Science Magazine Podcast
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series
Researchers try to identify effective loneliness interventions, making the Sandmeyer safer, and books that look to the future and don’t see doom and g...
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut
A different source of global warming, signs of a continentwide tradition of human sacrifice, and a virus that attacks the cholera bacteria First up ...
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene
]Researchers are testing HIV drugs and monoclonal antibodies against long-lasting COVID-19, and what it takes to turn a symbiotic friend into an organ...
When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?
Tracing the arrival of rats using bones, isotopes, and a few shipwrecks; and what scientists have learned in 50 years about our famous ancestor Lucy ...
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career
Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters section First on this week’s show, a robot that can predict your smil...
Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
New clinical trials for treatments of an always fatal brain disease, and what happens with pests when a conventional and organic farm are neighbors ...
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain
Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain This week we have two neuroscience stor...
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticity First up this week, Online News Editor ...
The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change
Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the body First u...
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting First up ...