All Episodes

A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam: Ashton Cofer

A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home : Todd Coleman

Your words may predict your future mental health : Mariano Sigman

This scientist can hack your dreams: Moran Cerf

A new superweapon in the fight against cancer - Paula Hammond

How we'll find life on other planets | Aomawa Shields

Sandrine Thuret: You can grow new brain cells. Here's how

Tony Wyss-Coray: How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really

Wendy Freedman This new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe

Could We Cure HIV with Lasers? - Patience Mthunzi

Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

Steve Silberman: The forgotten history of autism

Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies

Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system

Anand Varma: A thrilling look at the first 21 days of a bee’s life

Tal Danino: Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)

Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects’ kinky sex lives

Sophie Scott: Why we laugh

Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain

Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible unive

Nathalie Cabrol: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life

Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet

Robyn Stein DeLuca: The good news about PMS

Rob Knight: How our microbes make us who we are

Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Guy Winch: The case for emotional hygiene

Jaap de Roode: How butterflies self-medicate

Miguel Nicolelis: Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it

Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests

Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder than others

Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: Humble plants that hide surprising secrets

Jeff Iliff: One more reason to get a good night’s sleep

Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind

Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist?

Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for u

Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?

Stephen Friend: The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"

Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

Sara Lewis: The loves and lies of fireflies

Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?

Naomi Oreskes: Why we should trust scientists

Uri Alon: Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown

Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self

Stephen Friend: The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"

Deborah Gordon: What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet

Tristram Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone

Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?"

Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)

Lawrence Lessig: The unstoppable walk to political reform

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps, zombie roaches and other parasite tales

Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

Carin Bondar: The birds and the bees are just the beginning

Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains?

Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away

Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?

Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?

Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence

Shereen El Feki: A little-told tale of sex and sensuality

Mark Kendall: Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn't usually work

Geraldine Hamilton: Body parts on a chip

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?

Greg Asner: Ecology from the air

Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked

Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge

Trita Parsi: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible

Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science

Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory

Andras Forgacs: Leather and meat without killing animals

George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world

Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.

John Searle: Our shared condition -- consciousness

Two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria

Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager

Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tig

Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?

Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill

Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!

Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

How much does a video weigh?

Andres Lozano: Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off

Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness

Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club

Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science

Colin Camerer: Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys

David Anderson: Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals

Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies

Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really

Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?

Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too

Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk

Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle

Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world

John Wilbanks: Let’s pool our medical data

Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings

Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me