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 fir...
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 experien...
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 ...
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 i...
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 bo...
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 ma...
Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface
First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Sofia Quaglia talks about her visit to the Galápagos archipelago and how researchers there are w...
The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows
First up on the podcast, scholars are on a quest to find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA. With no direct descendants, the hunt involves sampling the famous po...
Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too
First up on the podcast, the best images of exoplanets right now are basically bright dots. We can’t see possible continents, potential oceans, or eve...
This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories
First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about this year’s best online news stories—top performers and ...