Science Talk Podcast
1) Inside the Nail-Biting Quest to Find the 'Loneliest Whale'
It is a tale of sound: the song of a solitary whale that vocalizes at a unique frequency of 52 hertz, which no other whale—as the story goes—can seemingly understand. It is also a tale ab...Show More
2) Episode 5: How Do We Know Anything?
On this show, weâve been talking about uncertainty from a variety of different angles. Weâve heard how uncertainty can be a spark for creativity and scientific discovery. Weâve discussed how uncertain...Show More
3) Episode 4: This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster
Science is an iterative process. Progress comes from people coming up with ideas that are sort of right and then new evidence and ideas coming in to update them to become even more correct. Underlying...Show More
Episode 4: This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster
35:16 | Apr 24th, 2024
4) Episode 3: When Uncertainty Hides in the Blindspot of Overconfidence
Todayâs episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how âjust-so storiesâ can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And so...Show More
5) Episode 2: Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again
In this episode, weâll talk with two researchers whose work probes the uncertainty surrounding how we perceive the world around us. It turns out that what we see may not always be a perfect reflectio...Show More
6) Episode 1: Uncertainty is Science's Super Power. Make It Yours, Too
Welcome to Uncertain, a five-part podcast miniseries from Scientific American. Here we will dive head first into the possibilities of the unknowing. Over the next five episodes, Iâll be talking with p...Show More
7) Coming Soon: 'Uncertain' - A New Short Series on the Thrill of Not Knowing
Does the word "uncertainty" make you nervous? Does it rule your life? Would you say it kinda describes the state of the world these days? Enter Uncertain, a new limited podcast series from Scientific...Show More
Coming Soon: 'Uncertain' - A New Short Series on the Thrill of Not Knowing
04:07 | Mar 27th, 2024
8) Racism in Health: The Roots of the US Black Maternal Mortality Crisis
A perfect storm of factors has led to huge racial disparities in maternal healthcare. In the USA, as abortion clinics continue to close, this inequity is projected to widen. In this podcast from ...Show More
9) Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast
In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.
10) Top 10 Emerging Tech of 2021
The World Economic Forum and Scientific American team up to highlight technological advances that could change the world—including self-fertilizing crops, on-demand drug manufacturing, brea...Show More