Podcasts de wnyc

New Music with Voices

For this New Sounds, try on some layered voices in music by Julianna Barwick.  A superchoir of...

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Dr. Fauci’s Exit Interview, Goodnight Oppy Mars Film, Science On The Ballot. Nov 11, 2022, Part 1

Science Was Big On The Ballot This Week. Here’s What Went Down Another chaotic election week has...

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The US Battles RSV, Neural Connections, La Brea Tar Pits. Nov 11, 2022, Part 2

How Past Extinctions At The La Brea Tar Pit Can Teach Us About Our Climate Future If you drive...

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Contraceptive Failures, Future Of Combating Covid, Rapid Evolution In The Anthropocene. Nov 4, 2022, Part 1

Why Contraceptive Failure Rates Matter In A Post-Roe America Birth control options have improved...

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New Music for Electric Violin

Listen to compositions for electric violin on this New Sounds program.  We'll hear Nico Muhly's...

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Post-Minimalist Music (Special Podcast)

Philip Glass’s piano works have had a longstanding and widespread influence – on the so-called...

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Ant Traffic Flow, Natural Reactors, David Quammen. August 17, 2018, Part 2

Worker ants keep the nest alive. They look for food, take care of the eggs, and dig all the...

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Science Goes To The Movies: First Man, Driverless Car Ethics, Beetle Battles. Oct 26, 2018, Part 2

Damien Chazelle’s film First Man reconstructs the personal trials of astronaut Neil Armstrong in...

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Microbes and Art, Science Books 2018. Dec 7, 2018, Part 2

Here at Science Friday, our jobs involve reading a lot of science books every year. We have piles...

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Heart and Exercise, Consumer Electronics Show, Black Holes. Jan 11, 2019, Part 2

You’ve heard the news that smoking is bad for your health. But it turns out not exercising could...

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Superconductivity Search, Ride-Share Congestion, Lions Vs. Porcupines. May 10, 2019, Part 1

Six decades ago, a group of physicists came up with a theory that described electrons at a low...

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New Music from New Zealand (Weekly Podcast)

New Zealand-based Jack Body has written electroacoustic compositions using field recordings from...

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We've Got Rhythms (Special Podcast of show #3960)

Listen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New...

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"Lost in Math," Alan Alda, A Radical Brain Surgery, New Jersey Floods. August 3, 2018. Part 1

For decades, physicists trying to uncover the large and small structures of the universe have...

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Bacteria Extinction, Facial Recognition, Solar Probe. August 3, 2018, Part 2

Long before we walked the Earth, bacteria took it over. They’re in every ecosystem on the Earth,...

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Parch Marks, Wildfires, The Beatles. August 10, 2018, Part 1

The Mendocino Complex fire in northern California has spread to more than 300,000 acres—a swath...

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The Story Of Sand, Science And Dance. August 10, 2018, Part 2.

When you think of sand, thoughts of the ocean and sand castles probably come to mind. But sand...

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Coastal Flooding, Elephants and Cancer, Yosemite Bears. August 17, 2018, Part 1

More than five years after the devastating 14-foot high waters of Superstorm Sandy flooded New...

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SciFri Special Edition: A Time Traveler Cocktail Party. Aug 28, 2018.

In 2009, Stephen Hawking decided to throw a party for time travelers, famously sending the...

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