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Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the world of science. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American . To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast

Episódios

  • The Pandemic's Mental Toll, and Does Telehealth Work? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 1

    01/03/2023 Duração: 10min

    Hosts Josh Fischman and Tanya Lewis explore the pandemic’s mental health toll on teens and young adults. They also delve into the effectiveness of telehealth, which has been booming since the start of the pandemic.

  • Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity?

    27/02/2023 Duração: 05min

    Researchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your “mind’s eye,” are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition and what it may mean for those who have it.

  • Sorry, UFO Hunters--You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon

    24/02/2023 Duração: 07min

    From space aliens to foreign surveillance, we spoke to experts to find out what’s really going on with the balloon brouhaha.

  • Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change [Sponsored]

    23/02/2023 Duração: 05min

    Successfully mitigating the impacts of climate change will rely heavily on innovation in science and technology.

  • How Do We Find Aliens? Maybe Unlearn What We Know About 'Life' First

    22/02/2023 Duração: 08min

    Science might be redefining what “life out there” really means.

  • Love and the Brain: Do Partnerships Really Make Us Happy? Here's What the Science Says

    20/02/2023 Duração: 14min

    How romance affects our well-being is a lot more complicated than “they lived happily ever after.”

  • Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet

    17/02/2023 Duração: 11min

    In fair zoo-ona, a pair of star-cross’d pandas take their life. And we learn about whether or not animals can fall in love.

  • Love and the Brain: How Attached Are We to Attachment Styles?

    15/02/2023 Duração: 12min

    Are you “anxious,” “avoidant” or “disorganized?” So-called attachment styles have taken the Internet by storm. But it turns out there’s a lot more to unpack than people think. 

  • Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited

    13/02/2023 Duração: 13min

    Host Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love.

  • Coming Soon to Your Podcast Feed: Science, Quickly

    06/02/2023 Duração: 04min

    A new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week. Get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes.

  • The 60-Second Podcast Takes a Short Break--But Wait, There's More

    21/12/2022 Duração: 03min

    Scientific American’s short-form podcast has been going for 16 years, three months and seven days, counting today. But it’s time for us to evolve.

  • Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?

    20/12/2022 Duração: 06min

    A new study puts the “brain drain hypothesis”—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster.

  • Why Your Dog Might Think You're a Bonehead

    16/12/2022 Duração: 03min

    The verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence.

  • Alaska's Protective Sea Ice Wall Is Crumbling because of the Climate Crisis

    14/12/2022 Duração: 06min

    A massive storm slammed into Alaska’s western coast, and there was no ice to stop it.

  • It's the Bass That Makes Us Boogie

    09/12/2022 Duração: 05min

    Concertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones.

  • How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44

    06/12/2022 Duração: 07min

    Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies.

  • 'Chatty Turtles' Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals

    02/12/2022 Duração: 06min

    Recordings of more than 50 species of turtles and other animals help scientists reassess the origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates.

  • Tardigrades, an Unlikely Sleeping Beauty

    30/11/2022 Duração: 05min

    Researchers put this ancient critter through a subzero gauntlet to learn more about what happens to their internal clock while surviving the extreme.

  • A Burned Redwood Forest Tells a Story of Climate Change, Past, Present and Future

    23/11/2022 Duração: 06min

    From the ashes of the giants of Big Basin Redwoods State Park arise a history of fire suppression and real questions about what happens to the forests in a drought-stricken West Coast going forward.

  • Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43

    22/11/2022 Duração: 04min

    In this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity.

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