Science Couple Phages Out Superbug

Scientific American - Episode 461: March 13, 2019 Strathdee Patterson Phage Therapy - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5F71B837-BD63-45FA-89D471A7CE6F2C

Medical researcher Steffanie Strathdee needed to save the life of her husband, researcher Tom Patterson, when he contracted one of the world's worst infections. She turned to phage therapy: using a... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Vaccine Rejection : Truth and Consequences

Scientific American - Episode 460: February 20, 2019 Tara Smith Vaccines - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8F365FE1-7EEF-4521-847808547C4081

Kent State epidemiologist Tara Smith talks about vaccines, recent preventable measles outbreaks and her 2017 journal article on vaccine rejection. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

On the Origin of Darwin

Scientific American - Episode 459: February 12, 2019 Darwin Day - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=20D4368F-E741-498A-A7B07BD088175B

On this 210th anniversary of Darwin's birth we hear evolution writer and historian Richard Milner perform a brief monologue as Charles Darwin, and former Scientific American editor in chief John... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Warming Arctic on Thin Ice

Scientific American - Episode 458: January 31, 2019 Arctic Warming - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=ABA83AC6-9A56-4C97-BF9D3F708371E2

Scientific American collections editor Andrea Gawrylewski talks to managing editor Curtis Brainard about how warming in the Arctic affects us all. And glaciologist Elizabeth Case takes us out near... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Fake Whiskeys and Octo-Ecstasy

Scientific American - Episode 457: January 14, 2019 Advances Whiskey Octopus - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A64A77DC-1C82-42D9-ADB0738665581E

Scientific American assistant news editor, Tanya Lewis, and collections editor, Andrea Gawrylewski, take a deeper look at two short articles from the Advances news section of the December issue,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Ultima Thule and the Apes of Earth

Scientific American - Episode 456: January 3, 2019 Lacovara Ultima Thule - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=26384B71-6598-4207-BE26FF581552E3

As the New Horizons mission approached Ultima Thule, Rowan University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara put our close-up study of the Kuiper Belt object into a deep-time perspective. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Meet the Real Ravenmaster

Scientific American - Episode 455: October 18, 2018 Ravenmaster - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C0396F76-450E-44D2-B26F66A59B48AB

Christopher Skaife talks about his new book The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, in front of a live audience at Caveat, “the speakeasy bar for intelligent... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2

Scientific American - Episode 454: November 22, 2018 Poison Squad by Deborah Blum - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E6AAFFEF-6AC9-4188-9592397067B73A

Pulitzer Priz​e–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 2. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1

Scientific American - Episode 453: November 21, 2018 Poison Squad by Deborah Blum - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=192A00C3-2F95-4B26-8EDF5B0C71257D

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 1. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Bones and Stones : Cemetery Geology

Scientific American - Episode 452: October 31, 2018 Cemetery Geology - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AA2DC951-750F-42AC-935B8FF25E2270

A tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., focuses on the geology of the landscape and the mausoleums. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Tinder for Cheetahs ; and an Unusual Blindness

Scientific American - Episode 451: October 17, 2018 Advances Cheetahs Riddoch Syndrome - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1C07CFD6-0C9F-48E4-928BF2171164DA

Scientific American assistant news editor, Tanya Lewis, and collections editor, Andrea Gawrylewski, host a new podcast that takes a deeper look at short articles from the Advances news section of the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Better Living through Evolution : Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Scientific American - Episode 450: October 3, 2018 Nobel Chemistry - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=65337D60-8E86-42A8-89931B313A4063

Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using evolutionary principles to create highly efficient enzymes and antibodies, with numerous practical... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives : Nobel Prize in Physics

Scientific American - Episode 449: October 2, 2018 Nobel Physics - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A1F339E1-EA81-460B-88E4EA99420231

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland shared the Nobel Prize for finding ways to control and enhance laser light, leading to numerous common applications. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Unleashing Immunity against Cancer : Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Scientific American - Episode 448: October 1, 2018 Nobel Med - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EBFAF00B-1154-434C-B133B76636B1CF

James P. Allison and and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery of inhibition of negative immune regulation, the basis of new drugs against cancer. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Where There’s a Wills There’s a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise

Scientific American - Episode 447: September 30, 2018 Wills Baseball - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8D6EA176-58CB-4CF3-A4BB55803A031F

Astrophysicist and sports data scientist Meredith Wills talks about why a subtle change in major league baseballs may be behind the jump in home runs after 2014. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

More People, but Less Hardship ?

Scientific American - Episode 446: September 25, 2018 Gates Goalkeepers Desmond-Hellmann - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=9B805461-AA15-4911-B91165265A293E

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann talks about the just-issued Goalkeepers Report, tracking progress against poverty and disease even as the population keeps rising. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Here’s Looking at Humanity, Kid

Scientific American - Episode 445: September 5, 2018 Being Human - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1A7B7092-033F-4458-9C4A4D6C6646A6

Senior Editor Gary Stix talks about the September special issue of Scientific American, devoted to the science of being human. And Brown University evolutionary biologist Ken Miller discusses human... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Life at the Improv : The Power of Imagination

Scientific American - Episode 444: August 16, 2018 Asma Imagination - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=32A45204-3EBD-47CF-92AE3B85D738C0

Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, talks about his two latest books, The Evolution of Imagination and Why We Need Religion. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Out with the Bad Science

Scientific American - Episode 443: August 2, 2018 Harris Rigor Mortis - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8181EAAF-4449-49CE-8426034B1433B7

NPR science journalist Richard Harris talks about his book, Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope and Wastes Billions. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

AI, Robotics and Your Health

Scientific American - Episode 442: June 18, 2018 Science on the Hill AI and Health - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BDFBF570-6DE6-4849-993B38ED486E4E

At the second Science on the Hill event, AI, Robotics and Your Health, experts from academia and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Dinosaurs : From Humble Beginnings to Global Dominance

Scientific American - Episode 441: May 23, 2018 Steve Brusatte Dinosaurs - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D0ED982B-2ECD-403E-9FBD6D69C9FC65

Edinburgh University paleontologist Steve Brusatte talks about his May 2018 Scientific American article, "The Unlikely Triumph of the Dinosaurs," and his new book, The Rise and Fall of the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Humans Evolved but Are Still Special

Scientific American - Episode 440: April 30, 2018 Ken Miller Human Instinct Book - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4B6C1F7B-58CC-4BBF-B4A0E05AEE5123

Brown University biologist and author Ken Miller talks about his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness and Free Will. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Humans Evolved but Are Still Special

Scientific American - Episode 440: April 30, 2018 Ken Miller Human Instinct Book - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4B6C1F7B-58CC-4BBF-B4A0E05AEE5123

Brown University biologist and author Ken Miller talks about his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness and Free Will. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A Brain Deprived of Memory

Scientific American - Episode 439: March 30, 2018 Lemonick Memory - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2FB748FD-3B69-4E91-840A1B83A641D6

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A Brain Deprived of Memory

Scientific American - Episode 439: March 30, 2018 Lemonick Memory - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2FB748FD-3B69-4E91-840A1B83A641D6

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Blockchain beyond Bitcoin : The Energy Sector

Scientific American - Episode 438: February 28, 2018 Begos Blockchain Energy - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=64FB94E6-B058-4B15-93CF4F

Freelance science journalist Kevin Begos reports from the U.S. Power and Renewable Summit in Austin, Texas, on the use of blockchain technology to make more efficient energy markets and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Blockchain beyond Bitcoin : The Energy Sector

Scientific American - Episode 438: February 28, 2018 Begos Blockchain Energy - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=64FB94E6-B058-4B15-93CF4FF6688A80

Freelance science journalist Kevin Begos reports from the U.S. Power and Renewable Summit in Austin, Texas, on the use of blockchain technology to make more efficient energy markets and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Blockchain beyond Bitcoin : The Energy Sector

Scientific American - Episode 438: February 28, 2018 Begos Blockchain Energy - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=64FB94E6-B058-4B15-93CF4FF6688A80

Freelance science journalist Kevin Begos reports from the U.S. Power and Renewable Summit in Austin, Texas, on the use of blockchain technology to make more efficient energy markets and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Enrico Fermi : The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Scientific American - Episode 437: February 19, 2018 Schwartz Fermi Bio - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D49FBAA0-7820-4DAC-93D33E198D919E

David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Enrico Fermi : The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Scientific American - Episode 437: February 19, 2018 Schwartz Fermi Bio - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D49FBAA0-7820-4DAC-93D33E

David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Enrico Fermi : The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Scientific American - Episode 437: February 19, 2018 Schwartz Fermi Bio - http://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D49FBAA0-7820-4DAC-93D33E198D919E

David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A Future for American Energy

Scientific American - Episode 436: January 29, 2018 Science Meets Congress - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=CA78448C-4811-4278-A58310A19F0839

At the first Science Meets Congress event, Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future, energy and innovation experts from academia, government and the private sector talked with Scientific American... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

A Future for American Energy

Scientific American - Episode 436: January 29, 2018 Science Meets Congress - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=CA78448C-4811-4278-A58310

At the first Science Meets Congress event, Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future, energy and innovation experts from academia, government and the private sector talked with Scientific American... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Skinny on Fat

Scientific American - Episode 435: December 11, 2017 Tara Fat - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E09A3B89-2337-4330-BD7FB4

Biochemist Sylvia Tara talks about her book The Secret Life of Fat: The Science behind the Body's Least-Understood Organ and What It Means for You. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Skinny on Fat

Scientific American - Episode 435: December 11, 2017 Tara Fat - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E09A3B89-2337-4330-BD7FB460AA35DB

Biochemist Sylvia Tara talks about her book The Secret Life of Fat: The Science behind the Body's Least-Understood Organ and What It Means for You. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Your Brain Is So Easily Fooled

