Podcasts de scientific community

Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew

This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately...

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Preventing psychosis and the evolution—or not—of written language

How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work...

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Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research

This week, three papers came out describing new approaches to folding DNA into large complex...

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Unearthed letters reveal changes in Fields Medal awards, and predicting crime with computers is no easy feat

Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed...

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Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investiga...

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole...

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Genes that turn off after death, and debunking the sugar conspiracy

Some of our genes come alive after we die. David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with...

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A new dark matter signal from the early universe, massive family trees, and how we might respond to alien contact

For some time after the big bang there were no stars. Researchers are now looking at cosmic...

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Animals that don’t need people to be domesticated; the astonishing spread of false news; and links between gender, ...

Did people domesticate animals? Or did they domesticate themselves? Online News Editor David...

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A possible cause for severe morning sickness, and linking mouse moms’ caretaking to brain changes in baby mice

Researchers are converging on which genes are linked to morning sickness—the nausea and vomiting...

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How DNA is revealing Latin America’s lost histories, and how to make a molecule from just two atoms

Geneticists and anthropologists studying historical records and modern-day genomes are finding...

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Drug use in the ancient world, and what will happen to plants as carbon dioxide levels increase

Armed with new data, archaeologists are revealing that mind-altering drugs were present at the...

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Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels

Researchers have found new clues to how the “talking drums” of one Amazonian tribe convey their...

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The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone

To study the biological differences brought on by space travel, NASA sent one twin into space and...

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Ancient DNA is helping to find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conser...

Who were the first horse tamers? Online news editor Catherine Matacic talks to Sarah Crespi about...

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Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes

DNA fingerprinting has been used to link people to crimes for decades, by matching DNA from a...

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The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production

Astronomers have been able to detect supermassive black holes and teeny-weeny black holes but the...

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The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains

Nigeria, Russia, and Florida seem like an odd set, but they all have one thing in common: growing...

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New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb

Since the 2016 reports of a mysterious assault on U.S. embassy staff in Cuba, researchers have...

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The South Pole’s IceCube detector catches a ghostly particle from deep space, and how rice knows to grow when subme...

A detection of a single neutrino at the 1-square-kilometer IceCube detector in Antarctica may...

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Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds

Suckling mothers milk is a pretty basic feature of being a mammal. Humans do it. Possums do it....

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