Science Magazine Podcast

Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy

A leap in supercomputing is a leap for science, cracking the dolomite problem, and a book on...

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AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills

What it means that artificial intelligence can now forecast the weather like a supercomputer, and...

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The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics

First up on this week’s show: the future of science in Russia. We hear about how the country’s...

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Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs

Why scientists are trying to make anemones act like corals, and why it’s so hard to make...

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Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science

Why farmers might want shorter corn, and the latest in our series on books on sex, gender, and...

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Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science

First up on this week’s show, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about...

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Dealing with the consequences of removing the world largest dam, and building a quantum computer using sound waves

Restoring land after dam removal, and phonons as a basis for quantum computing   First up...

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The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves

Restoring land after dam removal, and phonons as a basis for quantum computing    First up on...

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Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors

The Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought, and managing the effects of wildfires on indoor...

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Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors

The Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought, and managing the effects of wildfires on indoor...

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How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?

Pushing ancient DNA past the Pleistocene, and linking agriculture to biodiversity and infectious...

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How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?

Pushing ancient DNA past the Pleistocene, and linking agriculture to biodiversity and infectious...

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Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’

A book on utopias and gender roles, India looks to beat climate-induced heat in cities, and how...

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Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall

The key to shrinking cartels is cutting recruitment, and a roundup of books, video games, movies,...

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Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions

Receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat, and using combustion to propel...

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Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid

How the Tonga eruption caused some of the fastest underwater flows in history, and why many U.S....

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Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell

How active learning improves calculus teaching, and using machine learning to map odors in the...

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The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender

A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in...

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What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated

Ancient wildfires may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals, and do insular societies...

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Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh

First up on this week’s show, we hear about the skewed perception of our own hands, extremely...

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