All Episodes

#642 The Last Episode

#641 The Last Nerd Gift Guide

#640 The Last Science Book Club

#639 The One About Periods

#638 Do you feel love? What about ecstasy?

#637 A special announcement

#636 Life on an unruly planet

#635 Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

#634 Back to the future

#633 An Ice History

#632 We are what we eat

#631 Tenacious Beasts

#630 The Jewel Box

#629 How birds go the distance

#628 Brave the Wild River

#627 Ancient Migrations

#626 Our Friend, the Wasp

#625 This one really is about aliens

#624 The Devil’s Element

#623 Peopling the Americas

#622 What's wrong Colonel Sanders? Feeling chicken?

#621 Of memoir and sea creatures

#620 The Matter of Everything

#619 Breathless

#618 This is your brain on music

#617 Emotional Ignorance

#616 The one about sex

#615 2022 Science Book Haul

#614 Clocks, Mugs and Other Nerdy Gift Ideas

#613 Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

#612 The Poopisode

#611 Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

#610 Thieving Trees

#609 A world of universal vaccines

#608 Bone Proteins and Body Farms

#607 Shark Matters

#606 Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent

#605 Designing wilderness

#604 Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces

#603 Remaking the face

#602 Working while Marginalized

#601 This is not about dinosaurs

#600 The one about vaginas

#599 Losing Our Minds

#598 Train, boat, truck, it's the supply chain

#597 The Trouble With Passion

#596 Tailoring your brain with science

#595 Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making

#594 Science to look forward to in 2022

#593 Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonising Academia

#592 The One About Nerdy Gifts, 2021 Edition

#591 The One About Science Books, 2021 Edition

#590 Furry felons and mammalian misdemeanors

#589 Damsels and Dragons

#588 What's Wild About Wilderness

#587 Dripping with Sweat

#586 Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

#585 Lightning Flowers

#584 Time for the Gory Details

#583 The Unavoidable Complexities of Food

#582 Cities Lost and Found

#581 The Art and Science of Play

#580 So Long 2020, We Won't Miss You

#579 It's a Pandemic, Why Are We So Bored?!

#578 Science Books for Science Nerds

#577 Vaccine Moonshot

#ANN1 Programming Announcement: Slowing Down for a Bit

#576 Science Communication in Creative Places

#575 Tasting Qualities

#574 State of the Heart

#573 Penis. That's It. That's the title.

#572 The Alchemy of Us

#571 The Address Book

#570 Sea Ice

#569 Facing Fear

#568 Poker Face Psychology

#567 Because Internet

#566 Is Your Gut Leaking?

#565 The Great Wide Indoors

#564 Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies

#563 Dissecting Bumble Bee Health

#BLM Black Lives Matter

#562 Superbug to Bedside

#561 The Race to Identify All Living Things

#560 That's the Yeast of your Worries

#559 Notes From a Transplant Surgeon

#558 Good Drugs, Bad Companies

#557 Homeschool STEM Resource Extravaganza

#556 The Power of Friendship

#555 Coronavirus

#554 Coders

#553 Scan All Fishes

#552 The First Cell

#551 Translating Science, Part 2

#550 Translating Science, Part 1

#549 Let's Get Slimy

#548 Land and Ocean Conservation 101

#547 The D Factor: The Dark Side of Your Personality

#546 2019, But Make It Science

#545 Where Have All the Antibiotics Gone?

#544 Prosperity Without Growth

#543 Give a Nerd a Gift

#542 Climate Doomsday

#541 Wayfinding

#540 Specialize? Or Generalize?

#539 A Bit of Bird Behaviour

#538 Nobels and Astrophysics

#537 Science Journalism, Hold the Hype

#536 Let Them Eat Dirt

#535 Superior

#534 Bacteria are Coming for Your OJ

#533 Breaking the Rodent Glass Ceiling

#532 A Class Conversation

#SB2 2019 Science Birthday Minisode: Mary Golda Ross

#531 Induced Seismicity

#530 Why Aren't We Dead Yet?

#529 Do You Really Want to Find Out Who's Your Daddy?

#528 A Shock Machine and The Lost Boys

#527 Honey I CRISPR'd the Kids

#526 Let Me See You Sweat

#525 Chernobyl

#524 The Human Network

#523 Happy As A Clam (Garden)

#522 Home Alone?

#521 The Curious Life of Krill

#520 A Closer Look at Objectivism

#519 Animal Architects

#518 With Genetic Knowledge Comes the Need for Counselling

#517 Life in Plastic, Not Fantastic

#516 The Keys to Skeletons Lost

#515 Humanimal

#514 Arctic Energy (Rebroadcast)

#513 Dinosaur Tails

#512 All Over The Map

#511 Ok you worked out, now what?

#510 Gene Drives (Rebroadcast)

#509 Anisogamy: The Beginning of Male and Female

#508 Freedom's Laboratory

#507 Poaching, and We Don't Mean Eggs

#506 Everybody Poops (Rebroadcast)

#505 Top Science Stories of 2018

#504 The Art of Logic

#503 Postpartum Blues (Rebroadcast)

#502 Nerd Gift Extravaganza

#501 Hidden Technology

#500 500th Episode

#499 Technology, Work and The Future (Rebroadcast)

#498 The Poison Squad

#497 Built

#496 Anti-Intellectualism: Down With the Scientist!

