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Unexplainable — 294 episodes
Are you a lyric person or a music person?
Big news!
Are we all living in an enormous black hole?
Risky business
A period piece
Bird people and deep space shrapnel
Should we really kill all the lanternflies?
Sean tries raw milk
A new species in New York
The disaster problem
The lost Lyme vaccine
The cells we share
The man who bet against humanity — and lost
The aftermath
A better Black Death story
The hunt for a lost species
Dark matter music
I glow, therefore I am
Is everything inflammation?
A show about nothing
The Hitchhiking Microbe’s Guide to the Galaxy
Why did we go back to the moon?
Is male birth control finally here?
Mi Vickicito
Casey gets his voice back
EOliver Sacks's not quite nonfiction
The accidental rise of Botox
Who are we to fight the alchemy?
Snow day!
My brain made me do it
The Codfather
EStress ages us on a cellular level
The Amazing Extremophiles
Everyone does it. Why can’t I?
Mysterious objects near the beginning of time
Cloud atlas
What's good sound?
No data, just vibes
It's not all bad
Superbabies?
The G-word
Who's afraid of big, bad Yellowstone?
Vitamin C and the common cold
Your moments of silence (The Sound Barrier #5)
Diary of a teenage brain, part 2
Diary of a teenage brain
The trees of death
That's no moon...
Lost on the road to enlightenment
Is animal grief real?
The Sound Barrier #4: Listen to the universe
The Sound Barrier #3: What does silence sound like?
The Sound Barrier #2: The noise that isn't there
The Sound Barrier #1: The myth of hearing
Solve me a river
This episode is haunted and spooky
Consider the shrimp
EWhen talent vanishes overnight
Composing chaos
Does Tylenol cause autism?
Real-life zombies
How to change your personality
What’s A
Did we find signs of life on Mars?
The metabolism myth
The Vagina Voyages
A rabbi and the Lorax walk into a bar...
Is a little alcohol bad for you?
Ice Sheet Time Machine
Animals in the year 20202025
Nightmare at the end of the universe
Life in plastic — not fantastic?
When waves go rogue
Good news for people who love bad news
12 tiny worlds
How good was Michael Jordan, really?
One weird trick to get unlimited clean energy
Who taught beavers to build dams?
The disease we let win
Science! Tell me what to eat!
A magical world at the ocean’s edge
Ruff translation
Sick of “morning” sickness
Your bug roommates
Why I left the NIH
Mostly dead is slightly alive
We don't understand yogurt
The musical structure of the universe
How to beat roulette
Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?
Are we sure about fluoride?
The man who walked butterflies on a leash
Imagine a sunset, now imagine you can't
An imaginary planet that feels extremely real
The view from inside a volcano
Who are you calling a Neanderthal?
Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
Blood farm
Moon genes
How to stop your hiccups
A new way to listen
Intraterrestrials
How to talk to aliens
Good Robot #4: Who, me?
Good Robot #3: Let’s fix everything
Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome
Good Robot #1: The magic intelligence in the sky
A strange signal from space
Getting malaria on purpose
The problem with dreams
Is science in danger?
How umami blew up taste
What’s hiding under the Antarctic ice?
Biopiracy
Will AI ever ... feel?
New year, new diet, live forever?
Mysteries we can’t stop thinking about
Who let the wolves in?
Where to meet a Neanderthal
Pinky and the (lab-grown) Brain
Why are there lefties and righties?
Placebos work. Why?
Why is horror so fun?
Are psychedelics breaking science?
Your gut’s feelings
Is insurance doomed?
My animal heart
How hot could the world get?
Should you be eating poison oak?
EDark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history
You're lost in the wilderness. Now what?
Viral dark matter
The good virus
Ecstasy therapy
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Do we live inside an enormous black hole?
Is good posture actually good?
Why do we yawn?
Embracing economic chaos
We still don’t really know how inflation works
Can you put a price on nature?
The deepest spot in the ocean
What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
Did trees kill the world?
Can we stop aging?
EWho's the daddy? There isn't one.
Itch hunt
How did Earth get its water?
Is Earth alive?
The alpha myth
The eclipse chasers
The Yips
EThe bleeding edge, part two
The bleeding edge
Aliens from Earth?
How scientists are searching for aliens
A universal virus-killer?
Why do we cry?
Should you quit Diet Coke?
The case for cursing
EThe math problem that could break the internet
Garbage patch kids
A stethoscope for the rainforest
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Something weird near the beginning of time
The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground?
Weaponizing uncertainty
Can we live in space?
The ice cream effect
The data vigilantes
Trouble on Pickles Reef
Redefining death
The Orcanizing
Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac
Rogue waves
Does garlic break magnets?
How to decode a thought
It’s getting harder to see
Jumping the gun
Can we talk to animals?
Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!
Who let the wolves in?
Why do we have a moon?
The Black Box: In AI we trust?
The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it
Do animals grieve?
Why do we dream?
Cracking the Indus code
Awestruck
Expecting: Weed and pregnancy
Expecting: Baby brain
Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs
The tornado problem
How to resurrect a mammoth
Live show, dead dinosaurs
Talking trees
Your questions, unexplained
What's so funny?
Origins: The meaning of “life”
Origins: The first living thing
Origins: How did Earth get its water?
What is love?
Why we hiccup
We booped an asteroid
Your creepy, crawly roommates
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
Plants with eyes?
Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates
Your gut's feelings
Nuclear fusion breaks through
Basic instinct
Why we cry
Can we live in space?
Holding on to power
Redefining death
Talking to ghosts
Why is everyone getting food allergies?
Introducing The Gray Area
ELet’s play Unexplainable or Not
The math problem that could break the internet
Jumping the gun
An Alzheimer's uproar
Salamander search party
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Can ovaries make new eggs?
Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex?
Yawn baby yawn
What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?
Vitamin X
Lost Worlds: What killed Venus?
Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?
Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon?
Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth?
Dropping like flies
Is telepathy real?
Why do we dream?
Should I take a DNA ancestry test?
My octopus friend?
Glow in the dark ocean
When reality broke
Making Sense: The sixth sense
Making Sense: Sight unseen
Making Sense: The Umami Mama
Making Sense: No one nose
Making Sense: The healing power of touch
Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing
The methane hunters
What is love?
A sonic tour of the solar system
Finding asteroids before they find us
Skeleton Lake
EAre humans running out of sperm?
The quest to build a star
BONUS: The 2021 song
The building blocks of the universe
99% of ocean plastic is missing
How medicine mansplained women’s health
How Venus went to hell
Mind readers
A brainless yellow goo that does math
Why whales get beached
Talking to ghosts
Honey, we shrunk the birds
Nobel Prize 2.0
The James Webb Time Machine
The James Webb Space Telescope
What causes Alzheimer’s?
Havana syndrome
Getting to the bottom of butts
The mysteries of endometriosis
EA 150-year-old human
How low can you go?
The tornado problem
EMoon poop
EHot pink flying squirrels
Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe
How do animals know where to go?
Invasion of the jumping worms
The many heights of Mount Everest
Unexplainable Flying Objects
The hunt for a new Pluto
Cloudy with a chance of chaos
A new force of nature?
Placebos work. Why?
A virus that could heal people
The Twilight Zone of the ocean
The viral ghosts of long Covid
Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong?
It’s ball lightning!
Skeleton Lake
EJourney Toward the Center of the Earth
No one nose
EMost of the universe is missing
EIntroducing Unexplainable