Sinopsis
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
Episodios
-
AI Can Now Read Your Cat's Pain
08/12/2023 Duración: 08minThanks to researchers, new AI tech is delving into feline feelings to see when cats could need medical help.
-
These Researchers Put Sperm Through a Kind of 'Hunger Games'
06/12/2023 Duración: 06minThe research focused on figuring out what enables certain sperm to gain some competitive advantage over millions of others fighting for the same prize.
-
Is Too Little Play Hurting Our Kids?
04/12/2023 Duración: 14minA long-term decline in unsupervised activity may be contributing to mental health declines in children and adolescents.
-
How Misinformation Spreads through Conflict
01/12/2023 Duración: 24minThree experts break down how misinformation and propaganda spread through conflict and how to debunk it yourself.
-
Why Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Falling
29/11/2023 Duración: 08minFewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame?
-
Climate Adaptation Can Backfire If We Aren't Careful
27/11/2023 Duración: 11minThe choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite us
-
The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with Nuclear Weapons. Can Their Reality Ever Be the Same?
24/11/2023 Duración: 14minThe 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.
-
What Would It Mean to 'Absorb' a Nuclear Attack?
22/11/2023 Duración: 19minThe 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.
-
If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It?
20/11/2023 Duración: 16minThe 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
17/11/2023 Duración: 17min15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there.
-
How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation?
14/11/2023 Duración: 18minA 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.
-
Quick Naps Are Good for Your Brain
13/11/2023 Duración: 08minDaytime naps of about 30 minutes really improve your thinking and may spark creativity.
-
Funding for Research on Psychedelics Is on the Rise, Along with Scientists' Hopes for Using Them
10/11/2023 Duración: 10minAs interest and support for psychedelic research grows, scientists share their hopes for the future.
-
Do You Need to 'Trip' for Psychedelics to Work as Medicine?
08/11/2023 Duración: 13minPsychedelic researchers are engaged in heated debate over whether the mind-altering effects of the drugs are necessary for realizing their therapeutic potential.
-
The Search for New Psychedelics
06/11/2023 Duración: 10minAs companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances stay true to its original pioneering spirit of wonder, curiosity and connection?
-
What Are Ultraprocessed Foods, and Are They Bad for You?
01/11/2023 Duración: 11minMore than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our health
-
These Creatures Are Probably the Closest Thing Nature Has to Real Werewolves
30/10/2023 Duración: 10minUnder the right conditions, the spadefoot tadpole will transform into a voracious predator of its own species.
-
The World's Most Frightening Animal Sounds like This
27/10/2023 Duración: 08minLions, tigers, bears: this creature sends all of those beasts running for the hills.
-
The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25,000 Years in an Icy Tomb
25/10/2023 Duración: 05minCan something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes.
-
Generative AI Models Are Sucking Up Data from All Over the Internet, Yours Included
23/10/2023 Duración: 11minIn 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.

Únete Ahora
- Acceso ilimitado a todo el contenido de la plataforma.
- Más de 30 mil títulos, incluidos audiolibros, podcasts, series y documentales.
- Narración de audiolibros por profesionales, incluidos actores, locutores e incluso los propios autores.