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Bill Nye is on a mission to change the world — one voicemail at a time. Bill and science writer Corey S. Powell take your burning questions and put them to the world's leading experts on just about every topic in the universe. Should you stop eating cheeseburgers to combat climate change? Could alien life be swimming inside the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? Does your pet parakeet learn to sing the way that you learned to speak? Bill, Corey, and their special guests will answer those questions and convince you that... science rules!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bill Nye and Corey S. Powell turn big scientific questions into energetic, evidence-minded conversations grounded in concrete examples.
Bill Nye turns broad scientific questions into animated conversations with science writer and editor Corey S. Powell, guests, and callers. The range runs from environmental noise and vertebrate evolution to dark matter detection, swimming mechanics, and the physics behind James…
Bill Nye asks why a working dark matter detector still has nothing to show you.
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Two climate voicemails show how evidence turns political, with fossil fuel influence hovering over the divide.
Politics becomes the pressure point here, as the episode asks why climate change is still treated like a partisan fight when its facts have been heavily researched.
A vaccine race shaped by mouse results, participant safety, and political pressure.
A vaccine maker's chief medical officer stands where an accelerated timetable meets a public story already charged by politics. The episode follows the effort to test and approve a coronavirus vaccine quickly without losing sight of clinical benefit or participant health.
A sharp health care ethics discussion about technology, access, and the systems meant to serve sick people.
The episode weighs whether health care can absorb a new wave of technology without making access even more unequal. Its clearest section turns on Baumol's disease: a symphony still needs the same players and instruments, while health care is framed as Moore's law in reverse,…
Bennu's odd shape and subtle Yarkovsky force turn asteroid science into a focused story about origins and prevention.
Bennu gives the episode a useful center of gravity: an asteroid treated less as distant rock than as an archaeological site for questions about Earth's raw materials and the possibility of life elsewhere. Bill Nye and science writer and editor Corey S.
A clear look at UV as a pandemic-era indoor safety tool, strongest on ventilation mechanics and exposure cautions.
Ultraviolet light gets a grounded pass here as a possible tool for making indoor dining and shopping less risky during the pandemic. The episode is most useful when it stays with the practical setup: air-handling systems, upper-room germicidal zones, ventilation, air movement,…
Bill Nye turns the shift from water to land into a clear, question-led discussion of evolution and anatomy.
Bill Nye and Corey S. Powell move through a familiar evolutionary puzzle: how an aquatic transitional life form could adapt to land, and what that reveals about animal body plans.
A grounded science-history conversation built around the discovery of ignorance.
Bill Nye and Corey Powell guide a wide-ranging talk with Yuval Noah Harari from COVID-era cooperation to agriculture, birth spacing, and the scientific revolution.
A playful science conversation about how rocks, life, and stardust fit into the same story.
Werner Herzog turns meteorites and stardust into a meditation on how life might share the same basic material as rocks and people. Bill Nye keeps the discussion tied to first principles, pressing on what is actually being claimed when the claim is that humans are one way the…
Particle accelerators, compost piles and Queen's guitarist, all explained.
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
APA's Kim Mills interviews psychology researchers on tipping, crying, and extremism.
Bill Nye and science writer Corey S.
This episode explores a hypothetical future where humans become immune to all poisons, venoms, and toxins, presented as part of the Flash Forward podcast series featured on Science Rules.
Bill Nye and Corey Powell discuss adapting eating habits during COVID, including reducing red meat intake and exploring vegetarian options.
Bill Nye hosts a science podcast discussing NASA's Mars exploration history and the Perseverance rover with guest Corey S.
Bill Nye hosts a science podcast discussing environmental toxins and their potential impact on sperm and fertility with science writer Corey S.
Bill Nye and science writer Corbin discuss Neanderthals in a humorous context, questioning whether comparing someone to a Neanderthal is unfair to the ancient species.
Bill Nye hosts Dr.
Bill Nye hosts a call-in science podcast featuring actor Gillian Jacobs and host Dayana Reasonover, discussing how people from diverse professions like acting share a passion for science.
Bill Nye hosts a science podcast discussing exercise, human evolution, and fitness with guest Corey S.
Bill Nye and Corey S.
Bill Nye hosts a science-focused discussion exploring the controversial theory that COVID-19 may have escaped from a laboratory, featuring expert analysis from Stanford professor Dr.
This episode explores the science of laughter and how humor influences human behavior and well-being through storytelling and scientific insights.
