Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine

Episodes 646
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.3 (795)
Since Nov 2013
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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

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Recent Episodes

How childhood environments shape the brain, and how susceptible is the Atlantic Ocean’s current to climate change?

Jun 11, 2026 31m

First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the latest on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC. Researchers have long been concerned…

Will AI replace astronomers, how healthy are ultraprocessed foods, and a peek behind the scenes of ‘The Normals’

Jun 04, 2026 50m

First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Joshua Sokol talks about the intense discussion happening in the astrophysics community as artificial intelligence and machine learning become…

Disembodied human brains, immortal bits of sea cucumber, and fame in Galileo’s time

May 28, 2026 45m

First up on the podcast, a company is using whole brains—maintained with specialized life support—to study new drugs. Freelance science journalist Sara Reardon joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about…

USAID cuts linked to violence, unexpected parallels between humans and bacteria, and how to rule the world

May 21, 2026 41m

First up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the surprising commonalities between our immune systems and the tools bacteria use to…

Fighting deepfakes, and using bacteria to deliver medicine inside the body

May 14, 2026 31m

First up on the podcast, Meagan Cantwell produced a segment with Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt on the fight against deepfakes. Kupferschmidt talks with Hany Farid, professor at the…

A team effort to save a giant fish, the power of moonlight, and how scientists can navigate a tough political environment

May 07, 2026 53m

First up on the podcast, along Brazil’s Juruá River, local residents have been working with scientists to manage a giant fish called the arapaima—affecting the land, the people, and the economy.…

Watching a spiders’ heart beat, epigenetic ethics, and what science biographies reveal about fame

Apr 30, 2026 46m

First up on the podcast, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a batch of fun stories with podcast host Sarah Crespi—from spider hearts racing when traffic gets loud to a disease-preventing house.…

Cleaning up uranium mining, and how the heart avoids cancer

Apr 23, 2026 30m

First up on the podcast, freelance science and environmental journalist Quentin Septer joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a controversial uranium mine getting fast-tracked in South Dakota. Septer…

The normals | Episode 3

Apr 21, 2026 33m

The final of a three-part limited Science Podcast series that looks at the history of normal human subjects in research In episode two, we heard what happened to the normals program after church…

How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcasting

Apr 16, 2026 50m

First up on the podcast, quantum computers require extremely low temperatures—less than 1°C away from absolute zero. But getting down to those temperatures has usually required dilution fridges using…

The Normals | Episode 2

Apr 14, 2026 27m

Last time on The Normals, we learned that in the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to recruit many healthy volunteers for basic research. Two peace churches, the Mennonites and…

A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsion

Apr 09, 2026 42m

First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Hannah Richter joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss NASA’s plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in less than 3 years. Having not…

The Normals | Episode 1

Apr 07, 2026 23m

How do we know what's normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start studying normal humans on a grand…

Resolving the dispute over the speed of the expanding universe, and seeking new drug targets for cognitive dysfunction

Apr 02, 2026 33m

First up on the podcast, a new path to calculating the Hubble constant. This value for the universe’s speed of expansion is typically determined in one of two ways, one favored by cosmologists, the…

Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI

Mar 26, 2026 36m

First up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Martin Enserink talks about so-called resurrection plants. These specialized plants can survive up to 95% water loss, whereas most plants struggle when…

Rethinking the peopling of the Americas, and the best ways to get groundwater back

Mar 19, 2026 33m

First up on the podcast, we discuss a finding that’s likely to reignite debate over how humans first spread through the Americas. In the late 1990s, a site in southern Chile called Monte Verde forced…

What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf kills

Mar 12, 2026 42m

First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Evan Howell traveled to Cape Blossom, Alaska, where the receding coastline has revealed an ancient trove of glacial ice that may have survived for…

An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the Moon

Mar 05, 2026 38m

First up on the podcast, a peek into the roiling seas of U.S. science policy. ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser talks about shifting leadership at the National Science Foundation and the…

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Feb 26, 2026 32m

First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell talks to Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about his visit to Brazil, where he observed firsthand what it takes for researchers to…

Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meeting

Feb 19, 2026 41m

First up on the podcast, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox, Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko, and intern Perri Thaler share their experiences from the AAAS annual meeting in…

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