All Episodes

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

A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment

Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame

Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

The normals | Episode 3

How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting

The Normals | Episode 2

A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion

The Normals | Episode 1

Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole form

Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdoses

Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuels

Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surface

The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrows

Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too

This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news stories

Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heat

Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanics

When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beat

A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog research

Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sink

Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouse

Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe ends

The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish

Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight disease

How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wine

A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sigh

Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient world

Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mystery

An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floor

Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricket

A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing dead

New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin America

Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?

Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to live

Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the dead

Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relatives

Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteria

A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomes

Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars

Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia

How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy

Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change

Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science

Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research

Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’

A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes

Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science

Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’

A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series

Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander

The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH

Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots

Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea

Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH

Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker

Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home

Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability

Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants

How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth

Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration

Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine

Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters

Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds

Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates

Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech

Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted

Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity

Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains

Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers

The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity

Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination

How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete

Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water

Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms

Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins

Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat

Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound

Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism

Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote

The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise

The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine

Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy

Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots

New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game

How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations

What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer

Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money

The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution

How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice

Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up

Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials

Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud

How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters

A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects

Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice

The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series

Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut

Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene

When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?

Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career

Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture

Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair

The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all

What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators

A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs

A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior

Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw

The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth

The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease

The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender

Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins

Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives

Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots

Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy

AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills

The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics

Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs

Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science

The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves

Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors

How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?

Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’

Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall

Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions

Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid

Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell

The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender

What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated

Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh

Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum

Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa

Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones

The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo

Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero

Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction

A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes

Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course

Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry

How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals

Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females

The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves

Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands

Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes

The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable

Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep

More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series

Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants

How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille

New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories

An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer

Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts

Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry

Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love

Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus

Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth

Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets

Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world

Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change

Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries

A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases

Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights

Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books

The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci

A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano

Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?

Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus

Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators

Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy

Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction

Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet

Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks

Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores

Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog

Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms

Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’

Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars

Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry

Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age

Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing

Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose

Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity

Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition

Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus

The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy

Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India

Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis

Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation

A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits

Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid

The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning

Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa

Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names

Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic

Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral

Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food

Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit

Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars

A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses

Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date

Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather

The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense

Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic

A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists

Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction

COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts

Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media

Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions

Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels

A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships

Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths

Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines

Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism

The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books

Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water

The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano

Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity

Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites

The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span

The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve

Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression

Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood

The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?

Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia

Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM

Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA

Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap

Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people

Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms

New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer

Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media

A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning

A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry

Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core

Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood

Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books

Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure

Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science

Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement

Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families

Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code

Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands

Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers

Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning

Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects

Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys

Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel

Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived

Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains

Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate

Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions

COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills

The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color

Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator

All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets

Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess

Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing

Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps

Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras

An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior

The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms

Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke

Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights

Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil

How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants

Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis

Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face

How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes

What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements

Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking

Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart

Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus

FDA clinical trial protection failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players

How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia

Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging

Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people

Arctic sea ice under attack, and ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change

Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes

A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports

Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel

Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint

How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution

Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation

A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood

An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat

Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs

Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses

The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild

Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food

A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor

How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water

How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano

Making antibodies to treat coronavirus, and why planting trees won’t save the planet

Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?

From nose to toes—how coronavirus affects the body, and a quantum microscope that unlocks the magnetic secrets of very old rocks

How countries could recover from coronavirus, lessons from an ancient drought, and feeling tactile waves in the hand

Does coronavirus spread through the air, and the biology of anorexia

How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice

Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals

Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music

Science’s leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin

Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life

An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing

Brickmaking bacteria and solar cells that turn ‘waste’ heat into electricity

NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma

Fighting cancer with CRISPR, and dating ancient rock art with wasp nests

A cryo–electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia

Getting BPA out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment

Researchers flouting clinical reporting rules, and linking gut microbes to heart disease and diabetes

Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational

Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps

Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books

Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space

Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid

Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors

Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music

How to make an Arctic ship ‘vanish,’ and how fast-moving spikes are heating the Sun’s atmosphere

Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology

How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes

A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm

Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’

Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands

An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds

Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts

Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds

Studying human health at 5100 meters, and playing hide and seek with rats

Searching for a lost Maya city, and measuring the information density of language

Where our microbiome came from, and how our farming and hunting ancestors transformed the world

Promising approaches in suicide prevention, and how to retreat from climate change

One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice

Next-generation cellphone signals could interfere with weather forecasts, and monitoring smoke from wildfires to model nuclear winter

Earthquakes caused by too much water extraction, and a dog cancer that has lived for millennia

Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery

Can we inherit trauma from our ancestors, and the secret to dark liquid dances

The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health

Converting carbon dioxide into gasoline, and ‘autofocal’ glasses with lenses that change shape on the fly

Creating chimeras for organ transplants and how bats switch between their eyes and ears on the wing

The why of puppy dog eyes, and measuring honesty on a global scale

Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa

The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED

Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag

New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings

Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones

Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse

The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish

Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales

How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste

A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants

A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade

Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system

Vacuuming potato-size nodules of valuable metals in the deep sea, and an expedition to an asteroid 290 million kilometers away

Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments

Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago

Measuring earthquake damage with cellphone sensors and determining the height of the ancient Tibetan Plateau

Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders

How far out we can predict the weather, and an ocean robot that monitors food webs

Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut

Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep

Pollution from pot plants, and how our bodies perceive processed foods

Peering inside giant planets, and fighting Ebola in the face of fake news

A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees

Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust

End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories

‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull

Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children

The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution

Exploding the Cambrian and building a DNA database for forensics

The worst year ever and the effects of fasting

A big increase in monkey research and an overhaul for the metric system

How the appendix could hold the keys to Parkinson’s disease, and materials scientists mimic nature

Children sue the U.S. government over climate change, and how mice inherit their gut microbes

Mutant cells in the esophagus, and protecting farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure

What we can learn from a cluster of people with an inherited intellectual disability, and questioning how sustainable green lawns are in dry places

Odd new particles may be tunneling through the planet, and how the flu operates differently in big and small towns

The future of PCB-laden orca whales, and doing genomics work with Indigenous people

Metaresearchers take on meta-analyses, and hoary old myths about science

The youngest sex chromosomes on the block, and how to test a Zika vaccine without Zika cases

Should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and why were chemists baffled by soot for so long?

<i>Science</i> and <i>Nature</i> get their social science studies replicated—or not, the mechanisms behind human-induced earthquakes, and the taboo of claiming causality in science

Sending flocks of tiny satellites out past Earth orbit and solving the irrigation efficiency paradox

Ancient volcanic eruptions, and peer pressure—from robots

Doubts about the drought that kicked off our latest geological age, and a faceoff between stink bugs with samurai wasps

How our brains may have evolved for language, and clues to what makes us leaders—or followers

Liquid water on Mars, athletic performance in transgender women, and the lost colony of Roanoke

Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds

The South Pole’s IceCube detector catches a ghostly particle from deep space, and how rice knows to grow when submerged

A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America’s first dogs

Increasing transparency in animal research to sway public opinion, and a reaching a plateau in human mortality

New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb

The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains

Science books for summer, and a blood test for predicting preterm birth

The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production

Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes

Tracking ancient Rome’s rise using Greenland’s ice, and fighting fungicide resistance

Ancient DNA is helping find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conservation

The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone

Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels

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