All episodes
Leeches in Medicine, Potty Training Cows, the Math of Eggs
Fidget-Hating Misokinesia, Blood Fainting, Infrasound Ghosts
Synced Heartbeats During Stories, Vampire Bats’ Social Meals
Early Warning Birds, Ancient Fairy Tales, Breaks vs. Sprains
Art in Space, Screen Time in Lockdown, Mold vs. Chemicals
How Space Changed NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott’s Perspective; Plus, Whistled Languages
A Historic Friendship, Pumpkin Care, Declaring Sovereignty
Animals Shapeshifting to Stay Cool, Albert Einstein’s Brain
Your Extra Artery, Emotional Hangovers, LEDs Are Bad for Bugs
Overfeeding Dogs, Suffrajitsu, and Does Wind Affect Sound?
Protecting Pets from Home Chemicals and How Resilience Works
Bacterial Electric Grid, Females Fight Back, Why Tea Leaves Sink
Muscles Remember Training and a Black Hole Made a Star Explode
School Should Start Later, Daydreaming Perks, Hycean Planets
Simple Wildlife Solutions, Sunlight’s Sexy Hormones, Trivia
Human-Wildlife Conflict and Believing Leisure Is a Waste of Time
Pills Can Detect Radiation, Metabolism Myth, Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
“Mini Brains” That Grew Eyes and How the FDA Saved Babies
Psychology of Online Trolls, Rattlesnake Illusions, Blazars
Blowhole Origins, Weather Manipulation, How to Slow Aging
Could Science Stop Aging? And the Milky Way’s “Broken Arm”
Future You Is a Stranger, Babylonian Trig, Reversed Organs
Your Second Brain, Jupiter’s Hot Atmosphere, Placebo Buttons
Moral Outrage Online, Cuttlefish Memory, Sounds Have Shapes
Mass Hysteria, Why You Say “Like,” Beauty’s Moral Value
Psychosomatic Illnesses and Seeing Behind a Black Hole
Time Crystals, Freeze-Dried Sperm, and Batching Tasks
Monks Meditating After Death and a Marathoning Woolly Mammoth
Sleep Munchies, Ancient Greek Ship Found, Relationship Trick
Nudge Theory’s Dark Side (w/ Richard Thaler), Hybrid Fruit Science, Words for “Pirate”
Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler on How Nudge Changed the World — Plus, Squirrel-Inspired Robots
Apes Say Hello, Life on Snowball Earth, Learn Twice as Fast
Earth’s Core Growing Lopsided and the Science of Gut Feelings
Backward Letters, Dogs Detect Lies, Neutron Star Mountains
Learning to Read Right, Risks of Trusting Science, Trivia
Emily Oster on Parenting Decisions, A New Type of Supernova
Why Facts Don’t Win Arguments, SETI 101, Self-Control Pitfalls
Mapping the Ocean, Soap-Making Cells, Crows Comprehend Zero
Road to the 8-Hour Workday, the Liking Gap, Shocking Tomatoes
Fossil Prep Mistakes, 1840s Electric Cars, Tip of Your Tongue
Dino Fossil Preparation and Newborns “Dream” About the World
Diderot Effect, Animated Cave Art, Running Benefits Your Knees
Infinity in a Used Prayer Book and Vampire-Like Sea Slugs
Talkers Are Leaders, DNA Evidence Myth, Thinking Sans Brain
How COVID Tests Work, Making Decisions with Math, Dog Talent
Turning the Table on Addictive Apps, Black Hole Reflections
Alibi Memory, Denisova Cave History, Cleaning Fruit & Veggies
Pirates Plundered the Metric System, What Marsquakes Teach Us
Romanesco Fractals, Dolphin Names & Evolution vs. Mating
Hamster Microwave, Are Humans Still Evolving?, Art Is Better in a Museum
Easter Island Mythbusting and the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Volcano Perks, Club Soda vs. Seltzer, How to Procrastinate Correctly
Hygiene Hypothesis, Ancient Coronavirus, Black Hole Eats Neutron Star
Cognitive Flexibility, Arctic Dinosaurs, Noctilucent Clouds
How to Talk to Strangers, Red Dead Redemption 2 Naturalists, July Curiosity Challenge
History of Talking to Strangers, Dark Matter Between Galaxies
Meat Disgust, Cosmic Rays for Medicine, Immortal Battery
New Human Species, Digital Library of Babel, Running to Music
Earworms Aid Memory, How Auroras Happen, Don’t Give Cats Milk
Tool to Cure Hiccups, Corvid Childhoods, How Spacecraft Move
An Out-of-Body Experience Without Drugs and Earth’s “Pulse”
Your Biggest Regret, Tall Mountain Myths, The Deep Web
Anger Looks Guilty, Quantum Microscope, Good News About Cancer
Kids v. Sarcasm, 24,000-Year-Old Worm, Why Betelgeuse Dimmed
Your Brain on Music, Super-Singing Songbirds, Animal Sunburns
Alien Dataomes, How Animals Smell Viruses, Why to Read Aloud
Accent-Changing Monkeys and the Information “Dataome”
Brain Replays Memories at 20x Speed & A Real Maxwell’s Demon
Dog Days of Summer, Magic Tricks for Birds, Planck Time
Letting Wounds Breathe, Grocery App Benefits, Tardigrade Guns
Speech-to-Song Illusion and a High-Tech Use for Tree Rings
Daddy Longlegs, Dyson Spheres, and Exercising with a Partner
Missions to Venus and How to Extract DNA from Strawberries
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back
Why Megalodon Was So Huge, Misophonia in the Brain, Trivia
Glowing Sharks, Cities’ Unique Microbes, Milky Way Mistake
Shark Week Tech, Crime & Birth Year, Sharks’ Near-Extinction
Bomb-Detected Whales & What It’s Like to Film Shark Week
Scary Shark Music, Your Brain Predicts the Future, Hydrobot
Does ESP Exist?
Could You Adapt to Having an Extra Thumb?
How to Improve Your Sense of Direction
Weird Dreams Might be a Brain Feature, Not a Bug
Why Song Lyrics Are Getting Simpler
Are Facial Expressions Universal?
The Phantom Torso Experiment Protected Astronauts in a Very Creepy Way
How Life Expectancy Doubled in Just 150 Years (w/ Author Steven Johnson)
We Found the Earliest Evidence of Ancient Human Activity
Looking Into Space Is Looking Back in Time
Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Butts
Bats Map the World By Time, Not Distance
Why We Won’t Have “Robot Butlers” Any Time Soon (w/ AI Researcher Michael Wooldridge)
We Found the First Pregnant Mummy Ever Documented
How to Manage Your Work-from-Home Paranoia
Will Future Civilizations Get Oil From Human Fossils?
What Does Your Digital Body Language Say?
Pollen Is Not Actually Plant Sperm
Painless Tips to Help the Environment (w/ Paul Greenberg)
Move Over, CRISPR — New Gene Editing Tech is Here
A Good Reason to Resolve Your Arguments