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Science Talk

Science EN ↓ 544 episodes

Science Talk is a podcast of longer-form audio experiments from Scientific American--from immersive sonic journeys into nature to deep dives into research with leading experts.

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Under the Dome: <i>Scientific American</i> Editor in Chief Talks to the Senate 22.07.2014 17:04

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about the value of scientific research and development. Also testifying is Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and Google’s vice president and "chief Internet evangelist." The hearings took place July 17, 2014 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Wild Sex: Beyond the Birds and the Bees 15.07.2014 31:59

Joy Reidenberg, comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, talks about her new PBS series Sex in the Wild, about the sex lives of elephants, orangutans, kangaroos and dolphins. The series debuts July 16, 2014 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's So Funny?: The Science of Humor 07.07.2014 34:07

Cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems talks about his book HA!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunting the Wild Neutrino 23.05.2014 23:00

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, of the University of Toronto, talks about his new book Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes the Hoofprints Are from Zebras 30.04.2014 33:38

David J. Hand, emeritus professor of mathematics at Imperial College London, talks about his new book The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles and Rare Events Happen Every Day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2 24.04.2014 23:40

Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1 24.04.2014 29:43

Take Me Out to the Run Expectancy Matrix Analysis 18.03.2014 39:09

Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist talks about his latest book, The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball (co-authored with Benjamin Baumer), at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, with proprietor Jay Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Found in Space, Part 2 27.02.2014 21:40

Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars, Part 2 of 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Found in Space, Part 1 26.02.2014 21:17

Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars, Part 1 of 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Gadgets to Galaxies: Conference Reports 10.02.2014 21:15

Scientific American technology editor Seth Fletcher talks about the recent Consumer Electronics Show and astronomy editor Clara Moskowitz discusses last month's American Astronomical Society conference Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fighting Cancer with Physics 27.01.2014 27:32

Rakesh K. Jain, director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology in the radiation oncology department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, talks about his article in the February issue of Scientific American about interfering with extracellular matrix as a way to increase the efficacy of cancer therapy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

The Man Who Wasn't Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace on the Centenary of His Death 07.11.2013 28:04

Alfred Russel Wallace biographer Peter Raby of the University of Cambridge talks about the great naturalist and co-creator of the theory of evolution by natural selection on the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perv-View: Jesse Bering's New Book <i>PERV</i> 29.10.2013 40:31

Psychologist Jesse Bering talks about his latest book PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Karplus, Levitt and Warshel 09.10.2013 21:02

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for applying both quantum and classical physics to develop computer models of chemical systems that show details of chemical reactions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Englert and Higgs 08.10.2013 24:22

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass, requiring the existence of the Higgs Boson, experimentally confirmed to exist in 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Rothman, Schekman and Südhof 07.10.2013 19:40

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Alda Communicates Science 30.09.2013 34:30

At the Learning in the Digital Age summit at Google's New York City offices, Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina talked with Alan Alda about communicating science to the general public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ira Flatow and the Teachable Moment 20.09.2013 19:55

At the Learning in the Digital Age summit at Google's New York City offices, Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talked with Science Friday host Ira Flatow about the "teachable moment in science and culture" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (The Real Kind) Part 2 29.08.2013 25:47

Science journalist, author and Nature editor Adam Rutherford talks about new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself, which looks at the science of the origin of life and at the emerging science of synthetic biology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kids JUMP for Math [John Mighton's Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies] 07.08.2013 31:56

Mathematician John Mighton talks with Scientific American MIND editor Ingrid Wickelgren about getting math-shy kids interested, via JUMP: Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (the Real Kind), Part 1 31.07.2013 34:00

Science journalist, author and Nature editor Adam Rutherford talks about new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself, which looks at the science of the origin of life and at the emerging science of synthetic biology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto: The Threatened Enlightenment 25.07.2013 19:10

Nobel laureate Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 chemistry prize, talks with Scientific American Executive Editor Fred Guterl at the recent Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting, about the role of science in society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penis Enlightenment: Bering Straight Talk 27.06.2013 35:30

Jesse Bering discusses his 2012 book Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? (And Other Reflections on Being Human) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Close Shave for Bill Nye the Science Guy 18.06.2013 16:20

Bill Nye the Science Guy ponders Superman's tonsorial travails, and science education Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices