This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

By Dr. Kirsten Sanford Science Media

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The kickass science and technology radio show that delivers an irreverent look at the week in science and technology.

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06.18.2021

This Week: Whirling Filaments, Mouse Free, Healthy Hops, Plastic Microbes, Swiss Bats, Interview w/ Drs. Angelique Corthals, Liliana Davalos, & Diana Moreno Santillàn RE:Bat Immunity Genetics, Underwater Archaeology, Bird Song Translator, Pain And Vitamins, And Much More...

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast episodes:

06.18.2021 16 June, 2021 – Episode 829 – Why Are Bats Disease Vectors? This Week: Whirling Filaments, Mouse Free, Healthy Hops, Plastic Microbes, Swiss Bats, Interview w/ Drs. Angelique Corthals, Liliana Davalos, & Diana Moreno Santillàn RE:Bat Immunity Genetics, Underwater Archaeology, Bird Song Translator, Pain And Vitamins, And Much More...
06.13.2021 09 June, 2021 – Episode 828 – Can We Move the Moon? This Week: Reviving Life, Robots For Kids, Outsmarting Bacteria, Whipped Happiness, Metal Core?, Schooled Megalodon, No Moon Moving, COVID Update, Puppies!, Hangry Fruit Flies, Mental Health Diet, Better Learning, Do Your Math, And Much More...
06.04.2021 02 June, 2021 – Episode 827 – Does the COVID Vaccine Affect Periods? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: NASA News, Limb Regeneration, Bad Videos, Interview w/ Drs. Kate Clancy & Katherine Lee RE: Vaccines & Menstruation, Real Fake News, Brain Testes, The Dark Way, Bat People, Intelligent ...
05.28.2021 26 May, 2021 – Episode 826 – It’s the Little Things That Count What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Headline Stories, Climate Doom, Stem Cell Guides, Problem Bird Feeders, City Bugs, Interview w/ Dr. Elisabeth Bik RE: Scientific Integrity, Code Switching Tamarins, Wolves For Deer, Just The Gist, ...
05.21.2021 19 May, 2021 – Episode 825 – How to Remember Things What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Erosion & Evolution, Traits Of Life, Googley Eyes, Repairing Hearing, Good Students, Iconic Sounds, COVID Update, Bottom Breathing, Scuba Lizards, Horse History, Better Memory, Thumb Brain, Reducing APP, And ...
05.15.2021 12 May, 2021 – Episode 824 – Why Do We Yawn? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Immune Therapy, Post-natal Depression, Birds of Instagram, Paleo Poop, Slowest Earthquake, Fossil Turducken, Headless Worms, COVID Update, Why We Yawn, Smelly Mice, Giant Lizards, Human Origins, Magneto-Sharks, Brain Bonding, ...
05.07.2021 05 May, 2021 – Episode 823 – Cinco de Mayo Science Salsa! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Cytobacteria?, Invisible Fences, Jurassic Garden, Zee Deeehnay, Branching Worms, Simulated Impact, COVID Update, 1 To 3, Baby Mantis Punch, Holographic Histopathology, Fertility Feed, Bat Senses, Seat Of Consciousness, Cinco ...
04.30.2021 28 April, 2021 – Episode 822 – This Show is Totally Reasonable What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Mars Milestones, Whey To Go, Whale Speak, Malaria Success, Bacterial Biofilms, Anti-Stars?, COVID Update, Sponge Tracks, Fruit Fly Marathoners, Antibiotic Time Bomb, New Nomenclature, Drug-Finding Tool, Lost Identity, And Much More… ...
04.23.2021 21 April, 2021 – Episode 821 – Putting Science in the Light What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Making Chimeras, Bad Humans, Forgotten Coffee, Interview w/ Dr. Greg Gbur on Light and Invisibility, COVID Dogs, Beetle Pee, Snake Venom, Honey Fallout, Slow Rex, Glancing Gaze, Traveling Tarantulas, Shift Work ...
04.15.2021 14 April, 2021 – Episode 820 – Is it Time Yet??? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? FermiLab Followup, Almost Astronauts, How Do You Scream, Moving Fish, Magic Mood Mushroom, Crazy Light, Monkey Speed Bumps, COVID Update, It’s A Yawn, Bird Blood Heaters, Halfway To Zero, Imprinting Autism?, ...
04.10.2021 07 April, 2021 – Episode 819 – What Should You Know About Beavers? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? New Physics?, Sensitive Tattoos, COVID Update, PUF Piece, Interview w/ Ben Goldfarb for International Beaver Day, Worm hunting Snails, Blaring Fireflies, Norwegian Blobs, Battery Race, Neander Ancestors, Rain Rules, Tit Turnover, ...
