Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers
First up this week, Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about his travel to meet up with a lead researcher in the field, Folarin Kolawole, and the subtle signs of rifting on the Afri...
7 Nov 202425min
The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity
First up this week, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the difficulties of studying misinformation. Although misinformation seems like it’s everywhere, res...
31 Okt 202438min
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
Using robots to study evolution, the last installment of our series of books on a future to look forward to, and did reintroducing wolves really restore an ecosystem? First up this week, a new study o...
24 Okt 202445min
How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete
First up this week, host Sarah Crespi talks to Jon Chu, a presidential young professor in international affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, abo...
17 Okt 202439min
Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water
First up this week, we celebrate 20 years of graphene—from discovery, to hype, and now reality as it finally finds its place in technology and science. Science journalist Mark Peplow joins host Sarah ...
10 Okt 202431min
Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms
First up this week, online editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how cats think about their own bodies. Do cats think of themselves as a liquid, as much the internet appears to beli...
3 Okt 202427min
Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins
The gene variant APOE4 is finally giving up some of its secrets, how putting dead trees underground could make carbon sequestration cheap and scalable, and the latest in our series of books on an opti...
26 Sep 202447min
Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat
First up this week, a preview of a NASA mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Science journalist Robin Andrews joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the Clipper mission and what it could reveal about ...
19 Sep 202443min
