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Climate Science Gets a Seat in Congress with Eric Sorensen
Aug 08, 2025Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois brings his background as a meteorologist to the halls of Congress, advocating for science-based policy amid intensifying climate threats. In this episode, he s...
Former NASA Leaders Are Sounding the Alarm on Budget Cuts
Aug 06, 2025The White House has proposed sharp cuts to NASA’s science budget, potentially reducing it to historic lows not seen since the early Apollo era. Beyond space exploration, NASA’s work influences daily l...
Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics
Aug 04, 2025Host Rachel Feltman talks with Andrea Thompson, Scientific American’s senior sustainability editor, to discuss the massive Russian earthquake and the reason it produced such relatively minor tsunami w...
Is AI Conscious? Claude 4 Raises the Question
Aug 01, 2025Host Rachel Feltman talks with Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American’s senior tech reporter, about his recent exchange with Claude 4, an artificial intelligence chatbot that seemed to suggest it mig...
Your Guide to Summer’s Extreme Weather, from Corn Sweat to Flash Floods
Jul 30, 2025The summer of 2025 has been a doozy in the U.S., with extreme weather across the country. Flash flooding caused destruction and death in Texas. Corn sweat made a heat wave in the eastern half of the U...
Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods
Jul 28, 2025If last Tuesday seemed to fly by, you can blame the rotation of Earth. Try to look up this week to see the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids meteor showers. Plus, we discuss FEMA cut...
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is at Risk—And So Are We
Jul 25, 2025Chief multimedia editor Jeffery DelViscio ventured to Greenland for a month to learn from the scientists studying the country’s ice sheet. He speaks with host Rachel Feltman about his time in the fiel...
What to Read on the Beach This Summer
Jul 23, 2025Scientific American has been reading, reviewing and recommending books for more than 100 years. These days Brianne Kane, our resident reader, is in charge of organizing our book recommendation lists t...
Time Travel to Tide Pool 101 from Our July 1925 Issue
Jul 21, 2025Time travel to an introduction to tide pools, the start of commercial air travel and an intercontinental aviation museum dispute. Host Rachel Feltman is taking a look at a 1925 issue of Scientific Ame...
Dungeons and Dragons’ Popularity Grows—And Science Follows
Jul 18, 2025Brennan Lee Mulligan is a professional dungeon master, playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), a popular tabletop role-playing game, for audiences online and in person. In January his D&D show on Dropout....