This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast (Science)
The kickass science and technology radio show that delivers an irreverent look at the week in science and technology.

This Week: Interview W/Michael Garfield, Broken Memories, Bigger Brains,  Machine Learns Beer, Teens are the Goat, Tardii-people?, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_03_27_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:21pm PDT

This Week: Interview W/Dr. Jessica Hebert, Earthly Solutions, A Plastic Problem, Making Babies, Hair From Where?, Blood In Space, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_03_20_24.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:20am PDT

This Week: RNA, Hydrogen energy, Mammoths, Forever Chemicals, Light Chemistry, Old Humans of Ukraine, Origins of India, Chilling Science, Star Influence, Bee Friends, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_03_07_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:39pm PDT

This Week: JWST, Life on the Moon?, Human Tales, Ancient Meat Substitute, Fluorescent Fingerprints, Brain Circuitry, Seeding the Stratosphere, Chemical Behavior, No Longer Vestigal?, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_02_28_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:46am PDT

This Week: Life & SATURN, Dainish Bog Body, Bulls & Balls, ADHD, Propagandist AI, Authoritarian Science, Gazeboed, Viral Brains, Meaning & Melody, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_02_21_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:25pm PDT

This Week: Interview W/Dr. Allison Coffin, Be Irresistible, Unexpected Love Songs, Female Freedom, Erecting Erections, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_02_14_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:53pm PDT

This Week: Rewriting Astronomy, Curing Cancer, Building Highways, Concussion Protein Protocol, Blue Berries?, Ancient Swedish mystery grave, Sexy Psychedelics, Childlike Learning, Night Walkers, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_02_07_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:04pm PDT

This Week: Interview W/Sarah Treadwell, Genome Maps, Muscle Bots, Against The Light, Squeaky Mice, Laundry Recycling?, The Planetarium Show, Joides Resolution Ship, Ocean Vents, Scuba Diving, Mount Everest, Bees, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_01_31_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:46pm PDT

This Week: RNA Outside, Mammoth Travels, HIV Entry, Early Hunters Gathering, Bone Switch, White Rhinos, Justin Rants, Kiki Hopes, Penguin Poop, Old Fossils, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_01_24_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:43pm PDT

This Week: Predictions from 2023, Predictions for 2024, Supernovae, Ancient Archery, Grizzlies, Wing Source?, Giants of Southern China, Bats could cure diabetes, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_01_10_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:44pm PDT

This Week: What does This Week in Science think were the year's top science stories? This end-of-year episode counts down the Top 11 science news stories of 2023 and much more science!

Direct download: TWIS_01_09_2024.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:20pm PDT

This Week: Interview W/Trace Dominguez, Mapping Mouse Brains, Culture Coffee, Crusty Protection, What Big Eyes, Emoji Diversity, Geminids, Free Range Cats, Particle Physics, VR For Mice, Brain Computing, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_12_13_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:43pm PDT

This Week: Interview W/Tom Merritt, Open Carbon Data, Biobots, Dolphins, Optimism, Unity, Goodbye Offices, Ketamine, Mice, Birds, Penguins, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_06_12_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 11:47am PDT

This Week: Climate Action, Surprising Cloacal Kiss, Cysts In The Snow, Angry Lady Flies, Aging Lady Chimps, Panama Protests, WHOA-Man, Bonobos, Neuronal WiFi, Bacterial Overlords, And Much More Under the Beaver Moon!

Direct download: TWIS_11_29_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:05pm PDT

This Week: Interview W/Natalia Reagan, Glowing Monkeys, Editing Cholesterol, Seawater Soup, Sperm Sorrow, Ovarian Teeth, Social Sickness, Sober Thoughts, Science Questions, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_15_11_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:40pm PDT

This Week: Engineered Yeast, Satellite Viruses, No Body Just Head, Rhombot, Humans vs. Robots, Cosmic Interview W/Alan Boyle, Cat Evolution, Cat Stink, Aging & Cat Poo, Science Questions, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_11_08_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:40pm PDT

This Week: LIGO, Mummies, Language & AI, Policing, Pigs, Roosters, Birds Aren't Real, Fuzzy Stems, Prehistoric Gender Roles, Zoomies, Memory Codes, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_10_25_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:47pm PDT

This Week: Mapping The Universe, Snoozers aren't losers, Bacteria Plus CAR-T, French painting, Theory Of Everything, Long arm of the lawn, Antacids and dementia, Brain Cell Atlas, Healin Strokes, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_10_18_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:39pm PDT

This Week: Bennu Sample Surprise!, Cyber Hands Success, Heads Or Tails, Global Warming & Beer, Sourdough Starts, Going Off Course, Peregrine Prey Peril, Smoking, Female Frogs, Smelling Colors, And Much More Science in Your Head!

