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Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse
Nov 06, 2025First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Sofia Moutinho visited the Xingu Indigenous territory in Brazil to learn about a long-standing collaboration between scientists and the Kuikuro to b...
Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends
Oct 30, 2025First up on the podcast, increased carbon dioxide emissions sink more acidity into the ocean, but checking pH all over the world, up and down the water column, is incredibly challenging. Staff Writer ...
The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish
Oct 23, 2025First up on the podcast, the Bering Sea’s snow crabs are bouncing back after a 50-billion-crab die-off in 2020, but scientists are racing to predict what’s going to happen to this important fishery. C...
Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease
Oct 16, 2025First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt takes a trip to Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where ancient RNA viruses may lie buried in the permafrost. He talks with host Sar...
How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine
Oct 09, 2025First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko about the impact of wildfires on wine; a couple horse stories, one modern, one ancient; and why e...
A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh
Oct 02, 2025First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Robert F. Service joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a boom in nuclear medicine, from new and more powerful radioisotopes to improved precision in cancer cell ...
Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world
Sep 25, 2025First up on the podcast, Science News Editor Tim Appenzeller joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss why a salty layer of permafrost undergirding Arctic ice is turning frozen landscapes into boggy morasses...
Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery
Sep 18, 2025First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Leslie Roberts joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the long journey to a vaccine for group B streptococcus, a microbe that sickens 400,000 babie...
An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor
Sep 11, 2025First up on the podcast, aggressive tumors have a secret cache of DNA that may help them beat current drug treatments. Freelance journalist Elie Dolgin joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about targeting ...
Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket
Sep 04, 2025First up on the podcast, despite so many advances in treatment, HIV drugs can suppress the virus but can’t cure the infection. Where does suppressed HIV hide within the body? Staff Writer Jon Cohen j...