Science Magazine Podcast

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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Episodes

Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time

USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world

Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body

A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment

Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame

Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

The normals | Episode 3

How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting

The Normals | Episode 2

A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion

The Normals | Episode 1

Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses