Science Quickly

Science Quickly episodes:

• 05.03.2024

  Introducing Science Quickly’s New Host, Rachel Feltman

  Meet Rachel Feltman, the new host of Science Quickly! Bringing a fresh perspective and infectious enthusiasm, Rachel will take you on audio journeys to far-off places, inspire you to ponder deep questions, and introduce you to people changing the world...

  
• 05.01.2024

  Can Food Work as Medicine?

  Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.29.2024

  Corals Are Once Again Bleaching En Masse, but Their Fate Isn’t Sealed

  Amid Earth’s fourth global coral bleaching event, a leading expert says tackling climate change is the key to fighting back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.26.2024

  Episode 3: A Long-Awaited Climate Experiment Is Poised to Launch in the Amazon. What Will It Find?

  Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.24.2024

  Episode 2: A Singular Climate Experiment Takes Shape in the Amazon

  After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.22.2024

  Episode 1: Will the Amazon Help Save the Planet?

  Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.19.2024

  How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu?

  Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.17.2024

  How a New AI Model Helps Volcanic History Rise from the Ashes

  Volcano detectives use artificial intelligence to sleuth out ancient secrets in Alaska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.15.2024

  Do Sperm Whales Have Culture?

  These marine mammals are very hard to observe, but in the past two decades the roughly 20 or so people in the world who study sperm whales have found some compelling evidence of culture among them. Learn more about your ad...

  
• 04.12.2024

  Measles Is Back, and That’s Scary

  Today we’re going to look at how measles—a disease that was practically eliminated in the U.S.—has resurged in recent months, because people basically forgot how bad it was and got complacent about vaccines.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.10.2024

  Did the Eclipse Give You the Amateur Astronomy Bug? Here’s How to Get Started

  Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a professional astronomer—with a passion for amateur astrophotography—and she's here to offer tips and tricks for want to get into capturing the night sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.08.2024

  A Veteran Eclipse Chaser Explains the Thrill of Totality

  The feeling of a total solar eclipse is intense, and the sights, sensations and emotions can overwhelm you even if you think you know what's coming. And we sat down with Kate Russo, a psychologist, author and Eclipse Chaser, who's...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Three Times Eclipses Eclipsed Previous Science

  From the discovery of new elements to the testing of novel theories of gravity, solar eclipses have helped spark scientific progress for centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.03.2024

  Humans Find Total Eclipses Startling. What About a Komodo Dragon?

  Eclipses can affect animals, and biologists are preparing to see what happens during totality on April 8. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 04.01.2024

  Inside the Race to Protect Artists from Artificial Intelligence

  AI-generated art is creating new ethical issues—and competition—for digital artists. Nightshade and Glaze are two tools helping creators fight back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.29.2024

  The Tale of the Snail Slime Wrangler

  Mucus is a miracle of evolution, and some researchers are trying to re-create what nature makes naturally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.27.2024

  Mucus Saves Your Life Every Day

  The slimy substance is so powerful that doctors once made hog stomach mucus milkshakes to treat ulcers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.25.2024

  Magical Mucus: On the Benefits of Getting Slimed by a Hagfish

  If you take a journey into the depths of the slime all around us, you find yourself starting to understand that mucus is a miracle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.22.2024

  How Artificial Intelligence Helped Write this Award-Winning Song

  Machine-learning algorithms allow composers to create all-new instruments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.20.2024

  Why Short Naps Are Good for You

  A quick nap can boost your memory, your mood and even your creativity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.18.2024

  The Great Debate: Could We Ever Travel through Time?

  Our space and physics editors go head-to-head over a classic mind-bending question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.15.2024

  The Science behind Humpback Whales’ Eerie Songs

  Scientists have long wondered how baleen whales make their songs, and a new study has finally uncovered the anatomical workings behind their melodies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.14.2024

  Large Study of ME/CFS Patients Reveals Measurable Physical Changes

  Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, long dismissed by doctors, causes immune system dysfunction and other problems. But treatments are lacking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.11.2024

  Hunger in Gaza Could Affect Survivors' Health for Decades

  Epigenetics research reveals how famines can cause health problems later in life — and how these changes might be passed down to later generations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.08.2024

  These Invasive Ants Are Changing How Lions Hunt

  On the African savanna, a single invasive ant species has upset the delicate balance between predator and prey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.04.2024

  Should You Swab Your Throat Plus Your Nose for COVID?

  Nose-plus-throat could increase test accuracy—but could create problems too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.01.2024

  Is This the Earliest Evidence of Human Cannibalism?

