Science Magazine Podcast
Science Magazine
Categories: Science & Medicine
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First up on the podcast, freelance journalist Evan Howell traveled to Cape Blossom, Alaska, where the receding coastline has revealed an ancient trove of glacial ice that may have survived for 350,000 years—making it the oldest ice in the Northern Hemisphere. Now researchers just need to figure out how to date it. Next on the show, tracking wolves and ravens in Yellowstone National Park shows the birds don’t follow the wolves in hope of a meal, but instead remember and revisit frequent wolf kill sites. Matthias-Claudio Loretto, assistant professor in the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, discusses how this might change the way we think about scavengers’ strategies for finding their ephemeral food sources. Finally, Claire Bedbrook, the Helen Hay Whitney and Wu Tsai neuroscience postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, discusses her work tracking African turquoise killifish over their life span. By capturing behaviors over the course of the fish’s entire lives, her team was able to observe behaviors that could be used to predict whether a fish would live a short or long life. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous episodes
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1220 - What Alaska’s eroding coastline says about Earth’s future, and how Yellowstone ravens use their smarts to find wolf killsThu, 12 Mar 2026
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1219 - An alleged nuclear blast may reignite weapons testing, and who owns the MoonThu, 05 Mar 2026
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1218 - Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgeryThu, 26 Feb 2026
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1217 - Matching sounds to shapes, and stories from the AAAS annual meetingThu, 19 Feb 2026
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1216 - Building better working dogs, and watching a black hole formThu, 12 Feb 2026
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1215 - Engineering safer football helmets, and the science behind drug overdosesThu, 05 Feb 2026
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1214 - Shielding astronauts from cosmic rays, and planning the end of fossil fuelsThu, 29 Jan 2026
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1213 - Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbesThu, 22 Jan 2026
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1212 - Reversing ecological destruction in the Galápagos, and finally mapping Antarctica’s surfaceThu, 15 Jan 2026
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1211 - The real da Vinci code, and the world’s oldest poison arrowsThu, 08 Jan 2026
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1210 - Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, tooThu, 01 Jan 2026
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1209 - This year’s biggest breakthrough and top news storiesThu, 18 Dec 2025
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1208 - Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heatThu, 11 Dec 2025
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1207 - Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanicsThu, 04 Dec 2025
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1206 - When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beatThu, 27 Nov 2025
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1205 - A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog researchThu, 20 Nov 2025
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1204 - Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sinkThu, 13 Nov 2025
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1203 - Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouseThu, 06 Nov 2025
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1202 - Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe endsThu, 30 Oct 2025
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1201 - The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanishThu, 23 Oct 2025
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1200 - Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight diseaseThu, 16 Oct 2025
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1199 - How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wineThu, 09 Oct 2025
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1198 - A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sighThu, 02 Oct 2025
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1197 - Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient worldThu, 25 Sep 2025
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1196 - Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mysteryThu, 18 Sep 2025
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1195 - An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floorThu, 11 Sep 2025
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1194 - Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricketThu, 04 Sep 2025
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1193 - A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing deadThu, 28 Aug 2025
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1192 - New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin AmericaThu, 21 Aug 2025
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1191 - Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?Thu, 14 Aug 2025
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1190 - Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to liveThu, 07 Aug 2025
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1189 - Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the deadThu, 31 Jul 2025
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1188 - Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relativesThu, 24 Jul 2025
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1187 - Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteriaThu, 17 Jul 2025
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1186 - A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomesThu, 10 Jul 2025
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1185 - Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on MarsThu, 03 Jul 2025
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1184 - Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient AnatoliaThu, 26 Jun 2025
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1183 - How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomyThu, 19 Jun 2025
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1182 - Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate changeThu, 12 Jun 2025
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1181 - Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of scienceThu, 05 Jun 2025
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1180 - Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity researchThu, 29 May 2025
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1179 - Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’Thu, 22 May 2025
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1178 - A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimesThu, 15 May 2025
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1177 - Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook scienceThu, 08 May 2025
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1176 - Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’Thu, 01 May 2025
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1175 - A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book seriesThu, 24 Apr 2025
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1174 - Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wanderThu, 17 Apr 2025
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1173 - The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIHThu, 10 Apr 2025
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1172 - Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancyThu, 03 Apr 2025
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1171 - Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robotsThu, 27 Mar 2025
