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Science Talk is a weekly science audio show covering the latest in the world of science and technology. Join Steve Mirsky each week as he explores cutting-edge breakthroughs and controversial issues with leading scientists and journalists. He is also an articles editor and…
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- What Is the PM25 Pollution Measurement
- Why Is China Getting Significantly Better in Their Pollution Levels
- What Is Indoor Air Pollution
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- How Are We Victims of Our Own Success
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- Science Book Talk, Episode 1: the Many Mysteries of Fish
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- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 8: the Blue Oaks of Sequoia
- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 7: Into the Wilderness by Canoe
- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 6: Yellowstone Bison and Marsh Birds
- The Deepest Dive to Find the Secrets of the Whales
- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 5: a Northwoods Voyage
- First in Space: New Yuri Gagarin Biography Shares Hidden Side of Cosmonaut
- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 4: Beautiful Swamp
- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 3: Where Lewis and Clark Trod
- National Park Nature Walks, Episode 2: Sequoia Heights
- National Parks Nature Walk, Episode 1: Rocky Mountains
- AI Can Now Debate with Humans and Sometimes Convince Them, Too
- Climate Change Could Shred Guitars Known for Shredding
- On Finding Yourself in a Butterfly's Wings
- A Breakdown of Beavers
- America on Dialysis
- What Science Has Learned About the Coronavirus One Year on
- 2020's Top Ten Tech Innovations
- Inventing Us: How Inventions Shaped Humanity
- 175 Years of Scientific American: the Good, the Bad, and Debunking
- Bread Science: a Yeasty Conversation
- The Coming or Possibly Nearly Here Storm
- COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues
- How Your Homes and Buildings Affect You
- African-Americans, Nature and Environmental Justice
- How Nature Helps Body and Soul
- The Messenger Is the Message
- Air, Sea and Space: Ocean Health, Atmosphere Insights and Black Holes
- Science on the Hill: Calculating Climate
- Your Brain, Free Will and the Law
- No, No, Nobel: How to Lose the Prize
- Galileo's Fight against Science Denial
- Where Is Everybody Else in the Universe?
- Why Exercise Is So Good for You
- COVID-19: What the Autopsies Reveal
- COVID-19: The Need for Secure Labs--and Their Risks
- Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why
- COVID-19: Predicting the Path and Analyzing Immunity
- COVID-19: How and Why the Virus Spreads Quickly
- COVID-19: The Wildlife Trade and Human Disease
- David Quammen: How Animal Infections Spill Over to Humans
- COVID-19: Dealing With Social Distancing
- Coronavirus Hot Zone: Research and Responses in the U.S. Epicenter
- Coronavirus Hot Zone: The View from the U.S. Epicenter
- The New Cosmos: A Conversation with Ann Druyan
- Advancing Efforts in Disease Interception
- Kirk, Spock and Darwin
- How to Make a Mass Extinction
- 150 Years of the Journal Nature
- Lithium-Ion Battery Creators Win Chemistry Nobel Prize
- How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Talking Health and Energy at U.N. Climate Action Summit
- Kicking Climate Change: Wins for Health, the Economy and Security
- The Mathematical Language of Nature
- Jacks of All Trades Make the Grade
- It's Melting: Science on Ice
- Joseph Lange's Campaign against HIV
- Bone Up on What's Inside You
- Solving Our Plastic Problem
- Secrets of the Universe Revealed!
- How the Black Hole Said Cheese
- A Tree and Its People in a Warming Landscape
- Science Couple Phages Out Superbug
- On the Origin of Darwin
- Warming Arctic on Thin Ice
- Fake Whiskeys and Octo-Ecstasy
- Ultima Thule and the Apes of Earth
- Meet the Real Ravenmaster
- The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2
- The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1
- Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology
- Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness
- Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics
- Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Where There's a Wills There's a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise
- More People, but Less Hardship?
- Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid
- Life at the Improv: the Power of Imagination
- Out with the Bad Science
- AI, Robotics and Your Health
- Dinosaurs: From Humble Beginnings to Global Dominance
- Humans Evolved but Are Still Special
- A Brain Deprived of Memory
- Blockchain beyond Bitcoin: The Energy Sector
- Enrico Fermi: the Last Man Who Knew Everything
- A Future for American Energy
- The Skinny on Fat
- Your Brain Is So Easily Fooled
- Come on and Zoom (through the Universe)
- Monsters: Not Just for Halloween
- Maryn McKenna's <i>Big Chicken,</i> Part 2
- Maryn McKenna's <i>Big Chicken,</i> Part 1
- Nobel Prize Explainer: Catching Proteins in the Act
- Nobel Prize Explainer: Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector
- Nobel Prize Explainer: Circadian Rhythm's Oscillatory Control Mechanism
- Does Evolution Repeat Itself?
