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Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes
Jan 22, 2026First 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 ...
Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface
Jan 15, 2026First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Sofia Quaglia talks about her visit to the Galápagos archipelago and how researchers there are working to restore the islands to their former ecol...
The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows
Jan 08, 2026First 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 polymath’s papers, paintings, and distant cousins. C...
Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too
Jan 01, 2026First up on the podcast, the best images of exoplanets right now are basically bright dots. We can’t see possible continents, potential oceans, or even varying colors. To improve our view, scientists ...
This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories
Dec 18, 2025First 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 staff picks alike. Together they journey the scien...
Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat
Dec 11, 2025First up on the podcast, we’ve likely only found about half the so-called city-killer asteroids (objects more than 140 meters in diameter). Freelance science journalist Robin George Andrews joins host...
Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics
Dec 04, 2025First up on the podcast, Science celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics with a special issue covering the past, present, and future of the field. News Contributing Correspondent Zack Savitsky joins...
When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat
Nov 27, 2025First up on the podcast, when will the world hit peak carbon emissions? It’s not an easy question to answer because emissions cannot be directly measured in real time. Instead, there are proxies, sate...
A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research
Nov 20, 2025First up on the podcast: the mysterious fate of Europe’s Neolithic farmers. They arrived from Anatolia around 5500 B.C.E. and began farming fertile land across Europe. Five hundred years later, their ...
Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink
Nov 13, 2025First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi for a rundown of online news stories. They talk about lichen that dine on dino bones, the physics of the lip-out problem...