Science Magazine Podcast

Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains

Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Joshua Sokol about magnetars—highly...

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Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate

Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the...

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Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions

Most research on aging has been done on model organisms with limited life spans, such as flies...

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COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities

Science Staff Writer Kelly Servick discusses how physicians have sifted through torrents of...

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Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills

Science Staff Writer Adrian Cho joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about plans for the next...

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The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color

Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a 2000-year-old...

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Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator

First up, science journalist Julia Rosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about a growing fleet of...

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All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets

Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to take on some of big questions about the...

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Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probes

Science journalist Rachel Cernansky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about progress on Africa’s...

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Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing

This week we’re dedicating the whole show to the 20th anniversary of the publication of the human...

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Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps

On its first day, the new Biden administration announced plans to recalculate the social cost of...

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Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras

Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a controversial new paper that...

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An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments change our behavior

Science Senior Correspondent Daniel Clery regales host Sarah Crespi with tales about the most...

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The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms

Freelance journalist Gabriel Popkin and host Sarah Crespi discuss what will happen to ash trees...

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Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke

We kick off our first episode of 2021 by looking at future trends in policy and research with...

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Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights

Our last episode of the year is a celebration of science in 2020. First, host Sarah Crespi talks...

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Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

The field of psychology underwent a replication crisis and saw a sea change in scientific and...

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How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants

Staff Writer Meredith Wadman and host Sarah Crespi discuss what to expect from the two messenger...

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Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis

Many schools closed in the spring, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Many opened...

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Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face

These days, about half of the protein the world’s population eats is from seafood. Staff Writer...

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