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A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead
Aug 28, 2025First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Rodrigo Pérez Ortega joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a megafauna megafind that rivals the La Brea Tar Pits. In addition to revealing tens of thousands of bo...
New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America
Aug 21, 2025First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss recent advances in understanding endometriosis—a disease where tissue that resembles the lining of the uterus g...
Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?
Aug 14, 2025First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell and Contributing Correspondent Sara Reardon discuss alternative approaches to animal testing, from a heart on a chip to a miniorgan in a dish. Ne...
Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live
Aug 07, 2025First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm brings stories on peacock feathers’ ability to emit laser light, how anteaters have evolved at least 12 times, and why we should be thanking ket...
Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead
Jul 31, 2025First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the toll of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and how researchers have been mobilized to help the ...
Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives
Jul 24, 2025First up on the podcast, South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind is home to the world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, including our own genus, Homo, Australopithecus, and a more robust...
Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria
Jul 17, 2025First up on the podcast, Réunion Island had a shark attack crisis in 2011 and closed its beaches for more than a decade. Former News Intern Alexa Robles-Gil joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how r...
A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes
Jul 10, 2025First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of ScienceAdviser with many stories about the amazing water bear. They also discu...
Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars
Jul 03, 2025First up on the podcast, U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came President Donald Trump. Senior News Correspondent Jon Cohen talks with producer Kevin McLean about how in Lesotho ...
Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia
Jun 26, 2025First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a pair of Science papers on kinship and culture in Neolithic Anatolia. The researchers used ancient ...