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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects current research to the methods, histories, and ethical choices that shape scientific knowledge.
Science Magazine Podcast turns current research into conversations about how knowledge is produced, tested, and applied. Sarah Crespi and Kevin McLean move easily between subjects as different as quantum-computer cooling, chimpanzee group conflict, coastal erosion, raven…
A rare chimpanzee split is your cue to ask what 30 years in the forest can tell us.
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A compact science hour that runs from quantum cooling to prediction markets and the human side of research.
Science starts by pairing quantum cooling with a route away from a rare helium isotope, then moves into a policy discussion of prediction markets and the public-health risks they can pose.
A precise history of how human-subject research widened, then ran into its own ethical limits.
The Normals Episode 2 traces the NIH human-subjects program as it moves beyond its original peace-church volunteers and into a wider pool of healthy participants, while making clear why the setup started to look ethically and scientifically unstable.
Careful science reporting on a rare chimp group split.
This Science episode takes up a chimpanzee split that almost never happens and follows it with patience. It explains why chimp groups rarely divide, how researchers track behavior in the forest with a team that is out there almost every day, and why chimps are not all in the…
A human research program comes into focus through ethics, drug studies, psychiatric sessions, and Dale's risky first haircut.
The Normals opens with the rise of large-scale human research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, then narrows its focus through Dale's letters and memories.
A cosmic expansion measurement becomes a grounded look at how researchers weigh galaxy clusters and track their motion.
Science Podcast makes a cosmological measurement problem feel like a practical investigation into how the universe's expansion gets calculated.
A brisk science roundup linking Alaska's cliffs, fish lifespans, and wolves and ravens in Yellowstone.
Science moves from Alaska's eroding cliffs to a fish's lifespan to wolves and ravens in Yellowstone, and it uses that range well. The strongest throughline is the sense of researchers pressing against limits: an ancient glacier as a window into Earth's climate history, machine…
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
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This episode covers new tech for cooling quantum computers without helium-3, potential harms of prediction markets, and a bonus segment on podcasting's impact on a PhD student.
This episode explores the history of the NIH's use of conscientious objectors as healthy volunteers in medical research during the 1950s.
Science Podcast for April 9, 2026 pairs Hannah Richter on NASA’s 2028 nuclear Mars mission with Aaron Sandell on 30 years of Ngogo chimpanzee observation in Kibale National Park, Uganda.
Science Magazine Podcast's The Normals | Episode 1 examines how the National Institutes of Health recruited healthy human volunteers through Mennonite and Church of the Brethren service programs in the 1950s.
This episode covers a new method using gravitational lensing to calculate the Hubble constant and discusses the integrated stress response in the brain as a therapeutic target for cognitive dysfunctions.
This episode covers resurrection plants' drought survival mechanisms, chatbot-induced overconfidence, and planetary science in the film Project Hail Mary.
This episode covers new dating results for Chile's Monteverde archaeological site and a review of groundwater management approaches.
Rodrigo Perez-Ortega reports that the Mexico City airport excavation recovered an estimated 500 mammoths across deposits spanning roughly 30,000 years.
This episode covers research on shark populations and attack prevention on Reunion Island, and engineering gut microbes to break down kidney stone precursors.
This episode covers space-related news including chemical hints of life on an exoplanet and fungal spores in the stratosphere, plus segments on the science of tickling and a book interview about aging and immortality.
This episode covers NIH news updates, a discussion on using science to improve health, and research on pain illusions.
On the March 7, 2025, Science Magazine Podcast, Sarah Crespi covers US research policy, genetic genealogy, and perinatal intrusive thoughts.