04.02.2021 31 March, 2021 – Episode 818 – What to Do About the Beasts? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Synthetic Life, Old Bones, Circus Rabbits, Interview with Michelle Nijhuis re: Beloved Beasts, Dreaming Octopus, Big Fangs, Australasian South American?, Social Distanced Mice, Antimatter Lasers, Invasive Species, Xenobot The Sequel, And ...
03.28.2021 24 March, 2021 – Episode 817 – Let’s Talk Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Water Worries, Union Economics, Predator Poop, Brain Tumor Vaccine?, Not So Mysterious Human, Anti-Vax Vaccination , Wafting Bee Wings, Bonobo Baby, Brain Pathogens, Bronze Age Grub Hub, Big Brains, Removing False ...
03.21.2021 17 March, 2021 – Episode 816 – How Do Irish Eyes? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? No Womb, Shipwrecked Solar System, Mask Destruction, Cancer Force Field, Bad Air, Giraffe-Mice, Fast Heart Attacks, COVID Vaccine Update, Tone Deaf Honeyeaters, Savage Plovers, Ocean Protection, Green Arctic Acres, Irish Crying ...
03.13.2021 10 March, 2021 – Episode 815 – How to Hunt Volcanoes What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Conserve Or Use?, A Second Pill, Catnip Deterrent, Sponge Earth, Shortest Story Ever, Volcanic Effects, Interview with Ms. Adventure Volcano Jess Phoenix, Slug Heads, Frog Lungs, Solitary Science, Helpful Traits, Psychedelic ...
03.04.2021 03 March, 2021 – Episode 814 – How Wild is Life? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Science Trappings, Fat & Wine, Playing Possum, Space Hurricanes, Anteosaurus Update, Lyre Birds Lie, Delaying Cuttlefish, Climate Webs, Nano Lenses, Changing Economics, Neanderthal Speech, Less Sex, Who Knows?, And Much More… ...
02.27.2021 24 February, 2021 – Episode 813 – How to Choose Your Roach What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Perseverance Has Landed!, Art Rocks, Underwater Glider, AI Exploration, Choose Your Roach, Magnetic Extinctions, COVID-19 Update, Cute Clones, MonkeyVision, Taxes & Democracy, Eat Your Shrooms, Seasonal Change, Moldy Memory, And Much ...
02.19.2021 17 February, 2021 – Episode 812 – Fungus February Fun! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Perseverence On Mars, Silent Caterpillar Killers, Meat For Cats, Looking Out, Dog Shows, Fish Tracks, Interview with Dr. Ivan Liachko of Phase Genomics, Cockroach Wings, Spider Legs, COVID Protection Genes?, Not ...
02.12.2021 10 February, 2021 – Episode 811 – Digging for Science Bones What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Fish Limbs, Conch Sounds, Animal Stress, Fractal Vision, Ongoing Evolution, Allergy Woes?, Ocean Carbon Cycle, Dragonfly Flight, Orphan Bat Moms, Discriminating Search, Political Marketing, Happy Bones, Sad Sperm, And Much More… ...
02.06.2021 03 February, 2021 – Episode 810 – Humans Are All Thumbs What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Old Thumb, Martian Mudslides, Full Moon Crazies, Global Wind Atlas, Old Bone Scratch, Fungus Vs Fungus, COVID-19 Update, Evolutionary Blackmail, Driving Crickets Mad, Monkey Monitors, Frozen Fresh, Stop It, Radio Feelings, ...
01.29.2021 27 January, 2021 – Episode 809 – How to Describe a Mosquito? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Carbon Zero, Dung Beetle Poo Control, We Drink Milk, Bird Poo Connections, Autism Markers, Interview with Dr. Yvonne Linton RE: Mosquitoes of the World, Coral Bleaching Revealed, Growing Gonads, Moon Women, ...
01.23.2021 20 January, 2021 – Episode 808 – Science Loves Palindromes! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Scientific Hope, Anti-fungal Antfarms, All The Protection, Cat Protection, Allergy Gut Bugs, Water That Binds, COVID-19 Update, Beetle Goo, Eel Hunters, Perfect Dino Butthole, Brain Material, Fast Laser Pulses, AI Teacher, ...
01.15.2021 13 January, 2021 – Episode 807 – Why is Science So Hot??? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Hot Oceans, Baby Sharks, Jelly Walls, Hot & Rocky, Ukranian Melting Pot, Super Flare, COVID-19 Update, Tree Snakes, Spider Pockets, Human Persistence, Distant Dire Wolves, Sperm Markers, mRNA For MS, And ...
01.08.2021 06 January, 2021 – Episode 806 – 2021 Science Predictions What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Predictions from 2020, 2021 Science Predictions, Progeria Cure?, Stratospheric Warming, AI Builds Proteins, Bad Science Lingers, Hungry Eagle Owls, Panda Problems, Epigenetic Depression, Octopus Skin, And Much More… Become a Patron! ...
