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Science Magazine Podcast

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

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Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions

Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions

Receptors that give our feline friends a craving for meat, and using combustion to propel insect-size robots First up ... Read more

14 Sep 2023

31mins

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Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid

Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid

How the Tonga eruption caused some of the fastest underwater flows in history, and why many U.S. renewable energy projec... Read more

7 Sep 2023

30mins

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Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell

Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell

How active learning improves calculus teaching, and using machine learning to map odors in the smell space First up on... Read more

31 Aug 2023

35mins

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The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender

The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender

A close look at a coronal hole, how salt and hackers can affect science, and the latest book in our series on science, s... Read more

24 Aug 2023

49mins

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What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated

What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated

Ancient wildfires may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals, and do insular societies have more complex language... Read more

17 Aug 2023

45mins

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Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh

Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh

First up on this week’s show, we hear about the skewed perception of our own hands, extremely weird giant viruses, champ... Read more

10 Aug 2023

24mins

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Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum

Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum

Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in Africa... Read more

3 Aug 2023

33mins

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Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa

Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa

On this week’s show: evaluating scientific collaborations between independent scholars and industry, farming in ancient ... Read more

27 Jul 2023

46mins

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Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones

Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones

A massive effort by African volunteers is ensuring artificial intelligence understands their native languages, and measu... Read more

20 Jul 2023

36mins

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The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo

The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo

Science’s NextGen voices share their thoughts on artificial intelligence, how to avoid creating sociopathic robots, and ... Read more

13 Jul 2023

27mins

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