...

How DNA is revealing Latin America’s lost histories, and how to make a molecule from just two atoms

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Geneticists and anthropologists studying historical records and modern-day genomes are finding traces of previously unknown migrants to Latin America ...

Legendary Viking crystals, and how to put an octopus to sleep

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A millennium ago, Viking navigators may have used crystals known as “sunstones” to navigate between Norway and Greenland. Sarah Crespi talks with ...

Chimpanzee retirement gains momentum, and x-ray ‘ghost images’ could cut radiation doses

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Two of the world’s most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired. Hercules and Leo arrived at a chimp sanctuary in Georgia last week. Sarah...

A possible cause for severe morning sickness, and linking mouse moms’ caretaking to brain changes in baby mice

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Researchers are converging on which genes are linked to morning sickness—the nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy—and the more severe for...

How humans survived an ancient volcanic winter and how disgust shapes ecosystems

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When Indonesia’s Mount Toba blew its top some 74,000 years ago, an apocalyptic scenario ensued: Tons of ash and debris entered the atmosphere, coat...

Animals that don’t need people to be domesticated; the astonishing spread of false news; and links between gender, sexual orientation, and speech

08 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Did people domesticate animals? Or did they domesticate themselves? Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about a recent study that l...

A new dark matter signal from the early universe, massive family trees, and how we might respond to alien contact

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For some time after the big bang there were no stars. Researchers are now looking at cosmic dawn—the time when stars first popped into being—and a...

Neandertals that made art, live news from the AAAS Annual Meeting, and the emotional experience of being a scientist

22 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about the techniques of painting sleuths, how to combat alternative facts or “fake news,” and using audio signposts to keep birds from fly...

Genes that turn off after death, and debunking the sugar conspiracy

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Some of our genes come alive after we die. David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about which genes are active after d...

Happy lab animals may make better research subjects, and understanding the chemistry of the indoor environment

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Would happy lab animals—rats, mice, even zebrafish—make for better experiments? David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Cr...

Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investigating why naked mole rats don’t seem to age

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole rat could die at any one moment. Surprisingly, th...

The dangers of dismantling a geoengineered sun shield and the importance of genes we don’t inherit

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Matacic—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate cha...

Unearthed letters reveal changes in Fields Medal awards, and predicting crime with computers is no easy feat

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed deliberations for a coveted mathematics prize: the Fields Medal...

Salad-eating sharks, and what happens after quantum computing achieves quantum supremacy

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about two underwater finds: the first sharks shown to survive off of seagrass a...

Who visits raccoon latrines, and boosting cancer therapy with gut microbes

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a long-term project monitoring raccoon latrines in California. What influ...

<i>Science</i>’s Breakthrough of the Year, our best online news, and science books for your shopping list

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a few of this year’s top stories from our online news site, like ones on...

Putting the breaks on driverless cars, and dolphins that can muffle their ears

14 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Whales and dolphins have incredibly sensitive hearing and are known to be harmed by loud underwater noises. David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about ...

Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, three papers came out describing new approaches to folding DNA into large complex shapes—20 times bigger than previous DNA sculptures. St...

Debunking yeti DNA, and the incredibly strong arms of prehistoric female farmers

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The abominable snowman, the yeti, bigfoot, and sasquatch—these long-lived myths of giant, hairy hominids depend on dropping elusive clues to stay in...

The world’s first dog pictures, and looking at the planet from a quantum perspective

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

About 8000 years ago, people were drawing dogs with leashes, according to a series of newly described stone carvings from Saudi Arabia. Online News Ed...

Preventing psychosis and the evolution—or not—of written language

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work influence how scripts look? This week we hear a story on chan...

Randomizing the news for science, transplanting genetically engineered skin, and the ethics of experimental brain implants

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on what to do with experimental brain implants after a study is over, how gene therapy gave a second skin to a boy with a r...

How Earth’s rotation could predict giant quakes, gene therapy’s new hope, and how carbon monoxide helps deep-diving seals

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on how the sloshing of Earth’s core may spike major earthquakes, carbon monoxide’s role in keeping deep diving elephant ...

Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately 400-million-year-old trees that grew by splitting thei...

LIGO spots merging neutron stars, scholarly questions about a new Bible museum, and why wolves are better team players than dogs

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s latest hit, why wolves are better team players than dogs, ...

Evolution of skin color, taming rice thrice, and peering into baby brains

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories about a new brain imaging technique for newborns, recently uncovered evidence on rice domestication on three continents, and...

Putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient Scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects

05 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories about putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico earthquake, why a Scottish village was buried in sand during the Litt...

Furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating wombats, and puzzling out preprint publishing

28 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving, giant wombatlike creatures that once migrated across Australia, and th...

Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors

21 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on animal hoarding, how different languages have different numbers of colors, and how to tell a wakeful jellyfish from a sle...

Cargo-sorting molecular robots, humans as the ultimate fire starters, and molecular modeling with quantum computers

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on the gut microbiome’s involvement in multiple sclerosis, how wildfires start—hint: It’s almost always people—and...

Taking climate science to court, sailing with cylinders, and solar cooling

07 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on smooth sailing with giant, silolike sails, a midsized black hole that may be hiding out in the Milky Way, and new water-c...

Mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of negotiating AIs, and atomic bonding between the United States and China

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on involving more AIs in negotiations, tiny algae that might be responsible for killing some (not all) dinosaurs, and a chem...

What hunter-gatherer gut microbiomes have that we don’t, and breaking the emoji code

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Crespi talks to Sam Smits about how our microbial passengers differ from one culture to the next—are we losing diversity and the ability to fi...

A jump in rates of knee arthritis, a brief history of eclipse science, and bands and beats in the atmosphere of brown dwarfs

17 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on a big jump in U.S. rates of knee arthritis, some science hits and misses from past eclipses, and the link between a recen...

Coddled puppies don’t do as well in school, some trees make their own rain, and the Americas were probably first populated by ancient mariners

10 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on new satellite measurements that suggest the Amazon makes its own rain for part of the year, puppies raised with less smot...

The biology of color, a database of industrial espionage, and a link between prions and diabetes

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in chimps, a potential new pathway to diabetes—through prions—and what a database of...

DNA and proteins from ancient books, music made from data, and the keys to poverty traps

27 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we hear stories on turning data sets into symphonies for business and pleasure, why so much of the world is stuck in the poverty trap, and c...

Paying cash for carbon, making dogs friendly, and destroying all life on Earth

20 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on the genes that may make dogs friendly, why midsized animals are the fastest, and what it would take to destroy all the li...

Still-living dinosaurs, the world’s first enzymes, and thwarting early adopters in tech

13 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have stories on how ultraviolet rays may have jump-started the first enzymes on Earth, a new fossil find that helps date how quickly bir...

Odorless calories for weight loss, building artificial intelligence researchers can trust, and can oily birds fly?

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on the twisty tree of human ancestry, why mice shed weight when they can’t smell, and the damaging effects of even a small...

A Stone Age skull cult, rogue Parkinson’s proteins in the gut, and controversial pesticides linked to bee deaths

29 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on what the rogue Parkinson’s protein is doing in the gut, how chimps outmuscle humans, and evidence for an ancient skull ...

Why eggs have such weird shapes, doubly domesticated cats, and science balloons on the rise

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on the new capabilities of science balloons, connections between deforestation and drug trafficking in Central America, and ...

Slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular level, and plumbing magma’s secrets

15 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on why it’s taking so long for research chimps to retire, boosting melanin for a sun-free tan, and tracking a mouse trail ...

How to weigh a star—with a little help from Einstein, toxic ‘selfish genes,’ and the world’s oldest Homo sapiens fossils

08 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on what body cams reveal about interactions between black drivers and U.S. police officers, the world’s oldest Homo sapien...

A new taste for the tongue, ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies, and early evidence for dog breeding

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on how we taste water, extracting ancient DNA from mummy heads, and the earliest evidence for dog breeding with Online News ...

