Science Magazine Podcast
Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease
First up on the podcast, Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how climate is pushing the disease-carryi...
Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas
First up on the podcast, will it ever make economic sense to produce drugs and biomedical supplies in space? Associate Online News Editor Michael Gres...
Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome
First up on the podcast, the News team’s Diverse Voices in Science Journalism interns Mona Patterson and Laura Martín Agudelo join host Sarah Crespi t...
A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding
First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi for the latest science policy news. The two discuss recent grant...
Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA
First up on the podcast, Deputy News Editor Michael Price discusses the history of the North American bison population, its decline, and resurrection—...
AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography
First up on the podcast, we catch up with Celina Zhao, a staff reporter for Science’s AI In Science reporting initiative. She talks with host Sarah Cr...
Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters
First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Brendan Borrell talks about his work reporting on the previously undisclosed death of a 6-year-o...
Health care in Malawi after USAID’s end, and a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere
First up on the podcast, we continue our coverage of the fallout from cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), this time focusin...
Owl wars and the immune system’s memory
First up on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall goes on an owl hunt in the woods of Northern California. After surviving logging a...
How Antarctica got its ice sheets, and what happens when geopolitical relationships turn chilly in the Arctic
First up on the podcast, relationships turn chilly in the polar research haven of Svalbard in Norway. Senior International Correspondent Richard Stone...