Direct download: TWIS_10_11_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:46pm PDT

This Week: Nobel Prize Time, Stonehenge!, New Organelle?, New Organelle?, Snow Flies, Purring Pads, Fluorescent Animals, Math Bedtime Stories, Murder Rate at Oxford, Mushroom Microdosing, Mistaken Memories, Memory Support, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_10_04_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:31pm PDT

This Week: IgNobel Prize Winners!, Scams, Fresh Water, Physical Life of Cells, Old Wooden Structures, Weed, Worm Emotions, Loss Brain, Baby Learning, And Many More Questions!

Direct download: TWIS_09_28_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:19pm PDT

This Week: Justin's audio isn't great, Interview with Brian Dunning, UFOs, Biosignatures, UAP, NASA, Hominins, Research Behavior, Crash Propensity, Time Travel, End of the World Cult, Ancient Aliens, And Much More Skeptical Science!

Direct download: TWIS_09_20_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:50pm PDT

This Week: Interview with Dr. Carin Bondar, Atmospheric Discovery, Ultrasound Impacts, Cancer Recurrence, Sterile Gloves, Poor Robots, Moral Brains, Deadly Geometry, Pollinator Struggles, AI For Ecology?, Dirty Talk, And Much More TWIS with a Twist!

Direct download: TWIS_09_13_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:41pm PDT

This Week: Inhale Science, Embryo Stems, Magic Mushrooms, Genetic Protection, Chronic Fatigue, Less Pollution, Batty Boxes, Homo Erectu balls, Dish Brain Advances, Baby Smarts, Go To Sleep, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_09_06_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:23pm PDT

This Week: Free From Dialysis?, Ancinet Apes of Turkey, Hot German Boars, Migratory Birds, AI Wins Again?, Can AI talk to animals?, Why Cats Like Tuna, Bees & Neanderthals, Bat Brains, Plastic Brains, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_30_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:30pm PDT

This Week: Moon Landing!, Lighter Magnets?, Consciousness of AI, Fly Medicine, Music For Cells, Martian Colonists, Sneaky Hummers, Population Overshoot, Rural Pandemic Woes, Memory Cells, Longer-Lived Mice, Slippery Slope, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_24_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:57pm PDT

This Week: Demons, Songs via Brain Waves, Fly Plastic, Hidden Consciousness, Better Fake Meat, 3-D Seafood, Extinction Events, Dino Footprints, Octopus Memory, Male Mouse Sex Drive, And Much More Super Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_16_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:33pm PDT

This Week: The Milky Way, Denisovans, Social Distance, Super Conductor, Quantum Superchemistry, Nile Crocodiles, Atlantic Conveyer Belt, Humming Galaxy, Space Awareness, Spin Matters, And Much More Super Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_09_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:11pm PDT

This Week: Ancient Discoveries, NASA on UAPs, Tall Tall Trees, Ryugu Rocks, Scandalous Sports Supplements, Eating Plastic, Tickling Rats for Science!, Do power lines kill birds?, Mosquito-Friendly Gene Drive, Cooperation in Cancer Cells, Memory Rhythm, The Stop Spot, Robot Comedians, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_02_20023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:57pm PDT

This Week: Ruining AMOC, Indonesian Barrier, Restoring Fertility?, Fighting Malaria, The Loch Ness Monster, Fish, Egg Stealing Birds, Stair Trouble, Curious Vs Urgent, Robot Preacher, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_07_26_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:02pm PDT

This Week: No Dark Matter, English Study Bias, Private Medicine, Babies Love Opera, Underwater Pollinators, No Symptoms, Bat Music, Scared Flies, Mini-Brains, Smarter Better, And Much More Science to Sing About!