How whales got so big, sperm in space, and a first look at Jupiter’s poles

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not-so-distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record te...

Preventing augmented-reality overload, fixing bone with tiny bubbles, and studying human migrations

18 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on blocking dangerous or annoying distractions in augmented reality, gene therapy applied with ultrasound to heal bone break...

Our newest human relative, busting human sniff myths, and the greenhouse gas that could slow global warming

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have stories on ancient hominids that may have coexisted with early modern humans, methane seeps in the Arctic that could slow global war...

Podcast: Reading pain from the brains of infants, modeling digital faces, and wifi holograms

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we discuss the most accurate digital model of a human face to date, stray Wi-Fi signals that can be used to spy on a closed room, and artif...

Podcast: Where dog breeds come from, bots that build buildings, and gathering ancient human DNA from cave sediments

27 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a new family tree of dog breeds, advances in artificial wombs, and an autonomous robot that can print a building with Online News Editor Da...

Podcast: When good lions go bad, listening to meteor crashes, and how humans learn to change the world

20 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, meteors’ hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century...

Podcast: Watching shoes untie, Cassini’s last dive through the breath of a cryovolcano, and how human bias influences machine learning

13 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, walk like an elephant—very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini’s mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy ...

Podcast: Giant virus genetics, human high-altitude adaptations, and quantifying the impact of government-funded science

06 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals seven new genes potentially related to high-altitude...

Podcast: Killing off stowaways to Mars, chasing synthetic opiates, and how soil contributes to global carbon calculations

30 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells into biocomputers, and a look at how underground labs i...

Podcast: Teaching self-driving cars to read, improving bike safety with a video game, and when ‘you’ isn’t about ‘you’

23 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars t...

Podcast: The archaeology of democracy, new additions to the uncanny valley, and the discovery of ant-ibiotics

16 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, what bear-mounted cameras can tell us about their caribou-hunting habits, ants that mix up their own medicine, and feeling alienated by emo...

Podcast: Human pheromones lightly debunked, ignoring cyberattacks, and designer chromosomes

09 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a good idea to ignore some cyberattacks, and new questions about the existence...

Podcast: Breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA, and how past civilizations shaped the Amazon

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about the science behind breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA strands, and a dinosaur’s zigzagging backbone...

Podcast: Cracking the smell code, why dinosaurs had wings before they could fly, and detecting guilty feelings in altruistic gestures

23 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about why people are nice to each other—does it feel good or are we just avoiding feeling bad—approaches to keeping arsenic out...

Podcast: Recognizing the monkey in the mirror, giving people malaria parasites as a vaccine strategy, and keeping coastal waters clean with seagrass

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about what it means if a monkey can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, injecting people with live malaria parasites as a vacc...

Podcast: Saving grizzlies from trains, cheap sun-powered water purification, and a deep look at science-based policymaking

09 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about why grizzly bears seem to be dying on Canadian railway tracks, slow-release fertilizers that reduce environmental damage, a...

Podcast: An 80-million-year-old dinosaur protein, sending oxygen to the moon, and competitive forecasting

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about how the Earth is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for dark matter, and retrieving 80-million year old...

Podcast: Bringing back tomato flavor genes, linking pollution and dementia, and when giant otters roamed Earth

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball stats to show how jet lag puts players off their game, ...

Podcast: Explaining menopause in killer whales, triggering killer mice, and the role of chromosome number in cancer immunotherapy

19 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about a surprising reason why killer whales undergo menopause, flipping a kill switch in mice with lasers, and Fukushima resident...

Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees

12 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish’s anatomy, and a ch...

Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease

05 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take—or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and re...

Podcast: Our Breakthrough of the Year, top online stories, and the year in science books

22 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about human evolution in action, 6000-year-old fairy tales, and other top news stories from 2016 with Online News Editor David Gr...

