This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

By Dr. Kirsten Sanford Science Media

Natural Sciences

What's This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast about?

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

4.0

360 ratings

Download our free app to listen on your phone

LAST EPISODE

Fly Me to the Moon, Mr. Bezos!

07.23.2021

This Week: You Will Assimilate, Viruses On Ice, Twisty Shark Intestines, AI Protein Puzzler, Not Spider Silk, COVID Update, Poo-Eating Pikas, Fish Friends, Butterfly Blues, Oceans Are Full, Song Rules, Rat Empathy, And Much More...

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast episodes:

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, ...
06.26.2020 24 June, 2020 – Episode 779 – No Sleep, Just Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID Update, Viral Combat, Bipedal Crocs, Fashionable Parasites, Australia Canada Connection, NOT Neandertal Brains, Fungi Biofilm, Follow Your Nose, Migratory Poop, Aqua-fi, Imbalanced Merger, VIral Hijack, Avocado Gate, And Much More… ...
06.19.2020 17 June, 2020 – Episode 778 – How to Catch a Lizard What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID Update, Interview w/ Earyn McGee about #FindThatLizard, Bubble Bees, Lizard Fears, Santa Stories, Animal Beliefs, Earth Can Haz Friends?, Science Tweets?, And Much More… Support us on Patreon! Want to ...
06.12.2020 10 June, 2020 – Episode 777 – Science Takes Flight What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID Update, Sea Cucumber Hormones, Pink Means Business, Butterfly Armor, Bird Brains!, Parasite For Water, Artificial Sleep, Cancer-Fighting Fungi, Mate Choice, We Are The World, Great White Diet, And Much More… ...
06.06.2020 03 June, 2020 – Episode 776 – It’s Time For A Change What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Protest Psychology, Fox Life, COVID Self Care, Hemorrhagic Microbiome, Not So Royal Jelly, Misery Loves Company, Lab Grown Livers, Dead Sea Puzzle, Triple Negative, Fleeing Pole-Ward, Geo-engineered Problems?, Feral Cat Death, ...
05.29.2020 27 May, 2020 – Episode 775 – To Health with Social Distance! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Jenny Tung on Social Behavior & Health, COVID Update, Biting Bumble Bees, Translucent Frog Legs, Bad For Ladies, Cosmic Flashlight, Maternal Neanderthal?, Stretchy Words, Mass Not Extinction, Narwhal ...
05.22.2020 20 May, 2020 – Episode 774 – What’s in an Octopus’ Garden What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Chad King on Octopus Gardens, COVID Update, Pain In The Brain, Fungis On Twitter, Bird Spys, Eyes On, Irreproducible Results, Dr. Google, Funny Penguin Poop, And Much More… Support ...
05.14.2020 13 May, 2020 – Episode 773 – K9 COVID Angst What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID19 Update, Vagina Science, Turtle Moms Throw Sand, Angsty K9s, Creating Chimeras, Hidden Human Migration, T-rex Legs, Tools Of Self-Control, Night Pollinators, Tully Monster Chemistry, And Much More… Support us on ...
05.08.2020 06 May, 2020 – Episode 772 – Celebrate the Science Teachers What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID19 Update, SMART Research, Dolphin Voices, Salmon Magnets, Neighborhood Black Hole, Hydrogen Worlds, Wireless Power, Mushrooms For Jet-Lag, Murder Hornet Mayhem, Sleeping Memory, Koala Licks, And Much More… Support us on ...
05.01.2020 29 April, 2020 – Episode 771 – How to Read Tree Rings What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Valerie Trouet on Tree Story, COVID-19 Update, Matriarchal Neanderthals?, Viral Bee Behavior, Spider Combs!, Underwater Bones, Core Conundrum, Dope Shrews, Toothy Teenagers, Swimming Spinosaurus, City Found, Danger Place, ...
04.28.2020 22 April, 2020 – Episode 770 – Is there life beyond Earth? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Kevin Peter Hand on Alien Oceans & Life Beyond Earth, Life Value, FOX Experiment, Toxo Zoos, Evolution Stinks, Cool Bird Beaks, Indoor CO2, Hungry Robots, Two Comfort Bugs, Spider ...
04.17.2020 15 April, 2020 – Episode 769 – Going Crazy for Science! Interview w/ Crazy Aunt Lindsey of The Fab Lab, COVID Science, Potential For Violation, Alien Breakup, Turtle Sex, Rhino Guards, Carbon Cutting, Evolving AI, Space Brain, Flamingo friends!, Breakfast Chocolate, And Much More…
04.10.2020 08 April, 2020 – Episode 768 – Her Brain is SO Crafty! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Vanessa Hill of BrainCraft, Quick COVID Update, Better Brain Implants, Heart Off The Shelf, Mouse Looks, Charismatic Invasives, Healthy Horseshoe Crabs, Toilet Scans, Interstellar Dropoff?, Panda Mating, And Much ...
04.04.2020 01 April, 2020 – Episode 767 – April Fools Is Cancelled What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID-19 Update, Magic Brain Decoder Ring, Antarctic Rainforest, Orchestral Squid in the Dark, Ant Traffic, Bacterial Photosynthesis, Fishy Calusa, Matchy Microbiomes, Nuclear Reprogramming 4Eva, Musical Creativity, Mantis Mimic, And Much More… ...
03.31.2020 25 March, 2020 – Episode 766 – What is the Wonder Chicken? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Treatment Truths, Cellular Waves, WonderChicken, Animal Ancestor, Snake Venom Virtue, Horny Narwhals, Life Finds A Way, COVID Myths, Musical Brains, Long-lived Ladies, Apelopithecus, And Much More… Support us on Patreon! Want ...
03.20.2020 18 March, 2020 – Episode 765 – Who Has the Mars Maps? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview with JPL Mars Geologist Fred Calef III, Virus Viability, New Reality, COVID-19 Vaccine Trial, Lighten Up Trauma!, Croc Moms Rock, Donation Acceptance, Human Magnetoreception, Anxious Kids?, Legos Live Forever, Some ...
03.13.2020 11 March, 2020 – Episode 764 – What Does Pandemic Mean? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? COVID QUIZ TIME!!!, Arctic Chlamydia, Old Flu, Glowing Amphibians, Scorpion Glow, Crabs Can’t Camo, Dark Genes, Solar Sytem Minor Leagues, Violent Farmers, Tiny Old Bird, Pillow Talk, Follow The Worker, Don’t ...
03.06.2020 04 March, 2020 – Episode 763 – March Fourth With Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Science News With Dr. Kiki AND Guest Hosts: Ethan Seigel & Jessica Hebert! COVID-19 Update, Chinese Air, Air Death, Biggest Bang, Mitochondrial Membrane Motion, Baby Whale Birth, Death By Gamete, Merging ...
02.27.2020 26 February, 2020 – Episode 762 – To MicroBE or Not To Be? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Microbe Genome Scientist Jonathan Eisen, Mini-Moon, Moondust, Old Algae, Old People, Who Needs Oxygen?, Gull Bait, Mantis Punches, Polar Cannibals, Academic Losses, Robo-Poets, Robo-Fingers, And Much More… Support us ...
02.23.2020 19 February, 2020 – Episode 761 – Fighting for Space! Interview w/ Amy Shira Teitel, Self-Replication, Bird Memories, Neander Burials, Millipede Sex, Squid Sex, Dog-Like Teeth, Water States, Dino Tracks, Camera Trackers, And Much More...
02.13.2020 12 February, 2020 – Episode 758 – How Do Climate Models Work? Dr. Kiki interviews Dr. Zeke Hausfather on the accuracy of climate models.
02.07.2020 05 February, 2019 – Episode 757 – Life on Earth What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Global Biodiversity, Plant Life, Homeless Schooled, Grey Seals Clap, Cuttlefish Favorites, Violent Man?, Bee Beats, Coronavirus Numbers Update, Cat Defense or Coincidence?, People Yarn, Red Meat Bad, Super Spider Glue, And ...
01.31.2020 29 January, 2020 – Episode 756 – What’s up with nCoV? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? 2019 Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Update, Speaking of Snakes, Fly Brain Map, Breathy Butterfly Wings, Forest Fashion Sense?, Bacteria Gonna Share, Trash To Flash?, Melting Faster, Jane Austen Sex Pheromone, Drug Lord ...
