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Asexuality Research Has Reached New Heights. What Are We Learning?
February 23, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutesA 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 minutesResearchers 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 minutesResearch 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 minutesPart 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 minutesIndividual 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 minutesOn 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 minutesLearn 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 minutesPortugal 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 minutesFor 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 minutesExperts 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 minutesThis 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 minutesToday’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 minutesFrom 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 minutesA 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 minutesIn 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 minutesWe 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 minutesImagine 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 minutesThe 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 minutesNell 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 minutesDogs 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 minutesIn 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 minutesAdvanced 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 minutesThe 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 minutesWe’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 minutesThe 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 minutesThe 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 minutesThe 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 minutesProblems 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 minutesThanks 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 minutesThe 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 minutesA 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 minutesThree 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 minutesFewer 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 minutesThe 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 minutesThe 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 minutesThe 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 minutesThe 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 minutes15 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 minutesA 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 minutesDaytime 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 minutesAs 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 minutesPsychedelic 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 minutesAs 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 minutesMore 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 minutesUnder 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 minutesLions, 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 minutesCan 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 minutesIn 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 minutesIf 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 minutesIf 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