Science Magazine Podcast
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First up on the podcast, Réunion Island had a shark attack crisis in 2011 and closed its beaches for more than a decade. Former News Intern Alexa Robles-Gil joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how researchers have used that time to study the island’s shark populations and test techniques for preventing attacks, in the hopes of protecting lives and reopening the island’s shores. Next on the show, engineering gut microbes to break down the precursors of kidney stones. Weston Whitaker, a research scientist at Stanford University, joins the podcast to discuss how he and his team created a stable niche for these useful microbes in the human gut and overcame some of the challenges of controlling them once inside. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Alexa Robles-Gil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous episodes
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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
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1170 - Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the seaThu, 20 Mar 2025
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1169 - Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIHThu, 13 Mar 2025
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1168 - Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump TrackerThu, 06 Mar 2025
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1167 - Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads homeThu, 27 Feb 2025
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1166 - Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvabilityThu, 20 Feb 2025
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1165 - Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pantsThu, 13 Feb 2025
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1164 - How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle EarthThu, 06 Feb 2025
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1163 - Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administrationThu, 30 Jan 2025
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1162 - Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicineThu, 23 Jan 2025
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1161 - Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eatersThu, 16 Jan 2025
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1160 - Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprintsThu, 09 Jan 2025
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1159 - On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animalsThu, 02 Jan 2025
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1158 - Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby mindsThu, 19 Dec 2024
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1157 - Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updatesThu, 12 Dec 2024
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1156 - Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling techThu, 05 Dec 2024
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1155 - Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexistedThu, 28 Nov 2024
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1154 - Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevityThu, 21 Nov 2024
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1153 - Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remainsThu, 14 Nov 2024
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1152 - Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffersThu, 07 Nov 2024
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1151 - The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosityThu, 31 Oct 2024
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1150 - Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imaginationThu, 24 Oct 2024
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1149 - How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athleteThu, 17 Oct 2024
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1148 - Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny waterThu, 10 Oct 2024
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1147 - Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farmsThu, 03 Oct 2024
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1146 - Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twinsThu, 26 Sep 2024
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1145 - Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a ratThu, 19 Sep 2024
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1144 - Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasoundThu, 12 Sep 2024
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1143 - Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?Thu, 05 Sep 2024
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1142 - A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalismThu, 29 Aug 2024
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1141 - Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remoteThu, 22 Aug 2024
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1140 - The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterpriseThu, 15 Aug 2024
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1139 - The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famineThu, 08 Aug 2024
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1138 - Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopyThu, 01 Aug 2024
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