Science Talk

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Science Talk episodes

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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14 min
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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14 min
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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10 min
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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8 min
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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10 min
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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17 min
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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12 min
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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5 min
June 21, 2023 How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heat
Your body has a secret cooling method, and scientists explain how to use it.

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12 min
June 19, 2023 Follow a Hurricane Expert into the Heart Of the Beast
Along with an expert, we take you into some of nature's most monstrous storms.

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13 min

About Science Talk

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Science Talk is a podcast of longer-form audio experiments from Scientific American--from immersive sonic journeys into nature to deep dives into research with leading experts.