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October 10, 2025·1 hr 37 min·5 clips

This episode of This Week in Science covers the 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics (quantum mechanical tunneling), Chemistry (metal organic frameworks), and Physiology/Medicine (regulatory T cells and immune tolerance), alongside stories about a promising blood test for ME/CFS, genetic adaptations of the Turkana people of Kenya, traditional ant-based yogurt fermentation from Turkey and Bulgaria, and black widow spider pheromones that smell like cheesy feet. The hosts discuss the broader implications of each discovery while weaving in commentary on academic freedom, science funding, and the long lag between scientific discovery and Nobel recognition.

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A lively science-news conversation that ranges from academic freedom to black widows and diet research.

This Week in Science begins with a real tension: how science answers to politics while still pressing for answers of its own. The conversation moves briskly from academic freedom to black widows, cheesy feet, and the odd mechanics of smell, with the hosts thinking aloud, joking,…

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