Science Quickly

By Scientific American

Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.... more

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The podcast currently has 2,297 episodes available.

Science Quickly episodes:

July 17, 2023 Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities?
Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work.

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15min
July 14, 2023 What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain
Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

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14min
July 12, 2023 Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th-Century Teen Anatomist?
Was a teenager named Alessandra Giliani the Western world’s first female anatomist? In 14th-century Italy, women were strictly barred from medical research. One flouted that rule—disguised as a man.
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9min
July 10, 2023 Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice
New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.

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14min
July 07, 2023 Doctor AI Will See You Now
ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they?

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10min
July 05, 2023 El Niño is Back. What Does That Mean For You?
The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.

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8min
June 29, 2023 The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]
John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation.

This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.

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10min
June 28, 2023 The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitational Waves, and Scientists Just Heard Them (Maybe)
Researchers, using the galaxy as a detector, believe they have detected gravitational waves from monster black holes for the first time.

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17min
June 26, 2023 Poisons and Perils on the Salton Sea
Toxic dust plagues marginalized communities on the shores of this disappearing salt lake.

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12min
June 23, 2023 These Ants Are Probably Better at Navigating Than You Are
Desert ants living in the featureless salt plains of Tunisia count their steps and erect tall entrances at their nests to find their way back home.

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5min

FAQs about Science Quickly:

How many episodes does Science Quickly have?

The podcast currently has 2,297 episodes available.