All Episodes

Logan James interprets animal song (he's a biologist)

Dianne Newman links antibiotic resistance to climate (she's a microbiologist)

Dylan Jervis spots methane emissions from low Earth orbit (he's a physicist)

Katie McMahon considers humidity's effect on babies' growth (she's a human environment geographer)

Brian Walsh peers at Earth from the moon (he's a space physicist)

Sarah Kugel brings science to a small town (she's the director of a nature center)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Brad Nelson makes tiny robots that deliver medicine to the body (he's an engineer)

Melissa Harrison explores the foundations of human life, in fruit flies (she's a biologist)

Case van Genuchten turns arsenic waste into a valuable raw material (he's an environmental engineer)

Cassia Low Manting observes the brain on music (she's a neuroscientist)

Charlotte Stagg reaches deep into the brain using ultrasound (she's a neuroscientist)

Bradley Smith watches dingos, and also Bluey (he's a comparative psychologist)

Samuel Dicken ponders ultraprocessed food (he's a clinical scientist)

Fadi Lakkis is a kidney match-maker (he's a physician scientist)

Allison Brager helps soldiers survive, and thrive (she's a U.S. Army neurobiologist and sleep scientist)

August Update!

Lidya Yurdum studies whether singing helps babies feel good (she's a social psychologist)

Katie Amato wonders what it means to be human (she's a biological anthropologist)

Jenna Alley finds the good in parents (she’s a developmental health psychologist)

Shannon Curry is in charge of a spacecraft orbiting Mars (she’s a planetary scientist)

Scott MacIvor wants people to enjoy green spaces in cities (he's an urban ecologist)

Heather Mefford hunts down unruly genes (she’s a human geneticist)

SUMMER 2025 UPDATE!

Scott Krayenhoff helps hot cities cool off (he's an urban climatologist)

Jan Gogarten is searching for the next deadly germ (he’s a wildlife disease ecologist)

Cédric Girard-Buttoz learns the language of chimps (he's an evolutionary biologist)

Soumya Acharya conjures up clever new medical gadgets (he's a biomedical engineer)

Desirée Plata wants to keep bad chemicals out of your water (she's an environmental chemist)

Lauren Osborne labors to soothe mothers' brains (she's a reproductive psychiatrist)

Louis Bont is trying to save ALL the children (he's a pediatrician)

Michela Mariani digs ancient wildfires (she's a paleoecologist)