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Science Talk

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  • How Do We Know Anything?

    May 1, 2024 · 33 min

    On this show, we’ve been talking about uncertainty from a variety of different angles. We’ve heard how uncertainty can be a spark for creativity and scientific discovery. We’ve discussed how uncertainty can go unseen and make science…

  • This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster

    April 24, 2024 · 35 min

    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 this process is a willingness by…

  • When Uncertainty Hides in the Blindspot of Overconfidence

    April 17, 2024 · 30 min

    Today’s episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how “just-so stories” can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And sometimes studies get misleading results…

  • Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again

    April 10, 2024 · 34 min

    In this episode, we’ll 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 reflection of reality.  Learn more about your…

  • Uncertainty is Science's Super Power. Make It Yours, Too

    April 3, 2024 · 26 min

    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, I’ll be talking with people like her: explorers who work in…

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  • Coming Soon: 'Uncertain' - A New Short Series on the Thrill of Not Knowing

    March 27, 2024 · 4 min

    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 American. In this series, host…

  • Racism in Health: The Roots of the U.S. Black Maternal Mortality Crisis

    August 10, 2023 · 46 min

    What is behind the Black maternal mortality crisis, and what needs to change? In this podcast from Nature and Scientific American, leading academics unpack the racism at the heart of the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…

  • Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast

    April 26, 2022 · 6 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Top 10 Emerging Tech of 2021

    December 14, 2021 · 41 min

    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, breath-sensing diagnostics and 3-D-printed…

  • Listen to This New Podcast: The Lost Women of Science

    November 8, 2021 · 6 min

    A new podcast is on a mission to retrieve unsung female scientists from oblivion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • An Unblinking History of the Conservation Movement

    October 21, 2021 · 21 min

    In her new book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, science journalist Michelle Nijhuis looks into the past of the wildlife conservation field, warts and all, to try to chart its future. Learn more about your ad…

  • Inside the Nail-Biting Quest to Find the 'Loneliest Whale'

    September 28, 2021 · 20 min

    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 about science and ocean life, laced with fantasy and…

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Science Talk is a podcast of longer-form audio experiments from Scientific American--from immersive sonic journeys into nature to deep dives into research with leading experts.