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Tiny Matters — 184 episodes
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
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[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
Pesticides across history and learning from millions of years of plant-insect warfare
[BONUS] A shark’s ‘jelly-filled canals’ and deadly cyanide in clovers: Tiny Show and Tell Us #8
Vaping vs. smoking: What does decades of research tell us?
[BONUS] How the moon causes tides and ancient viruses lurking in your DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #7
Extinction: Rethinking the dodo's demise, and could a supervolcano threaten humanity's future?
[BONUS] We think your dog loves you and an intriguing molecule hitches a ride on space dust: Tiny Show and Tell Us #6
CTE: From ‘punch drunk’ to today, how this devastating disease is finally being taken seriously
[BONUS] Cleaning up brain junk while you sleep and new neurons from exercise: Tiny Show and Tell Us #5
Pig hearts in people: Xenotransplantation's history, promise, and the ethical use of people who are brain-dead in research
[BONUS] 1930s (inebriated) chemist poetry and a new organelle: Tiny Show and Tell Us #4
Could most of our food, medication, and clothing come from...bacteria?
[BONUS] A dark energy discovery and a thirsty hydrangea mystery: Tiny Show and Tell Us #3
Sewage and the Seine: From Mesopotamia messes and the 1858 Great Stink to today's flush toilets and fatbergs
[BONUS] The disappearance of 10,000 skeletons and get those eyes outside: Tiny Show and Tell Us #2
It’s sporty (science) summer: Cutting edge monitoring of sweat, and how decades of labiaplasty inspired a new bike saddle
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[BONUS] Parrotfish poop beaches and an altitude adaptation: Tiny Show and Tell Us #1
‘Beef snow,’ sludge, and seafood fraud: How NIST standardizes everything from $1,143 peanut butter to house dust to keep us safe
From volcanoes and Swiftquakes to buzzing bees: How scientists use sound to understand our environment
Long COVID: What we’re learning about pathogens and chronic illness goes beyond COVID-19
Mysteries in the museum: How textile conservators investigate and preserve historic clothing
The curable disease that kills someone every 20 seconds: Tuberculosis (ft. John Green)
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Arsenic, radium, and a locked room cyanide mystery: Poisons and the rise of forensic toxicology in early 1900s United States
IVF: The history, science and struggle that gave rise to a life-changing technology
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Who invented lawns? From Cretaceous grass to modern turf with That's Absurd Please Elaborate
What hibernating bears and 'couch potato' cavefish are teaching us about blood clots and fatty liver disease
Listener Q&A: Methanol poisoning, quantum entanglement, biomimicry, sea foam snakes, tiny discoveries in 2023, and more!
Let's talk about love: Is oxytocin really the 'love drug'? How do we stay in love? And how do our brains adapt to the deaths of people we love?
Did mating with Neanderthals make us morning people?: What ancient DNA tells us about the messiness of human evolution
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Cosmic clues, shrinking transistors, debunking a Salem witch trials theory, and more! Faves from the second year of Tiny Matters
He was never there, but his DNA was: The history and debate surrounding forensic DNA profiling
The rise and fall of a fake decongestant: What phenylephrine tells us about the history of the FDA
The opioid crisis: From pill mills to fentanyl. Are we now seeing glimmers of hope?
We don't deserve dogs: The science behind the human-canine relationship
The Salem witch trials LSD theory and the fascinating evolution of mummification in ancient Egypt
Asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx, and the Apollo 11 moon microbe scare: The challenge of bringing samples home from space
It’s flu season: Why do we need a shot every year? And should we be worried about the new avian influenza strain?
Listener Q&A: Plastic-eating mushrooms, allergy-curing hookworms, the end of the universe, making a career in scicomm, and more!
Flavor is more than meets the taste buds: Health impacts, seltzer facts, and chocolate zucchini cake snacks
We’re not all in this together: How colonialist practices are shaping the impact of climate change
Mad cow, 'zombie deer disease' and the science and spread of prions
Combating misinformation in a crisis: Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
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Hurricane Katrina and the Ohio train derailment: Science, confusion, and human influence
A fungal pandemic is unlikely in humans. That’s not true for other species.
Could psychedelics transform mental healthcare?
Treating depression: Then versus now, and the SSRI debate
The future of electronics: How small can we go?
Are we alone in the universe?
Algae transformed Earth. Next stop: Mars?
Shipworms, sponges and snail venoms: The search for marine medicine
"The Last of Us" fungi Q&A with mycologist Giuliana Furci
Microplastics and PFAS (aka 'forever chemicals') are everywhere. What does that mean for our bodies and environment?
Detection dogs: Sniffing out explosives, invasive pythons and...disease?
Hank Green on dad emails, the business of scicomm, and the value of niche
The hunt for a rare microorganism
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False memories, a surprising Civil War corpse, weekly dino fossil discoveries, and more! Faves from the first year of Tiny Matters
Radiolab's Latif Nasser on his love of science history, storytelling, and Wikipedia rabbit holes
The Ig Nobel Prize: Levitating frogs, constipated scorpions, and other science that makes you laugh then think
Does the microbiome deserve so much hype?
Lava bombs, the northern lights, ancient skull surgeries, and more! It's a vacation show & tell
What does it mean to 'age'? And will science ever stop us from aging?
It's spooky season! Using science to unravel vampire myths and survive a zombie apocalypse
The rapid evolution of lactose intolerance (or, in fact, lactose tolerance)
Dreaming: Why we hallucinate while asleep (and do spiders do it too?)
Wastewater is helping us track disease outbreaks. Could it predict a future pandemic?
If the Milky Way could talk, what would it tell us?
Regenerating a limb (or brand new body)
Preservatives: From ancient methods to today's plastic-wrapped Twinkies
Smallpox is the only human infectious disease we've eradicated. Why?
Why you should care about sharks (and why Sharknado wasn't totally wrong)
Decades later, people are still dying from the 9/11 terrorist attacks
The deadly London smog that changed pollution regulation forever
Body farms: Anthropological research facilities are teaching us about life after death
What happened to Zika virus and the families affected?
Sugar: The addiction debate and an ancient mutation that’s killing us today
Bioterrorism: Weaponizing science has been around for centuries
What is a memory? And how is it stored?
Q&A with Tiny Matters hosts Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti
Typhoid fever didn't end with Typhoid Mary
Could probiotics save coral reefs?
Why don't we have an HIV vaccine?
Dinosaur fossils: Informing Jurassic Park, inspiring new tech, and helping us predict Earth's future
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