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Created by Nate when he was 5 years-old, The Show About Science is an awesome adventure into the wondrous world of scientific research and discovery! Over the last 9 years, Nate has filled each episode with fascinating information from scientists and educators from around the globe. Together, Nate and his guests explore everything from chemistry to climate change, evolution to extraterrestrials, and human brains to bat biology. If you’re curious about science, then this is the show for you!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Nate turns tangible puzzles into clear conversations about scientific evidence, mechanisms, and the limits of familiar explanations.
Nate builds each episode around a question that can be tested, clarified, or followed into the field. The Show About Science moves comfortably from the practical limits of settling Mars to platypus chromosomes, while keeping the interview focused on how scientists know what they…
Nate's backyard seed pod sends your curiosity back to the age of giant sloths.
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A goofy platypus setup gives way to a sharp lesson in mammal genetics.
The episode opens with a platypus-plural joke and quickly moves into mammal sex chromosomes, starting with the familiar human XX/XY setup before landing on the stranger case: platypuses.
A zebrafish lab tour that makes development visible through fluorescence.
The episode traces a zebrafish lab from a single cell view to the bigger question of how an embryo and its organs take shape. A tour of genetically modified zebrafish keeps the science grounded instead of abstract.
A clear, human climate-law story that keeps the legal fight grounded.
Elizabeth Rush turns a climate lawsuit into a clear, character-driven account, following 21 young plaintiffs as they take on the federal government's support for fossil fuels.
A curious look at Big Tree that turns natural history into a vivid story.
Brian Selznick talks about Big Tree as a story built from two tiny sycamore seeds, Merwin and Louise, trying to make it through the end of the Cretaceous.
A plainspoken look at why seed collections keep backups.
An episode like this keeps its focus on a simple idea: preserving banana varieties in Leuven and protecting seed collections in Svalbard so research can recover if something goes wrong.
A backyard tree opens into a deep-time story about extinction, dispersal, and survival.
A backyard Kentucky coffee tree opens into a story about extinction, seed dispersal, and the changing job of giant mammals. The episode is strongest when it starts with those hard, banana-shaped pods and follows them into the question of how trees keep going after the animals…
A sound first tour from electronic music to protein folding.
This episode treats sound as a way to make structure feel visible, moving from a century old building in downtown Champaign to Carla Scaletti and her electronic music, then to the idea that listeners can hear patterns that are otherwise easy to miss.
Mars ambition gets tested against carbon, water, and the limits of living off Earth.
A City on Mars with Zach Wienersmith turns Mars settlement into a hard-eyed conversation about whether the idea is actually workable, and what gets brushed aside when it is treated as the obvious next step.
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
Bob McDonald anchors weekly multi-segment interviews on new research, from cricket courtship to moon missions.
Vox reporters trace how Botox, brain-speech implants, and scientific disputes actually happened.
Host Nate visits the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco for the third installment of its disease research series.
The Show About Science examines data sonification through Carla Scaletti's Kyma system, Mark Temple's DNA recordings, Kimberly Arcand's NASA light data, and Martin Gruber's protein research.
It starts with bananas.
Nate opens by asking whether people could build a city on Mars, and whether they should.
The Show About Science interviews visualization scientist Kimberly Arcand about how NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals cosmic objects invisible in optical light.
The Show About Science episode on “Urban Water Chemistry with Stephen MacAvoy and Melissa Pierce” moves from the Chicago River to Washington, D.C., to explain how cities measure water quality and why that matters.
Nate talks with Elizabeth Rush about her book *The 21* and the youth climate lawsuit at its center.
Nate talks with Brian Selznick about *Big Tree*.
Nate starts in his backyard with two Kentucky coffee trees and a pretty specific seed-pod obsession.
The episode opens with a playful argument over whether the plural should be platypi or platypuses, and that joke quickly opens the door to a stranger biological puzzle.