Direct download: TWIS_07_19_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:31pm PDT

This Week: Martian Minerals, Bird Nests, Deformation Dangers, Megalodon Menu, Same-Sex Relationships in the Wild, Spider Mites Undressed, Snake Friends, Silent Sound, Sugar Control Sleep, Information Trade, And Many More Science Threads!

Direct download: TWIS_07_12_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:39pm PDT

This Week: Pulsars, Quasars, & Neutrinos, Minimal Cells, Mink Brains, Life & Death, Photosynthetic Efficiency, Bee Homes, Static Ticks, Hunters, Hepatitis C, Brain Boost, And Much More Solstice Science!

Direct download: TWIS_05_07_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:39pm PDT

This Week: Life's Not Begining, Hummingbirds, Morphbot, Dolphins, Electric Works, Elephant Testicles, Cannibalism?, Bunk Studies, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_06_28_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:53pm PDT

This Week: Horse toes, Global Cooling = Global Warming, Long-Necked Dinos, Cellular Selection, Cancer Cures, Gutsy Treatment, Detail, El Ribbit, Calming Rats, Why Snakes, Pain Fingerprints, And Much More Solstice Science!

Direct download: TWIS_06_21_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:51pm PDT

This Week: Solar Systems, Rhino Horns, Asgardians, Australopithecus, Kangaroos, Peanuts, Turtles, Fruit Flies, Trees, Smokers, Brain Tunnels, Taurine, Modular Bots, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_06_15_23.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:29pm PDT

This Week: JWST News, Younger Dryas, Touchy Plants, Forever Chemicals, Robot Master Chef, Conservation, Assasin Bugs and Bombardier Beetles, Indigenous reforestation, Proteomics & Privacy, Psychedelics, Bird Dreams, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_06_08_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 3:05pm PDT

This Week: Otter Day, Reversing Autism, Silent Zoo Tours, Slimy Science, Sweet Damage, Spiders, Seagulls, Neanderthals, Sex Education, Curious Kids, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_31_05_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:31pm PDT

This Week: Boosting Life, It's thanks to the sun we're here!, Female spiders, Saturn, Ozone, Frog Sperm, Dinosaur Perspective, Ant, Plant, or Spider?, Healing Vibrations, Electric Boost, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_24_05_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:26am PDT

This Week: Watery Comet, Failed cancer drug, Pollen heat, Defective Black Holes?, Parkinson's Disease, eDNYOU, Zebra Finches, Hammerhead sharks, Mushroom-based materials, Pandemic Brain, Magnetic Brain Direction, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_17_05_23.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:50pm PDT

This Week: Einstein, Female Space Crews, Sperm, Diamond Funnels, Stem Cells, Pangenome, Assassin Bugs, Crabs, Doctors experimenting, Magic Mushrooms, Soap, Mosquitoes, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_11_05_23.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:17pm PDT

This Week: Quantum Microscopes, Textbooks in India, Photosynthesis, Aliens, Aminos, Frogs, Seals, Ice Caps, Blood Brain Barrier, Brain Reading, Anorexic Guts, UTIs, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_04_05_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:59pm PDT

This Week: Safety & Justice, Bears, Space Sex, Gut Differences, Poop, Asteroids, Sleeping Seals, Roadkill Lemonade, Microbial Resistance, Lost Lunar Lander, New Brain Network, Getting Nervous, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_26_04_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:12pm PDT

This Week: PFAS, Electric Healing, Good Cement, Ocean Plastic, Hot Animals, Bat Bones, Parasites, Salt Substitute, 2000 yr old necropolis, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_20_04_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:26pm PDT

This Week: Upcycling For Eyes, Bacteria, Canadian dire wolf, Mint, Monkeys, Lip Reading, Alexa, Tiger Personality, Bird water, Broccoli, Ancient Drug Use, Aging, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_12_04_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:56pm PDT

This Week: Cactus, Portable MRI, Monkey Slieght of Hand, Parakeet Vacations, Female Spiders, Dino Lips, And Much More Animal Corner!

