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USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world
May 21, 2026First up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the surprising commonalities between our immune systems and the tools bacteria use to defen...
Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body
May 14, 2026First up on the podcast, Meagan Cantwell produced a segment with Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt on the fight against deepfakes. Kupferschmidt talks with Hany Farid, professor at the Univ...
A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment
May 07, 2026First up on the podcast, along Brazil’s Juruá River, local residents have been working with scientists to manage a giant fish called the arapaima—affecting the land, the people, and the economy. Contr...
Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame
Apr 30, 2026First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a batch of fun stories with podcast host Sarah Crespi—from spider hearts racing when traffic gets loud to a disease-preventing house. Sta...
Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer
Apr 23, 2026First up on the podcast, freelance science and environmental journalist Quentin Septer joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a controversial uranium mine getting fast-tracked in South Dakota. Septer c...
The normals | Episode 3
Apr 21, 2026The final of a three-part limited Science Podcast series that looks at the history of normal human subjects in research In episode two, we heard what happened to the normals program after church volu...
How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting
Apr 16, 2026First up on the podcast, quantum computers require extremely low temperatures—less than 1°C away from absolute zero. But getting down to those temperatures has usually required dilution fridges using ...
The Normals | Episode 2
Apr 14, 2026Last time on The Normals, we learned that in the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to recruit many healthy volunteers for basic research. Two peace churches, the Mennonites and the...
A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion
Apr 09, 2026First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Hannah Richter joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss NASA’s plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in less than 3 years. Having not launc...
The Normals | Episode 1
Apr 07, 2026How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start studying normal humans on a grand scale....