Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds
First up this week, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a sampling of stories that hit big with our audience and staff in this year, from corpse-eat...
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates
First up this week, Breakthroughs Editor Greg Miller joins producer Meagan Cantwell to discuss Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year. They also disc...
Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech
First up this week, freelance science journalist Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss making open-access journals from South and Latin Am...
Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted
First up this week, making electronics greener with leaves. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox about using the cellulose s...
Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity
First up this week, where on Earth do people live the longest? What makes those places or people so special? Genes, diet, life habits? Or could it be ...
Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains
First up this week, a ship that flips for science. Sean Cummings, a freelance science journalist, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the resurrecti...
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 Kol...
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. Altho...
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 resto...
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 P...