Direct download: TWIS_06_04_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 9:59am PDT

This Week: Hot & Rocky, Farming Pumas, Stressed Out Lizards, Robots, Healing Cockles?, Squid Camouflage, Fishy conspiracy theories, Ancient Gneomes, Signal Strength, Possible MS Cause, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_29_03_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:41pm PDT

This Week: Neutrino Detection, Baltic Blasts, Fevers, Galaxies, Forever Chemicals, Big Eyes, Animal Personalities, Pee Shyness, Depression, Otters, Mice Imaging, Language Brains, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_23_03_23.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:27pm PDT

This Week: Time Reflections, Just Bad News, Vaccinated Sleep, Butterfly Paint, AI Science Papers, Nickleback, Dizzy Apes, Bees, Monkey tools, Unicorns, Bats, Pollution, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_15_03_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:15pm PDT

This Week: Chornobyl Dogs, Water, Plasticosis, Mouse Antlers?, Coffee, Baby Biome, Macaques, Wasps, Dinosaur Bones, Sober Shots, Brain Cell Activation, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_03_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:06pm PDT

This Week: Brain Computers, Ancient Platypus, Sea Monsters, Walmart Insect, Neand, Hauling Logs, Octopus Brains, Insect Urination, Lemur Dads, Ice Age Survivor, Oldest Human DNA, Brainy Preferences, Hearty Emotions, And Much More Superpower Science!

Direct download: TWIS_01_03_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 6:23pm PDT

This Week: Innermost Core, Four-day work-week, Sir David Attenborough, JWST, Da Vinci, Sharkless Vaccines?, Naked Mole Rats, Monkees, Sleeping Students, Medieval Cranial Surgery, Heart Prints, Brain Repair, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_22_02_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:22pm PDT

This Week: Mushrooms, Snakes, Solar Panels, GLOFs, Sheep, Cockatoos, Stone tools, Planet 9, Mouse Contraception, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_15_02_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:21pm PDT

This Week: Fossils, Baths, Sclera, Drug ads, Baby guts, Keanu Reeves, Wrasse, Bugs, Neanderthals, Brainy trademarks, Brain action, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_02_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:22pm PDT

This Week: Maps, Black Bears, Bigfoot, Asteroid Asymmetry, Squids, Fungus, Vaccines, Dodo Birds, Fly Sperm, Hydrogen, Neander Skulls, Drinking & IVF, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_01_02_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:36pm PDT

This Week: Earth's Core, The next Pandemic, Screen time bad, outside good, Old Asteroids, Music and stress, Artic Primates, Sea Spiders, Talking chimp, Knowing Dogs, T.gondii, Just Bad News, Antidepressants, Emotional Blunting, The Terminator, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_25_01_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:06pm PDT

This Week: Predicting Solar Flares, Laser-guided lightning, Toddlers & Dogs, Bird Vagrants, Concrete, Phantom Credits, Tree Tossing, Echidna, Stem Cells, Rebooting Age, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_18_01_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:08pm PDT

This Week: Predictions from 2022, Predictions for 2023, Schrödinger's Tardigrade, Fishmobile, Hostile Earth, Amputee Advantage?, Baby Cry Recognition, Crow Tools, Bear Guts, No Matter Difference, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_11_01_2023.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:14pm PDT

This Week: Cancer Vaccine, Microplastic, Lucky Pigs, Wasps, Glass Frogs, Seeing Voices, Hairy Research, And Much More Science...

Direct download: TWIS_04_01_23.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:35pm PDT

This Week: What does This Week in Science think were the year's top science stories? This end-of-year episode counts down the Top 11 science news stories of 2022, and much more science...

Direct download: TWIS_21_12_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:48pm PDT

This Week: Fusion, Jaguars, Cell Control, Cancer Cures, Chaperone Proteins, Microplastics, Snakes, Migrators, Just Good News, Slime Mold, The 6th Sense, Microbial Motivation, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_14_12_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:00pm PDT

This Week: Paleo Feud, DNA, Club Competition, ADHD, Lying Toddlers, Cold Noses, Lady Locust, Animal Sounds, Just Good News, Ancient Kid Crafts, Neuralink Concerns, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_07_12_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 3:20pm PDT

This Week: Holographic Wormholes, Monkey see, human see chimp…?, Carbon Removal, Cannabis Contradiction, Cocaine, Death Metal, Wolf Pack Parasite, Singing Bats, Canadian Geese, Meteorite Minerals, Emperors, Octopuses, Bird Jaws, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_30_11_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:58pm PDT

This Week: Bat, Global Warming, Bird Weather, Floaters Vs Sinkers, Waste not, want not, Plant Memory, Baby Fish, Frogs, Chimps, Whales, Extinctions, Self-medicating Birds, Makeup, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_23_11_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:25pm PDT

This Week: Vertebrate Gene Drive, Leprosy, Deaf Mosquitos, Artemis Launches!, Ancient Cooking, Nature, Nurture, or?, Termites, Ancient footprints, Just Good News, Hippocampal Connections, Psilocybin Activation, Brain Router, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_16_11_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:10pm PDT

Professor Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He has written several popular science books, including his latest "AS GODS: A moral history of the genetic age", which comes out in print on November 15th.

Direct download: TWiS_Special_Interview_-_Matthew_Cobb.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:27am PDT

This 900th Week: World Science Day, Greenland, Music, Fertilizer Fields, Plants, Cosmic Spin Cycle, Vaccine Hoarding, Vaccine Choice, Pigs, Fish, Octopuses, Ötzi, Canaanite Comb, Get Low, Get Some Sleep!, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_09_11_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:29pm PDT

This Week: Quantum Time, American Habitation, Pick it!, Don't Pick It?, Social Microbes?, Meta Molecules, Bees play!, Jays Wait!, Political Science, Just Good News?, Path To Vomit, Inventing Sonar, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_02_11_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:49pm PDT

This Week: It's TWISoween 2022!, MOND Evidence, UV for Better Plants, Atmospheric Electric Bees, Ancient Viruses, Gene Editing, Hybrid Viruses, INTERVIEW W/ Dr. Vivek Kumar, Endangered Birds, They speak!!, Ancient Britons, Tentacle Robot, Self-Suppression, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_26_10_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:37pm PDT

This Week: Justin has some audio issues! Mosquito Magnets, Recipe for Disaster, Tuataras, Hidden Star Maps, Multicellular Bacteria, Ornithomimosaurs, Researchers Gone Wild?, COVID Brain Effects, Connection Destruction, Vaccinating Wild Animals, Social Spiders, Neanderthal Family Trees, Age of the Neanderhumanthals, Brain Whispers, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_19_10_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:56pm PDT

This Week: DART Success!, Doomed Nations, Wearable Insect Repellent, Toddler Teeth, Potato Pathogen, Robo Revolt, Eye Spots, Exotic Pet Trade, Fat Bear Week Winner, Magnetometers, Los Alamos, Neurons Play Pong, Rats Get Human, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_12_10_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 3:38pm PDT

This Week: 2022 Nobel Prizes, Whale Shark Hunt, Scientists may rule themselves redundant via AI, Life Energy Origins, Dinosaur-killing asteroid, Fungal Cancers, Banana Beer, Safe Far LEDs, Chimps and Gorillas, Birds, It's Fat Bear Week!, California’s painted ladies, Svante Pääbo Nobel Prize, New Electrodes!, What Is Consciousness?, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_06_10_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:38pm PDT

This Week: NASA DART, Fluid Chromosomes, Coffee, Meds, Interview with Dr. Steven Novella RE: The Future, Fruit Flies, Whale Brains, Mercury Levels, Longer Social Life, Just Good News, Transgenerational Epigenetics, Get Outside, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_28_09_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:05pm PDT

This Week: IgNobel, Anxiety, Blue light, NASA News, Ants, Frogs & Mosquitos, Octopuses, Woodlice, Ancient Opium, Microbial Name Calling, Alzheimer's, Moss, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_21_09_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:45am PDT

This Week: Vomit, Poop, Cells, Crying Babies, General Relativity, Cryptococcus Neoformans, Interview with Bryn Nelson RE: Poop!, Cockatoos VS Humans, Camouflage, Mimicking Exercise, Virtual Reality, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_09_14_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:10pm PDT

