What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills
First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Evan Howell traveled to Cape Blossom, Alaska, where the receding coastline has revealed an ancient trove of glacial ice that may have survived for 350,000...
12 Mar 42min
An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon
First up on the podcast, a peek into the roiling seas of U.S. science policy. ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser talks about shifting leadership at the National Science Foundation and the Cente...
5 Mar 38min
Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery
First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell talks to Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about his visit to Brazil, where he observed firsthand what it takes for researchers to understand...
26 Feb 32min
Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting
First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox, Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko, and intern Perri Thaler share their experiences from the AAAS annual meeting in Phoenix. Chri...
19 Feb 41min
Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form
First up on the podcast, more than half of all dogs going through service animal training don’t make it to graduation. Producer Kevin McLean journeys with Online News Editor David Grimm to Canine Comp...
12 Feb 34min
Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses
First up on the podcast, host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Adrian Cho talk football and the latest science behind helmets engineered to reduce head injuries. Have better materials and testing led to ...
5 Feb 39min
Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels
First up on the podcast, how do we protect astronauts when they leave the shelter of Earth’s protective magnetic fields and face the slow, constant bombardment of space radiation? Freelance science jo...
29 Jan 38min
Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes
First up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome, when microbes inside the human gut make too much alcohol; how doctors can use a public ...
22 Jan 32min