  A newly-examined munch mark on a tibia has become a real pleistocene whodunit. By Natalia Raegan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 02.28.2024

  What Do You Mean, Bisexual People Are ‘Risk-Taking’? Why Genetic Studies about Sexuality Can Be Fraught

  A recent GWAS investigation on risk-taking and bisexuality made some assumptions that some experts don’t agree with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 02.23.2024

  Asexuality Research Has Reached New Heights. What Are We Learning?

  A grassroots online movement has helped shift the way scientists think about asexuality. But much is still unknown. This is part four of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 02.21.2024

  How to Close the Orgasm Gap for Heterosexual Couples

  Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves. Part three of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 02.16.2024

  Dominatrices Are Showing People How to Have Rough Sex Safely

  Research shows rough sex is becoming more common. Dominatrices are helping the general public catch up. Hosted by Meghan McDonough, this is part two of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

  
• 02.14.2024

  How to Explore Your Sexuality, according to Science

  Part one of a four-part series on the science of pleasure, hosted by Meghan McDonough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 02.12.2024

  You Can't Fix Burnout With Self-Care

  Individual interventions for burnout don’t work. Researchers explain why. Hosted by Shayla Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 02.09.2024

  How April’s Eclipse Will Solve Solar Mysteries

  On April 8, we’re in for a treat. A total solar eclipse will be visible across a broad swath of North America, giving us a view of the edges of the sun as the moon passes in front of its...

  
• 02.07.2024

  When Will We Finally Have Sex In Space?

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• 02.05.2024

  How Is This Ancient Cattle Breed Fighting Wildfires in Portugal?

  Portugal is one of the most vulnerable countries in Europe to climate change. Straddling the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic regions, it’s part of a climate change hot spot. Some of the biggest fuels are shrubs. One study found that shrubland covers 1.6 million...

  
• 02.05.2024

  The Government's Former UFO Hunter Has a Lot to Say

  For the last decade, reports of UFO sightings have filled headlines and news broadcasts, and some of these have from a surprising place—the Pentagon. Former defense officials have made a number of claims about, and released videos of, strange sightings...

  
• 01.31.2024

  Quantum Computers Might Make All of Your Private Data Less Secure

  Experts are starting to plan for the moment when a quantum computer large enough to crack the backbone of the math that keeps things secret will be turned on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 01.30.2024

  For 60+ years, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines have evaded scientists. But now that's changed [Sponsored]

  This year, healthcare providers have tools to help prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV for older adults.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 01.29.2024

  New IVF Test Could Increase Chances of Pregnancy Success

  Today’s episode covers a topic that many parents-to-be have struggled with: fertility. In vitro fertilization offers a path to pregnancy for people fortunate enough to be able to access it. But predicting the success of an implanted embryo is hard....

  
• 01.27.2024

  How to Save Indigenous Languages

  From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under threat. An Indian linguist helped preserve one language family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 01.23.2024

  Can AI Predict When You Die?

  A new study used machine learning on 6 million Danish people to "autocomplete" their life trajectories –— and when they might kick the bucket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 01.19.2024

  The Best Way to Use Home COVID Tests Right Now

  In today’s episode, we want to talk about some of the current challenges with using home COVID tests. When you first have symptoms, a change in how your body reacts to the virus could lead to a test result showing...

  
• 01.17.2024

  From Drunken Stupor to Sober with One (Hormone) Shot

  We all have our tricks for sobering up after a night of drunken revelry: maybe a pot of black coffee or an ice-cold shower. But for mice in a certain lab in Texas, all it takes is a shot. No,...

  
• 01.12.2024

  How Does the World’s Largest Seabird Know Where to Fly?

  Imagine for a moment that you’re a very hungry bird soaring over 30-foot ocean swells in high winds, with no land for thousands of miles. How do you know where you’re going? If you’re a wandering albatross, you listen. But listen to...

  
• 01.08.2024

  Without the Moon, You Wouldn't Exist (Probably)

  The moon has guided our movements and cultures, and though we may think we know it well, it still guards some of its deepest secrets from us. A new book from Rebecca Boyle take us on a deep dive into...

  
• 01.05.2024

  The Strange and Beautiful Science Of Our Lives

  Nell Greenfieldboyce discusses her new book Transient and Strange, the intimacy of the essays and the science that inspired them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 01.03.2024

  The Surprising Health Benefits of Dog Ownership

  Dogs are good for you, science says Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 12.29.2023

  Podcasts of the Year: Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace

  In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she’s an urban legend. But who was she? 2023 editor's pick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 12.27.2023

  Podcasts of the Year: Talking to Animals using Artificial Intelligence

  Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could have us at the brink of interspecies communication Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices