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Inquiring Minds

Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. W

Episodes

Total: 461

We talk to biologist and science writer Carin Bondar about her latest book Wild Moms: Motherhood in

This week: New research into controlling robot arms with your brain, a surprising link between a com

How do we create artificial intelligence that isn't bigoted? Can we teach machines to work exactly l

We talk to Peter Rubin, editor at Wired and author of Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changi

This week: New research shows a 6-month treatment for breast cancer is nearly as successful as the p

We talk to Carl Zimmer, New York Times columnist and author of 13 books about science about his late

In this mini-episode, Kishore talks to neuroscientist and author Dean Burnett about his new book Hap

We talk to Adam Alter, author and marketing and psychology professor at NYU's Stern School of Busine

We talk to planetary scientist and New Horizons’ mission leader Alan Stern and astrobiologist David

This week: There are reports that scientists have ‘transferred a memory' in snails—what does the res

We talk to Danna Staaf, a science writer with a PhD in invertebrate biology from Stanford University

This week: A study looking at how much actionable information pre-pregnancy genome sequencing can ac

We talk to science writer and neurobiologist Lone Frank about her latest book The Pleasure Shock: Th

University of Copenhagen scientists managed to genetically delete an enzyme in mice that made it imp

Losing the Nobel Prize

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We talk to astrophysicist Brian Keating about new his book Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmol

This week: Scott Pruitt’s fight against anonymous study subjects, a debate on should be regulating g

We talk to biologist Kenneth R. Miller about his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have

This week: new research shows being a night owl might mean you’re at a greater risk of dying early,

We talk to the founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Jeremy Bail

Kishore talks to Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti, authors of Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guid