01.24.2020 22 January, 2019 – Episode 755 – Directing Space Traffic What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Moriba Jah, Cancer T Cells, Snakes And A Virus, Watery Mars Dirt, Wet Rattlesnakes, Helper Parrots, Psychoactive Mood Bump, Greying Hair?, Playful Wolf Pups, And Much More… Want ...
01.10.2020 08 January, 2020 – Episode 753 – 2020 Science Vision! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Predictions Past, Predictions Future, Localizing FRBs, Ancient Scientists, Brain Organoid Tumors, Insect Screens, Bear Necessities, Flying Guts, Cuttlefish In Glasses, Noodle News, Predated Brains, And Much More… Want to listen to ...
12.27.2019 23 December, 2019 – Episode 752 – A Decade in Review What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? The Past Decade of Science in Review, And Much More… Merry TWISmas, and a happy New Year, everyone! Want to listen to a particular story from TWIS, the This Week in ...
12.20.2019 18 December, 2019 – Episode 751 – The Top 11 Discoveries of 2019! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? The Top 11 Science Discoveries of 2019, And Much More… Merry TWISmas, everyone! Want to listen to a particular story from TWIS, the This Week in Science podcast? You can do ...
12.13.2019 11 December, 2019 – Episode 750 – How Fish Bones Tell Stories What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Virgina Butler on Digging Fish Bones, Pig-Monkey Mix, Lice Go Way Back, Extinction Complexity, Greenlandic Thaw, Baboon Sex, SF Sea Otters, Faking It, Little Drummer Brains, Fungus Trees, ...
12.05.2019 04 December, 2019 – Episode 749 – Did It Really Start With A Bang? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Ethan Siegel, Shrinking Brains, Domesticated People, Questionable Domestication, Evasive Bacteria, Bird Breaks, Galapagos Finch Fear, Shrinking Birds, Listening Dogs, Frozen Pup, Foggy Findings, EPA Transparency Troubles, And Much ...
11.22.2019 20 November, 2019 – Episode 748 – The Science Awakens What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Half A Brain, Update On The Force, Skull Bonnet, Yeasty Bees, Peacock Disco, Swimming Bees, Milky Way Gazing, Brightest Burst, Science Broth, Non-Stick Toilets, Dino Bird, Moon Map, Social Health, AR ...
11.15.2019 13 November, 2019 – Episode 747 – What Makes a Computer Super? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Steve Scott from Cray Inc., AI Evading Detection, More DNA Possibilities?, Big Stalled Weather, Smarter Apes, Bat Guts, Orca Family Life, Shooting Star, A Little Hiccup, Tooth Tales, ...
11.07.2019 06 November, 2019 – Episode 746 – Does Science Bug You? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ The Bug Chicks, Space Is Closed?, Age Reversal For Mice, Conservatives of Atlantis, Bat Friends, Tracing Ivory, Lost Thoughts, Brain Thoughts, Into The Beyond, Shark Protection, And Much More… ...
11.01.2019 30 October, 2019 – Episode 745 – Who Needs a Microbiome Anyway??? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Tobin Hammer, AI Mastery, Brainssss!, Bacterial Gut Battle, Rat-Eating Monkeys, Creepy Primate, Funny Guys, Stressed Out Organoids, Two-Legged Robots, Rat Racers, Feely Spiders, And Much More… Want to ...
10.25.2019 23 October, 2019 – Episode 744 – Don’t Fear the AI What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Melanie Mitchell on AI, Prime Editing, Quantum Supremacy, Cosmological Crisis, Smarty Crabs, Fast Ants, Elbow Sex, Shark Buddies!!, Plants!, And Much More… Want to listen to a particular ...
10.18.2019 16 October, 2019 – Episode 743 – Science on the Brain What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Good Energy News, Organoid Brain Development, Sea Captain Neanderthal?, Smarty Pigs, Nocturnal Sperm?, Brain Space!, Cool Dinosaurs, Bloody Concussions, Long Live The Brain, Brain Disruptions, Vaccine For Cats, Whispering Whales, Lineman ...
