We're sunsetting PodQuest on 2025-07-28. Thank you for your support!
Export Podcast Subscriptions

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

But Why is a show led by kids. They ask the questions and we find the answers. It’s a big interestin

Episodes

Total: 264

We’ve collaborated with our podcast friends at What If World to bring you the first (and on

For our last episode of each year, we often like to ask our listeners around the world to s

Almost half the people in the world speak at least two languages. And, it turns out, that i

How are electric guitars made? How are guitar strings made? And how, exactly, do guitars wo

For the past 50 years, visitors to the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. were ab

Why do we celebrate birthdays? Why do we have birthday cakes? Why do we blow out candles on

Why do some people like haunted houses and scary movies? What is fear? Why do humans have f

How is meat made in a lab? That’s what 10-year-old Nate in New Jersey wants to know! Scient

Younger people have lots of questions about older people, like: Why do we age? Why do peopl

Why do birds fly? How do raptors soar? Why do some birds fly in the shape of a V? Why can’t

We’re thinking about bears! Actually one specific type of bear: sun bears! Have you heard a

It's all about bikes in this episode of But Why? How come bicycles stay up when you're ridi

11-year-old Alaska (from Colorado) wants to know: why do some kids love reading while other

How are crickets so loud? Why do they chirp at night? How are they different from grasshopp

Why is it that some people have allergies when others don’t, even if they’re in the same fa

What are eels? And why are some eels electric? We head to Poughkeepsie, New York to learn a

Why do people spend so much time on social media? But Why answers kids' questions about soc

Why do wolves howl at the moon? Do wolves have different howls? How were wolves domesticate

Do bears ever live in cities? Why do so many crows gather together on winter nights? How ma

Why are babies small and grownups big? Why are babies so helpless, instead of little versio