- The Great American Eclipse
- Curiouser and Curiouser
- The Shark That Conquered the Whorl
- Undersea National Monument Could Be Left High and Dry
- Wacky Florida's Weird Science
- The Gestation Equation: Testing Babies' Genes
- 5G Wiz: What's on the Horizon for Mobile
- Take the Tube: Underground as a Way of Life
- Killer Cats Bash Biodiversity
- Dogging It: Turning Wild Foxes into Man's Second-Best Friend
- What's Driving the Self-Driving Cars Rush
- Biology's Lessons for Business
- Churchill's Extraterrestrials
- Rapid-Response Vaccines for Epidemic Outbreaks
- Exit Interview: Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren
- We're Taking You to Bellevue
- Best Science Books of 2016
- Getting Robots to Say No
- How Myths Evolve over Time and Migrations
- Attack On the Internet: Weak-Link Nanny Cams
- Flint's Water and Environmental Justice
- Chemistry Nobel Prize: Machines Too Small to See
- Physics Nobel Prize: Buns, Bagels and Pretzels Help Explain Exotic Matter
- Nobel Prize Explainer: Autophagy
- They Do What?!: the Wide Wild World of Animal Sex
- Big Bang of Body Types: Sports Science at the Olympics and beyond
- Grand Canyon Rapids Ride for Evolution Education
- The Science of Soldiering: Mary Roach's <i>Grunt</i>
- Electric Eels versus Horses: Shocking but True
- Tiger, Tiger, Being Tracked
- Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest
- Sean M. Carroll Looks at the Big Picture
- The Bowling Ball That Invaded Earth
- Different Minds: the Wide World of Animal Smarts
- The Perfect Bet: Taking the Gambling out of Gambling
- Gorilla's Hum Is a Do-Not-Disturb Sign
- Bill Gates Wants a Miracle
- From AI to Zika: AAAS Conference Highlights
- Gravitational Waves Found: Kip Thorne Explains
- The Big Gath Dig: Goliath's Hometown
- Roman Sanitation Didn't Stop Roaming Parasites
- Evolution Still on Trial 10 Years after Dover
- Lifting the Visor on Virtual Reality
- The Epic History of the Horse
- Math Can Equal Fun
- Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own
- Chemistry Nobel: Keeping DNA in Good Repair
- Physics Nobel: Neutrinos <i>Do</i> Have Mass
- Medicine Nobel: Sifting Nature for Antiparasite Drugs
- The Hunt for the Fat Gene
- The Errors of Albert
- Public Health Hero Jimmy Carter; <i>SA</i> Turns 170
- Olympics Loser Boston Wins Big Economically
- Betting Lots of Quatloos on the Search for Alien Civilizations, Part 2
- Betting Lots of Quatloos on the Search for Alien Civilizations, Part 1
- Pluto Mission Finally Calls Home
- Pluto, Ready for Your Close-Up!
- Restore Research to Preserve the American Dream
- Migratory Birds: What a Long-Range Trip It's Been
- Take a Bite out of the Math of Math
- Animals Don't Use Facebook but They Have Social Networks, Too
- Mississippi Mound Builders Meet the 33rd Legion
- The Ebola Outbreak: Past, Present and Future
- Humans and the Amazon: A 13,000-Year Coexistence
- The Placement Excitation: <i>Scientific American</i> on <i>The Big Bang Theory</i>
- <i>Science Goes to the Movies</i>: A New TV Program
- Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 2: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann
- Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 1: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann
- Best of Thanksgiving, Part 2: Let's Talk Stuffing—Your Face!
- Best of Thanksgiving, Part 1: Let's Talk Turkey!
