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First up on the podcast, we’ve likely only found about half the so-called city-killer asteroids (objects more than 140 meters in diameter). Freelance science journalist Robin George Andrews joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor, an asteroid hunter that will improve our ability to look for large objects that might crash into Earth, particularly those hiding in the Sun’s glare. Next on the show, freelancer producer Elah Feder talks with Wendy Valencia-Montoya, an organismic and evolutionary biology Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, about heated conversations between plants and their pollinators. Her work suggests infrared radiation might be the oldest cue for animals to come hither, more ancient than color. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous episodes
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1208 - Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with heatThu, 11 Dec 2025
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1207 - Grappling with declining populations, and the future of quantum mechanicsThu, 04 Dec 2025
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1206 - When we’ll hit peak carbon emissions, and macaques that keep the beatThu, 27 Nov 2025
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1205 - A headless mystery, and a deep dive on dog researchThu, 20 Nov 2025
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1204 - Solving the ‘golfer’s curse’ and using space as a heat sinkThu, 13 Nov 2025
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1203 - Understanding early Amazon communities and saving the endangered pocket mouseThu, 06 Nov 2025
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1202 - Detecting the acidity of the ocean with sound, the role of lead in human evolution, and how the universe endsThu, 30 Oct 2025
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1201 - The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanishThu, 23 Oct 2025
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1200 - Hunting ancient viruses in the Arctic, and how ants build their nests to fight diseaseThu, 16 Oct 2025
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1199 - How birds reacted to a solar eclipse, and keeping wildfire smoke out of wineThu, 09 Oct 2025
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1198 - A new generation of radiotherapies for cancer, and why we sighThu, 02 Oct 2025
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1197 - Salty permafrost’s role in Arctic melting, the promise of continuous protein monitoring, and death in the ancient worldThu, 25 Sep 2025
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1196 - Protecting newborns from an invisible killer, the rise of drones for farming, and a Druid mysteryThu, 18 Sep 2025
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1195 - An aggressive cancer’s loophole, and a massive field of hydrogen beneath the ocean floorThu, 11 Sep 2025
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1194 - Finding HIV’s last bastion in the body, and playing the violin like a cricketThu, 04 Sep 2025
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1193 - A mother lode of Mexican mammoths, how water pollution enters the air, and a book on playing deadThu, 28 Aug 2025
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1192 - New insights into endometriosis, and mapping dengue in Latin AmericaThu, 21 Aug 2025
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1191 - Why chatbots lie, and can synthetic organs and AI replace animal testing?Thu, 14 Aug 2025
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1190 - Why anteaters keep evolving, and how giant whales get enough food to liveThu, 07 Aug 2025
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1189 - Wartime science in Ukraine, what Neanderthals really ate, and visiting the city of the deadThu, 31 Jul 2025
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1188 - Robots that eat other robots, and an ancient hot spot of early human relativesThu, 24 Jul 2025
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1187 - Studying a shark-haunted island, and upgrading our microbiomes with engineered bacteriaThu, 17 Jul 2025
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1186 - A tardi party for the ScienceAdviser newsletter, and sled dog genomesThu, 10 Jul 2025
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1185 - Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on MarsThu, 03 Jul 2025
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1184 - Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient AnatoliaThu, 26 Jun 2025
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1183 - How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomyThu, 19 Jun 2025
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1182 - Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate changeThu, 12 Jun 2025
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1181 - Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of scienceThu, 05 Jun 2025
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1180 - Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity researchThu, 29 May 2025
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1179 - Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’Thu, 22 May 2025
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1178 - A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimesThu, 15 May 2025
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1177 - Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook scienceThu, 08 May 2025
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1176 - Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’Thu, 01 May 2025
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1175 - A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book seriesThu, 24 Apr 2025
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1174 - Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wanderThu, 17 Apr 2025
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1173 - The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIHThu, 10 Apr 2025
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1172 - Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancyThu, 03 Apr 2025
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1171 - Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robotsThu, 27 Mar 2025
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1170 - Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the seaThu, 20 Mar 2025
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1169 - Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIHThu, 13 Mar 2025
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1168 - Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump TrackerThu, 06 Mar 2025
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1167 - Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads homeThu, 27 Feb 2025
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1166 - Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvabilityThu, 20 Feb 2025
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1165 - Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pantsThu, 13 Feb 2025
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1164 - How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle EarthThu, 06 Feb 2025
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1163 - Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administrationThu, 30 Jan 2025
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1162 - Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicineThu, 23 Jan 2025
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1161 - Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eatersThu, 16 Jan 2025
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1160 - Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprintsThu, 09 Jan 2025
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1159 - On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animalsThu, 02 Jan 2025
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