All Episodes

[BONUS] ‘Drinking Grandma,’ digital cadavers and debunking a grave robbing myth: Tiny Show and Tell Us #55

The Shroud of Turin: American Medieval x Tiny Matters crossover episode

Foraminifera: The one-celled predators that shaped our planet (and kept the receipts)

[BONUS] Dangerously tiny frequencies, endometriosis tests, and cookies made from ... plastic?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #54

Giant viruses: How these amoeba-infecting behemoths are rewriting the rules of virology

[BONUS] Fairy tale evolution and the 400(ish) year old elusive Greenland shark: Tiny Show and Tell Us #53

From cow’s milk to blood banks: The surprising evolution of blood transfusions

[BONUS] Bread clip taxonomy and power poles on fire: Tiny Show and Tell Us #52

Placebo: Why ‘fake’ treatments can have real power

[BONUS] A pathology lab, a sausage duel, and the fascinating lives of yeast: Tiny Show and Tell Us #51

Fireworks over millennia: From battlefields and royal displays to sustainable spectacles

[BONUS] The ‘elite neutralizers’ immune to HIV and why galaxies ‘FART’: Tiny Show and Tell Us #50

Collisions in space: Satellites, space debris, and the quest to clean up Earth's orbit

[BONUS] A nitrogen asphyxiation disaster and why ears are incredible: Tiny Show and Tell Us #49

The Challenger disaster: How a NASA tragedy led to a safer Artemis II

[BONUS] The ‘Plankton Manifesto’ and the birth of MRI: Tiny Show and Tell Us #48

When movies caught fire: The history and science of nitrocellulose film

[BONUS] Von Willebrand disease and how old is the air in your lungs?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #47

‘Clean beauty’: Cosmetics, chemophobia and the anti-vax pipeline

[BONUS] The Chemists’ Wars: The Origin Story of Chemistry

[BONUS] Antarctic dinosaurs, blood restriction therapy, and an HIV prevention breakthrough: Tiny Show and Tell Us #46

Deep-sea mining: Environmental uncertainty, ‘Law of the Sea,’ and shark potatoes

[BONUS] The history of Turner Syndrome and engineering food for bees: Tiny Show and Tell Us #45

How soap shaped civilizations — and ‘ruined’ famous art

[BONUS] Camel antibodies and colorful Greco-Roman statues: Tiny Show and Tell Us #44

Stinky white gold, Haber-Bosch, and ‘peecycling’: How fertilizer shapes our world

[BONUS] Reef balls and peanut allergy immunotherapy: Tiny Show and Tell Us #43

The Mothers of Gynecology: The centuries that led to today’s Black maternal mortality crisis

A new podcast joining the fam: Chain Reaction by ACS!

[BONUS] 5D storage in the ‘Memory of Mankind’ and the root of morning sickness: Tiny Show and Tell Us #42

Inside expedition medicine: Keeping people alive in the harshest places on Earth

[BONUS] 'Mitochondrial Eve' and birds stealing anti-bird spikes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #41

From ancient grain mills to massive offshore turbines: Why wind energy was — and still is — a big deal

[BONUS] Dandelion rubber tires and a fentanyl vaccine: Tiny Show and Tell Us #40

The history of clinical trials: From fake exorcisms to testing today

[BONUS] Bat periods and toxins from fungi: Tiny Show and Tell Us #39

The iron lung: How a hulking metal tube became the first machine to keep humans alive

[BONUS] The woman who mapped the Milky Way and a toxic evolutionary showdown: Tiny Show and Tell Us #38

Sam’s brain-altering bacteria and Deboki’s polio vaccine fascination: EPISODE 100!

[BONUS] Bunny pregnancy tests and a dead salmon MRI: Tiny Show and Tell Us #37

How life keeps time: Zeitgebers, hidden clocks, and ugh daylight saving

[BONUS] Polar bear fact vindication and vibrating insects: Tiny Show and Tell Us #36

Dinner with King Tut: How experimental archaeologists are recreating the past

[BONUS] Making magenta pennies and touching the sun: Tiny Show and Tell Us #35

What's eating the Titanic?

[BONUS] 4 years of Tiny Matters?! How we started, what we've learned, and where we're headed!

New male contraceptives could be here soon. What took so long?

[BONUS] Why horseshoe crab blood is blue, HELLP syndrome, and a one-electron bond: Tiny Show and Tell Us #34

Trade, tyranny, and untapped potential: The history and science of spices

[BONUS] Fluorescent milk, ‘liquid’ glass, and studying ripples in spacetime: Tiny Show and Tell Us #33

How stunning 19th century dyes led to today's drugs

[BONUS] Wasp versus beetle and blood iron recycling: Tiny Show and Tell Us #32

De-extinction: Genetics, conservation, and lessons from 'dire wolves'

[BONUS] Woolly mammoth mice and filtering microplastics out of your water: Tiny Show and Tell Us #31

Zircon: How this tiny, ancient mineral is upending what scientists believed about early Earth

[BONUS] Biodegradable super glue and a severe greenhouse gas that lowers your voice: Tiny Show and Tell Us #30

Is ‘mom brain’ … forever?

[BONUS] Birds breathing with their butts and reducing food waste to combat climate change: Tiny Show and Tell Us #29

How domesticated is a domestic cat? From the wild to ancient Egyptian tombs to now

[BONUS] Diamond rain on Saturn (maybe) and UV rays breaking down harmful dyes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #28

The strange science and history of quantum computing and how it could transform chemistry

[BONUS] Squirrel pox and did tin buttons cause the downfall of Napoleon's army?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #27

Making labs safer: A heavy metal poisoning, a deadly protein exposure, and their aftermath

[BONUS] Fetuses ‘listening’ to different languages and climate change affecting psychiatric meds: Tiny Show and Tell Us #26

How NASA scientists are monitoring and predicting wildfires from space

[BONUS] The FDA’s ban of Red Dye No. 3 and the surprising science of winter roads: Tiny Show and Tell Us #25

How a Mars mission from the 1970s shaped the search for extraterrestrial life today

[BONUS] Babies leaving cells behind in mom and rethinking the Big Bang: Tiny Show and Tell Us #24

Ozempic: The science behind this blockbuster drug and its untapped potential

[BONUS] Marfan syndrome and plant pathogens eating DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #23

How a little-known vaccine project and decades of HIV research made "Operation Warp Speed" possible

[BONUS] Time limits for anesthesia and stunning bioluminescence: Tiny Show and Tell Us #22

The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without

[BONUS] An inspiring pharmacist grandma and orcas wearing dead salmon hats: Tiny Show and Tell Us #21

How glaciers safeguard Earth’s future and hold clues to our ancient past

[BONUS] Evolutionary adaptations to high altitudes and e-cigs vs. dry herb vaporizers: Tiny Show and Tell Us #20

How 18th and 19th century 'race science' still has deadly medical consequences today

[BONUS] Crocheted wasp nests and sewage in reefs: Tiny Show and Tell Us #19

The rape kit: From controversial 1970s invention to ending the backlog today

[BONUS] Double rainbows and mysterious chromosomes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #18

Not just a ‘royal disease’: Hemophilia’s devastating past to recent advances

[BONUS] Fungus farming ants and disappointing orange juice: Tiny Show and Tell Us #17

How plants shaped our world: Rising oxygen, blocky bones, and other pivotal moments in evolution

[BONUS] 'Night soil' recycling and could viruses be the new antibiotics?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #16

Can evolution go backwards?

[BONUS] Four armadillos in a trench coat and does pregnancy boost your sense of smell?: Tiny Show and Tell Us #15

'A cage of ovulating females': The development and testing of the oral birth control pill

Submit a Tiny Show and Tell Us — first 40 people get a coffee mug!

[BONUS] A hedgehog doppelgänger and STEVE lighting up the sky: Tiny Show and Tell Us #14

Nearly 40 years after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, wildlife is thriving

Happy New Year! Bring on 2025

[BONUS] Pollen-food allergy syndrome and stepping on 116 snakes: Tiny Show and Tell Us #13

Frostbite: From Napoleonic era treatments to the first FDA approved frostbite drug

[BONUS] Xenobots and rethinking 'junk DNA': Tiny Show and Tell Us #12

In defense of plants: Pitfall traps, rancid aromas, and other wild pollination strategies with Matt Candeias

[BONUS] Why we experience altitude sickness and a chirality mystery: Tiny Show and Tell Us #11

Stories trapped in ancient teeth: Reconstructing megalodon’s diet and retracing the steps of woolly mammoths

[BONUS] Mice aging in reverse and using origami to understand how a tiny organism captures prey: Tiny Show and Tell Us #10

Ghosts and cyborgs: A specter skeptic and the promise (and perils) of biohybrid robots

[BONUS] Algae in the clouds and colossal galaxy walls: Tiny Show and Tell Us #9