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Science Magazine Podcast

Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research,

Episodes

Total: 595

Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars
2025/7/3
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First up on the podcast, U.S. aid helped two African countries rein in HIV. Then came President Dona

Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia
2025/6/26
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First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss

How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy
2025/6/19
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First up on the podcast, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is just coming online, and once fully operati

Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change
2025/6/12
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First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about how scientist

Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science
2025/6/5
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First up on the podcast, we hear from Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the tricky problem of regional

Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research
2025/5/29
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First up on the podcast, Online News Editor Michael Greshko joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about st

Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’
2025/5/22
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First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about th

A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes
2025/5/15
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First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Jonathan Moens talks with host Sarah Crespi about a fo

Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science
2025/5/8
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First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell worked with the Science News team to review how th

Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’
2025/5/1
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First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Andrew Curry talks with host Sarah Crespi about

A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series
2025/4/24
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First up on the podcast, bringing Gregor Mendel’s peas into the 21st century. Back in the 19th centu

Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander
2025/4/17
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First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how an

The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH
2025/4/10
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 (Main Text)First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to

Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
2025/4/3
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Geoengineering experiments face an uphill battle, and a way to combat the pregnancy complication hyp

Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots
2025/3/27
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First up this week, urban wildfires raged in Los Angeles in January. Contributing Correspondent Warr

Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea
2025/3/20
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First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss stories fro

Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH
2025/3/13
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First up this week, science policy editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the late

Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker
2025/3/6
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First up this week, International News Editor David Malakoff joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home
2025/2/27
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First up this week, Kata Karáth, a freelance journalist based in Ecuador, talks with host Sarah Cres

Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability
2025/2/20
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First up this week, researchers face impossible decisions as U.S. aid freeze halts clinical trials.