10.11.2019 09 October, 2019 – Episode 742 – Science Nobelity What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? 2020 Nobel Prize Winners, Funding Black Scientists, The Resistance, New Antibiotic?, Drone Whale Scale, Documentary Drive, Human Salamander, False Song Memories, Mold Pigs, Zebra Stripe Update, Solar Pressure, New Moons, Bird ...
10.03.2019 02 October, 2019 – Episode 741 – Detecting Signals What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Tundra Blair & Polar Bears International, 2019 IgNobel Awards, Eat Meat?, Humans > Volcanoes, Ape Minds, Secrets Of The Tardigrade, Sneaky Bacteria, Color Change Asteroid, Cometary Visitor, Save The Sea Grass!, ...
09.26.2019 25 September, 2019 – Episode 740 – Science & CheMystery! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ C.A. Preece on Science & Comics, Bad Climate News, Good Climate News, Old Bottles, Correction!, Rat Serial Killers, Robot Rodeo, Tea Time, Delicate Disaster, Crypt Keeper Wasps!, Cat Friends, ...
09.20.2019 18 September, 2019 – Episode 739 – Unintended Consequences! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Moon Dust, Unintended Mosquitoes, Weird Old Apes, Pain In The Asp, Hide & Seek Rats, Older Neanderthals, Cure For Colds, Everything Old Is, Asteroid Impacts, Scent Sacs, Big Neutron, And Much ...
09.12.2019 11 September, 2019 – Episode 738 – Palindromatic Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Not Your Future Home, What Is Habitable?, Crater Lake, Age Reversing Drugs, Snake Skin Surprise, T Rex A/C!, Better Antibiotics?, CAR-T For Hearts, Bubble Blowing Black Hole, So Super Cool, Shocking ...
09.05.2019 04 September, 2019 – Episode 737 – Ethics and the Brain What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Veljko Dubljevic, Ancient Magma Oceans, 8th Grade Smarty Computer, Ancient Lake, Adventures in Jellyfishing, Squirrel Busy Bodies, Crystalline Nets, Cornea Transplant, Long Beautiful Hair, Super Fast Snail, And ...
08.29.2019 28 August, 2019 – Episode 736 – Hot Nudi Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Interview w/ Dr. Richelle Tanner, Sleep Mutations, Fingerprint Earth, Toxoplasma Gondii Genes, Plane Noisy, Crows Like Puzzles!, Strict Fasting, Carbon Chips, How Hot Now?, Vacation Routines, And Much More… Want to ...
08.22.2019 21 August, 2019 – Episode 735 – What’s In a Brain? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Human Brain Evolution, Brain Lanes, Brain Maps, Toxoplasmystery Solved!, Lake Of Bones!, Koala Poo Pills, Locust Face Plants, Underwater Boat!, Beneficial Recklessness?, Mongolia!, Practice Or Perfect, Spider Storms, Memory Ripples?, Bioluminescent ...
08.15.2019 14 August, 2019 – Episode 734 – What’s that Noise? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Free Will Falters?, First Cells Collaborated, Underwater Neanderthals, Monkey Worry Molecule, Big Frog Nests, Picking Baby Sex, Justin’s Airship Future, Supernova Dust, Plastic Snow, Black Hole Rising, Daddy Longlegs Venom, Feeling ...
08.09.2019 07 august, 2019 – Episode 733 – What the TWIS? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? Its a TWIS/What the IF? Podcast Crossover Episode!!!!! Human-Monkey Chimeras, Tardigrades on the Moon, Police Violence, Old Dark Matter, Starfish Love Guts, Blind Caterpillars, What the IF?, And Much More… Want ...
08.01.2019 31 July, 2019 – Episode 732 – Are You Ready to Science? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? TESS Findings, Salty Battery, Probiotic Cures?, Hot Wings, Ant Protection, Old Parents, Baby Bacteria, Mosquito Love, Regeneration Paths, CRISPR Test, Cockroach Bot!, Cuttlefish Bugs, PE Tests, And Much More… Want to ...

