Sean Wojcik discusses the relationship between happiness and political ideology. Emily Conover discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Erik Hersman/flickr/CC BY 2.0] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stephen Baker discusses the challenges faced by lower-income countries when fighting antimicrobial resistant infections. Emily Conover discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Merton Wilton/flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sara Mitchell discusses the co-evolution of sexual traits in mosquitoes and their influence on malaria transmission. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: © Sam Cotton] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Renée Duckworth discusses the role of maternal effects on species replacement in ecological communities shaped by forest fires. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: © Alex Badyaev] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Steffen discusses the processes that define the planetary boundaries framework: a safe operating space within which humanity can still thrive on earth. Jenna Jambeck examines the factors influencing how much plastic debris a nation contributes to the ocean. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Bo Eide Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gyorgy Buzsáki discusses how two types of neurons in the brain's hippocampus work together to map an animal's environment. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: © Isaac Planas-Sitjà] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Bohannon discusses the growing rift between mathematicians and the National Security Agency following Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations of massive eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Amos Frumkin/Hebrew University Cave Research Center] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Myrtha Hässig discusses variability and heterogeneity of the coma of comet 67P as part of Science's special issue on the Rosetta spacecraft. Meghna Sachdev discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: European Space Agency/Rosetta/NAVCAM] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charles Bishop discusses the "roller-coaster" flight strategy of bar-headed geese as they migrate across the Himalayas between their breeding and wintering grounds. Online news editor David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: © Nyambayar Batbayar] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vanessa Ezenwa discusses the complex relationship between parasitic infections and tuberculosis in African buffalo and what it can tell us about human health. Online news editor David Grimm dicusses coloration in lizards, weighing earth-like planets, and how bears help meadows by eating ants. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Mark Jordahl/Flickr/CC-BY-2.0] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Justin Reich discusses the brief history of MOOCs and their impact on teaching online and offline. [Img: GARY WATERS/GETTYIMAGES] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robert Coontz discusses this year's Breakthrough and letting readers have their say. Online news editor David Grimm brings the top news stories of 2014 and takes an audio news quiz. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tsetse fly genetics; roundup of daily news with David Grimm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eric Hand discusses the winding history of the Black Beauty meteorite--a 4.4 billion-year-old piece of Mars. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on bacteria's role in the blood-brain barrier, the "ice-pocalypse", and why only 10 percent of galaxies may host complex life. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: © Joe McNally] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erich Jarvis sums up the findings from sequencing 40+ bird genomes. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories capturing comet dust, the origins of life, and losing the Y chromosome. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Copyright © Flip de Nooyer/Foto Natura/Minden Pictures] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kenneth Catania takes a close look at how exactly electric eels stun their prey. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on pushing back the earliest abstract art by a few millennia, how our primate ancestors handled their liquor, and murderous sea mammals. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: © Kenneth Catania] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cordelia Fine discusses the prevalence of "neurosexism" in the study of the human brain. Online news editor David Grimm brings stories on climbing walls like a gecko, human hand transplants, and measuring altruism in the lab. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: turkishdisco/Flickr/CC-BY-SA] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Grimm and Meghna Sachdev discuss robots that can induce ghostly feelings, the domestication of cats, and training humans to echolocate. Elizabeth Pennisi discusses overcoming hippos' dangerous reputation and oddly shaped bodies to study their important role in African ecosystems. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Kabacchi/Wikipedia] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stephanie Karst discusses her team's successful efforts to culture norovirus in the lab and what this new system means for treatment and prevention. David Grimm brings daily news stories on counting virtual friends, drama at the center of the galaxy, and the birth of the penis. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ayelet Gneezy discusses trends in charitable giving and how to maximize donations. David Grimm brings stories on an algal virus found in humans, how to stop zooming human population growth, and an avalanche on an asteroid. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: ISAS/JAXA] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kurt Rademaker discusses his work exploring the Andean plateau for artifacts of the earliest high-altitude humans, Paleoindians that lived at 4500 meters more than 11,000 years ago. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: David-Stanley/Flickr] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adam Ford discusses linking plants, their herbivores, and their predators on the East African savannah. Science daily news editor David Grimm brings stories on storing CO2 underground for millions of years, why fruit flies like yeast and vice versa, and volcanoes on the moon. [Img: Filip Lachowski] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The rights and responsibilities of robots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Satellite data helps map the last unexplored terrain on planet Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New evidence reveals the complicated history of stone tool use 400,000 - 200,000 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hindcasting weather over the ocean near the California coast for 600 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Frugal engineering for global health; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bringing cellulosic ethanol to market; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sharing microbes around the house; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Investigating web censorship practices in China; roundup of daily news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
