Night Science

Science Podcasts

Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday.

Episodes

86 | From punchlines to discovery – Sarah Adelman

85 | How lazyness invites discovery – Robert Root-Bernstein

84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland

83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell

82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues

81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova

Why greatness cannot be planned with Kenneth Stanley

Maria Leptin and creativity in grant writing

Stephen Nachmanovitch on free play and chivalry

77 | Akiko Iwasaki and the art of creativity maintenance

Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?

75 | Eve Marder and how Recipe Science ruins creativity

Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science

73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server

David Baker and the lab's communal brain

71 | Victor Ambros and the unique ways we perceive wonder

70 | Meghan O’Rourke on being the artist and their caretaker

69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

68 | Peter Godfrey-Smith and middle class science

67 | A hypothesis is a liability