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How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy
Jun 19, 2025First up on the podcast, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is just coming online, and once fully operational, it will take a snapshot of the entire southern sky every 3 days. Producer Meagan Cantwell guid...
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change
Jun 12, 2025First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about how scientists are probing the world’s hottest forests to better understand how plants will cope with climate cha...
Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science
Jun 05, 2025First up on the podcast, we hear from Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the tricky problem of regional climate prediction. Although global climate change models have held up for the most part, predicting...
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research
May 29, 2025First up on the podcast, Online News Editor Michael Greshko joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about stories set high above our heads. They discuss capturing fungal spores high in the stratosphere, the d...
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’
May 22, 2025First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the strange metal state. Physicists are probing the behavior of electrons in these materials, which ap...
A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes
May 15, 2025First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Jonathan Moens talks with host Sarah Crespi about a forensic test called brain electrical oscillation signature (BEOS) profiling, which police in India ar...
Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science
May 08, 2025First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell worked with the Science News team to review how the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration have impacted science. In the segment, o...
Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’
May 01, 2025First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry talks with host Sarah Crespi about his visit to 17th century crypts under an old hospital in Italy. Researchers are examining tooth pla...
A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series
Apr 24, 2025First up on the podcast, bringing Gregor Mendel’s peas into the 21st century. Back in the 19th century Mendel, a friar and naturalist, tracked traits in peas such as flower color and shape over many g...
Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander
Apr 17, 2025First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how an Egyptian cult that killed cats may have also tamed them. Next on the show, we hear about when the...