Sarah Crespi

Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science

On this week’s show: A roundup of far-out news, including finding fungus in the stratosphere and debating sign of life on an exoplanet; why “gargalesis,” or tickles, still puzzle scientists; and the first in a series of books on the science of death

On this week’s show: People’s skin helps make reactive particles that can change indoor air chemistry, and scientists get closer to understanding a state of matter that may one day yield room-temperature superconductors

On this week’s show: Investigating a questionable brain scan technology in India, and the latest in equine research with Science editor Sacha Vignieri

Mathematical analysis reconstructs tuning of ancient Greek and Roman music and reveals parallels with atomist philosophy.

On this week’s show: Remains buried under a public hospital in the 17th century reveal the lives of Milan’s working poor, and how the body builds up fat as we age

On this week’s show: Bodywide changes during sleep deprivation, and the latest science policy news

Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

On this week’s show: Researchers converge on Los Angeles to study the impact of big urban conflagrations; plus, changing up the physics of computing in order to make robots smaller and less power hungry

Evolvability—the capacity to generate adaptive variation—is a trait that can itself evolve through natural selection. However, the idea that mutation can become biased toward adaptive outcomes remains controversial. In this work, we report the evolution ...

On this week’s show: How funding losses for the U.S. Agency for International Development impact research, using tiny microcontrollers to bring machine learning to the Global South, and inducing the ability to evolve quickly

On this week’s show: A roundup of science policy news with ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser, and the benefits of scratching where it itches

Deploying machine vision for wearable robot control faces challenges in terms of usability, reliability, privacy, and costs.

On this week’s show: Climate change may be driving an expansion of Valley fever, a deadly fungal infection spread by desert-loving spores, and a look at <em>Australopithecus</em>’s diet 3 million years ago

On this week’s show: following bats’ nighttime migratory flights, and making readers skeptical of preprints in the news

On this week’s show: How truffle dogs can contribute to conservation of underground fungi, and the importance of age diversity

On this week’s show: The top science from this year, and catching up with our reporters on some of the stories they tracked all year

On this week’s show: How small journals from South and Central America are trying to reach an international audience, and a look back at 10 years of cool science

On this week’s show: Making sustainable electronics by printing circuits on modified leaves, and million-and-a-half-year-old footprints show two kinds of human ancestors walked the same lands

On this week’s show: A fight over where the world’s oldest people live, and wild-caught minke whales show sensitivity to high-frequency sound