- Doctors Without Borders Fight on Ebola's Front Lines
- Ebola Expert Update
- Let's Get Small: a Panel on Nanoscience
- Building a Better Microscope: 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Blue Light Special: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
- The Map in Your Mind: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Kodiak Update: <i>Scientific American</i> Alaska Cruise, Part 4
- The Juneau Tour: <i>Scientific American</i> Alaska Cruise, Part 3
- Juneau Where I Am: <i>Scientific American</i> Alaska Cruise, Part 2
- Catch Me If You Ketchikan: <i>Scientific American</i> Alaska Cruise, Part 1
- Shakespeare and Science, Part 2
- Shakespeare and Science, Part 1
- Furious New Science Fiction from Mark Alpert
- Under the Dome: <i>Scientific American</i> Editor in Chief Talks to the Senate
- Wild Sex: Beyond the Birds and the Bees
- What's So Funny?: the Science of Humor
- Hunting the Wild Neutrino
- Sometimes the Hoofprints Are from Zebras
- The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2
- The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1
- Take Me Out to the Run Expectancy Matrix Analysis
- Found in Space, Part 2
- Found in Space, Part 1
- From Gadgets to Galaxies: Conference Reports
- Fighting Cancer with Physics
- The Man Who Wasn't Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace on the Centenary of His Death
- Perv-View: Jesse Bering's New Book <i>PERV</i>
- The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Karplus, Levitt and Warshel
- The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Englert and Higgs
- The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Rothman, Schekman and Südhof
- Alan Alda Communicates Science
- Ira Flatow and the Teachable Moment
- Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (the Real Kind) Part 2
- Kids JUMP for Math [John Mighton's Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies]
- Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (the Real Kind), Part 1
- Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto: the Threatened Enlightenment
- Penis Enlightenment: Bering Straight Talk
- Close Shave for Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Is There a Doctor in the Spaceship?
- Mary Roach Cruises the Alimentary Canal
- Start Talking: Synthetic Biology and Conservation Biology Meet, Part 2
- Start Talking: Synthetic Biology and Conservation Biology Meet, Part 1
- Imagine All the People Turning Blue and Green
- Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 2
- Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 1
- CSI: 19th-Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science
- John Rennie Hacks the Planet
- Inside Isaac: a Discussion of Newton, Part 2
- Inside Isaac: a Discussion of Newton, Part 1
- <i>Extinction</i>: New Sci-Fi from Mark Alpert
- Science and Tech in President Obama's SOTU
- Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 2
- Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 1
- Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 2
- Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 1
- Creativity's Dark Side: Dan Ariely on Creativity, Rationalization and Dishonesty
- Darwin in Space: How Multigenerational Missions Could Shape Human Evolution
- David Quammen: the Spillover of Animal Infections to Humans
- Scientific American after Sandy
- The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
- The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- The Climate of Climate Science
- The Flynn Effect: Modernity Made Us Smarter
- What's Next for Curiosity on Mars
- Curiosity Lands on Mars
- Plants Know Stuff
- Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better
- The Transit of Venus, Part 2
- The Transit of Venus, Part 1
- Virus Victors: People Who Control HIV
- The Football Concussion Crisis
- Killer Chimps and Funny Feet: Report from the AAPA Conference
- Getting Guinea Worm Gone: Report from the AHCJ Conference
- Food Poisoning's Lasting Legacy
- Fukushima Anniversary: We Listen Back
- AAAS Report: Fracking, Whale Rights, Higgs Evidence and <i>Twitter</i> Truthiness
- If You're Happy, How You Know It
- The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis
- More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance
- Fecal Transplants: the Straight Poop
- State of the Union: Research, Technology and Energy
- A Second Science Front: Evolution Champions Rise to Climate Science Defense
- Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy
- Man from Mars: Health and Nutrition Research at Mars, Inc., and Beyond
- The <i>YouTube</i> SpaceLab Competition
- Large Hadron Collider Backgrounder
- Out of Our Depth: Sea Level on the Rise
- Brian Greene Talks Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
- The Mind's Hidden Switches
- The Discovery of Quasicrystals: the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- An Accelerating Universe: the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Cancer Vaccines
- Science Legend Christian de Duve
- Carl Zimmer on Rats, Cats, Viruses and Tattoos
- Carl Zimmer on Evolution in the Big City
- The City That Became Safe: What New York Teaches about Urban Crime and Its Control
- Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: the Orchestra in the Cell
- Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk
- Let's Make a Probabilistic Deal: a Fresh Look at the Monty Hall Problem
- How Physics Limits Intelligence
- Dying for Science: the 100th Anniversary of the Doomed Scott Antarctic Expedition
- Skirting Steak: the Case for Artificial Meat
- Astronaut Love: An Interview with Spacewalker Stanley Love
- Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports
- Can It Be Bad to Be Too Clean?: the Hygiene Hypothesis
- Self-Aware Robots?
- The Cornucopia Conference: Roundtable on the AAAS Meeting
- The Spirit of Innovation: From High School to the Moon
- What's New with Science News
- Jefferson's Moose: Thomas's Fauna Fight against European Naturalists
- What Is the Watson Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer, Alex?
- Vinod Khosla: Searching for the Radical Solution
- How You Gonna Keep Flu Down on the Farm?: Pig Farms and Public Health
- Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy
- The Spewings of Titan (and More from the AGU Meeting)
- Let's Talk Stuffing--Your Face
- Let's Talk Turkey!
- Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
- Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg
- Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race For The Double Helix of DNA (Part 2 of 2)
- Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race for the Double Helix of DNA, Part 1 of 2
- The Quest for the Giant Pumpkin
- Not Your Grandfather's <i>Scientific American</i>
- The Harlem Science Renaissance
- Totally Bogus: the Science Talk Quiz
- Exactly When Is a Person Dead?
- Could Time End?
- The End: Death, Endings and Things That Should End
- Cooking for Geeks: Jeff Potter on Experimenting in the Kitchen
- Mary Roach Is Packing for Mars, Part 2
- Mary Roach Is Packing for Mars, Part 1
- When Humans Almost Died Out; Earthy Exoplanets; And <i>Scientific American</i>'s 165th Birthday
- Arguing with Non-Skeptics, Part 2 of 2
- Arguing with Non-Skeptics, Part 1 of 2
- Whiz Kids: Intel Science Talent Search Documentary
- Will Your Plug-In Car Actually Be Coal-Powered? And Other July Stories
- Paul Dirac: "the Strangest Man" of Science, Part 2
- "the Strangest Man" of Science, Part 1
- Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos to Galileo
- The Big Dozen: 12 Events That Will Change Everything
- Remembering Martin Gardner, with Douglas Hofstadter
- More from MacMania: Kindle v. iPad, Mac v. PC and App Development
- David Pogue on Tech, Twitter and Transgenic Goats
- Your Inner Healers: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and More
- Bill McKibben's <i>Eaarth</i>, Part 2
- Bill McKibben's <i>Eaarth</i>, Part 1
- Invisible Ink and More: the Science of Spying in the Revolutionary War
- The Science of Staying in Love; and Scientists as Communicators--and Heroes
- From Eternity to Here: Sean M. Carroll's Quest to Understand Time
- Are We Pushing Earth's Environmental Tipping Points?
- The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
- Where's My Fusion Reactor?
- Algae, Art and Attitudes: A Roundtable about the AAAS Conference
- <i>The Poisoner's Handbook</i>: The Sinister Side of Chemistry
- Ice, Ice, Baby: the Physics of Curling
- Whaddaya Do with a Dead Whale?
- Cleopatra's Alexandria Treasures
- The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
- Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics
- The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
- Mining for Online Game Gold and Other Amazing Stories
- Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2
- Alan Alda's Human Spark
- The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
- Christmas Season Science
- Bonus Bogus Brainteaser
- Copenhagen and Everywhere Else
- World Changing Ideas: December's <i>Scientific American</i>
- Bogus Brainteaser
- John Rennie's 7 Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
- Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
- Tree Ring Science and Tomorrow's Water
- Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and "Becoming Human" <i>NOVA</i> Preview
- Human Evolution: Lucy and Neandertals
- Brain Enhancement: October Issue of <i>Scientific American</i>
- New Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak and <i>Surrogates</i> Film Director Jonathan Mostow
- Clean Energy Contest; and Counting Crickets and Katydids
- Where There Was Smoke, There's Science
- Origins of Everything: The September <i>Scientific American</i> Magazine
- Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Beeswax
- To Bee or Not to Bee
- Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid
- Swimming in Spacetime and Other Stories
- Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy
- Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 3
- Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 2
- Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 1
- Atul Gawande Redux
- Hello Moon, Good-Bye Rennie
- Panamania!: a Visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- The Truth about Cats and Dogs
- High Achievement High Schoolers
- Beauty Is Truth (and Science)
- People, Pan Troglodytes (Chimps) and Pigs
- Sherwin Nuland's Tales from the Bedside
- Life Goes on within You and without You: Health and the Environment
- Why People Believe What They Do
- From Dark Energy to Lone Star Lunacy
- What Shape Is Your Galaxy?
- In Search of Time
- Phrasing a Coyne: Jerry Coyne on Why Evolution Is True
- From Spooky Action to Tiny Radios
- Remarkable Creatures (and Getting Them Fixed)
- Stars of Cosmology, Part 2
- Stars of Cosmology, Part 1
- Darwin Day Special, Part 3: Origins of Paleontology and the Impact of Religion on the Development of Evolutionary Theory
- Darwin Day Special, Part 2: Evolutionary Psychology and Religion
- Darwin Day Special: Bicentennial of the Birth of Charles Darwin
- The Naked Singularity Meets Social Media
- CO<sub>2</sub> Rising: Follow the Bouncing Carbon Atom
- Darwin: Ghostbuster, Muse and Magistrate
- From Astronomy to Zune
- The Evolution of Evolution
- The Manhattan Project and the Met
- Christmas at the Moon; and <i>Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind</i>
- From Carbon to the Cretaceous: Report from the American Geophysical Union Meeting
- Klaatu's Back and He's Not Happy
- The Science of Pain
- Viruses against Disease; Going Batty for Bats
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