Scientific American - Episode 434: November 27, 2017 Vance Suggestible You - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0F748F10-F395-4089-BABCF1

Journalist Erik Vance talks about his first book, Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform and Heal. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Your Brain Is So Easily Fooled

Scientific American - Episode 434: November 27, 2017 Vance Suggestible You - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0F748F10-F395-4089-BABCF1621E5A60

Journalist Erik Vance talks about his first book, Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform and Heal. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Come On and Zoom (through the Universe)

Scientific American - Episode 433: November 11, 2017 Scharf Zoomable Universe - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0B13E45C-DED3-42D0-96891C

Caleb Scharf, director of Columbia University’s Astrobiology Center talks about his latest book, The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Almost... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Come On and Zoom (through the Universe)

Scientific American - Episode 433: November 11, 2017 Scharf Zoomable Universe - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0B13E45C-DED3-42D0-96891C8D00CAD8

Caleb Scharf, director of Columbia University’s Astrobiology Center talks about his latest book, The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Almost... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Monsters : Not Just for Halloween

Scientific American - Episode 432: October 25, 2017 Asma Monsters - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EE629F72-F2E5-48F4-9C1585

Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago and author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, talks about our enduring fascination with monsters. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Monsters : Not Just for Halloween

Scientific American - Episode 432: October 25, 2017 Asma Monsters - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EE629F72-F2E5-48F4-9C158500C4D795

Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago and author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, talks about our enduring fascination with monsters. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Maryn McKenna’s Big Chicken, Part 2

Scientific American - Episode 431: October 18, 2017 McKenna Chicken 2 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4409D0CE-5182-4B4E-851F80

Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 2 of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Maryn McKenna’s Big Chicken, Part 2

Scientific American - Episode 431: October 18, 2017 McKenna Chicken 2 - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4409D0CE-5182-4B4E-851F80F1AB9191

Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 2 of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Maryn McKenna’s Big Chicken, Part 1

Scientific American - Episode 430: October 17, 2017 McKenna Chicken - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E8FD1F42-0F5D-4ABF-AE07F4

Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 1 of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Maryn McKenna’s Big Chicken, Part 1

Scientific American - Episode 430: October 17, 2017 McKenna Chicken - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E8FD1F42-0F5D-4ABF-AE07F420F54C80

Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 1 of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Catching Proteins in the Act

Scientific American - Episode 429: October 4, 2017 Nobel Chemistry - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1A2301BE-2A52-41DD-BD0650

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy that can determine high-resolution structures of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Catching Proteins in the Act

Scientific American - Episode 429: October 4, 2017 Nobel Chemistry - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1A2301BE-2A52-41DD-BD06507500813A

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy that can determine high-resolution structures of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector

Scientific American - Episode 428: October 3, 2017 Nobel Physics - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=12AE06DB-496D-4283-84961B

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector

Scientific American - Episode 428: October 3, 2017 Nobel Physics - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=12AE06DB-496D-4283-84961BF99C9924

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Circadian Rhythm’s Oscillatory Control Mechanism

Scientific American - Episode 427: October 2, 2017 Nobel Medicine Physiology - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E92279EA-B51E-4FC8-9C7AAA

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Circadian Rhythm’s Oscillatory Control Mechanism

Scientific American - Episode 427: October 2, 2017 Nobel Medicine Physiology - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E92279EA-B51E-4FC8-9C7AAA27EAFB28

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Does Evolution Repeat Itself ?

Scientific American - Episode 426: September 27, 2017 Losos Evolution - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8BDFB3F9-7B18-4E7D-9DF670

Jonathan Losos, biology professor at Harvard and curator of herpetology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, talks about his latest book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Does Evolution Repeat Itself ?

Scientific American - Episode 426: September 27, 2017 Losos Evolution - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8BDFB3F9-7B18-4E7D-9DF670110D77DB

Jonathan Losos, biology professor at Harvard and curator of herpetology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, talks about his latest book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Great American Eclipse

Scientific American - Episode 425: August 8, 2017 Baron Eclipse - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E5E416A5-2CF3-4FB4-B25A8F

In advance of the big solar eclipse on August 21, author and journalist David Baron talks about his new book American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Great American Eclipse

Scientific American - Episode 425: August 8, 2017 Baron Eclipse - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E5E416A5-2CF3-4FB4-B25A8F4C727AEF

In advance of the big solar eclipse on August 21, author and journalist David Baron talks about his new book American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Curiouser and Curiouser

Scientific American - Episode 424: August 1, 2017 Livio Why? - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=800B4C69-30BE-45C0-906151

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio ventures deep into the human mind in his new book, Why? What Makes Us Curious. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Curiouser and Curiouser

Scientific American - Episode 424: August 1, 2017 Livio Why? - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=800B4C69-30BE-45C0-906151C8FA50CE

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio ventures deep into the human mind in his new book, Why? What Makes Us Curious. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Shark That Conquered the Whorl

Scientific American - Episode 423: July 21, 2017 Ewing Helicoprion - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4B5E2FE9-7BF0-4048-99330B

Journalist and author Susan Ewing talks about her new book Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil. (And we'll discuss... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Shark That Conquered the Whorl

Scientific American - Episode 423: July 21, 2017 Ewing Helicoprion - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4B5E2FE9-7BF0-4048-99330BF68CFCAE

Journalist and author Susan Ewing talks about her new book Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil. (And we'll discuss... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Undersea National Monument Could Be Left High and Dry

Episode 422: July 11, 2017 Kraus Canyons Seamounts Monument - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4D1CB4BD-008F-47C0-99B3B0

Scott Kraus, vice president and senior science advisor at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium in Boston, talks about the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Undersea National Monument Could Be Left High and Dry

Episode 422: July 11, 2017 Kraus Canyons Seamounts Monument - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4D1CB4BD-008F-47C0-99B3B04E1AE933

Scott Kraus, vice president and senior science advisor at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium in Boston, talks about the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Wacky Florida’s Weird Science

Scientific American - Episode 421: June 19, 2017 Pittman Florida - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A2A6895B-C381-4903-A45752

Journalist Craig Pittman of the Tampa Bay Times talks about his book, Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Wacky Florida’s Weird Science

Scientific American - Episode 421: June 19, 2017 Pittman Florida - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A2A6895B-C381-4903-A45752B8148C33

Journalist Craig Pittman of the Tampa Bay Times talks about his book, Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Gestation Equation : Testing Babies’ Genes

Scientific American - Episode 420: June 1, 2017 Rochman Gene Machine - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B79E9842-F01B-478F-B3E186

Journalist Bonnie Rochman talks about her new Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux book, The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Gestation Equation : Testing Babies’ Genes

Scientific American - Episode 420: June 1, 2017 Rochman Gene Machine - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B79E9842-F01B-478F-B3E1866D61C3AF

Journalist Bonnie Rochman talks about her new Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux book, The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

5G Wiz : What’s on the Horizon for Mobile

Scientific American - Episode 419: May 30, 2017 Future of 5G - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C10526FD-E5DF-4FC8-987FCF

Verizon’s director of network planning, Sanyogita Shamsunder, talks with Scientific American's Larry Greenemeier about the coming 5G and EM-spectrum-based communications in general. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

5G Wiz : What’s on the Horizon for Mobile

Scientific American - Episode 419: May 30, 2017 Future of 5G - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C10526FD-E5DF-4FC8-987FCFF8485F9E

Verizon’s director of network planning, Sanyogita Shamsunder, talks with Scientific American's Larry Greenemeier about the coming 5G and EM-spectrum-based communications in general. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Take the Tube : Underground as a Way of Life

Scientific American - Episode 418: May 3, 2017 Martin Evolution Underground - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B862D480-BF4C-4CEC-96659A

Emory University paleontologist, geologist and ichnologist Anthony J. Martin talks about his new book, The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers and the Marvelous Subterranean World beneath Our... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Take the Tube : Underground as a Way of Life

Scientific American - Episode 418: May 3, 2017 Martin Evolution Underground - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B862D480-BF4C-4CEC-96659A04623DF2

Emory University paleontologist, geologist and ichnologist Anthony J. Martin talks about his new book, The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers and the Marvelous Subterranean World beneath Our... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Killer Cats Bash Biodiversity

Scientific American - Episode 417: April 24, 2017 Killer Cats - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6C30E835-F9C8-4143-A00C77

Conservation biologist Peter Marra talks with journalist Rene Ebersole about the threat of outdoor cats to wild animals and to human health. Marra is the co-author, with writer Chris Santella, of the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Killer Cats Bash Biodiversity

Scientific American - Episode 417: April 24, 2017 Killer Cats - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6C30E835-F9C8-4143-A00C77135CEE90

Conservation biologist Peter Marra talks with journalist Rene Ebersole about the threat of outdoor cats to wild animals and to human health. Marra is the co-author, with writer Chris Santella, of the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Dogging It : Turning Wild Foxes into Man’s Second-Best Friend

Scientific American - Episode 416: April 18, 2017 Fox Domestication - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F5010804-AB70-4EC5-A63DEA

Evolutionary biologist and science historian Lee Dugatkin talks about the legendary six-decade Siberian experiment in fox domestication run by Lyudmila Trut, his co-author of a new book and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Dogging It : Turning Wild Foxes into Man’s Second-Best Friend

Scientific American - Episode 416: April 18, 2017 Fox Domestication - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F5010804-AB70-4EC5-A63DEAB16B32ED

Evolutionary biologist and science historian Lee Dugatkin talks about the legendary six-decade Siberian experiment in fox domestication run by Lyudmila Trut, his co-author of a new book and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

What’s Driving the Self-Driving Cars Rush

Scientific American - Episode 415: March 28, 2017 Self-Driving Cars - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B2898531-7F6E-4B78-A1F1B9

