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Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.

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Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy 28.07.2023 11:41

New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone’s body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's Why Actors Are So Worried about AI 26.07.2023 10:29

Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are You a Lucid Dreamer? 24.07.2023 11:27

A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History 21.07.2023 15:27

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Stress Messes With Your Gut 19.07.2023 10:14

Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities? 17.07.2023 14:01

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain 14.07.2023 13:55

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice 10.07.2023 13:20

New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor AI Will See You Now 07.07.2023 9:22

ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

El Niño is Back. What Does That Mean For You? 05.07.2023 7:43

The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored] 29.06.2023 9:55

John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation. This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitational Waves, and Scientists Just Heard Them (Maybe) 28.06.2023 16:39

Researchers, using the galaxy as a detector, believe they have detected gravitational waves from monster black holes for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poisons and Perils on the Salton Sea 26.06.2023 11:13

Toxic dust plagues marginalized communities on the shores of this disappearing salt lake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These Ants Are Probably Better at Navigating Than You Are 23.06.2023 4:34

Desert ants living in the featureless salt plains of Tunisia count their steps and erect tall entrances at their nests to find their way back home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heat 21.06.2023 11:38

Your body has a secret cooling method, and scientists explain how to use it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Follow a Hurricane Expert into the Heart Of the Beast 19.06.2023 12:25

Along with an expert, we take you into some of nature's most monstrous storms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have Astronomers Seen the Universe's First Stars? 16.06.2023 6:19

The James Webb Space Telescope is giving us our first glimpse of stars in the early universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace 14.06.2023 13:01

In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she’s an urban legend. But who was she? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MDMA Moves from Party Drug Back to Therapy Tool 12.06.2023 11:01

The party drug MDMA could soon be approved for treating people with severe PTSD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Five Things You Need to Know about Wildfire Smoke Right Now 09.06.2023 11:30

Where is it coming from? How long will it last? What's in the smoke? Whose health is at risk? How do you clean your own air? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These Predators Had a Face like an Axe and Will Haunt Your Nightmares 07.06.2023 8:51

Terror birds were the grizzly bears of birds, the great white sharks of the land, Jack the Ripper but with feathers. They were also truly fascinating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Thunderous Goose Relative Was Built like a Tank with the Wings of a Songbird 05.06.2023 10:03

Officially, these prehistoric birds are the dromornithids, but everyone who studies them calls them thunderbirds—and for good reason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Gargantuan Bird Weighed as Much as a Sports Car 02.06.2023 10:07

The elephant bird was the heaviest bird to ever walk the earth. Also, its eggs were 150 times the size of a chicken egg and thick as a dinner plate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades 31.05.2023 11:18

The fossil was a prehistoric bird called Pelagornis sandersi, and its wings stretched out twice as wide as those of the great albatross. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Machinery of the Cell [Sponsored] 30.05.2023 10:40

James Rothman shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2010 for discovering the molecular basis of neurotransmitter release. How did a biochemist come to win such a prestigious prize in neuroscience? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices