Transistor

For the next few episodes, we’re featuring select episodes from the Smithsonian’s new series, Sidedoor, about where scie... Read more

How has our understanding of the mysterious tissue between our ears changed in the past 50 years? In her Totally Cerebra... Read more

Head underground to hear how some of the first subways were built, and how they are built today. This story was original... Read more

A freezer full of donated poop at OpenBiome For one disease, poop — yes, human poop — is nothing short a miracle cure. ... Read more

A story of movement, memory, and mentors. Dr. Wendy Suzuki introduces us to Dr. Marian Diamond, whose lively classes ush... Read more

We are interrupting your regularly scheduled podcast feed with a special new episode on the science of survival from Out... Read more

Scents and tastes are powerfully evocative — one whiff of perfume or cooking aromas can transport you back to a particul... Read more

Venus | © NASA Space scientists are acutely aware of what can happen when climates change in other parts of our solar s... Read more

Ken Golden isn’t your typical mathematician. He’s the Indiana Jones of Mathematics. He gets up from behind his desk, ar... Read more

Transistor’s mothership PRX has partnered with Outside magazine to produce four special podcast episodes on the Science ... Read more

Looking through a telescope is like being inside a time machine — you are seeing light from the past. And some space tel... Read more

In the fall of 1902, twelve young men in suits regularly gathered for dinners in the basement of a government building i... Read more

Many depictions of amnesia in TV, movies, and cartoons are just plain wrong — some laughably so. Futurama Host Dr.Wendy... Read more

One of the things we assign to science is that there are true, absolute facts. But scientists are human and, it turns ou... Read more

The sci-fi epic of Dune takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune off... Read more

Lake Oneida on April 24, 2016. Photo by Carl Hagmann Special episode #4 featuring Trace Elements with Cristina Quinn an... Read more

Everybody knows about white noise — that sound that comes out of your TV when it’s not working quite right. But there ar... Read more

This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic. Something unusual happens about a ... Read more

Producer/reporter Jack Rodolico and his wife, Christina. Told by the couple who lived it, this is a story of how Crohn’s... Read more

Some studies suggest that one out of 10 women in her 30s is peeing herself. Others say the numbers could be much much hi... Read more