Scientific American technology editor Larry Greenemeier talks with Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford, about self-driving cars. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

What’s Driving the Self-Driving Cars Rush

Scientific American - Episode 415: March 28, 2017 Self-Driving Cars - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B2898531-7F6E-4B78-A1F1B9B204599A

Scientific American technology editor Larry Greenemeier talks with Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford, about self-driving cars. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Biology’s Lessons for Business

Scientific American - Episode 414: March 21, 2017 Levin Reeves Biz - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=50E66928-243A-4F47-A49465

Martin K. Reeves and Simon Levin talk about their Scientific American essay "Building a Resilient Business Inspired by Biology." -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Biology’s Lessons for Business

Scientific American - Episode 414: March 21, 2017 Levin Reeves Biz - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=50E66928-243A-4F47-A49465D1008832

Martin K. Reeves and Simon Levin talk about their Scientific American essay "Building a Resilient Business Inspired by Biology." -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Churchill’s Extraterrestrials

Scientific American - Episode 413: February 15, 2017 Livio on Churchill's ETs - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E859DC92-4B8C-4165-A1251D

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio writes in the journal Nature and talks to Scientific American about the recently rediscovered essay by Winston Churchill that analyzed with impressive scientific... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Churchill’s Extraterrestrials

Scientific American - Episode 413: February 15, 2017 Livio on Churchill's ETs - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E859DC92-4B8C-4165-A1251DF45A92B5

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio writes in the journal Nature and talks to Scientific American about the recently rediscovered essay by Winston Churchill that analyzed with impressive scientific... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Rapid-Response Vaccines for Epidemic Outbreaks

Scientific American - Episode 412: January 30, 2017 Mundel CEPI Vaccines - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0440974C-983D-4C9D-893B79

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Rapid-Response Vaccines for Epidemic Outbreaks

Scientific American - Episode 412: January 30, 2017 Mundel CEPI Vaccines - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0440974C-983D-4C9D-893B79276EFA5D

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Exit Interview : Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren

Scientific American - Episode 411: January 19, 2017 Holdren Exit Interview - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F9948BC2-8BEE-403B-826CD8

Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl talks with Pres. Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, about climate science, space travel, the issue of reproducibility in science, the brain... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Exit Interview : Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren

Scientific American - Episode 411: January 19, 2017 Holdren Exit Interview - https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F9948BC2-8BEE-403B-826CD886202C83

Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl talks with Pres. Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, about climate science, space travel, the issue of reproducibility in science, the brain... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

We’re Taking You to Bellevue

Scientific American - Episode 410: January 17, 2017 Oshinsky Bellevue - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8EF8D6F6-F485-414F-B2A41E

Pulitzer Prize–winning N.Y.U. historian David Oshinsky, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center, talks about his latest book, Bellevue: Three... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Best Science Books of 2016

Scientific American - Episode 409: December 31, 2016 Kiser Top 20 Books - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1B67F09A-6B3B-4EEF-B596BE

Barbara Kiser, books and arts editor at Nature, talks about her favorite science books of 2016, especially three works about the little-known history of women mathematicians. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Getting Robots to Say No

Scientific American - Episode 408: December 21, 2016 Briggs Robot Disobedience - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=67797CBE-93DF-4E8C-AEE39A

Gordon Briggs, a postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, talks about the article he and Matthias Scheutz, director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts University, wrote in the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

How Myths Evolve over Time and Migrations

Scientific American - Episode 407: November 15, 2016 DHuy Myths - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5CC64544-C974-42A5-BA20E4

Julien d’Huy, of the Pantheon–Sorbonne University in Paris, talks about the use of evolutionary theory and computer modeling in the comparative analysis of myths and folktales, the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Attack On the Internet : Weak-Link Nanny Cams

Scientific American - Episode 406: October 26, 2016 Internet Attack - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AEFDB14F-5303-46C6-B2F680

Paul Rosenzweig, former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security and founder of Red Branch Consulting, PLLC, talks about the October 21 attack on internet service... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Flint’s Water and Environmental Justice

Scientific American - Episode 405: October 17, 2016 Flint Water - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C743ECC9-E7D0-4D89-A65B1B

The University of Michigan's Paul Mohai, a leading researcher of issues related to environmental justice, talked about the Flint water crisis at a workshop sponsored by the Institute for Journalism... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Chemistry Nobel Prize : Machines Too Small to See

Scientific American - Episode 404: October 5, 2016 Nobel Chemistry - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B50650A3-A574-465D-BE980E

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Chemistry Nobel Prize : Machines Too Small to See

Scientific American - Episode 404: October 5, 2016 Nobel Chemistry - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B50650A3-A574-465D-BE980E

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Physics Nobel Prize : Buns, Bagels and Pretzels Help Explain Exotic Matter

Scientific American - Episode 403: October 4, 2016 Nobel Physics - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=69C4F337-B127-499C-B66939

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Physics Nobel Prize : Buns, Bagels and Pretzels Help Explain Exotic Matter

Scientific American - Episode 403: October 4, 2016 Nobel Physics - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=69C4F337-B127-499C-B66939

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Autophagy

Scientific American - Episode 402: October 3, 2016 Nobel Medicine Physiology - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F7E0321F-117D-4C47-A16AF9

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries concerning autophagy. Following the announcement, journalist Lotta Fredholm spoke to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Nobel Prize Explainer : Autophagy

Scientific American - Episode 402: October 3, 2016 Nobel Medicine Physiology - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F7E0321F-117D-4C47-A16AF9

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries concerning autophagy. Following the announcement, journalist Lotta Fredholm spoke to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

They Do What ?! : The Wide Wild World of Animal Sex

Scientific American - Episode 401: September 26, 2016 Bondar Wild Sex - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=984464FB-3027-49CA-858EFF

Carin Bondar talks about her new book Wild Sex, which covers the strange, surreal and sometimes scary sex lives of our animal cousins. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

They Do What ?! : The Wide Wild World of Animal Sex

Scientific American - Episode 401: September 26, 2016 Bondar Wild Sex - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=984464FB-3027-49CA-858EFF

Carin Bondar talks about her new book Wild Sex, which covers the strange, surreal and sometimes scary sex lives of our animal cousins. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Big Bang of Body Types : Sports Science at the Olympics and beyond

Scientific American - Episode 400: August 16, 2016 Epstein Sports Gene - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BAFF5D43-1373-4817-BF958C

David Epstein talks about his 2013 bestseller The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance and his recent Scientific American article "Magic Blood and Carbon-Fiber... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Big Bang of Body Types : Sports Science at the Olympics and beyond

Scientific American - Episode 400: August 16, 2016 Epstein Sports Gene - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BAFF5D43-1373-4817-BF958C

David Epstein talks about his 2013 bestseller The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance and his recent Scientific American article "Magic Blood and Carbon-Fiber... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Grand Canyon Rapids Ride for Evolution Education

Scientific American - Episode 399: August 15, 2016 Grand Canyon 1 - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DD4BD0EB-EB53-4B8E-8E26EC

Each summer, the National Center for Science Education organizes a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to bring visitors face to wall-face with striking examples of geologic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Grand Canyon Rapids Ride for Evolution Education

Scientific American - Episode 399: August 15, 2016 Grand Canyon 1 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DD4BD0EB-EB53-4B8E-8E26EC

Each summer, the National Center for Science Education organizes a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to bring visitors face to wall-face with striking examples of geologic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Science of Soldiering : Mary Roach’s Grunt

Scientific American - Episode 398: August 4, 2016 Mary Roach Grunt - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5C372F7A-061D-4C18-B8A5F3

Best-selling science writer Mary Roach talks about her latest book Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Science of Soldiering : Mary Roach’s Grunt

Scientific American - Episode 398: August 4, 2016 Mary Roach Grunt - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5C372F7A-061D-4C18-B8A5F3

Best-selling science writer Mary Roach talks about her latest book Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Electric Eels Versus Horses : Shocking But True

Scientific American - Episode 396: June 16, 2016 Karanth on Tigers - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=16B5EE54-7BFE-41DF-A6A842

Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Electric Eels versus Horses : Shocking but True

Scientific American - Episode 397: June 27, 2016 Leaping Eels - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6DD35181-36A1-4FD3-B02CA2

Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Electric Eels versus Horses : Shocking but True

Scientific American - Episode 397: June 27, 2016 Leaping Eels - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6DD35181-36A1-4FD3-B02CA2

Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Tiger, Tiger, Being Tracked

Scientific American - Episode 396: June 16, 2016 Karanth on Tigers - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D1EA4586-5548-4FAE-B78921

Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state-of-the-art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Tiger, Tiger, Being Tracked

Scientific American - Episode 396: June 16, 2016 Karanth on Tigers - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D1EA4586-5548-4FAE-B78921

Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state-of-the-art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded—by Your Interest

Scientific American - Episode 395: June 14, 2016 Kavli for LIGO - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=732B930F-8E5A-4DE3-985226

Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded—by Your Interest

Scientific American - Episode 395: June 14, 2016 Kavli for LIGO - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=732B930F-8E5A-4DE3-985226

Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Sean M. Carroll Looks at The Big Picture

Scientific American - Episode 394: May 12, 2016 Sean M Carroll The Big Picture - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=76531597-C7D0-46DB-BAC129

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. (Dutton, 2016) -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Sean M. Carroll Looks at The Big Picture

Scientific American - Episode 394: May 12, 2016 Sean M Carroll The Big Picture - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=76531597-C7D0-46DB-BAC129

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. (Dutton, 2016) -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Bowling Ball That Invaded Earth

Scientific American - Episode 393: May 5, 2016 Mark Alpert The Orion Plan - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=3F1800DF-34BD-43D5-BEA459

Former Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his latest science fiction thriller, The Orion Plan, featuring the method whereby aliens most likely really would colonize our planet. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Bowling Ball That Invaded Earth

Scientific American - Episode 393: May 5, 2016 Mark Alpert The Orion Plan - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=3F1800DF-34BD-43D5-BEA459

Former Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his latest science fiction thriller, The Orion Plan, featuring the method whereby aliens most likely really would colonize our planet. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Different Minds : The Wide World of Animal Smarts

Scientific American - Episode 392: April 29, 2016 de Waal Animal Intelligence - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A90E8E39-6C33-4A07-A5F16F

Primatologist Frans de Waal discusses his latest book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Norton, 2016). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Different Minds : The Wide World of Animal Smarts

Scientific American - Episode 392: April 29, 2016 de Waal Animal Intelligence - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A90E8E39-6C33-4A07-A5F16F

Primatologist Frans de Waal discusses his latest book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Norton, 2016). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Perfect Bet : Taking the Gambling out of Gambling

Scientific American - Episode 391: April 14, 2016 Kucharski Perfect Bet - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=52E4B93E-A336-43B7-B8FB94

Mathematician and author Adam Kucharski talks about his new book The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling (Basic Books, 2016). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Perfect Bet : Taking the Gambling out of Gambling

Scientific American - Episode 391: April 14, 2016 Kucharski Perfect Bet - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=52E4B93E-A336-43B7-B8FB94

Mathematician and author Adam Kucharski talks about his new book The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling (Basic Books, 2016). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Gorilla’s Hum Is a Do-Not-Disturb Sign

Scientific American - Episode 390: February 29, 2016 Humming Gorillas - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D83BB64F-FBE5-4127-99573B

If a socially prominent gorilla is in the midst of a meal, it may hum or sing to tell others nearby that it's busy at the moment and will get back to you later. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Gorilla’s Hum Is a Do-Not-Disturb Sign

Scientific American - Episode 390: February 29, 2016 Humming Gorillas - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D83BB64F-FBE5-4127-99573B

If a socially prominent gorilla is in the midst of a meal, it may hum or sing to tell others nearby that it's busy at the moment and will get back to you later. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Bill Gates Wants a Miracle

Scientific American - Episode 389: February 25, 2016 Bill Gates - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D4BEE7C6-70B3-4F82-AA76B3

Scientific American's energy and environment editor, David Biello, met with Bill Gates on February 22 to discuss tackling carbon emissions while at the same time making necessary energy available to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Bill Gates Wants a Miracle

Scientific American - Episode 389: February 25, 2016 Bill Gates - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D4BEE7C6-70B3-4F82-AA76B3

Scientific American's energy and environment editor, David Biello, met with Bill Gates on February 22 to discuss tackling carbon emissions while at the same time making necessary energy available to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

From AI to Zika : AAAS Conference Highlights

Scientific American - Episode 388: February 16, 2016 AAAS Conference - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A1827713-1BC4-46C6-879C44

Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

From AI to Zika : AAAS Conference Highlights

Scientific American - Episode 388: February 16, 2016 AAAS Conference - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A1827713-1BC4-46C6-879C44

Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Gravitational Waves Found : Kip Thorne Explains

Scientific American - Episode 387: February 11, 2016 Kip Thorne LIGO Gravitational Waves - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A80F83C0-747A-42EE-B17E43

Scientific American's Josh Fischman talks with renowned astrophysicist and general relativity expert Kip Thorne about the discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO Project, co-founded by... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Gravitational Waves Found : Kip Thorne Explains

Scientific American - Episode 387: February 11, 2016 Kip Thorne LIGO Gravitational Waves - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A80F83C0-747A-42EE-B17E43

Scientific American's Josh Fischman talks with renowned astrophysicist and general relativity expert Kip Thorne about the discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO Project, co-founded by... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Big Gath Dig : Goliath’s Hometown

Scientific American - Episode 386: February 10, 2016 Archaeologist Aren Maier - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=92CB5FB2-BF05-4282-BCBBB0

Freelance journalist Kevin Begos talks with archaeologist Aren Maeir, from Bar Ilan University in Israel, at his dig site in Gath, thought to be Goliath's hometown and a major city of the Philistine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Big Gath Dig : Goliath’s Hometown

Scientific American - Episode 386: February 10, 2016 Archaeologist Aren Maier - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=92CB5FB2-BF05-4282-BCBBB0

Freelance journalist Kevin Begos talks with archaeologist Aren Maeir, from Bar Ilan University in Israel, at his dig site in Gath, thought to be Goliath's hometown and a major city of the Philistine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Roman Sanitation Didn’t Stop Roaming Parasites

Scientific American - Episode 385: January 12, 2016 Ancient Roman Parasites - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EBC133E2-3196-411C-8B09B9

The University of Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Roman Sanitation Didn’t Stop Roaming Parasites

Scientific American - Episode 385: January 12, 2016 Ancient Roman Parasites - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EBC133E2-3196-411C-8B09B9

The University of Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Evolution Still on Trial 10 Years after Dover

Scientific American - Episode 384: December 20, 2015 Dover Evolution 10 Years - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7B1A72C9-6220-4BFF-AED088

Evolutionary biologist Nicholas Matzke talks about the Kitzmiller v. Dover evolution trial on the 10th anniversary of the decision. He advised the plaintiffs while working for the National Center for... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Evolution Still on Trial 10 Years after Dover

Scientific American - Episode 384: December 20, 2015 Dover Evolution 10 Years - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7B1A72C9-6220-4BFF-AED088

Evolutionary biologist Nicholas Matzke talks about the Kitzmiller v. Dover evolution trial on the 10th anniversary of the decision. He advised the plaintiffs while working for the National Center for... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Lifting the Visor on Virtual Reality

Scientific American - Episode 383: December 15, 2015 Perlin Virtual Reality - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A926D516-1279-4297-8AA881

Ken Perlin, a New York University computer science professor and virtual reality pioneer, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the state of virtual reality, its history... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Lifting the Visor on Virtual Reality

Scientific American - Episode 383: December 15, 2015 Perlin Virtual Reality - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A926D516-1279-4297-8AA881

Ken Perlin, a New York University computer science professor and virtual reality pioneer, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the state of virtual reality, its history... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Epic History of the Horse

Scientific American - Episode 382: December 10, 2015 Williams Horse - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=211B8EEE-239D-4E58-9E3C74

Science journalist and equestrian Wendy Williams talks about her new book The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Epic History of the Horse

Scientific American - Episode 382: December 10, 2015 Williams Horse - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=211B8EEE-239D-4E58-9E3C74

Science journalist and equestrian Wendy Williams talks about her new book The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Math Can Equal Fun

Scientific American - Episode 381: November 20, 2015 Benjamin Math Magic - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2E31B168-D0EE-4E9A-B692E4

Harvey Mudd College math professor Arthur Benjamin talks about his new book The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Math Can Equal Fun

Scientific American - Episode 381: November 20, 2015 Benjamin Math Magic - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2E31B168-D0EE-4E9A-B692E4

Harvey Mudd College math professor Arthur Benjamin talks about his new book The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own

Scientific American - Episode 380: November 10, 2015 Hoover Machine Learning - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7BB57A29-89B7-4048-BD828E

Stephen Hoover, CEO of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own

Scientific American - Episode 380: November 10, 2015 Hoover Machine Learning - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7BB57A29-89B7-4048-BD828E

Stephen Hoover, CEO of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Chemistry Nobel : Keeping DNA in Good Repair

Scientific American - Episode 379: October 7, 2015 Chemistry Nobel - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=67FEAA9D-FA13-4E24-B67F16

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for discoveries of the mechanisms by which cells maintain the integrity of their DNA sequences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Chemistry Nobel : Keeping DNA in Good Repair

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for discoveries of the mechanisms by which cells maintain the integrity of their DNA sequences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Physics Nobel : Neutrinos Do Have Mass

Scientific American - Episode 378: October 6, 2015 Physics Nobel - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D63159A8-8AFE-465C-B4665F

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Physics Nobel : Neutrinos Do Have Mass

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Medicine Nobel : Sifting Nature for Antiparasite Drugs

Scientific American - Episode 377: October 5, 2015 Medicine Nobel - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=9C613F4F-0D0D-4C31-93175A

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries of a medication against roundworm parasites and to Youyou Tu for her discoveries... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Medicine Nobel : Sifting Nature for Antiparasite Drugs

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries of a medication against roundworm parasites and to Youyou Tu for her discoveries... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Hunt for the Fat Gene

Scientific American - Episode 376: September 16, 2015 Fat Gene - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=879E90FA-F49D-41EC-944018

Medical researcher Richard Johnson, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, talks about his October Scientific American article "The Fat Gene," co-authored by anthropologist... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Hunt for the Fat Gene

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Medical researcher Richard Johnson, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, talks about his October Scientific American article "The Fat Gene," co-authored by anthropologist... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Errors of Albert

Scientific American - Episode 375: September 2, 2015 Einstein's Errors - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0CE355FC-8C44-4BD1-876FB3

Physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, talks about his article "What Einstein Got Wrong," in Scientific American’s... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The Errors of Albert

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Physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, talks about his article "What Einstein Got Wrong," in Scientific American’s... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Public Health Hero Jimmy Carter ; SA Turns 170

Scientific American - Episode 374: August 31, 2015 Jimmy Carter magazine collector Steven Lomazow - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=413AECF1-D790-4D6E-BA5D73

Jimmy Carter talks about his public health efforts to eradicate guinea worm and improve global mental health and women's health. Plus, magazine collector Steven Lomazow brings part of his collection... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Public Health Hero Jimmy Carter ; SA Turns 170

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