#495 Earth Science in Space

#494 The Tangled Taxonomic Tree

#493 Trowel Blazing (Rebroadcast)

#492 Flint Water Crisis

#491 Frankenstein LIVES

#490 Breaking Down Chemical Weapons

#488 Big Chicken (Rebroadcast)

#487 Knitting in PEARL

#486 Volcanoes

#485 Fine Times with Wine

#484 Animal Weapons (Rebroadcast)

#483 Wild Moms

#482 Body Builders

#481 23 and You

#480 Cursing and Conversation

#479 Garden of Marvels (Rebroadcast)

#478 She Has Her Mother's Laugh

#477 Cure for Catastrophe

#476 Science in Fiction

#SB1 2018 Science Birthday Bonus Short Minisode: Lloyd Quarterman

#475 Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You (Rebroadcast)

#474 Appearance Matters

#473 Colour Me... Structurally?

#472 A Good Bout of Plague

#471 Pigs and Fish: Personality in Animals

#470 Information Spookyhighway

#469 The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

#468 Slicing into Surgery

#467 Pests in the City (Rebroadcast)

#466 Wildfire

#465 How The Nose Knows

#464 How We Endure

#463 Trench to Bedside (Rebroadcast)

#462 The Future of Energy

#461 Adhesives

#460 Brake For Menopause

#459 Postpartum Blues

#458 Circumcision (Rebroadcast)

#457 Trowel Blazing

#456 Inside a Conservation NGO

#455 New Year's Resolutions

#454 Sports Science (Rebroadcast)

#453 The Biggest Science Stories of 2017

#452 Face Recognition and Identity

#451 Merry Science Giftmas

#450 Sing a Little Song

#449 Arctic Energy

#448 Pavlov (Rebroadcast)

#447 Stormy Weather

#446 Frogs From the Skin In

#445 AI: Ant Intelligence

#444 The V-Word (Rebroadcast)

#443 Batteries

#442 From Nobel to Ig Nobel

#441 Superhuman

#440 Weapons of Math Destruction (Rebroadcast)

#439 Flooded

#438 Big Chicken

#437 Tiny Bubbles, Big Impact

#436 Beauty is A Beast (Rebroadcast)

#435 Total Eclipse of the Sun

#434 The Dictionary

#433 The State of Science Journalism

#432 A Sting In The Tail (Rebroadcast)

#431 Memory and Emotion

#430 Bacteria in Bodies and On The Farm

#429 Gene Drives

#428 Cities of the Future (Rebroadcast)

#427 The Life Project

#426 Everybody Poops

#425 Cooperative Microbes

#424 Biohacking (Rebroadcast)

#423 Built On Bones

#422 Is Our Children Learning

#421 Hopeful Monsters

#420 Medical Marijuana (Rebroadcast)

#419 The Death and Life of the Single-Family House

#418 Animal Research Revisited

#417 Lab-Cultured Beef

#416 Bodies Everywhere (Rebroadcast)

#415 Weapons of Math Destruction

#414 Perpetual Now

#413 Concrete

#412 PTSD

#411 Coal Wars (Rebroadcast)

#410 The Big Sleep

#409 Trump War On Science

#408 The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar

#407 Voices Within

#406 Running Low (Rebroadcast)

#405 STEM Pipeline

#404 Sex In The Sea

#403 Indigenous DNA

#402 Boozy Science (Rebroadcast)

#401 The Serengeti Rules

#400 What Doesn't Kill You...

#399 The Sugar Pill

#398 Gifts For Nerds

#397 Risk Management

#396 Trench to Bedside

#395 Happy People (Rebroadcast)

#394 On the Origin of Bad Science

#393 Check Your Facts

#392 Venomous

#391 Effective Altruism (Rebroadcast)

#390 Decolonizing Colonization

#389 The Jazz of Physics

#388 Fish

#387 The Melting World (Rebroadcast)

#386 Humans Vs Robots

#385 Sociolinguistics

#384 Grunt

#383 The Atomic Era (Rebroadcast)

#382 Risk of Going Nowhere

#381 The Triumph of Seeds

#380 Yer A Wizard Harry

#379 A Special Hell (Rebroadcast)

#378 Paris Climate Agreement

#377 Hearing From The Humanities

#376 Technology, Work and The Future

#375 Severed (Rebroadcast)

#374 The Ninth Planet

#373 The Confidence Game

#372 The Planet Remade

#371 Meningitis

#370 Me, Myself, and Why (Rebroadcast)

#369 Fraud and Forgery

#368 Beyond the Galaxy

#367 Neurodiversity

#366 Self-Driving Cars

#365 Evolutionary Psychology

#364 Combat-Ready Kitchen

#363 Falling Into The Fire (Rebroadcast)

#362 Roadkill

#361 Too Hot To Handle

#360 Medical Marijuana

#359 In The Courtroom

#358 Zika

#357 The Brain Electric

#356 Insects En Masse

#355 Superstorm (Rebroadcast)

#354 HIV and AIDS: Updated and Revisited

#353 Scream

#352 Good Thinking

#351 Contraception

#350 Science In Wonderland

#349 Getting Away With Murder (REBROADCAST)

#348 Artificial Intelligence

#347 Where Do Camels Belong?