PNAS Science Sessions

Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.

Motherese in bottlenose dolphins 09/25/2023

Racial disparities and climate policy 09/11/2023

What illusions tell us about silence 08/28/2023

Growth mindset and educational outcomes 08/14/2023

How dehorning affects rhino behavior 07/31/2023

Why legalese persists 07/17/2023

Gender gap among migrant scientists 07/03/2023

Communal nesting in bird-like dinosaur 06/19/2023

Racial disparities in air pollution exposure 06/05/2023

How vertebrates acquired a gene for vision 05/22/2023

Genomic insights for sea turtle conservation 04/24/2023

Jump, bend, and roll: The rise of bioinspired robots 04/04/2023

Math learning through videos 03/20/2023

Impressionism and air pollution 03/06/2023

How lizards adapt to urban living 02/14/2023

Revisiting the history of animal extinctions 01/30/2023

The music of Mesozoic bush crickets 01/16/2023

How a neural network taught itself chess 01/03/2023

Honeybees: Nature’s puzzle solvers 12/19/2022

Cultural identity in sperm whales 12/05/2022

Tuning into nature’s music 11/14/2022

Point sources of methane emission 10/31/2022

How climate warming releases ocean methane 10/17/2022

U-turn in occupational gender segregation 10/03/2022

Activated patients reduce implicit bias 09/19/2022

How bumblebees respond to noxious stimuli 09/06/2022

Science of Misinformation 08/15/2022

Bias and the placebo effect 08/01/2022

Epigenetic clocks for humans and dogs 07/18/2022

Peopling of the Americas 06/27/2022