The sound of a monkey talking, cloning horses for sport, and forensic anthropologists help the search for Mexico’s disappeared

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about what talking monkeys would sound like, a surprising virus detected in ancient pottery, and six cloned horses that helped w...

Podcast: Altering time perception, purifying blueberries with plasma, and checking in on ocelot latrines

08 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about cleaning blueberries with purple plasma, how Tibetan dogs adapted to high-altitude living, and who’s checking ocelot mes...

Podcast: What ants communicate when kissing, stars birthed from gas, and linking immune strength and social status

01 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about kissing communication in ants, building immune strength by climbing the social ladder, and a registry for animal research ...

Podcast: Scientists on the night shift, sucking up greenhouse gases with cement, and repetitive stress in tomb builders

24 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about cement’s shrinking carbon footprint, commuting hazards for ancient Egyptian artisans, and a new bipartisan group opposed...

Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi

17 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week we chat about why it’s hard to get a taxi to nowhere, why bones came onto the scene some 550 million years ago, and how targeting bacte...

Podcast: How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you

10 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—is Bhutan really a quake-free zone, how much of scientific success is due to luck, and what ...

Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome

03 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, news writer Greg Miller chats with us about how the legalization of marijuana in certain U.S. states is having an impact on the nation’s ...

Podcast: A close look at a giant moon crater, the long tradition of eating rodents, and building evidence for Planet Nine

27 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—eating rats in the Neolithic, growing evidence for a gargantuan 9th planet in our solar syste...

Podcast: Science lessons for the next U.S. president, human high altitude adjustments, and the elusive Higgs bison

20 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears, long-lasting changes in the human body at high a...

Podcast: When we pay attention to plane crashes, releasing modified mosquitoes, and bacteria that live off radiation

13 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories -- including a new bacterial model for alien life that feeds on cosmic rays, tracking extinct ...

Podcast: Bumble bee emotions, the purpose of yawning, and new insights into the developing infant brain

06 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat about some of our favorite stories—including making bees optimistic, comparing yawns across species, and “mind reading” in...

Podcast: Why we murder, resurrecting extinct animals, and the latest on the three-parent baby

29 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Daily news stories Should we bring animals back from extinction, three-parent baby announced, and the roots of human violence, with David Grimm.  ...

Podcast: An atmospheric pacemaker skips a beat, a religious edict that spawned fat chickens, and knocking out the ‘sixth sense’

22 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A quick change in chickens’ genes as a result of a papal ban on eating four-legged animals, the appeal of tragedy, and genetic defects in the “si...

Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets

15 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm.  From the...

Podcast: Double navigation in desert ants, pollution in the brain, and dating deal breakers

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News stories on magnetic waste in the brain, the top deal breakers in online dating, and wolves that are willing to “risk it for the biscuit,” ...

Podcast: Ceres’s close-up, how dogs listen, and a new RNA therapy

01 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News stories on what words dogs know, an RNA therapy for psoriasis, and how Lucy may have fallen from the sky, with Catherine Matacic.  From the m...

Podcast: Quantum dots in consumer electronics and a faceoff with the quiz master

25 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Crespi takes a pop quiz on literal life hacking, spotting poverty from outer space, and the size of the average American vocabulary with Catheri...

Podcast: How mice mess up reproducibility, new support for an RNA world, and giving cash away wisely

18 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News stories on a humanmade RNA copier that bolsters ideas about early life on Earth, the downfall of a pre-Columbian empire, and how a bit of cash a...

Podcast: 400-year-old sharks, busting a famous scientific hoax, and clinical trials in pets

11 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News stories on using pets in clinical trials to test veterinarian drugs, debunking the Piltdown Man once and for all, and deciding just how smart ...

Podcast: Pollution hot spots in coastal waters, extreme bees, and diseased dinos

04 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News stories on bees that live perilously close to the mouth of a volcano, diagnosing arthritis in dinosaur bones, and the evolution of the female ...

Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor

28 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Stories on birds that guide people to honey, genes left over from the last universal common ancestor, and what the nose knows about antibiotics, wi...