This Week: Patience, Galling Wasps, Albatross, Human Pollution, Stock Markets and Cannabis, Concussion Skull, Drumming Chimpanzees, Rain Shadow Effect, Plastic Pollution, Gut-Brain Circuits, Axolotl Brains, Seasonal Plasticity, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_08_09_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:00pm PDT

This Week: Synthetic Embryos, Zombie Ice, Digital Self-Harm, Rearranging Evolution, Siberia Warming, Slime Time, Beetles with Pockets, Dolphins, Oxygen on Mars, Micro Break, Pattern Finding, Chronic Pain & Cancer, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_31_08_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:09pm PDT

This Week: A Water World, Good news!, Color Blindness, Climate News, Drought, Schizophrenia & COVID, Long Covid, COVID Incubation, Pesticides, Super Frogs, Bipedal Old Times, Artificial Detection, Zapping Brains, Mouse Memory, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_24_08_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:33pm PDT

Dr. Moiya McTier has a degree in astronomy, mythology, a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Columbia University, and she is also a folklorist and science communicator. Listen in as She and Dr. Kiki discuss her latest book The Milky Way.

Direct download: TWIS_-_Interview_with_Moiya_McTier_Edited.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 11:59am PDT

This Week: Artemis, Curing, Sleepy Flies, Sponge Sneezes, Synthetic Circuits, Ancient Genes, Styrofoam Upcycling?, Long COVID, CDC Restructuring, Cannibalism, Social Connections, Misophonia, Sugar, Consciousness Solved??? And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_17_08_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:32pm PDT

This Week: Linking Gut to Heart, PFAS, Locusts, Restoring Hearing, Hold the Ice, Food Impacts, One Antibody to Rule Them All, Spiders Sleep, Sterile Mice, Rewilding the West, Montana Bison, Animal Aging, Sleepy Brains, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_10_08_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:45pm PDT

This Week: Dead Pig Society, Oldest evidence of people in North America, Spider silk, Embryo Progress, CBD for anxiety, Biological Electricity, Shrimpy cement, Whale eyes, Bumblebees, Global Warming, Dolphin Memory, Neanderthal Brains, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_03_08_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:32pm PDT

This Week: Alternate Physics?, HIV, Necrobotics, RNA Zip Codes, Wildfires, Death By Lactose, Wildlife Photography, COVID Update, Monkeypox Emergency, Placenta, Nasa core mission on Mars, Victory Memo, Ant Networks, AI Analogies, And Much More Science!

Direct download: TWIS_07_27_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:52pm PDT

This Week: NASA Webb Results, Helpful Gonorrhea, Instruments and covid, Big Dino Era, Hot blooded ear wax, Sun & Satiety, Frozen rat livers, Vaccine's and menstruation patterns, Headbanging woodpeckers, Bean moms, Four-legged Fish, Red Deer Cave DNA, Volcanic Dark Matter, Emotional Memories, Imagination Language, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_07_20_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:57pm PDT

This Week: JWST, Gamer brains, Bee Waggle Dances, The anti-science brain, Sarlacc, Ancient Europeans, Foxes, Lice, Dinosaurs, Webbs, And Much More!

Direct download: TWiS_07_13_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:02pm PDT

This Week: Arms and Karaoke skills, Friends of a Feather, Water, Plants, Wet Wood, Buggy Bite Strength, Go Dig a Well, Ancient Hominins, Missing Microbiomes, And Much More

Direct download: TWIS_06_29_2022.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:26pm PDT

This Week: Charon's Red Cap, Pee farming, Tea, Almost Meat, One-legged longevity, Eat Plants Locally, It's time to talk about face mites, Frogs, Bats, Ancient pre-Brexit England, Cancer killing plants, Breathy Identity, Touching Itch, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_06_22.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:30pm PDT

This Week: GAIA Data, Sample Return, Planetary systems, Wigs, Tired Plants, Human echolocation, Baby Brains, 1000 genes, Baby Whales, Seals, Baby Compass, Hot Heads, Sleepy Anger, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_06_15.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:00pm PDT

