Ranked #1
Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics
Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics
Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the new Darwin biography movie Creation, and wi... Read more
23 Jan 2010
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21mins
Ranked #2
Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 1
Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 1
Actor Michael C. Hall , TV's Dexter , talks with psychologist Kevin Dutton , author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths , at th... Read more
24 Jan 2013
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36mins
Ranked #3
What Science Has Learned about the Coronavirus One Year On
What Science Has Learned about the Coronavirus One Year On
About a year ago, SARS-CoV-2 (which wasn’t called that yet) was just beginning to emerge in a cluster of cases inside Ch... Read more
11 Dec 2020
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29mins
Ranked #4
Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg
Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg
Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg spoke to an audience of science journalists, and then to podcast host Steve Mirsky
16 Nov 2010
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16mins
Ranked #5
"The Strangest Man" of Science, Part 1
"The Strangest Man" of Science, Part 1
Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about The Strangest Man, Farmelo'... Read more
25 Jun 2010
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34mins
Ranked #6
How Physics Limits Intelligence
How Physics Limits Intelligence
Award-winning author Douglas Fox talks about his cover story in the July issue of Scientific American on The Limits of I... Read more
17 Jun 2011
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26mins
Ranked #7
Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better
Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better
Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and the founder and director of the Harvard Origins of Li... Read more
22 Jun 2012
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37mins
Ranked #8
Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos to Galileo
Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos to Galileo
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, talks with podcas... Read more
16 Jun 2010
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25mins
Ranked #9
COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues
COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues
Contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs spoke with Arthur Caplan , head of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s division of m... Read more
7 Aug 2020
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24mins
Ranked #10
The Mind's Hidden Switches
The Mind's Hidden Switches
Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, talks abou... Read more
23 Nov 2011
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28mins
Ranked #11
Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy
Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy
Jeff Wolfe, the CEO and co-founder of groSolar, talks about solar energy's present and future. Plus, we'll test your kno... Read more
24 Jul 2009
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28mins
Ranked #12
The Epic History of the Horse
The Epic History of the Horse
Science journalist and equestrian Wendy Williams talks about her new book The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Compa... Read more
11 Dec 2015
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32mins
Ranked #13
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man . His latest book is Churchill’s Bom... Read more
25 Apr 2014
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28mins
Ranked #14
150 Years of the Journal Nature
150 Years of the Journal Nature
Nature is arguably the world’s most prestigious scientific journal. Editor in chief Magdalena Skipper spoke with Scienti... Read more
11 Nov 2019
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33mins
Ranked #15
Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 3
Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 3
In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of a... Read more
14 Jul 2009
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29mins
Ranked #16
The Messenger Is the Message
The Messenger Is the Message
Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and psychologist Joseph Marks talk about their book Messengers: Who We Listen To, Wh... Read more
26 Jun 2020
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36mins
Ranked #17
Air Pollution: An Unclear and Present Danger
Air Pollution: An Unclear and Present Danger
Journalist and author Beth Gardiner talks about her new book Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution . And C... Read more
21 Nov 2019
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37mins
Ranked #18
Found in Space, Part 1
Found in Space, Part 1
Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars , Part ... Read more
27 Feb 2014
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20mins
Ranked #19
Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest
Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest
Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gra... Read more
14 Jun 2016
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6mins
Ranked #20
High Achievement High Schoolers
High Achievement High Schoolers
High school scientists Sruti Swaminathan, Maia ten Brink, Alyssa Bailey, Moyukh Chatterjee and Fedja Kadribasic, all win... Read more
19 May 2009
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28mins