Science Magazine Podcast

Science

Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Episodes

Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss

Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science

Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education

Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease

Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas

Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome

A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA

AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography

Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters

Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere

Owl wars and the immune system’s memory

How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic

Cracking color vision, U.S. science policy changes, and a trailblazing biography

An electronic nose that detects spoiled chicken, and wolves make a spectacular comeback in Europe

How childhood environments shape the brain, and how susceptible is the Atlantic Ocean’s current to climate change?

Will AI replace astronomers, how healthy are ultraprocessed foods, and a peek behind the scenes of ‘The Normals’

Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time

USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world

Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body