Newer episodes

Older episodes

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

What's This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast episodes:

29 July, 2020 – Episode 784 – How To Know A Narcissist

22 July, 2020 – Episode 783 – Why the Earth Isn’t Flat

15 July, 2020 – Episode 782 – Why Friendliness is Fabulous

08 July, 2020 – Episode 781 – How to Test for COVID

01 July, 2020 – Episode 780 – We’re Halfway There, and Living on Science

24 June, 2020 – Episode 779 – No Sleep, Just Science

17 June, 2020 – Episode 778 – How to Catch a Lizard

10 June, 2020 – Episode 777 – Science Takes Flight

03 June, 2020 – Episode 776 – It’s Time For A Change

27 May, 2020 – Episode 775 – To Health with Social Distance!

20 May, 2020 – Episode 774 – What’s in an Octopus’ Garden

13 May, 2020 – Episode 773 – K9 COVID Angst

06 May, 2020 – Episode 772 – Celebrate the Science Teachers

29 April, 2020 – Episode 771 – How to Read Tree Rings

22 April, 2020 – Episode 770 – Is there life beyond Earth?

15 April, 2020 – Episode 769 – Going Crazy for Science!

08 April, 2020 – Episode 768 – Her Brain is SO Crafty!

01 April, 2020 – Episode 767 – April Fools Is Cancelled

25 March, 2020 – Episode 766 – What is the Wonder Chicken?

18 March, 2020 – Episode 765 – Who Has the Mars Maps?

11 March, 2020 – Episode 764 – What Does Pandemic Mean?

04 March, 2020 – Episode 763 – March Fourth With Science!

26 February, 2020 – Episode 762 – To MicroBE or Not To Be?

19 February, 2020 – Episode 761 – Fighting for Space!

12 February, 2020 – Episode 758 – How Do Climate Models Work?

05 February, 2019 – Episode 757 – Life on Earth

29 January, 2020 – Episode 756 – What’s up with nCoV?

22 January, 2019 – Episode 755 – Directing Space Traffic

08 January, 2020 – Episode 753 – 2020 Science Vision!

23 December, 2019 – Episode 752 – A Decade in Review

18 December, 2019 – Episode 751 – The Top 11 Discoveries of 2019!

11 December, 2019 – Episode 750 – How Fish Bones Tell Stories

04 December, 2019 – Episode 749 – Did It Really Start With A Bang?

20 November, 2019 – Episode 748 – The Science Awakens

13 November, 2019 – Episode 747 – What Makes a Computer Super?

06 November, 2019 – Episode 746 – Does Science Bug You?

30 October, 2019 – Episode 745 – Who Needs a Microbiome Anyway???

23 October, 2019 – Episode 744 – Don’t Fear the AI

16 October, 2019 – Episode 743 – Science on the Brain

09 October, 2019 – Episode 742 – Science Nobelity

02 October, 2019 – Episode 741 – Detecting Signals

25 September, 2019 – Episode 740 – Science & CheMystery!

18 September, 2019 – Episode 739 – Unintended Consequences!

11 September, 2019 – Episode 738 – Palindromatic Science!

04 September, 2019 – Episode 737 – Ethics and the Brain

28 August, 2019 – Episode 736 – Hot Nudi Science!

21 August, 2019 – Episode 735 – What’s In a Brain?

14 August, 2019 – Episode 734 – What’s that Noise?

07 august, 2019 – Episode 733 – What the TWIS?

31 July, 2019 – Episode 732 – Are You Ready to Science?

Other shows like This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast: