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Transistor is podcast of scientific curiosities and current events, featuring guest hosts, scientists, and story-driven reporters. Presented by radio and podcast powerhouse PRX, with support...
Vaccinations, in one form or another, have been around longer than the United States. In fact, during the Revolutionary War in 1776, future...
Cosmic rays from outer space sound like science fiction. They’re not—invisible particles flung from outer space pass through our bodies ever...
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin to celebrate Ireland's greatest mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton. And get this –...
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma left devastation in their wake all across the southern United States as unimaginable quantities of water swallowe...
What if the size of our dinner plate, its color, the material of our cutlery - even background sounds - all affect how our food tastes? In o...
Underneath our vrooms, beeps, and rumbles, natural sound may be more important than we think.
On May 2, 2015, beekeepers Pam Arnold and Kristy Allen got hit with a pesticide. They couldn't see it or smell it, but when they saw their b...
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol and Katy are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries, and wanted to start a...
The headlines are often full of advice for women about when they should have children. Marnie Chesterton goes digging into the fertility sta...
Humans have always been interested in controlling the weather. In the past we used raindances and sacrifices; today we turn to science. Clou...
Visual stylometry is a branch of mathematics that can determine the style of a particular artist’s body of work.
Head underground to hear how some of the first subways were built, and how they are built today. This story was originally produced by Bisho...
This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic. Something unusual happens about a half mile under the s...
For the next few episodes, we’re featuring the Smithsonian’s new series, Sidedoor , about where science, art, history, and humanity unexpect...
For the next few episodes, we’re featuring the Smithsonian’s new series, Sidedoor , about where science, art, history, and humanity unexpect...
For the next few episodes, we’re featuring select episodes from the Smithsonian’s new series, Sidedoor, about where science, art, history, h...
Bronwyn Tarr with Carimbó dancers. Oxford evolutionary neuroscientist Bronwyn Tarr was in a remote area of Brazil to begin an experiment. On...
Vissarion Shebalin was not a great composer. But his music could unlock an important truth about how the brain processes music and language....
Ancient navigators traveled across the Pacific without the aid of maps or instruments. We’ll hear from modern-day navigators in New Zealand,...
This episode is brought to you by… science fair memories. I ( your host Genevieve ) remember being inspired to create my sixth grade science...
Some studies suggest that one out of 10 women in her 30s is peeing herself. Others say the numbers could be much much higher. But it’s tough...
What’s lost when a song is compressed into an MP3? To the untrained ear, perhaps nothing. But to one composer, these “lost sounds” are a sou...
Transistor’s mothership PRX has partnered with Outside Magazine to produce four special podcast episodes on the Science of Survival. You’ll...
Transistor’s mothership PRX has partnered with Outside magazine to produce four special podcast episodes on the Science of Survival. You’ll...
Transistor’s mothership PRX has partnered with Outside magazine to produce four special podcast episodes on the Science of Survival. You’ll...
Ta-da! Our fifth special episode with Cristina Quinn and Alison Bruzek of Trace Elements is here. Let us know what you enjoyed about their s...
Lake Oneida on April 24, 2016. Photo by Carl Hagmann Special episode #4 featuring Trace Elements with Cristina Quinn and Alison Bruzek. In t...
It’s here! Episode three of our special five-part series called Trace Elements with hosts Cristina Quinn and Alison Bruzek. Hacking your hea...
We are interrupting your regularly scheduled podcast feed with a special new episode on the science of survival from Outside Magazine and PR...
Cristina & Marco hanging out with EDI Episode two of our special five-part series called Trace Elements — with hosts Cristina Quinn and Alis...
Two hosts, one adventure: This episode marks the beginning of five special Transistor episodes featuring Trace Elements . Hosts and producer...
We love a good backstory to a scientific invention that is ubiquitous today. Meet the women who got pregnancy tests out of labs and into hom...
Rodney Stotts and Mr. Hoots, a Eurasian eagle owl. “Biophilia” refers to the instinctive affection humans have for nature. It’s a term that...
Casey draws his imaginary grandson, Georgie. Photo by Pien Huang. Casey is just four, but he already has an imaginary grandson. What does sc...
Ebola, salmonella, even measles. All of these have a source, and disease detectives trained at the CDC know how to find the culprits. Join t...
Loyal Transistor listeners will remember astronomer Michelle Thaller, who hosted three episodes for us early in 2015 . She’s back, now with...
What kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws concerts for captive animals to try and enrich...
“52 Hz” is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as “The World’s...
The sci-fi epic of Dune takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for droug...
Ken Golden isn’t your typical mathematician. He’s the Indiana Jones of Mathematics. He gets up from behind his desk, armed with mathematical...
Over the past 20 years, there’s been a revolution in the science of arson investigations. Many of the clues that had been used for decades t...
What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the court case for — and the science behind — t...
As storms raged through Oklahoma in 2013, Martha Lillard waited them out from inside her iron lung. She is one of just dozens of polio survi...
Tim and Tanya Chartier present a classic mime stance Some things can be better left unsaid. Who would have thought that math could be one of...
Producer/reporter Jack Rodolico and his wife, Christina. Told by the couple who lived it, this is a story of how Crohn’s disease can change...
A hammer tap to the bridge — light as a dried pea — helps Curtin capture an acoustic instrument’s sound signature. In music, everything seem...
A story of movement, memory, and mentors. Dr. Wendy Suzuki introduces us to Dr. Marian Diamond , whose lively classes ushered Wendy into a c...
One of the things we assign to science is that there are true, absolute facts. But scientists are human and, it turns out, as prone to blind...
When University of Washington researcher David Rhoades discovered that plants could communicate with each other, he was laughed out of scien...
What motivates young people to become scientists? Meet Maricruz Jaramillo and Samoa Asigau, two young women scientists from opposite sides o...