Hippety Hoppity, Here’s the Cacophony: Barro Colorado Island, Part 1
In this episode, Nate follows biologist Rachel Page into the rainforest at dusk, where a puddle full of tiny, love-struck frogs must get lou...
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The Show About Science
Created by Nate when he was 5 years-old, The Show About Science is an awesome adventure into the wondrous world of scientific research and discovery! Over the last 7 years, Nate has filled e...
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20 of 127 episodesInside the Smithsonian's Hidden Cheetah Sanctuary
The cheetah is built for speed. It can go from zero to 60 in just a few seconds. But today, the fastest land animal on Earth is losing a muc...
The Coldest Cold Case
A frozen corpse. A melting glacier. A 5,000-year-old crime scene. Nate talks with Brenda Fowler about Ötzi the Iceman and how modern science...
The Refugee Seeds
Seeds hold history. They carry the genetic blueprints of the past and the key to our future. But when disaster strikes, how far will scienti...
STEM Flights with Dragan Lazić and Carley Walker
What is it like to fly a plane while attempting to make a podcast from 2,000 feet in the air? And can we pull this off? In this episode of T...
The Great Cicada Symphony with Jorin Graham
It's the hottest day of the year, and deep underground, a mysterious countdown has finally hit zero. After years of silence, millions of cic...
The Anachronisms in our Backyards with David Zaya
In this episode of The Show About Science, Nate unearths the surprising history of the Kentucky Coffee Trees growing in his backyard and qui...
Bacteriophages with Ben Chan
Bacteriophages, also known as ‘phages,’ are the most common lifeform on the planet. They are constantly hunting for bacteria to infect and k...
Urban Water Chemistry with Stephen MacAvoy and Melissa Pierce
In this episode of The Show About Science, Nate heads to the banks of the Chicago River to meet up with Melissa Pierce, PhD, the Technical P...
A City on Mars with Zach Weinersmith
What it would really entail to conquer the relentless Martian elements, engineer a thriving, self-reliant biosphere, and craft life-preservi...
The Twenty-One with Elizabeth Rusch
What happens when 21 kids sue the U.S. government for a dream of a world without climate change? On this episode of The Show About Science ,...
The Puzzling Platypus with Frank Grützner
The platypus is a fascinating animal that has perplexed generations of scientists. Now researchers are studying the platypus on the molecula...
Our Extreme Universe with Kimberly Arcand
Dr. Kimberly Arcand is a Visualization and Emerging Technology Scientist at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Center for Astrophysics,...
The Science of Sound with Kimberly Arcand, Martin Gruebele, Carla Scaletti, and Mark Temple
Can sound help us understand the complex patterns in our universe? This question leads Nate to Symbolic Sound in Champaign, Illinois, where...
Big Tree with Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick is an illustrator and author best known for his books The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck, and The Marvels and Kaleido...
Accelerating Science to Eradicate Disease with Priscilla Chan and Stephen Quake
The CZ Biohub’s inspiring story began when Priscilla Chan asked Stephen Quake a seemingly impossible question: “Is it possible to cure, prev...
The Tiny Zebrafish Hotel with Merlin Lange, Loïc Royer, and Shruthi VijayKumar
On the third installment of our CZ Biohub series, we visit a lab nicknamed "Le Petit Hotel de Poisson" (The Tiny Fish Hotel) where scientist...
Mapping the Cell with Manuel Leonetti
This is the second episode of our four part series focused on the CZ Biohub in San Francisco where scientists are working to cure, prevent,...
Bioengineering Malaria with Paul Lebel
Over the next 4 episodes, we're going to take you on a tour of the CZ Biohub in San Francisco where scientists are working to cure, prevent,...
Santa Science and the Physics of Christmas (Rerun)
We're revisiting one of our favorite episodes of The Show About Science from 2015. Back when Nate was 5 years old, he interviewed Santa Clau...