Science, Quickly artwork

Science, Quickly

1,478 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings

Tune in every week for quick, fascinating new developments and dives in the world of science.

Science Technology science technology minute 60-second 60-seconds scientific american
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Episodes

Asexuality Research Has Reached New Heights. What Are We Learning?

February 23, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes

A grassroots online movement has helped shift the way scientists think about asexuality. But much is still unknown. This is part four of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Close the Orgasm Gap for Heterosexual Couples

February 21, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes

Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves. Part three of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dominatrices Are Showing People How to Have Rough Sex Safely

February 16, 2024 21:13 - 13 minutes

Research shows rough sex is becoming more common. Dominatrices are helping the general public catch up. Hosted by Meghan McDonough, this is part two of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Explore Your Sexuality, according to Science

February 14, 2024 20:12 - 13 minutes

Part one of a four-part series on the science of pleasure, hosted by Meghan McDonough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You Can't Fix Burnout With Self-Care

February 12, 2024 21:47 - 10 minutes

Individual interventions for burnout don’t work. Researchers explain why. Hosted by Shayla Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How April’s Eclipse Will Solve Solar Mysteries

February 09, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutes

On April 8, we’re in for a treat. A total solar eclipse will be visible across a broad swath of North America, giving us a view of the edges of the sun as the moon passes in front of its face.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Will We Finally Have Sex In Space?

February 07, 2024 19:16 - 13 minutes

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Is This Ancient Cattle Breed Fighting Wildfires in Portugal?

February 05, 2024 21:05 - 14 minutes

Portugal is one of the most vulnerable countries in Europe to climate change. Straddling the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic regions, it’s part of a climate change hot spot. Some of the biggest fuels are shrubs. One study found that shrubland covers 1.6 million hectares in Portugal—about 18 percent of the nation’s land area. And those shrubs are gaining ground. That’s because, for decades, people have been moving out of rural communities such as the one Tommy Ferreira lives in. Most leave ...

The Government's Former UFO Hunter Has a Lot to Say

February 05, 2024 11:00 - 14 minutes

For the last decade, reports of UFO sightings have filled headlines and news broadcasts, and some of these have from a surprising place—the Pentagon. Former defense officials have made a number of claims about, and released videos of, strange sightings made by military pilots. These days, the objects are officially called “UAPs”—unidentified anomalous phenomena. But regardless of the new branding, Congress has demanded answers on them, especially after one former official this summer claimed ...

Quantum Computers Might Make All of Your Private Data Less Secure

January 31, 2024 11:45 - 11 minutes

Experts are starting to plan for the moment when a quantum computer large enough to crack the backbone of the math that keeps things secret will be turned on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For 60+ years, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines have evaded scientists. But now that's changed [Sponsored]

January 30, 2024 20:00 - 8 minutes

This year, healthcare providers have tools to help prevent lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV for older adults.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New IVF Test Could Increase Chances of Pregnancy Success

January 29, 2024 19:00 - 10 minutes

Today’s episode covers a topic that many parents-to-be have struggled with: fertility. In vitro fertilization offers a path to pregnancy for people fortunate enough to be able to access it. But predicting the success of an implanted embryo is hard. Now researchers are developing a test that could make it easier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Save Indigenous Languages

January 27, 2024 01:00 - 12 minutes

From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under threat. An Indian linguist helped preserve one language family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can AI Predict When You Die?

January 23, 2024 22:30 - 11 minutes

A new study used machine learning on 6 million Danish people to "autocomplete" their life trajectories –— and when they might kick the bucket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Best Way to Use Home COVID Tests Right Now

January 19, 2024 19:00 - 9 minutes

In today’s episode, we want to talk about some of the current challenges with using home COVID tests. When you first have symptoms, a change in how your body reacts to the virus could lead to a test result showing you’re negative when you’re actually infected.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Drunken Stupor to Sober with One (Hormone) Shot

January 17, 2024 15:45 - 10 minutes

We all have our tricks for sobering up after a night of drunken revelry: maybe a pot of black coffee or an ice-cold shower. But for mice in a certain lab in Texas, all it takes is a shot. No, not more alcohol—it’s an injection of a hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21, or FGF21.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Does the World’s Largest Seabird Know Where to Fly?

