New Science History Podcasts

Light Pillars Podcast

1 episode - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Light Pillars Podcast aims to bring knowledge closer to you. If you would like to widen your general knowledge but you don't have time to do your own research, this podcast is for you. Light Pillar...

Ex Urbe Ad Astra

20 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Historian and novelist Ada Palmer and author and vocateur reader Jo Walton interview other fiction authors, historians, scientists, editors, and friends, interspersed with bonus episodes where they...

Polynodal

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Exploring the depth and breadth of human knowledge one thread at a time, and see how it all connects. We conduct Unessential Research on topics no one ever asked about. We're not experts in the top...

Twisted States

38 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Twisted States where we take a deep look, state by state, at some of America's most nefarious killers, intriguing legends, and elusive cryptids. Get to know your host Ragen @disruptivegirl on Inst...

Dig Me Up Later

34 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago
Dig Me Up Later is archaeologist / comedian, KC Martin-Stone's, exploration of life and the 'stuff' we fill it with. Each week, she chats with a guest, asking them - "if archaeologists dug you up i...

Earthquake!

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 42 ratings
Are you curious about what causes the earth to shake? Do you know how to stay safe? Join us to learn about earthquake science, safety, and history. Warning: includes many silly jokes and puns ...be...

STEMinism

27 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Our podcast seeks to highlight women in STEM historically and currently. We use female voices from the past and their stories to celebrate contributions by women in science. There is still so much ...

Tales From the Other Side

3 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In this podcast series we will discuss the governing universal energies that exist out there, both to help and hurt us. Additionally how we can use this information to your advantage.

Stuff That's Real (That You Didn't Know Was Real) But Also Is Cool

45 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Want to write a thriller? Need ideas for your thriller's plot? Hosted by the authors of action-adventure thriller novels, Kevin and Nick are no strangers to researching the arcane, mysterious, phen...

Water Is For Fighting

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Water Is For Fighting is a five part documentary podcast series that explores the complexities around water management in the Western United States. For this season, we’re focusing on the South Pla...

Inside the Breakthrough - How Science Comes to Life

24 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
In Season 2 of the series we will share a new collection of surprising and unusual stories from the history of science. In each episode we will feature two seemingly unrelated stories from the past...

Stories of Migration

6 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Straddling two ends of society (as a Tamil refugee and an Imperial medical student) Gayathri Thivyaa reflects on the experience of growing up across borders, through interviews with other refugees ...

Blasphemy

22 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago
Humans have shown themselves capable of believing almost anything. The amount of information available to us hasn't seemed to quell our insatiable need to create and believe alternate realties, con...

Western Civilization's Big Ideas

1 episode - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
In this series Ray Crew explores, examines and explains the ideas that changed history and moved humanity forward from Plato to the American Presidency, from logic to Locke, from the Enlightenment ...

HistoPoli: A Look Into Our Past and Present

7 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago
Whoever said history repeats itself sure had a point, and that's what we are investigating in this youthful history podcast. While studying and learning alongside our community, we put together epi...

Everything with Everett

71 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago
What's this podcast about? EVERYTHING! Join Everett McConnaughey for discussions and analysis on topics that help us understand each other and build a better society. 

The Launch Pad Space Podcast

40 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago
Come along as the former aerospace journalist Paul Ring discusses space exploration in history and science fiction with some of the best and brightest in the business.

Campfire Stories: Astonishing History

19 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago
Gather round, campers, and let me tell you a story! We'll cover the best true tales of mysteries, histories, true crime, and real heroes from all over the world. We'd love to have you pull up a sea...

Heritage & Sustainability with Wessex Archaeology

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago
Welcome to Wessex Archaeology’s Heritage & Sustainability podcast, covering all things heritage, sustainability, and archaeology. Delve into our series to discover how our archaeology specialists a...

Question of the Day

462 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 127 ratings
Learn something new every day! Question of the Day, the award-winning interactive trivia game for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant is now a daily podcast. For a few minutes each day, the Questio...

Science Diction

86 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago
What does the word “meme” have to do with evolutionary biology? And why do we call it “Spanish flu” when it was never Spanish? Science Diction is a podcast about words—and the science stories withi...

Green Screen

106 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago
The environmental movie podcast! We watch and discuss movies about the environment, movies that have environmental themes or in which nature plays a significant role. Hosted by Sean Munger (an envi...

Trippin' Through Time

77 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago
Two guys, one mic. Podcast about the science, culture, and history behind psychoactive drugs.

Everything is Arbitrary

8 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago
It's time to question everything you took for granted. This podcast takes you through the history of pervasive ideas to imagine how everything could have turned out so differently were it not for s...

Strange Year: A Strange History Podcast

130 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
Jason Horton revisits a different year along with the strange history and the cultural happenings during that year. Get your weird history fix with Strange Year. Instagram For advertising opportu...

Hard Core

11 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Hard Core is a new series from Heritage Radio Network taking a close look at the rebirth of American cider! Over the course of six episodes we’ll break through folksy stereotypes to gain a deeper u...

Let's Learn About...

220 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Let’s Learn About… is a fun, educational, general knowledge podcast that teaches you things you probably didn't need to know, but we're going to teach them to you anyway! Each episode, we’ll learn...

Pathways to Enhance Rigor: A Collection of Conversations

15 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
“Pathways to Enhance Rigor: A Collection of Conversations” is a limited-series podcast featuring neuroscientists discussing ways to better embed rigor into every part of the scientific process, fro...

Are UFO Real?

67 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 65 ratings
Two armchair UFOlogists have their eyes on the skies while trying to keep their feet on the ground... Join us each week as we explore different stories associated with UFO and UAP phenomena.

Ten Books on Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

39 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of ...