Ranked #1
Saha and Bose in The Golden Age of Indian Science
Saha and Bose in The Golden Age of Indian Science
In 1905, India’s air was filled with the throbbing pulse of rebellion, the cobblestone streets of Bengal dreaming of fre... Read more
30 Dec 2021
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36mins
Ranked #2
Newton's Year of Wonders: Pandemics and Productivity
Newton's Year of Wonders: Pandemics and Productivity
In 1665, The Great Plague of London ravaged England, killing around 100,000 people - a quarter of London's population - ... Read more
29 Nov 2021
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27mins
Ranked #3
Tygers and Lambs - What can Evolution tell us?
Tygers and Lambs - What can Evolution tell us?
In 1794, William Blake asked one of the most famous questions in all of poetry - "Did he who make the lamb make thee?". ... Read more
31 Oct 2021
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27mins
Ranked #4
Colleen Golja: Can we engineer our way out of climate change?
Colleen Golja: Can we engineer our way out of climate change?
In the 2013 film Snowpiercer, directed by Bong Joon Ho, humanity has been reduced to a segmented caste system on a singl... Read more
7 Oct 2021
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52mins
Ranked #5
Trivia, Teaching, and Talent with (Jeopardy) Jason Zuffranieri + September Giveaway
Trivia, Teaching, and Talent with (Jeopardy) Jason Zuffranieri + September Giveaway
Math teacher Jason Zuffranieri broke headlines when he won $532,496 in a 19-Game Winning Streak on Jeopardy! in 2019. He... Read more
6 Sep 2021
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51mins
Ranked #6
Analyzing Pseudoscience with Dr. James and Alison Kaufman
Analyzing Pseudoscience with Dr. James and Alison Kaufman
Who can we trust when it comes to scientific integrity in a headline-chasing, "fake news" world? Dr. James and Alison K... Read more
28 Aug 2021
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59mins
Ranked #7
Science Goes to the Movies with Dr. David A. Kirby
Science Goes to the Movies with Dr. David A. Kirby
Science media expert Professor David A. Kirby discusses the history of science in films, the changing representation of ... Read more
7 Aug 2021
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #8
Haley Wahl: Pulsars, Physics, and Pressures in Academia
Haley Wahl: Pulsars, Physics, and Pressures in Academia
Haley Wahl, a PhD student studying pulsars and astrophysics at West Virginia University, joins us today on The Helyx Sho... Read more
31 Jul 2021
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51mins
Ranked #9
Gary Siuzdak: Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics, and Memories
Gary Siuzdak: Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics, and Memories
Dr. Gary Siuzdak is a Professor of Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology and Director of the Center for Metabol... Read more
22 Jul 2021
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #10
Episode 4: Offshore Wind Farms - Our Best Bet
Episode 4: Offshore Wind Farms - Our Best Bet
In 1991, eleven fully constructed turbines were lifted into the waters between 1.5 and 3km from the southeast shores of ... Read more
30 Jun 2021
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23mins