01.01.2021 30 December, 2020 – Episode 805 – 2020 Science In Review! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? The Top 11 Science Stories of 2020, And Much More… Become a Patron! Check out the full episode of our science podcast on YouTube. You can do that here. And, remember ...
12.19.2020 16 December, 2020 – Episode 804 – TWIS the Season to Hibernate? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Extinction Patterns, What the Keck?, Diamond Sparkling Water, Human Faces, Fewer Hurricanes!, Computer Brains, COVID UPDATE, Spiders… In… Space!, Fish Radios?, MOND Prediction, Magnetic Chips, Usher In Touch, And Much More… ...
12.11.2020 09 December, 2020 – Episode 803 – Bringing Light to the Darkest Timeline What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Light Supremacy, Cat Scratch Stretch Marks, Beavers & Frogs, Humans & Nature, Neander Burial, Poo Protection, COVID Update, Dog Talk, Pandas & Poo, Call For Science, Municipal Military, Shrinking Shrew Brains!, ...
12.05.2020 02 December, 2020 – Episode 802 – I Saw Mommy Vaccinating Santa Claus! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Alpha-Fold, Smashing Asteroids, Smelling Coral Reefs, Plant Memory Wipe, High Water Future, Guts & Vitamins, COVID Update, Insect Leg Wings, Avian Democracy, Solar MOF’s, Killing Killers, Telomeres & Tumors, Fresh Eyes, ...
12.01.2020 25 November, 2020 – Episode 801 – Pile of Hot Turkey Feathers! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Space Travel Stuff, Turkey Feathers, Bendy Dolphins, Saving Birds, Long Lives, Hiding Plants, COVID Update, Alligator Tales, Smart Bees, Smelly Rats, Science Sounds, Memory Maps, Surprise!, And Much More… Support us ...
11.20.2020 18 November, 2020 – Episode 800 – This is Our 800th Episode! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Long Necks, Giant Viruses, Zoo Monkeys, Geoengineered Nope, Lava Water, Sleep Your Age, Dog Connections, COVID Update, Finch Familiarity, Palate Parasite, Owl Wings, Spy Vacuum, Nostalgia, Trivia, And Much More… Support ...
11.13.2020 11 November, 2020 – Episode 799 – How to Grow Younger What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Glow Moon, Bacterial Worm Transport, Space Bacteria, Masks Until Mates, Hard Hitting Hurricanes, Sharks & Pterosaurs, Immune Gene, Growing Young Interview w/ Marta Zaraska, Touchy Fish, Mean Mongoose Mob, Voting Science, ...
11.07.2020 04 November, 2020 – Episode 798 – Science is All About Patience What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Missing Height Found, Lady Hunters, Glowy-pus, Earwax Measures, Crabs & Rats, Voyager Calling!, COVID Update, Drab Birds, Surfing Fish, Ancient Denisovans, Mushroom Magic, Corporate Nudges, Old Holes, And Much More… Support ...
10.30.2020 28 October, 2020 – Episode 797 – Don’t Fear TWISoween! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Haunted Science, Giant Terror Birds, Potent Potions, Sneaky Strike, Shrinking Ice, Vampire Distance, COVID Update, Home Invasion!, Mole Rat Slaves, Cold People, Plastic Babies, Controlling Fear, Common Core, And Much More… ...
10.24.2020 21 October, 2020 – Episode 796 – Would You Take the Shot? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Bennu Boop, Bee Barrier, Diabolical Ironclad, Nasal Organ?, Sanctuary Service, Happy Ending, Interview w/ Dr. Josiah Zayner on Biohacking & DIY COVID Vaccine, And Much More… Support us on Patreon! Check ...
10.16.2020 14 October, 2020 – Episode 795 – What is Room Temp, but Super Cool? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Superconductive What?, Racism Among Police, Birds Share, Smells Fishy, Tattooed Circuits, Fluorescent Bears, COVID Update, Bees Have Guts, Ants With Tools!, Computer Enhance, Positively Selected, Social Manipulation, Pandemic Impacts, And Much ...
10.09.2020 07 October, 2020 – Episode 794 – We are Speaking… Scientifically What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Nobel Prize Time, Squid Bot, Two Season Humans, Better Than Earth?, Dino Sense, Love Or Anxiety, COVID Update, Sneaky Turtle Eggs, Snake Colors, Inflammation & Downs, Tinnitus Shock, And Much More… ...
10.02.2020 30 September, 2020 – Episode 793 – Better Know a Virus What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Trust In Science, Matter Numbers, Starving Birds, Speedy Breakdown, Vaping Hot Take, Friendly Virus, Interview w/ Dr. Efra Rivera-Serrano on Cells & Viruses, Scary Snakes, Firefly Scene, Fishy Food, Y Neanderthals?, ...
