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A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment

First up on the podcast, along Brazil’s Juruá River, local residents have been working with scientists to manage a giant fish called the ara...

53:53May 7, 2026

Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame

First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a batch of fun stories with podcast host Sarah Crespi—from spider hearts raci...

46:43Apr 30, 2026

Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

First up on the podcast, freelance science and environmental journalist Quentin Septer joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a controversial...

30:48Apr 23, 2026

The normals | Episode 3

The final of a three-part limited Science Podcast series that looks at the history of normal human subjects in research In episode two, we h...

33:22Apr 21, 2026

How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting

First up on the podcast, quantum computers require extremely low temperatures—less than 1°C away from absolute zero. But getting down to tho...

50:31Apr 16, 2026

The Normals | Episode 2

Last time on The Normals, we learned that in the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to recruit many healthy volunteers fo...

27:19Apr 14, 2026

A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion

First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Hannah Richter joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss NASA’s plans to send a nuclear-power...

42:15Apr 9, 2026

The Normals | Episode 1

How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented....

23:42Apr 7, 2026

Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

First up on the podcast, a new path to calculating the Hubble constant. This value for the universe’s speed of expansion is typically determ...

33:32Apr 2, 2026

Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

First up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink talks about so-called resurrection plants. These specialized plants can survive...

36:52Mar 26, 2026

Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

First up on the podcast, we discuss a finding that’s likely to reignite debate over how humans first spread through the Americas. In the lat...

33:28Mar 19, 2026

What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Evan Howell traveled to Cape Blossom, Alaska, where the receding coastline has revealed an anc...

42:50Mar 12, 2026

An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

First up on the podcast, a peek into the roiling seas of U.S. science policy. ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser talks about shifting lead...

38:19Mar 5, 2026

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell talks to Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about his visit to Brazil, where he ob...

32:17Feb 26, 2026

Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox, Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko, and intern Perri Thaler share thei...

41:16Feb 19, 2026

Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

First up on the podcast, more than half of all dogs going through service animal training don’t make it to graduation. Producer Kevin McLean...

34:00Feb 12, 2026

Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses

First up on the podcast, host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Adrian Cho talk football and the latest science behind helmets engineered to red...

39:47Feb 5, 2026

Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels

First up on the podcast, how do we protect astronauts when they leave the shelter of Earth’s protective magnetic fields and face the slow, c...

38:39Jan 29, 2026

Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

First up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome, when microbes inside the hu...

32:27Jan 22, 2026

Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface

First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Sofia Quaglia talks about her visit to the Galápagos archipelago and how researchers t...

30:26Jan 15, 2026

The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows

First up on the podcast, scholars are on a quest to find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA. With no direct descendants, the hunt involves sampling the...

27:31Jan 8, 2026

Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too

First up on the podcast, the best images of exoplanets right now are basically bright dots. We can’t see possible continents, potential ocea...

43:29Jan 1, 2026

This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this year’s best online news stories—top perfo...

33:58Dec 18, 2025

Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat

First up on the podcast, we’ve likely only found about half the so-called city-killer asteroids (objects more than 140 meters in diameter)....

27:59Dec 11, 2025

Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics

First up on the podcast, Science celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics with a special issue covering the past, present, and future of th...

38:00Dec 4, 2025

When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat

First up on the podcast, when will the world hit peak carbon emissions? It’s not an easy question to answer because emissions cannot be dire...

26:21Nov 27, 2025

A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

First up on the podcast: the mysterious fate of Europe’s Neolithic farmers. They arrived from Anatolia around 5500 B.C.E. and began farming...

32:35Nov 20, 2025

Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink

First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi for a rundown of online news stories. They talk about lichen...

28:13Nov 13, 2025

Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse

First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Sofia Moutinho visited the Xingu Indigenous territory in Brazil to learn about a long-st...

35:03Nov 6, 2025

Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends

First up on the podcast, increased carbon dioxide emissions sink more acidity into the ocean, but checking pH all over the world, up and dow...

45:27Oct 30, 2025

The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish

First up on the podcast, the Bering Sea’s snow crabs are bouncing back after a 50-billion-crab die-off in 2020, but scientists are racing to...

27:13Oct 23, 2025

Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease

First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt takes a trip to Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where ancient RNA viru...

26:38Oct 16, 2025

How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine

First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko about the impact of wildfires on wine...

37:00Oct 9, 2025

A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh

First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Robert F. Service joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a boom in nuclear medicine, from new and more...

34:48Oct 2, 2025

Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world

First up on the podcast, Science News Editor Tim Appenzeller joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss why a salty layer of permafrost undergirding...

46:22Sep 25, 2025

Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery

First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the long journey to a vaccine for...

35:00Sep 18, 2025

An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor

First up on the podcast, aggressive tumors have a secret cache of DNA that may help them beat current drug treatments. Freelance journalist...

35:14Sep 11, 2025

Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket

First up on the podcast, despite so many advances in treatment, HIV drugs can suppress the virus but can’t cure the infection. Where does su...

32:57Sep 4, 2025

A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead

First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Rodrigo Pérez Ortega joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a megafauna megafind that rivals the La Bre...

55:07Aug 28, 2025

New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America

First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss recent advances in understanding endometriosis—a di...

32:07Aug 21, 2025

Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?

First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell and Contributing Correspondent Sara Reardon discuss alternative approaches to animal testi...

31:53Aug 14, 2025

Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live

First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm brings stories on peacock feathers’ ability to emit laser light, how anteaters have...

28:08Aug 7, 2025

Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead

First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the toll of the ongoing conflict in...

51:33Jul 31, 2025

Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives

First up on the podcast, South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind is home to the world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, includ...

34:45Jul 24, 2025

Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria

First up on the podcast, Réunion Island had a shark attack crisis in 2011 and closed its beaches for more than a decade. Former News Intern...

36:50Jul 17, 2025

A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes

First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of ScienceAdviser wit...

25:52Jul 10, 2025

Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars

First up on the podcast, U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came President Donald Trump. Senior News Correspondent Jon...

31:12Jul 3, 2025

Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia

First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a pair of Science papers on kinship and...

44:57Jun 26, 2025

How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy

First up on the podcast, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is just coming online, and once fully operational, it will take a snapshot of the ent...

37:25Jun 19, 2025

Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change

First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about how scientists are probing the world’s hottest forest...

37:22Jun 12, 2025