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Undiscovered

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Undiscovered is a podcast about how science really happens. It's about all the stuff that gets left out of journal articles – the left turns, false starts, harebrained ideas, and lucky break...

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Listen to Undiscovered, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by Science Friday and WNYC Studios. Stream 28 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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New Show: Universe of Art

Hey Undiscovered listeners! We’re back to tell you about a brand new show from Science Friday. Universe Of Art is a podcast about artists wh...

00:02:17Aug 7, 2023

New Show: Science Diction

Hello Undiscovered fans! We're here to tell you about a new show we've been working on at Science Friday. Science Diction is a podcast about...

00:02:07Mar 8, 2020

Spontaneous Generation

These days, biologists believe all living things come from other living things. But for a long time, people believed that life would, from t...

00:20:24Dec 11, 2019

Into The Ether

In 1880, scientist Albert Michelson set out to build a device to measure something every 19th century physicist knew just had to be there. T...

00:18:18Dec 4, 2019

Planet Of The Killer Apes

In Apartheid-era South Africa, a scientist uncovered a cracked, proto-human jawbone. That humble fossil would go on to inspire one of the mo...

00:23:55Nov 27, 2019

Like Jerry Springer For Bluebirds

“Do men need to cheat on their women?” a Playboy headline asked in the summer of 1978. Their not-so-surprising conclusion: Yes! Science says...

00:25:46Nov 20, 2019

Mini: The Undercover Botanist

In 1767, a young French servant sailed around the world, collecting plants previously unknown to Western science. The ship’s crew knew the s...

00:15:54Mar 28, 2019

Mini: Cats, Villains At Heart

Undiscovered is back between seasons with a listener question: What saved the cats? If you rewind to the Middle Ages, cats and humans were o...

00:10:42Dec 17, 2018

This Headline Might Kill You

In this Undiscovered Cares Report, Annie and Elah dig into a scary science headline to help Elah’s friend, David, figure out how scared he s...

00:27:50Nov 6, 2018

Party Lines

In 2016, a North Carolina legislator announced that his party would be redrawing the state’s congressional district map with a particular go...

00:29:43Oct 30, 2018

The Long Loneliness

Americans haven’t always loved whales and dolphins. In the 1950s, the average American thought of whales as the floating raw materials for m...

00:34:24Oct 23, 2018

Turtle v. Snake

Travis Thomas is a rookie turtle researcher in Florida. He was on the verge of publishing his first big paper and naming two new species of...

00:34:05Oct 16, 2018

Guest Episode: The Infinite God

This week, Annie and Elah share an episode from one of their favorite podcasts, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sum of All Parts ....

00:28:51Oct 9, 2018

Plants And Prejudice

Are non-native species all that bad, or are we just prejudiced against “the Other”? In the San Francisco Bay Area, one particular foreign sp...

00:30:12Oct 2, 2018

The Magic Machine

As a critical care doctor, Jessica Zitter has seen plenty of “Hail Mary” attempts to save dying patients go bad—attempts where doctors try i...

00:36:48Sep 25, 2018

The Holdout

Since the 1980s, Gerta Keller, professor of paleontology and geology at Princeton, has been speaking out against an idea most of us take as...

00:32:47Sep 18, 2018

I, Robovie

A decade ago, psychologists introduced a group of kids to Robovie, a wide-eyed robot who could talk, play, and hug like a pro. And then, the...

00:33:57Sep 11, 2018

Mouse’s Vineyard: Update!

It’s been two years since we followed MIT scientist Kevin Esvelt to Martha’s Vineyard. Has he created his Lyme-fighting super-mouse? We foll...

00:35:29Aug 23, 2018

Mouse’s Vineyard

Martha’s Vineyard has a Lyme disease problem. Now a scientist is coming to town with a possible fix: genetically engineered mice. An island...

00:29:01Jun 27, 2017

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Undiscovered is listed as a Religion & Spirituality show by Science Friday and WNYC Studios.

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