Bill Nye hosts a science podcast discussing the psychological challenges of isolation in space exploration with guest Corey S.
Bill Nye and Corey Espel discuss the limited impact of recycling and plastic bag bans in addressing the larger issue of plastic pollution in the oceans.
This episode features a presentation from 99% Invisible about Vantablack, a nanotechnology-based pigment that traps nearly all light, originally developed for space instrument calibration.
Dan Pashman hosts a conversation with Bill Nye discussing food science topics like PB&J layering, salt in pasta water, and GMOs, while sharing personal stories about Bill's background.
This episode features Planetary Radio's discussion about amateur astronomers who use their skills to hunt asteroids and potentially save the world from cosmic threats.
Bill Nye and Corey S.
Bill Nye interviews author Michael Lewis about his book 'The Premonition,' which explores how individuals predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and were stifled by government systems, comparing it to the financial crisis.
Bill Nye interviews former astronaut Dr.
Bill Nye hosts Science Rules, a science call-in podcast, where he and guest Corey S.
This episode explores why the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected high-income countries like the U.S.
Bill Nye and Corey S.
This episode features a segment from 'This Podcast Will Kill You' about coccidioidomycosis (valley fever), exploring its history, biology, and impact through a personal story.
LeVar Burton introduces his new comedy adventure podcast 'Sound Detectives,' where Detective Hunch and sidekick Audie the Ear investigate the mysterious disappearance of sounds worldwide.
Bill Nye hosts a coronavirus-focused episode discussing global pandemic trends, vaccine progress in the U.S., and challenges in other countries with WHO advisor Dr.
Bill Nye hosts a science podcast episode featuring theoretical physicist Dr.
Bill Nye and Corey Powell announce a temporary hiatus from their podcast 'Science Rules' due to other commitments, promising to return with an episode on unidentified aerial phenomena.
This episode explores the phenomenon of long-haul COVID, focusing on brain fog and neurological symptoms, featuring an interview with neurologist Dr.
This episode analyzes President Biden's coronavirus response one month into his administration, discussing whether recent drops in COVID-19 cases and deaths can be attributed to his policies.
Bill Nye discusses vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic with behavioral scientist Dr.
Bill Nye hosts a science-focused episode examining how the COVID-19 pandemic likely began through bat-to-human transmission at a wet market and explores ways to prevent future pandemics.
Bill Nye introduces a crossover episode of Science Rules featuring The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, a show that explores science news, critical thinking, and debunking misinformation.
Bill Nye and science writer Corey S.
Bill Nye and Corey S.
This episode of Science Rules, hosted by Bill Nye, revisits a favorite past episode about happiness, featuring interviews with scientists, in the context of reflecting on 2020 and promoting listener engagement.
Bill Nye hosts a science podcast episode exploring the concept of time with horologist Dr.
Bill Nye hosts science writer Corey S.
Bill Nye hosts the Science Rules podcast with guest Corey S.
Bill Nye hosts a science-focused discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring epidemiologist Dr.
Bill Nye and science writer Corey Powell host Olympic swimmer Simone Manuel on Science Rules, following up on the science of swimming and athletic performance.
Bill Nye and Corey Powell interview acoustic engineer Trevor Cox, exploring how sound travels, its effects on health, and sonic wonders like Stonehenge.
Bill Nye hosts filmmaker Werner Herzog and volcanologist Dr.
Historian Yuval Noah Harari joins Bill Nye on Science Rules to explain his three-revolution framework from Sapiens: the cognitive revolution ~70,000 years ago gave Homo sapiens the unique ability to believe in intersubjective fictions — corporations, money, nations, gods — enabling mass cooperation that no other human species achieved; the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago actually made most people's lives worse through monoculture famines and epidemic disease, but spread through sheer population weight; and the scientific revolution began with the discovery of ignorance.
This episode discusses the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., including infection and death statistics, and introduces Dr.
Bill Nye interviews paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Professor Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, discoverer of the famous transitional fossil Tiktaalik roseae -- the 375-million-year-old creature that bridges the gap between fish and land-walking tetrapods.
Bill Nye hosts Dr.
This episode examines the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, featuring an interview with White House National Economic Council director Brian Deese about recovery efforts and policy responses.
Bill Nye and science writer Corey Powell invite James Bonding podcast host Matt Gorley to Science Rules!
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Bill Nye and Corey S.
Bill Nye interviews Dr.