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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

    Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

    Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain

    Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain
     
    This week we have two neuroscience stories. First up, freelance science journalist Sara Reardon looks at why infants’ memories fade. She joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss ongoing experiments that aim to determine when the forgetting stops and why it happens in the first place.
     
    Next on the show, Hui-Quan Li, a senior scientist at Neurocrine Biosciences, talks with Sarah about how the brain encodes generalized fear, a symptom of some anxiety disorders such as social anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
     
    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
     
    About the Science Podcast
     
    Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Sara Reardon
     
    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z9bqkyc

    • 29 min
    A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair

    A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair

    What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticity
    First up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk about a large genome sequencing project in India that reveals past migrations in the region and a unique intermixing with Neanderthals in ancient times.
     
    Next on the show, producer Kevin McLean chats with Matthew Tierney, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, about how vitamin A and stem cells work together to grow hair and heal wounds.
     
    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
     
    About the Science Podcast
     
    Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Michael Price

    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zfhqarg
     
    About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast

    • 30 min
    The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

    The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change

    Keeping water out of the stratosphere could be a low-risk geoengineering approach, and using magnets to drive medical robots inside the body
     
    First up this week, a new approach to slowing climate change: dehydrating the stratosphere. Staff Writer Paul Voosen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the risks and advantages of this geoengineering technique.
     
    Next on the show, Science Robotics Editor Amos Matsiko gives a run-down of papers in a special series on magnetic robots in medicine. Matsiko and Crespi also discuss how close old science fiction books came to predicting modern medical robots’ abilities.
     
    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
     
    About the Science Podcast
     
    Authors: Sarah Crespi; Paul Voosen; Amos Matsiko
     
    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zvvddhw

    • 29 min
    What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all

    What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all

    On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting
     
    First up on the show this week, news from this year’s annual meeting of AAAS (publisher of Science) in Denver. News intern Sean Cummings talks with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the sustainable use of orbital space or how space exploration and research can benefit everyone.
     
    And Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi with an extravaganza of meeting stories including a chat with some of the authors of this year’s Newcomb Cleveland Prize–winning Science paper on how horses spread across North America.
     
    Voices in this segment:
     
    William Taylor, assistant professor and curator of archaeology at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum of Natural History
     
    Ludovic Orlando, director of the Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse
     
    University of Oklahoma archaeologists Sarah Trabert and Brandi Bethke
     
    Yvette Running Horse Collin, post-doctoral researcher Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III)
     
     
    Next on the show: What makes snakes so special? Freelance producer Ariana Remmel talks with Daniel Rabosky, professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, about the drivers for all the different ways snakes have specialized—from spitting venom to sensing heat.
     
    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
     
    About the Science Podcast
     
    Authors: Sarah Crespi; Ariana Remmel; Christie Wilcox; Sean Cummings
     
    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zabhbwe

    • 47 min
    What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

    What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

    Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar
     
    First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp about the state of scholarly publishing, better ways to communicate science, plus a few myths Savage still wants to tackle.
     
    Next on the show, making blueberries without blue pigments. Rox Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dresden University of Technology and honorary research associate at the University of Bristol, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how blueberries and other blue fruits owe their hue to a trick of the light caused by specialized wax on their surface.
     
    In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Erika Berg, director and senior editor of custom publishing, interviews professor Jim Wells about organoid therapies. This segment is sponsored by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
     
    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
     
    About the Science Podcast
     
    Authors: Sarah Crespi; Holden Thorp
     
    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z7ye2st

    • 46 min
    A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators

    A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators

    More than 200 materials could be “altermagnets,” and the impact of odiferous pollutants on nocturnal plant-pollinator interactions
     
    First up on the show this week, researchers investigate a new kind of magnetism. Freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about recent evidence for “altermagnetism” in nature, which could enable new types of electronics.
     
    Next on the show, producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Jeremy Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, about how air pollution can interfere with pollinator activities—is the modern world too smelly for moths to do their work?
     
    This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
     
    About the Science Podcast
     
    Authors: Sarah Crespi; Meagan Cantwell; Zack Savitsky
     
    Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zz09cbu

    • 31 min

Customer Reviews

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ASPD1 ,

More time!

Thanks for the show all!
I love having a science news podcast to learn about stuff I hadn’t really thought about
I wish more time was spent on the interviews-they are great topics! For example the latest episode about the cartels, I’d rather have 11 more minutes (or more!) of that interview than to hear about new fall games… seems like conflicting shows to me.

Manny Camps ,

NPR style narration but way more boring

I listen to quite a few science podcasts and this one is by far the most boring one. The presentation of each topic is boring. I want more authentic narration, not the ridiculously animated NPR-Planet Money style of narration

eb ramírez ,

Informative

So easy to follow, awesome topics

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