January 12, 2024 18:45 - 9 minutes

Imagine for a moment that you’re a very hungry bird soaring over 30-foot ocean swells in high winds, with no land for thousands of miles. How do you know where you’re going? If you’re a wandering albatross, you listen. But listen to what, exactly? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Without the Moon, You Wouldn't Exist (Probably)

January 08, 2024 19:00 - 15 minutes

The moon has guided our movements and cultures, and though we may think we know it well, it still guards some of its deepest secrets from us. A new book from Rebecca Boyle take us on a deep dive into our sister celestial orb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Strange and Beautiful Science Of Our Lives

January 05, 2024 19:00 - 16 minutes

Nell Greenfieldboyce discusses her new book Transient and Strange, the intimacy of the essays and the science that inspired them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Surprising Health Benefits of Dog Ownership

January 03, 2024 19:00 - 12 minutes

Dogs are good for you, science says Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcasts of the Year: Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace

December 29, 2023 20:48 - 14 minutes

In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she’s an urban legend. But who was she? 2023 editor's pick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcasts of the Year: Talking to Animals using Artificial Intelligence

December 27, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes

Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could have us at the brink of interspecies communication Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Avoid Holiday Hangovers

December 22, 2023 13:00 - 9 minutes

The holidays are a time for indulgence, but there are ways to drink alcohol without suffering the painful effects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcasts of the Year: What Better Gift for the Holidays Than a Monstrous Mystery?

December 20, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes

We’re looking back at 2023 for our favorite podcast shows and one about the largest bird to ever fly the skies just flew to the top of the list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Orca Whales Friends or Foes?

December 18, 2023 06:00 - 16 minutes

The stories we tell about orcas might say more about us than about them Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turns Out Undersea Kelp Forests Are Crucial to Salmon

December 15, 2023 08:00 - 9 minutes

The beloved fish that feed orcas and humans depend on kelp forests’ unique habitat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers Just Created the World's First Permafrost Atlas of the Entire Arctic

December 13, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutes

The Arctic Permafrost Atlas, which took years to create, is both beautiful and sobering, given the pace of climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New Type of Heart Disease is on the Rise

December 11, 2023 05:00 - 9 minutes

Problems with the heart, kidneys and metabolic health are all connected Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI Can Now Read Your Cat's Pain

December 08, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes

Thanks to researchers, new AI tech is delving into feline feelings to see when cats could need medical help.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These Researchers Put Sperm Through a Kind of 'Hunger Games'

December 06, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutes

The research focused on figuring out what enables certain sperm to gain some competitive advantage over millions of others fighting for the same prize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Too Little Play Hurting Our Kids?

December 04, 2023 08:00 - 15 minutes

A long-term decline in unsupervised activity may be contributing to mental health declines in children and adolescents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Misinformation Spreads through Conflict

December 01, 2023 18:30 - 26 minutes

Three experts break down how misinformation and propaganda spread through conflict and how to debunk it yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Falling

November 29, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutes

Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate Adaptation Can Backfire If We Aren't Careful

November 27, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes

The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with Nuclear Weapons. Can Their Reality Ever Be the Same?

November 24, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutes

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Would It Mean to 'Absorb' a Nuclear Attack?

November 22, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes

The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to describing what the reality would be for those on the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?

November 20, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutes

The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just One U.S. Reservation Hosts Nuclear Weapons. This Is The Story of How That Came to Be

November 17, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutes

15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?

November 14, 2023 08:45 - 19 minutes

A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Naps Are Good for Your Brain

November 13, 2023 08:00 - 9 minutes

Daytime naps of about 30 minutes really improve your thinking and may spark creativity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Funding for Research on Psychedelics Is on the Rise, Along with Scientists' Hopes for Using Them

November 10, 2023 11:00 - 11 minutes

As interest and support for psychedelic research grows, scientists share their hopes for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do You Need to 'Trip' for Psychedelics to Work as Medicine?

November 08, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes

Psychedelic researchers are engaged in heated debate over whether the mind-altering effects of the drugs are necessary for realizing their therapeutic potential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Search for New Psychedelics

November 06, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes

As companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances stay true to its original pioneering spirit of wonder, curiosity and connection? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Are Ultraprocessed Foods, and Are They Bad for You?

November 01, 2023 06:30 - 12 minutes

More than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These Creatures Are Probably the Closest Thing Nature Has to Real Werewolves

October 30, 2023 10:00 - 11 minutes

Under the right conditions, the spadefoot tadpole will transform into a voracious predator of its own species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The World's Most Frightening Animal Sounds like This

October 27, 2023 04:00 - 9 minutes

Lions, tigers, bears: this creature sends all of those beasts running for the hills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25,000 Years in an Icy Tomb

October 25, 2023 09:00 - 6 minutes

Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Generative AI Models Are Sucking Up Data from All Over the Internet, Yours Included

October 23, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes

In the rush to build and train ever larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public data—and potentially some of your private data as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

October 20, 2023 19:00 - 7 minutes

If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it's your job—no matter how difficult it is—to get it for them.

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care with a Corpse

October 20, 2023 14:00 - 8 minutes

If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it’s your job—no matter how difficult—to get one for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Books

The Right Stuff
1 Episode