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 2,355 episodes available.

Science Quickly episodes:

August 04, 2023 The Fungi Economy, Part 1: Just like Us, Trees Are Experiencing Inflation
Like us, plants and fungi have complex economies. By burning fossil fuels, we’ve been devaluing their currency.

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15min
August 02, 2023 Could Weight-Loss Drugs Curb Addiction? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 12
Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well as shed pounds.

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11min
July 31, 2023 How to Roll a Joint Perfectly, according to Science
Scientists used a smoking machine—complete with a 3-D-printed mouthpiece—to figure out how to get the most cannabinoid per puff.

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10min
July 28, 2023 Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy
New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone’s body.

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12min
July 26, 2023 Here's Why Actors Are So Worried about AI
Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.”

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11min
July 24, 2023 Are You a Lucid Dreamer?
A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head.

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12min
July 21, 2023 Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History
Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

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16min
July 19, 2023 How Stress Messes With Your Gut
Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress

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11min
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

FAQs about Science Quickly:

How many episodes does Science Quickly have?

The podcast currently has 2,355 episodes available.