Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
                        
                                
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                                                    Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change
                                                
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                                            2025-06-12
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                                                    Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science 
                                                
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                                            2025-06-05
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                                                    Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research 
                                                
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                                            2025-05-29
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                                                    Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’ 
                                                
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                                            2025-05-22
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                                                    A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes
                                                
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                                            2025-05-15
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                                                    Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science
                                                
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                                            2025-05-08
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                                                    Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’
                                                
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                                            2025-05-01
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                                                    A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series
                                                
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                                            2025-04-24
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                                                    Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander 
                                                
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                                            2025-04-17
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                                                    The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH
                                                
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                                            2025-04-10
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                                                    Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
                                                
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                                            2025-04-03
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                                                    Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots
                                                
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                                            2025-03-27
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                                                    Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea 
                                                
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                                            2025-03-20
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                                                    Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH 
                                                
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                                            2025-03-13
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                                                    Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker 
                                                
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                                            2025-03-06
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                                                    Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home
                                                
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                                            2025-02-27
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                                                    Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability 
                                                
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                                            2025-02-20
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                                                    Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants
                                                
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                                            2025-02-13
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                                                    How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth
                                                
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                                            2025-02-06
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                                                    Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration
                                                
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                                            2025-01-30
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