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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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Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss
September 24, 2026 · 49 minFirst up on the podcast, Staff Reporter Tom Howarth joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the language artificial intelligence agents evolve inside their swarms. Next on the show, producer Elah Feder talks with Revathe Thillaikumar, a…
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Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science
September 17, 2026 · 40 minFirst up on the podcast, as the planet warms and forests burn, can we replant them with new trees that will thrive in the decades ahead? Associate Editor Katie Langin joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss research into “assisted migration”…
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Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education
September 10, 2026 · 33 minFirst up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell and freelance journalist Andrew Lawler discuss how psychoactive drugs might have shaped culture in pre-Inca Andean societies. They chat about how technical advances and an increasingly open…
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Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease
September 3, 2026 · 28 minFirst up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how climate is pushing the disease-carrying tick Hyalomma marginatum out of its comfort zone. Stone reports from Kosovo, where the…
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Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas
August 27, 2026 · 50 minFirst up on the podcast, will it ever make economic sense to produce drugs and biomedical supplies in space? Associate Online News Editor Michael Greshko discusses his story on the researchers attempting to make biomanufacturing in space a…
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Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome
August 20, 2026 · 29 minFirst up on the podcast, the News team’s Diverse Voices in Science Journalism interns Mona Patterson and Laura Martín Agudelo join host Sarah Crespi to talk over some of their reporting from the summer. They chat about several stories…
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A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding
August 13, 2026 · 27 minFirst up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi for the latest science policy news. The two discuss recent grant cancellations by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the likelihood that the…
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Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA
August 6, 2026 · 38 minFirst up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Michael Price discusses the history of the North American bison population, its decline, and resurrection—and links to Indigenous cultures. He’s joined by University of California, Santa Cruz…