09.26.2020 23 September, 2020 – Episode 792 – Where is the Dark Energy? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Wobbly Ring, Covid Cats, Oldest sperm, Pi Planet, Close Call, Early Arsenic Life, Interview w/ Dr. Kevin Croker re: GEODEs, Friend Zone, Stranger Danger, Chicago Race, Microbial Brains, Dissociation Center, And ...
09.18.2020 16 September, 2020 – Episode 791 – How Long Will This Last? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Life Stories, Bacterial Magnetism, Cavefish Brains, Orca-stration, Whale Blubber, COVID Update, Worm Knowledge, Variable Chimps, Venomous Plants, Time Perception, Old Stews, Old Bears, And Much More… Support us on Patreon! Check ...
09.11.2020 09 September, 2020 – Episode 790 – How the West Was Burned What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Sleep & Stress, State Pain, Plant Bodies, Arctic Jeans, No Aliens, Mega Pixels, COVID Update, Naked Hearing, Conservation Works, Fishy Walk, Gibbon Gap, Milk Genes, Frigid Birds, And Much More… Support ...
09.05.2020 02 September, 2020 – Episode 789 – Science with a TWISt What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Black Hole Merger, Bacteria merger, Female Science, Water Source, Future Food, Road Kills, COVID Update, Armed By Food, Happy Mice, Microbiome Age, Brain Beats, Dark Stars, And Much More… Support us ...
08.28.2020 26 August, 2020 – Episode 788 – Where’s the Brief? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Space Bacteria, Boring Videos, Catching Fires, Rainfall Ecology, Painted Black, Interview with Dr. Jeremy Faust of Brief19 on Covid-19, Locust Drivers, Hydrogen life, Faster Warming, Cuttlefish Flamboyance, Coral Food, And Much ...
08.20.2020 19 August, 2020 – Episode 787 – How to Save a Cow What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Take A Breath, Simple Speech, Slingshot Spiders, Drunk Sensors, Herpes Cure?, Eye Spots, COVID Update, Mystery Gas, Cosmic Rhythm, A Cartilage Fix, Morning Warmup, Baby Bat Babble, And Much More… Support ...
08.14.2020 12 August, 2020 – Episode 786 – TWIS Explains The Universe What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Water Worlds, Banana Teeth, Teeny Tiny Cleaners, Damaged Dish, Look-Alike Galaxy, Dolphin Age, Interview w/ Daniel Whiteson on Physics & Comics, COVID UPdate, Homeless Law, Shrinking Dwarfs, Placebo Brains, Tuatara Tales, ...
08.07.2020 05 August, 2020 – Episode 785 – Why Are Lemurs??? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Martian Ice Sheets, Athletic Potential, Happier Cows, Sperm Spins, Juno Sparks, Toxic Spider Webs, INTERVIEW w/ Dr. Lydia Greene about Lemurs, COVID Update, Reversing Alzheimer’s, MS Holy Grail, Brain Limits, Bad ...
07.31.2020 29 July, 2020 – Episode 784 – How To Know A Narcissist What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? NASA Perseveres, Bacterial Survivalists, Anxiety Animals, Alzheimer’s Blood, Death Star Magnatar, AI For Bird ID, Narcissists Know Best, COVID Update, Poop Problem, Lighting Up Hearing, Dream Manipulation, Viking Virus, Stunting Growth, ...
07.25.2020 22 July, 2020 – Episode 783 – Why the Earth Isn’t Flat What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Batting 1000, Nanostars!!!, Pig Vs. Dog, Hot In Here, Gonzalo Breaks Record, Creature Connectivity Correlation, Baby Picture!, COVID Update, Human Arrival, Good Plants, Brain Benefits, Feelings, Voice Matters, Outfox The Ferrets, ...
07.17.2020 15 July, 2020 – Episode 782 – Why Friendliness is Fabulous What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Cosmological Agreement, CAR-T Cure?, Daddy Mommas, Getting Gassy, Pigs Save Lungs, Interview w/ Dr. Brian Hare on The Survival of the Friendliest, COVID Update, Pickled Brains, Seeing Eye To Eye, Placental ...
07.10.2020 08 July, 2020 – Episode 781 – How to Test for COVID What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Neandertal Gene, Perky Ears, Coconut Killer, Carbon Source, Dog Years, Date Whoever, Mitochondrial Editing, Interview re: CRISPR + COVID w/ Dr. Enrique Lin Shiao, COVID Update, Missing Monster, Hummingbird Counters?, Caecilian ...
07.03.2020 01 July, 2020 – Episode 780 – We’re Halfway There, and Living on Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? New Flu?, Down Under Water, North American Penguinish, Absentee Voters, Bad Recycling News, Jello Jellyfish, Chicken Source, COVID Update, Got Stress?, Clearing Out The Old, Old Australian Plant, Long-tailed Tit Life, ...

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