This Week: Cancer Remission, We're in the bad place, Noise pollution, Marsbucha, Rock on!!!, Zinc Poles, Ladies, always ask about your birth control, Ugly fish, Kelp, Otters, Conservatives die sooner, Welfare, Metabolites, Fungal Vision, Fungeyes, No Pole Swap?, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_06_09.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:22pm PDT

This Week: Techie Liver Transplant, Axolotl model, Polar Bear Poop, Electric Evolution, Eggstinction event, Big Plant, COVID Impacts, Aerosols & Exercise, Baboon bros before baboon ladies, Spider Dances, Ancient Underwater Cities, Ancient Overgrown Cities, Exercise Matters, Antibiotic Athletes, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_06_01.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:57pm PDT

This Week: AI Updates Theory, Living with dogs, Termite Travels, Gliding Salamanders, Aging Cells Go Placental, Jackdaw Coordination, Diabetic COVID Susceptibility, Not More Severe, Vaccination & Long COVID, Dolphins pee pals, Sea turtles need shades, Corvid Smarts, Comparing Sleeping Brains, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_05_25.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 7:52pm PDT

This Week: Tabula Sapiens, Denisovan tooth, Tiny dentists, NeuroMechFly, Renewables Lifeline, Rocket Realism, Eat your vegetables, Conservation Wins!, Cockroaches, Spiders, Headbutting Muskoxen, Medical contact lens for glaucoma, Video Game Smarts, Stimulate The Circuits, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_05_19.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:46pm PDT

This Week: Atmospheric Rise, Viva La Virus, Concussions, One In 10, California, Fungal Fitness, Stress and fertility, Ominous Omicron, COVID Creativity, Good news, Dolphins with the Snake, Bee like Bats, Ancient indigenous Uruguay DNA, Healthy tattoos, Brain Fluid Boost, Brain Squirts, Brain Berries, And Much More!
Direct download: TWIS_2022_05_11.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 11:12am PDT

This Week: Black Hole Sound, Poo Pills, Abortion, Global warming will kill all the fish, Coral Coves, Sweet CO2, What's that? A tired bird?, Bats, Vegetarian kids, Bioreactor burgers, Eye Screen, Factory Resets, Reset Diseases, And Much More!
Direct download: TWIS_2022_05_04.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:36pm PDT

This Week: Death, Regeneration, Fear, All Your Base, Snot Bugs, Yamanaka factor, Locating Lupus, Lockdowns, New mRNA Vaccines, Great Tits, Teeth, Fire Control, Microbe Survivalists, Brain Ocean, Altered Arousal, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_04_27.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:41pm PDT

This Week: Earth Day Climate, Sound cures cancer... in rats, SQuRo, the robot rat, Accelerating Currents, Acoustical Charging, The Oreometer, Long COVID, Viral Feces, Get Smart, Cuckoos, Black Rhinos, 500 million-year-old camera lens, Spicey fuel cells, Lying Lyres Like Drama, Aphantasia, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_2022_04_20.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 1:07pm PDT

This Week: Scientific Scepticism, Linking Brains, Biodiversity with Leeches, Less Lightning, Electricity from archaea, Porpoise's, Chimps, Rhesus monkey hearts, Missing hub of humans, Space Balloons, Baby Brains, Plant Protection, And Much More!
Direct download: TWIS_2022_04_14.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 11:04am PDT

This Week: Honey Tech, Squid Games, Nighttime Solar Energy, Fungal Phenomena, Nighttime Solar, XE Identified, WHO Plan, Infection Inflammation, Bat Buddies, Darwin vs. bigotry, Fungal Phone, Asbestos, Brain Changes, And Much More...

Direct download: TWIS_2022_04_07.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:29pm PDT

This Week: How AI will kill everyone, Tissues, Caribou, Nasal sprays for covid, Vaccine vs Vaccine, Fruit Fly Sperm, Boa Constrictor Breathing, Rude AI, Two Legged Snakes, And Much More...

Direct download: TWIS_-_Episode_869_Podcast_Edit.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 12:45pm PDT

This Week: RNA Replication, Space Health, Entangled Protons, Robot Control, Ruffs, Totipotent Cells, Climate Optimism, Replication, Mind Control, And Much More!

Direct download: TWIS_-_Episode_868_Podcast_Edit.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 2:28pm PDT